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COVID-19 Manhattan cathedral has been converted into a field hospital Seamus Bellamy

religion Catholic church dumped holy water from airplane onto the town below David Pescovitz

religion Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages, because that's how America deals with asylum-seekers like Christ Cory Doctorow

Business Transcription service rev.com cuts "professional transcriptionists'" effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 Cory Doctorow

politics Trump DOJ tells Former White House counsel Don McGahn not to testify to House Judiciary Committee Xeni Jardin

oops Walmart throw pillow features Hitler and swastika Mark Frauenfelder

Special rules for the power elite Catholic church allowed celebrity priest to minister after groping woman Mark Frauenfelder

music Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple released a pre-Jonestown gospel album David Pescovitz

News If this really is a former Tesla I.T. guy posting the ugly truth, Elon's bad week just got worse Xeni Jardin

News Church cages Jesus, Mary, and Joseph to protest Trump's ICE immigrant abuse Xeni Jardin

crime Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares Cory Doctorow

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public archives A Studs Terkel Radio Archive will soon be public Jason Weisberger

shithole presidency Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “At some points Democrats have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this president.” Mark Frauenfelder

picks Two people were very disappointed with Hamilton Mark Frauenfelder

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Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema