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the Guardian
US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence
Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website
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National Institute of Justice
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues...
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The Intercept
The Data Shows Political Violence Is Actually Down
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, everyone was handwaving about rising political violence. What does the data show?
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The Intercept
Far-Right Demands for Informants About Charlie Kirk Comments Remind Me of Syria
Authoritarianism flourishes when people learn that silence is survival. That’s why the response to Charlie Kirk’s killing made me think of Assa...
 Republicans are trying to use the killing of Charles Kirk to spread fear of informants. This article compares that with what the Assad dynasty did in Syria.
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The Onion
New Uber Feature Allows Women To Request Nonthreatening Eunuch Driver
SAN FRANCISCO—In response to ongoing concerns regarding the safety of its female passengers, rideshare giant Uber reportedly introduced a new fea...
Reasons not to use Uber
 (satire) *New Uber Feature Allows Women To Request Nonthreatening Eunuch Driver.* (satire) To make this work, Uber contracted to Google the development of an app to recognize automatically whether a driver is a eunuch. Reports say that it got confused when first used by women drivers, because it had not encountered any in its training. (serious) Why not to do
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The Lever
MyChart Rewrites The Rules, Patients Lose Their Rights
Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their h...
 Do you go to a clinic which urges you to sign up for Mychart? If so, it is already mistreating you by making you run nonfree software. But the developer, Epic, wants to do worse: lead users to sign away their right to sue if Epic misuses or leaks their personal medical data. The old terms and conditions were already unacceptable in my view, and so was running nonfree software, so I never did sign up. But
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Comcast Execs Memo on MSNBC's Matthew Dowd Comments About Charlie Kirk: 'We Need to Do Better'
Top Comcast executives including Brian Roberts criticized comments from fired MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd about Charlie Kirk
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 MSNBC is applying a ridiculously strict standard to staff that post criticizing Charles Kirk for his politics. I have a suspicion that MSNBC is not applying the same strictness to statements that support the bully. But I don't watch MSNBC (I don't have a cable hookup since they use DRM and track people), so I don't
the Guardian
The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani
The clue is in the name: the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will we act?, asks Raji Sourani, the coordi...
 *The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too?* I am sure that is what right-wing dictators hope for. Some don't care particularly about Gaza or Israel, but they want to get rid of anything that might restrain their own violence, regardless of what purpose they do it for.
The Lever
Your Therapy Session Just Became Fodder For AI
Artificial intelligence note-takers are listening in on your therapy sessions while retaining the right to “exploit” patient data.
 Psychotherapists are invited to give recordings of therapy sessions to a bullshit generator service to summarize them. They must agree to give the company a "non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license" to patients’ anonymized therapy sessions. With so much data to work with, I expect that these recordings will often be deanonymized.
the Guardian
Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan children and Venezuelans
Double defeat protects Venezuelans with temporary protected status and Guatemalan minors
 *Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan [minors] and Venezuelans.* Using the word "children" to describe the Guatemalans protected by this decision fails to express its full scope. It protects Guatemalan minors who are adolescents as well as Guatemalan minors who are children.
the Guardian
More than 250,000 displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show
Tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in face of new Israeli offensive
 *More than a quarter of a million people displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show.* This is, in itself, an enormous atrocity.