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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.
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[Link] The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has paved the way for President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to be the first to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
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[Link] Sky News claims Alan Jones’s misleading commentary balanced by covering daily Covid press conferences
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Sky News sought to justify misleading Covid commentary then-host Alan Jones put to air, saying it was balanced by coverage of the daily Covid press conferences, according to a letter sent to the broadcasting regulator.
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[Link] High-profile Liberal woman quits party to run as independent after alleging ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A high-profile NSW Liberal woman is quitting to run as an independent at the next federal election, partly to protest the handling of an internal complaint in which she alleged “inappropriate” behaviour by some senior men within the party and government.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] How a Far-Right Philosopher Ended Up Shooting Porn
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Van Rooijen is part of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), a controversial art collective based in Amsterdam. KIRAC rose to fame in the Netherlands through videos where they confront artists and their artwork, usually to expose what they see as a pervasive superficiality in the art world.
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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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[Link] Tucker Carlson Made a Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ and it Looks Completely Unhinged
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s come to this: Fox News and Tucker Carlson are producing a new documentary on the Capitol riot that appears to portray the insurrection as a false flag operation against Trump supporters.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?
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[Link] Rightwing Chilean newspaper accused of ‘apology for Nazism’ over Göring article
Read: 26/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Chile’s main conservative daily newspaper has been accused of publishing “an apology for Nazism” after running an illustrated article commemorating the life of the German war criminal Hermann Göring.
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[Link] Japanese Princess Mako marries boyfriend Kei Komuro and renounces her royal status
Read: 26/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Japanese Princess Mako has married a commoner and lost her royal status in a union that has split public opinion and was delayed more than three years by a financial dispute involving her new mother-in-law.
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[Link] ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook employees rip Zuckerberg in leaked messages
Read: 26/10/2021 nypost.com
Facebook employees say Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth has overridden ethical concerns and allowed hate speech and incitements to violence to spread unchecked, internal messages leaked to media outlets show.
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[Link] Pete Buttigieg’s Parental Leave Is Driving Conservatives Mad
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Tucker Carlson took a shot at the first openly gay Cabinet secretary for taking parental leave after the birth of his children.
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