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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Drop ICE ADS NOW! No ICE Ads on our Streaming Platforms boycottspotify.com

Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk.

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A hard no on Rahm Emanuel as a 2028 Democratic presidential candidate. A lackluster Chicago mayor would make a poor presidential candidate.

As Johnson Delays, Grijalva Sues to Be Seated in the House

She was elected to the House a month ago. But Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in, knowing it would narrow his small majority and provide the final signature needed to force a vote on an Epstein papers resolution. Now she's suing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism Israel's Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism

I can't believe I'm saying this, but she's actually telling the truth.

A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone

A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Frustration grows over Trump bailout of Argentina President Trump’s decision to bail out Argentina has sparked outrage among U.S. farmers struggling from the trade war with China.

Many farmers support President Trump. But they have been crushed by the effects of his trade war with China.

Now, they’re bewildered by his decision to buy beef from Argentina to bring down prices, which they see as antithetical to his campaign promises.

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel Highly unusual court application alleges more than 10 individuals breached foreign enlistment laws An attempt to mount a private prosecution is under way alleging British citizens unlawfully went to fight for Israel. An application to a magistrates court for a summons against a named individual was lodged on Monday. Continue reading...

Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel

Opinion | How Democrats Became the Party of the Well-to-Do

How Democrats Became the Party of the Well-to-Do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Andrew Cuomo’s Long Goodbye In his cynical campaign for mayor, the former New York governor touted the decades he spent in power. That was part of the problem.

Andrew Cuomo’s attempt to wrench back power long past the point of his own relevance has, if anything, only opened the door wider for Zohran Mamdani, Eric Lach writes.

While the proposal for a giant statue of Prometheus on SF's Alcatraz Island is a terrible idea, a more fitting statute would be a Golden Calf.

What to Know About the White House East Wing and Its History The East Wing has been a base for the first lady, an entryway for social functions and an emergency bunker.

The East Wing of the White House, which will be torn down by this weekend to make way for President Trump’s new ballroom, has been a base for the first lady, an entryway for social functions and an emergency bunker. Here's what to know about its history.

A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom.
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza. 460 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors and intellectuals have signed an open letter demanding accountability over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations. Continue reading...

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

Architects Urged a Review of Trump’s Ballroom. Cue the Demolition Crew.

Architects Urged a Review of Trump’s Ballroom. Cue the Demolition Crew. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

We (collectively) should be funding 100x the PhDs we do now. 1000x? More? The problems are infinite, we could devote so many minds to producing knowledge, and it’s a choice to strip this place to the bones, quash human inquiry, and devote so little for human flourishing

The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great If we regard this book as literature, it is an unqualified failure. But these juvenile stories and essays shed fascinating light on the repression of Lee’s early life

The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great

A photo of a collection of books by Ursula K. Le Guin. From left to right they are: The Unreal and the Real in two volumes, The Left Hand of Darkness, Worlds of Exile and Illusion, The Dispossessed, The Word for World is Forest and The Earthsea Quartet omnibus.

"The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

Happy birthday Ursula K. Le Guin

Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, Ruth Marcus writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zn2Q1B

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Major controversy and hard knocks journalism lessons from Indiana University Indiana University faces backlash after firing student media director Jim Rodenbush and cutting funding for the Indiana Daily Student’s print edition, sparking outcry over censorship and press…

“[Indiana] university claimed it was not about censorship, but about concentrating on the digital product. But, it should be up to the staff — not the university — to decide whether news should be in the print product,” writes senior media writer Tom Jones.

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Northwestern University report: Newspapers closing, news deserts growing for beleaguered industry Some 136 newspapers in the United States have closed in the past year, news deserts are expanding and web traffic to the nation’s top newspapers has dropped markedly this decade, according to a rep…

Some 136 newspapers in the United States have closed in the past year, news deserts are expanding and web traffic to the nation’s top newspapers has dropped markedly this decade, according to a report issued Monday that struggles to find hope for the beleaguered news industry.

i personally don’t think it’s a good thing that every republican staffer sees themselves as a would-be heydrich to trump’s hitler