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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Following a series of transphobic comments by the Harry Potter author, the nation’s top evangelical leaders announced Monday that J.K. Rowling had finally become bigoted enough to make it okay for kids to read about witchcraft. “While I always appreciated Ms. Rowling making the greedy banker…
The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors
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A very cute and very tiny English bulldog stood on two legs as he peered inside the window of a washing machine, where he could see his sudsy wet blanket in action. But no matter how many squeaks the puppy uttered, the machine's door stubbornly kept shut. Until the job was done, that is. "Yes, he go...
A full-time substitute teacher was abruptly fired last week after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis complained about a video of empty bookshelves that the teacher posted to social media. The teacher, Brian Covey, posted the video on Twitter three weeks earlier, on January 27. In an interview with Popular Information, Covey said administrators at Mandarin Middle School in Duval County were aware he posted the video, which attracted millions of views, but never indicated it was a problem. Covey had worked as a full-time substitute teacher since early October 2022. According to Covey, he had recently been praised in a staff meeting by the school principal for bringing order and stability to a previously unruly class of math students.
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Our panel of internet law experts react to the Supreme Court oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google. Featuring:
Mary Anne Franks
Mike Godwin
James Grimmelmann
Gus Hurwitz
Jeff Kosseff
Emma Llanso
Alan Rozenshtein
Eugene Volokh
Benjamin Wittes
Jonathan Zittrain
Moderated by Kate Klonick
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has exclusively provided a massive trove of U.S. Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has downplayed the deadly violence that occurred that day and claimed it was a “false flag” operation.
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There is no humanity, no subtlety, in a crusade. Just servants of light, and servants of darkness.
Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda c...
Alex Henderson, AlterNetIn East Palestine, Ohio, residents have complained of headaches, nausea, skin rashes and other symptoms following the early February derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals. A combination of Democrats, liberals and environmentalists have been vehemently critical of Norfol...