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music Watch: 40 Irish women artists sing 'Dreams' by The Cranberries to raise funds for domestic abuse victims Xeni Jardin

mitch mcconnell Trump also fired another watchdog investigating Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell Thom Dunn

ireland The Cork City Dump is a haunted graveyard of your childhood Thom Dunn

politics Trump to divert $3.8B from Defense to build stupid Mexico wall Xeni Jardin

autonomous cars Driverless delivery van to be road-tested in Texas Rob Beschizza

music Paul Simon explains his song "Mrs. Robinson" to Dick Cavett (1970) Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Senior DHS staffer who oversaw #KidsInCages and promoted the #MuslimBan is now a top Google employee Cory Doctorow

corruption 1 in 14 Trump appointees is a former lobbyist, four times the rate under Obama Cory Doctorow

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lego "Seinfeld" in LEGO Rusty Blazenhoff

china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow

corruption Feds to audit Boeing 737 MAX's FAA certification Xeni Jardin

Business China legalizes eating a pufferfish bred to be nonpoisonous Cory Doctorow

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Science Me, Myself and Microbes: the relationship between microbes, brains and behaviors Cory Doctorow

music Sinead O'Connor converted to Islam and her name is now Shuhada' David Pescovitz

art New issue of Faesthetic, the lavish and mindbending art 'zine David Pescovitz

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