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May 12, 2023

HomeVestors Praised ProPublica’s Reporting, Then Tried To “Bury It”

Anjeanette Damon, Byard Duncan and Mollie Simon ProPublica

The “We Buy Ugly Houses” company held a virtual meeting for its franchises to outline a plan to “minimize visibility” of our investigation.

May 12, 2023

‘The Forever Prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s Drawings Expose the Depraved US Torture Policy

Ed Pilkington The Guardian

For 21 years, the Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release.

May 12, 2023

This Is What Would Happen if Biden Ignores the Debt Ceiling and Calls McCarthy’s Bluff

Robert Hockett The New York Times

The current debt ceiling nonsense is a case of one faction of Congress being pitted against Congress itself. It's time to end this absurdity.

Where Are All the Denisovans?

May 12, 2023

In 2010 geneticists uncovered an entirely new branch of human evolution, which they called the Denisovans. Today I make the argument we have found them. Source.

Native Americans Demand Accountability | Retro Report

May 12, 2023

Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture. Lesson plan for educators, coming soon.

MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried

May 12, 2023

Film explores the tragic, but largely forgotten, 1937 incident in Chicago when police shot 40 steel workers and supporters (mainly in the back) and killed ten of them. Commentary by Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna

May 12, 2023

Brothers Luis and Fabian have devoted their lives to music producing inspired by folklore music. Sixteen years ago they established the group named Wuauquikuna.

Tuberville on White Nationalists in the Military: ‘I Call Them Americans’

May 12, 2023

GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville complained that the Pentagon shouldn’t prevent white nationalists from being in the military: “I call them Americans.” What an armed society means for America.

May 12, 2023

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Tuberville on White Nationalists in the Military: ‘I Call Them Americans.’ The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna. MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried. Native Americans Demand Accountability. Where Are All the Denisovans?

May 11, 2023

Government Employees Union Sues Yellen, Biden Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Debt Limit Law

Zach Schonfeld The Hill

“Unless and until the Debt Limit Statute is amended or revised to allow Congress to determine the priority of payments among specific programs once the limit is reached, members of Plaintiff NAGE will suffer irreparable injury from layoffs, furloughs, and loss of employment that are taken without any legitimate authority by the President"