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1. This high school English teacher is trying to ban 150 books from school libraries in Florida

I talked to her to find out why

Buckle up

This one gets a bit wild

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This is great. Postal delivery vehicles do a relatively small number of miles in a day and then return to a central facility every night. Obvious candidate for electrification https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/1220-usps-intends-to-deploy-over-66000-electric-vehicles-by-2028.htm

It looks like Trump's NFT trading cards were created using unlicensed images, some of them even still hade watermarks on them. So on-brand.

https://tyt.com/reports/7015be31e708f973a/f29081cbfa181843a

you know what? I don’t think I’m gonna let that guy put a chip in my brain after all

The TXO team on #Mastodon:

Editor in Chief Gabriel Arana @gabrielarana

Digital Editor Kit O'Connell @oconnell

McHam Investigative Journalism Fellow @josephinelee

Special Investigative Correspondent Steven Monacelli @stevanzetti

The business team:

Managing Director James Canup @jamescanup

Development Manager Lauren Benavides @laurencamilletx

#Journalism #nonprofit #Texas

Of course Hope Hicks uses "impact" as a verb.

Oh my.

@Mediaite conservative writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and said that the open source social media software was named after this imaginary person. https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter/

1. ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I participated in a Twitter space hosted by @katienotopoulos@twitter.com w/a lot of journalists

When I joined @jason@twitter.com, one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering @drewharwell@twitter.com, a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets

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RT @JuddLegum
1. ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I participated in a Twitter space hosted by @katienotopoulos w/a lot of journalists

When I joined @jason, one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering @drewharwell, a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets

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https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1603876025242378248

How The Washington Post has used flight data:
* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA
* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie
* To raise questions about Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X
* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M
* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0 via @drewharwell

I’m no billionaire, but if I wanted to be able to fly in a private jet without anyone knowing my location, it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to use a charter service instead of a plane that I owned and could be traced to me personally.
Of course, then I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the very lucrative tax breaks introduced in the 2017 tax bill, which allows people to write off up to 100% of a private plane purchase, including acquisition and maintenance costs. 🤔

NORAD still broadcasting Santa’s exact real-time assassination coordinates
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/

Border communities, Border Patrol brace for migrant surge as Title 42 ends https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/121622_title_42_end/border-communities-border-patrol-brace-migrant-surge-as-title-42-ends/
The looming end of Title 42 has set immigrant aid groups, local governments and federal agencies on the border rushing to prepare for an expected influx of people.
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The SEC voted Wednesday to advance the biggest changes to U.S. stock-market rules since the mid-2000s, aiming to give small investors better prices on their trades and reduce some advantages enjoyed by high-speed trading firms https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-set-to-propose-rules-that-would-squeeze-stock-market-middlemen-11671033619

Here's the #inflation story you're expected to believe (advance warning: this story is entirely false): America gave the poors too much money during the lockdown and now the #economy is awash in #FreeMoney, which made those poors so rich that now they're refusing to work, which means the economy isn't making anything anymore. With all that extra money and all those missing workers, prices are skyrocketing.

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