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Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz

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videos Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations to Congress Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Winners Take All: the Davos Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney philanthropy) Cory Doctorow

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

disillusionment Post-internet lament Jasmina Tesanovic

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happy mutants William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kindred: a powerful graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's slavery masterpiece Cory Doctorow

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class war How America abandoned the only policy that consistently closes the black-white educational gap Cory Doctorow

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History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

True Crime The 10 most unsolvable unsolved disappearances James Renner

facebook Escaping the new media cargo cult David Moldawer