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  • Thom Dunn
    5:10 am Mon, Jun 1, 2020
    Minneapolis police have allegedly blinded a photojournalist permanently in one eye

    Linda Tirado is a photographer and the author of Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World. And as of Saturday afternoon, she's blind in one eye.… Read the rest of the article: Minneapolis police have allegedly blinded a photojournalist permanently in one eye

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  • Thom Dunn
    4:55 am Mon, Jun 1, 2020
    Wife of George Floyd's Killer has filed for divorce

    CBS News reports that Kellie Chauvin, wife of the police officer who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 consecutive minutes, has filed for divorce. Sekula… Read the rest of the article: Wife of George Floyd's Killer has filed for divorce

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  • Thom Dunn
    5:17 am Fri, May 29, 2020
    The cop who killed George Floyd has a long record of police brutality

    A 46-year old black man named George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis on Monday, May 25, 2020. A police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd's neck, after… Read the rest of the article: The cop who killed George Floyd has a long record of police brutality

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  • Thom Dunn
    8:43 am Thu, May 28, 2020
    Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media

    After Trump threw a tantrum over Twitter doing the bare-minimum to fact-check his deliberately misleading tweets, Trump announced plans to sign an Executive Order that forces social media to "protect"… Read the rest of the article: Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media

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  • Thom Dunn
    7:48 am Thu, May 28, 2020
    Flying turtle smashes through Georgia driver's windshield

    Turtle smashes through windshieldWatch this video on YouTube Latonya Lark wrote on Facebook: My prior delimer… Mr Turtle was found at fault but he did not have insurance. He got… Read the rest of the article: Flying turtle smashes through Georgia driver's windshield

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  • Thom Dunn
    6:48 am Thu, May 28, 2020
    Color in your favorite hard rockers with these Kerrang! cover coloring books

    If you're looking for more quarantine activities — for yourself, or your kids, or something to do together! — the British rock magazine Kerrang! is now offering coloring book variants of some… Read the rest of the article: Color in your favorite hard rockers with these Kerrang! cover coloring books

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  • Thom Dunn
    5:48 am Thu, May 28, 2020
    Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy

    Star Wars: A New Hope Radio Drama – Nigel's EditWatch this video on YouTube In my 90s childhood Star Wars obsession, I remember hearing a lot about the fabled NPR radio… Read the rest of the article: Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy

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  • Thom Dunn
    4:49 am Thu, May 28, 2020
    A bleakly touching webcomic compares our apocalyptic fantasies to the real experience of coronavirus quarantine

    Nate Powell is the writer and artist behind About Face, a brilliant webcomic about America's obsession with fascist fashion. His latest comic, Hide Out, is less of a macro-scale political analysis,… Read the rest of the article: A bleakly touching webcomic compares our apocalyptic fantasies to the real experience of coronavirus quarantine

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  • Thom Dunn
    7:40 am Wed, May 27, 2020
    If Sports Illustrated did a swimsuit edition but for facemasks

    Scroll through the carousel below, or check out Not Art on Instagram for more Sexy Facemask Photoshopping (if that's what you want to do). View this post on Instagram In… Read the rest of the article: If Sports Illustrated did a swimsuit edition but for facemasks

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  • Thom Dunn
    5:00 am Wed, May 27, 2020
    A touring Bolivian orchestra is stranded in a German castle surrounded by 23 packs of wolves

    Earlier this spring, more than 20 members of Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos pan flute orchestra left their homes in Bolivia and embarked on a European tour. They arrived in… Read the rest of the article: A touring Bolivian orchestra is stranded in a German castle surrounded by 23 packs of wolves

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  • Thom Dunn
    2:00 am Wed, May 27, 2020
    Is this STAR WARS Cookie Cutter supposed to be a Jawa, or a poop?

    We've been cleaning out and sorting through some stuff we had in storage, which I re-discovered this generous gift that someone (my mother-in-law?) bought me at some point in time.… Read the rest of the article: Is this STAR WARS Cookie Cutter supposed to be a Jawa, or a poop?

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  • Thom Dunn
    2:35 pm Tue, May 26, 2020
    California Republicans sue to stop mail-in voter ballots

    In a continuation from Trump's Do-As-I-Say-Don't-Say-As-I-Do approach to mail-in voter ballots, the Republican National Committee has sued the state of California in an effort to stop their vote-by-mail outreach ahead… Read the rest of the article: California Republicans sue to stop mail-in voter ballots

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  • Thom Dunn
    12:00 pm Tue, May 26, 2020
    Rich people are trying to get in-home plastic surgery during quarantine

    Dr. Steven Levine is a renowned New York plastic surgeon, best known for his face-lifts and breast augmentation work. And apparently, as he told The Cut, he's received a lot of… Read the rest of the article: Rich people are trying to get in-home plastic surgery during quarantine

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  • Thom Dunn
    8:00 am Sat, May 23, 2020
    A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions

    Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has done plenty of extensive and gripping longform journalism, including his most recent book, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland… Read the rest of the article: A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions

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  • Thom Dunn
    7:00 am Sat, May 23, 2020
    Now that driving is down, so are organ transplants

    From NPR: Deaths from motor vehicle crashes and fatal injuries are the biggest source of organs for transplant, accounting for 33% of donations, according to the United Network for Organ… Read the rest of the article: Now that driving is down, so are organ transplants

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  • Thom Dunn
    4:00 am Sat, May 23, 2020
    People can hear your gesticulations

    According to a new study from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in the Netherlands, our speaking voices actually register subtle changes along with our gesticulating limbs. It’s… Read the rest of the article: People can hear your gesticulations

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  • Thom Dunn
    8:59 am Fri, May 22, 2020
    "Eleanor Rigby" but all the notes are E or F and it haunts your nightmares

    The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby (but all notes are E and F)Watch this video on YouTube How do you take a song that's already brooding and spooky, and turn it… Read the rest of the article: "Eleanor Rigby" but all the notes are E or F and it haunts your nightmares

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  • Thom Dunn
    7:59 am Fri, May 22, 2020
    Trump also fired another watchdog investigating Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell

    On the same night that he fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, a watchdog who was allegedly investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over any number of potentially corrupt… Read the rest of the article: Trump also fired another watchdog investigating Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell

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  • Thom Dunn
    7:30 am Fri, May 22, 2020
    Watch this opera adaptation of an Octavia Butler novel on Friday night

    Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower | Trailer 2Watch this video on YouTube In 2017, musician/activist Toshi Reagon began creating an operatic stage adaptation of Octavia Butler's The Parable… Read the rest of the article: Watch this opera adaptation of an Octavia Butler novel on Friday night

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  • Thom Dunn
    6:59 am Fri, May 22, 2020
    Researchers are about to rescue the radio from the sunken wreck of the Titanic

    It's been over a hundred years since the Titanic sank, and its wreckage in the North Atlantic Ocean has been protected by an  International Agreement between the United States and the… Read the rest of the article: Researchers are about to rescue the radio from the sunken wreck of the Titanic

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