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Opinion | FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don’t Understand It

www.nytimes.com - Privacy professionals and journalists have rightly noted that the real scandal here isn’t that FaceApp is an outlier, but approaching the industry standard. The vast majority of apps we download have…

Iran denies Donald Trump claim that US destroyed drone in strait of Hormuz

www.theguardian.com - Iran has denied that a US warship brought down one of its drones in the strait of Hormuz, amid heightened tensions between the two countries. The incident was first revealed by Donald Trump, who said…

How a racist tweet became a Trump rally chant in three short days

www.washingtonpost.com - By Ashley Parker Ashley Parker White House reporter Email Bio Follow July 18 at 6:50 PM This is the story of how a racist suggestion — that four congresswomen of color “go back” to the “totally broke…

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville

theintercept.com - “Racism is evil,” declared Donald Trump on Monday, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are …

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever

www.theatlantic.com - Republicans, in the week since Trump’s initial tweet attacking the four representatives, have tried to argue that the president was criticizing their left-wing views and “hatred for America,” or that…

The Three Intersecting Reasons Ilhan Omar Gets Singled Out

theintercept.com - Rep. Ilhan Omar listens during a news conference on prescription drugs on Jan. 10, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., compared Omar’s comments to President Donald …

John Paul Stevens Was Right: Citizens United Opened the Door to Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

theintercept.com - John Paul Stevens, who served on the Supreme Court for 35 years until his retirement in 2010, died this Tuesday. Just before Stevens stepped down from the bench, he authored one of the most significa…

Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him A Victim And A Star.

www.memeorandum.com - Christopher Mathias / HuffPost: A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville — Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back!” about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in Ameri…

Trump administration has gutted programs aimed at detecting weapons of mass destruction

www.latimes.com - The Trump administration has quietly dismantled or cut back multiple programs that were created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to help detect and prevent terrorism involving weapons of mass destru…

DOJ policy blocking Trump from being indicted ‘factored into’ the end of the Stormy Daniels case: report

www.rawstory.com - Federal prosecutors decided to close the investigation into the 2016 criminal hush money payment to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal that benefitted the Trump campaign because, in part, of the polic…

200th New York firefighter dies from 9/11 illness as funding debate rages on

abcnews.go.com - As 9/11 first responders push Congress to extend funding for their care, a grim new marker was reached with the death of the 200th member of the New York City fire department from World Trade Center …

'Florida really tops the charts' of states climate change will heat up, report says

phys.org - Miamians are already used to stifling heat waves that leave them sprinting from air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned buildings or flocking to the beach to cool off. Or so they think. But if a new …

Manmade ruin adds 7,000 species to endangered 'Red List'

www.france24.com - Mankind's destruction of nature is driving species to the brink of extinction at an "unprecedented" rate, the leading wildlife conservation body warned Thursday as it added more than 7,000 animals, f…

Pentagon may have released weaponized ticks that helped spread of Lyme disease: Investigation ordered

www.newsweek.com - Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives quietly passed a bill requiring the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct a review into whether the Pentagon experimented with t…

The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo

www.theatlantic.com - But the tenth and current outbreak is different. While the previous ones took place in the Congo’s northern and western regions, this one had the grave misfortune to spark up in the eastern provinces…

How Cyber Weapons Are Changing the Landscape of Modern Warfare

www.newyorker.com - In the weeks before two Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were attacked, on June 13th, in the...

Why are climate change activists always accused of “extremism”?

www.newstatesman.com - The climate change activist movement Extinction Rebellion has been accused of “extremism” by a former counter-terrorism chief. Richard Walton, who was head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terroris…

Local is Our Future: Excerpt - Resilience

www.resilience.org - [The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of Helena Norberg-Hodge’s new book Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness, published by Local Futures in July 2019.] For our speci…

The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo

www.theatlantic.com - But the tenth and current outbreak is different. While the previous ones took place in the Congo’s northern and western regions, this one had the grave misfortune to spark up in the eastern provinces…

Heat stroke: A doctor offers tips to stay safe as temperatures soar

theconversation.com - I easily remember laughing at Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner while watching Saturday morning cartoons as a child. I can still see the Coyote walking slowly through the sweltering dese…

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News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.

Opinion | FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don’t Understand It

Iran denies Donald Trump claim that US destroyed drone in strait of Hormuz

How a racist tweet became a Trump rally chant in three short days

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever

The Three Intersecting Reasons Ilhan Omar Gets Singled Out

John Paul Stevens Was Right: Citizens United Opened the Door to Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him A Victim And A Star.

Trump administration has gutted programs aimed at detecting weapons of mass destruction

DOJ policy blocking Trump from being indicted ‘factored into’ the end of the Stormy Daniels case: report

200th New York firefighter dies from 9/11 illness as funding debate rages on

'Florida really tops the charts' of states climate change will heat up, report says

Manmade ruin adds 7,000 species to endangered 'Red List'

Pentagon may have released weaponized ticks that helped spread of Lyme disease: Investigation ordered

The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo

How Cyber Weapons Are Changing the Landscape of Modern Warfare

Why are climate change activists always accused of “extremism”?

Local is Our Future: Excerpt - Resilience

The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo

Heat stroke: A doctor offers tips to stay safe as temperatures soar

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