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The marching thru downtown begins.
June 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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This is a heartbreaking story by @robertwilonsky.bsky.social for @dallasnews.com
We must keep lifting up the names and stories of those whom our government has disappeared. 😭
Neri Jose Alvarado Borges, a student protestor who fled Venezuela after being threatened with death, is among the 238 men trapped in CECOT. He has no lawyer. The bakery owner who took him in, gave him a job and made him part of his family hopes to find one soon.

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Wilonsky: He came to Texas seeking asylum. He landed in the world’s most notorious prison
Neri Jose Alvarado Borges, a Lewisville resident and Venezuelan immigrant, fled his homeland after receiving death threats because of his involvement in...
www.dallasnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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My dad is at the protest in Boise, Idaho. He sent me these photos
April 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What a hero. My 3 children were beneficiaries of this man’s gifts. RIP. ❤️ www.bbc.com/news/article...
James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies - BBC News
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
www.bbc.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell is known for his remarkable level of investment in students.

He’s led the small, historically black college on Simpson Stuart Road for almost 18 years, working to transform the struggling school into one praised for its innovation.
Michael Sorrell has reshaped Paul Quinn College by honoring students’ dreams
Alumni laud Sorrell as a visionary who brought Paul Quinn back “from death’s door,” but students who have attended during his tenure insist that he has always...
www.dallasnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Apparently, the mediocre-est administration of all time is gonna make America great
Trump’s Confederacy Of White Dunces
The Trump administration vowed to hire “the best people,” but the cohort he hand-selected to lead is a perfect example of white mediocrity.
newsone.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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In Texas. after the state banned abortion in 2021, "[t]he rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester."

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Dear Black people, take your cellphone and record a conversation with your older relatives or people. They have stories to tell, both good and bad. Just let them say what they want to say, about anything. We are quickly losing those stories and I believe that is adding to our lack of understanding.
January 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM