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https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/how-the-trump-russia-data-machine-games-google-to.html I'm falling way behind in posting articles. This one was too important not to go back and dig up: Please read it. I'm still somewhat a believer in humanity. I find it hard to believe that...

Libertarian outlet Reason.com with coverage: http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/30/supreme-court-rules-8-0-for-police-in-ma The question in this case is whether qualified immunity exists for a police officer in a situation illegally he or she created illegally. With this decisive "yes" to that...

Hey guys, Wanted to give everyone a head's up on things that we are working through this summer. - There's a new "Donate" button. This is working already, and will eventually switch to a monthly target. - Ads are going to change. The HuskerNation banner is going to get replaced, and possibly...

How the media's weapons fetish primes us for war: Vital viewing, IMO. This is actually NSFW language at one point. "That is what freedom looks like, that is the red, white, and blue."

Apologies if there's a thread for this already. Today's hate crime in Portland -- a deranged man enthralled by the alt-right and caught up in anti-Muslim fervor killed two men who attempted to intervene as he hurled abuse towards Muslim women -- seems to have caught the attention of Richard...

http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/glavin-were-shedding-idiotic-talk-about-terrorism

Drop examples of our leader's unsurpassed intellectual prowess here. From a Time interview excerpted in Jalopnik (emphasis belongs to author): Guy should have been an engineer. We're so lucky he's running things instead. Military, stop it with all your technology.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/jakarta-governor-ahok-guilty-blasphemy-170509041001684.html "Religious freedom". He lost the election, and they're actually (potentially) going to #LockHimUp. Stephen Fry was also the subject of an actual blasphemy probe in Ireland. It was dropped...

WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-miracle-machine-is-in-desperate-need-of-well-a-miracle/2017/05/05/daafbe6a-30e7-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.906e84fa17d4 Eric S. Lander (Broad Institute) and Eric E. Schmidt (Alphabet) with this op ed in defense of funding...

The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/why-do-north-koreans-hate-us-one-reason-they-remember-the-korean-war/ I know a few things about the Korean War -- for example, I believe we learned about MacArthur's nuclear plan in school. Never had it put in such stark terms, however. This...

http://www.orrazz.com/2016/05/long-time-iowa-farm-cartoonist-fired.html Jesus. Cartoon in the spoiler. Clearly, it's very sensitive information.

Brave (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)) is an open-source Chromium-based web browser founded by one of the co-founders of the Mozilla Project. I've been keeping an eye on it since it was released for beta testing a little over a year ago. Its primary billing is built-in ad...

This has been true since long before this election cycle, and it's not exclusive to CNN. This is a brutal and direct evisceration by Vox, and it's spot on. CNN isn't fake news. But they've surrendered wholesale to sensationalism. Politics-as-sport theater hurts our democracy. There are...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/and-jesus-said-unto-paul-of-ryan.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/nih-doe-office-science-face-deep-cuts-trumps-first-budget Woo? Priorities for a safer and more advanced world...

I'm a bit of a sucker for this series for better or for worse. I know it's not a very good show, but I can't help but watch it. So far: Non-spoiler: - Serious Andy Bernard (The Office - US) lookalike. Also named Andy. It's confusing. - Miranda Otto! Also, the new lead is pretty good. - I...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/opinion/the-enlightenment-project.html?_r=1#story-continues-1 Again, I have very much to disagree with when it comes to the avowedly conservative David Brooks. But here, his words are important and I will largely agree. This is a vital project worth defending...

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber Spoiler alert: horrifying (and unsurprising) sexism. These problems are not unique to them; many comments I've heard about this story are along the lines of "this only surprises you if you are a man". But...