🇺🇸 Happy 250th, America 🇺🇸Happy 250th birthday, United States of America! What a strange moment to mark a birthday, given everything going on in the world. Even so, I believe the U.S. has done enormous good and has served as a…Michael Mitchell·Jul 4·2 min readUSAcurrent-eventshistoryHappy 249th Birthday to the United States of America 🇺🇸
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Trump Hypes Up Tech Company Right After Buying Their StockNnewrepublic.com [Unofficial]·Jul 2·2 min readBreaking NewsPoliticsRepublican PartyDonald Trump
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e559 – Welcome to the MatrixMichael R and Andy have a different format of discussion this time around, and it counts as a "geek out"! A catch up on Andy's current work project, homelabbing, games of interest, and more.Games at Work dot Biz·Jun 29·3 min readFollowappleDemeoforza horizonhistory
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No, It’s Not “Both Sides”I am sick of hearing this.ewan croft·May 24·20 min readFollowpaganpaganismchristianitychristian
Turns Out a Massive Bribe Was Behind the FDA’s Vaping DecisionNnewrepublic.com [Unofficial]·May 21·2 min readBreaking NewsPoliticsRepublicansRepublican Party
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Murder the Truth"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist Davi…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 25·2 min readFollowjournalismpoliticshistorynonfiction
The Aral SeaA Study in Side-Effects.James Brundage | MVP·Apr 18·3 min readFollowenvironmentdisasterhistory
El PasoFrom New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town. El Paso has been called the "Ell…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 1·2 min readFollowjournalismpoliticshistorynonfiction
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Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and MythsAlencar traces how the Doctrine of Discovery shaped Brazil through church-backed silence, racial myths, and colonial violence, urging decolonial accountability.The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory·Mar 3·1 min readFollowdoctrine-of-discoveryindigenous-peoplesamazon-forestenvironment
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The Nazi MindHow could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have t…Cory Dransfeldt·Dec 4·1 min readFollowhistorynonfiction
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CopagandaFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters "Copaganda," as defined by Alec Karakatsanis, describes…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 20·1 min readFollowjournalismpoliticshistorynonfiction
Summer of Fire and BloodThe German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Like a vast contagion it spread from southwest Germany through Württemberg, Swabia, the Allgä…Cory Dransfeldt·Jul 23·2 min readFollowhistorynonfiction
Stories Are WeaponsA sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling. Best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats—the essent…Cory Dransfeldt·Jun 11·1 min readFollowpoliticshistorynonfiction
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On AirAn epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires. Founded in 1970, NPR is America’s…Cory Dransfeldt·May 17·2 min readFollowjournalismpoliticshistorynonfiction
Red ScareAs relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—based in part on newly declassified sources—by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times repo…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 9·2 min readFollowpoliticshistorynonfiction
