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You can’t do mass deportations without mass domestic surveillance, and ICE is exploring its options
www.techdirt.com You Can’t Do Mass Deportations Without Mass Domestic Surveillance And ICE Is Already Exploring Its OptionsICE has never been opposed to mass surveillance. It has used everything it possibly can to locate Trump’s so-called “bad hombres” and subject them to family separation and a detai…
- www.theguardian.com Police investigate tractor that created ‘devastating’ wave in flooded UK town
Vehicle drove water into businesses in Tenbury Wells, which local people say smashed windows and opened doors
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Dead people
• Jason Barr in county jail (archived link)
• Marshall Brain howstuffworks.com
• Alice Brock Alice's Restaurant (archived link)
• Keith Conley forgotten person (archived link)
• Dallas Long putter of shots (archived link)
• Clydene Nee Artists' Alley at Comic-Con
• Andy Paley composer, SpongeBob SquarePants (archived link)
• Eunice Parsons collage artist
• Harold Sims American Museum of the House Cat (archived link)
• Peter Sinfield lyricist for King Crimson (archived link)
• Chuck Woolery game show host and asshole (archived link)
Previously dead
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Ignoring the climate emergency
• ‘Catastrophic’ marine heatwaves are killing sealife and causing mass disruption to UK fisheries
• Climate change is spoiling food faster, making hundreds of millions of people sick around the world
• Slender-billed curlew goes extinct (archived link)
• Extreme drought in Colorado could come every 6 years — instead of every 1,000 — due to climate change, study finds (archived link)
• Greenland's meltwater will slow Atlantic circulation, climate model suggests (archived link)
• Historically bad year for dolphin strandings on Cape Cod has scientists looking for answers (archived link)
• Landslides are a growing climate threat
• Climate change makes vaccines more important—while also undercutting them
• Plastics contribute to 'triple planetary crisis' impacts (archived link)
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Trump supporters review-bomb Canadian floral shop by mistake
bc.ctvnews.ca Trump supporters review-bomb B.C. floral shop by accidentA small business owner from B.C.'s Fraser Valley is speaking out after being review-bombed by confused supporters of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump this week.
(archived link)
> "I was hoping this would blow over but since the death threats have started I have decided to address it."
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News outlets 'recalibrate' coverage as they navigate threats of president-elect and interests faced by corporate owners
www.theguardian.com ‘An existential battle’: how Trump’s win is shifting the US media landscapeSome outlets recalibrate coverage as they navigate threats of president-elect and interests faced by corporate owners
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KFC sues Church's Chicken over "original recipe" trademark, which shouldn't be trademarkable
www.techdirt.com KFC Sues Church’s Chicken Over ‘Original Recipe’ Trademark, Which Shouldn’t Be TrademarkableIt’s amazing just how many of the trademark disputes we see and discuss here at Techdirt ultimately result from the USPTO granting trademarks that never should have been granted in the first …
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The grim reaper comes for public radio
dankennedy.net The grim reaper comes for public radio. One possible solution? Doubling down on local journalism.Something has gone wrong with public radio. After years of standing as the shining exception to an otherwise shrinking news landscape, multiple stations over the past year have implemented budget c…
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world
www.theguardian.com How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole CadwalladrIn the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Texas AG declares war on advertisers who snub Musk’s ExTwitter
www.techdirt.com Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitterTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton loves to preach about “free speech” and “free markets”—except, apparently, when it comes to his political allies. In a stunningly hypocriti…
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Without firing a shot...
Here's a pretty good debunking: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-we-will-bury-you-without-firing-a-shot.942/