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Reading Time: 4 minutes Some have hailed Prigozhin as a hero for challenging Putin, but this is a dangerous miscalculation. Prigozhin is a fascist who has no respect for human rights. The Wagner Group has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, Libya, and the Central African Republic. Prigozhin himself has been accused of funding far-right political groups in Europe.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Navajo Water Rights Ruling is a setback for the Navajo Nation and for environmental policy. However, the tribe is not giving up. The Navajo Nation will continue to fight for its water rights, and it will continue to work with other tribes and environmental groups to protect water resources for all.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The media narrative about Tyre Nichols’s murder is that the black cops who killed him were renegade, wild, murdering men with badges. The party line in this story is so uncommon because these cops are unusually bad.
This story is not uncommon.
These cops are not unusually bad.
This happens every day in the U.S.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ultimately, it is important for police departments to address these issues head-on in order to ensure that all officers are held accountable for their actions and that the communities they serve are treated with respect and dignity. By taking steps such as increasing diversity within the department, providing better training on implicit bias, and creating a culture of accountability, police departments can help reduce the number of use-of-force crimes committed by black officers against black community members.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes How many times do they forget to do something before it actually gets done, if they even heard us in the first place?
I get why dudes are all about it because it’s a tool to subjugate women… but the fuck if I will understand why any modern woman wants to keep that shit.
Reading Time: 4 minutes . I’ll say it again: we’re not all good, and we’re not all bad. No human, philosophy, group, country is all good. If I’m mostly good, should I try to be better? How does that happen if I make sure not to address what’s bad?
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Reading Time: < 1 minute These simulated people are starting to show up around the internet, used as masks by real people with nefarious intent: spies who don an attractive face in an effort to infiltrate the intelligence community; right-wing propagandists who hide behind fake profiles, photo and all; online harassers who troll their targets with a friendly visage.
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Reading Time: 22 minutes When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music)
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Reading Time: < 1 minute For real, this is a holiday that was founded on the massacre of the indigenous people of the U.S.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering account of his successor’s first four years in office in Philadelphia, arguing that President Donald Trump has proved he is “incapable of taking the job seriously” and has shown no interest in “helping anybody but himself and his friends.”
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