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To Make a Deepfake: Richard Nixon and Our Information Ecosystem

July 24, 2020

A shockingly believable AI-generated video of Richard Nixon shines new light on a quickly evolving technology with sizable implications, both creative and destructive, for our current digital information ecosystem

From Trash To Treasure: Turning Negatives Into Positives

July 24, 2020

This short documentary shows how in Lesotho—a highland country surrounded by South Africa—filmakers, farmers, and musicians rethink, reuse, and reinvent in order to promote positive change

July 24, 2020

What Should We Do With Racist Sports Team Owners? Call Them Out Relentlessly

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The Guardian

Owners like Kelly Loeffler, Dan Snyder and Woody Johnson shouldn’t be pushed out for their views, but for their behavior if that behavior promotes hate toward marginalized groups

July 24, 2020

Single Mothers and Their Children Are Taking Over Abandoned Public Buildings

Mindy Isser In These Times

The purpose of the encampments is to house people, but to also create a space where “they are treated with dignity, like they have the right to exist.”

July 24, 2020

What the Nazis Learned From America’s Indian Removal

Jack Schwartz Daily Beast

“The Volga must be our Mississippi,” Hitler declared in his pursuit of Lebensraum and liquidation.

July 24, 2020

Whole Foods Punished Workers for Black Lives Matter Masks, Suit Says

Christine Hauser The New York Times

Eight protesters wearing Black Lives Matter Masks

Over a dozen workers at Whole Foods stores in four states claim in a class-action lawsuit that the company retaliated against them for wearing the movement’s apparel.

July 24, 2020

Young Americans for Freedom

Lee Rossi

Poet Lee Rossi recalls his introduction to right-wing politics, Goldwater’s call for a war against America, much of it still echoing today.

July 23, 2020

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Denounces GOP Congressman and Cultural of Violence Against Women - Listen to Full Speech Here

Jeremy Stahl Slate

After sexist attack by GOP colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on House floor, her parents 'Did Not Raise Me to Accept Abuse From Men'. "It is cultural. It is a culture of...impunity, of accepting violence and violent language against women."

July 23, 2020

Trump’s Occupation of American Cities Has Begun; Legislation to Block Trump Administration

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times

Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? First Portland, then Kansas City, Chicago, Albuquerque, and plans for Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.

July 23, 2020

C.T. Vivian’s Work in Chicago Shaped a Generation of Leaders

Marilyn Katz Chicago Tribune

Two American heroes died Friday. The most well known was Rep. John Lewis, 80. The other was the Rev. Cordell Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, at 95. The lesser known part of his work — his years in Chicago — that changed the fate of the city and the nation.