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protests NYPD traps protestors on bridge for hours after curfew Rob Beschizza

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baby Tactical diaper mat Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

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philosophy How America's hatred of poor people ties back to Puritan work ethic Thom Dunn

uk On Grenfell's second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials Cory Doctorow

corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow

health Elizabeth Warren's bold, risky, well-intentioned plan to improve health outcomes for African-American mothers giving birth Cory Doctorow

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finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow

poaching Man faces 450 years in prison for poaching Venus Flytraps Mark Frauenfelder

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transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow

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