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flipped into Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning
Housing
San Francisco is losing residents because it's too expensive for nearly everyone
USA TODAY - Marco della Cava
SAN FRANCISCO — Social media influencer Sarah Tripp and her husband, Robbie Tripp, moved to San Francisco in 2016 brimming with optimism. “We thought, here’s a city full of opportunities and connections
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flipped into U.S.History
Jury Duty
Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
tampabay.com
George Dorsey fought in World War II, surviving years in the Pacific, but a few months after he returned home to Georgia, he was dead. In 1946, 30 …
1 day ago
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flipped into Constitutional Issues & US Supreme Court
Documentaries
FRONTLINE
pbs.org - Karen Pinchin
Supreme Court justices sat down for the new term earlier this month, facing a docket packed with divisive issues: immigration, health care, the …
4 days ago
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flipped into Crime, Policing, and Justice
Liberal View
Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids’ Detention
The Daily Beast - Spencer Ackerman
Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn’t just an emotionally wrenching policy. It’s an enterprise that is benefitting …
Jun 14, 2018
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flipped into Political Scandal, Corruption & Incompetence
Mattis Joins Board of Contractor Profiting from Zero Tolerance Policy - CREW
citizensforethics.org - Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel
Mattis Joins Board of Contractor Profiting from Zero Tolerance Policy On Wednesday, former Defense Secretary James Mattis rejoined the board of …
August 8
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flipped into Virginia & Chesapeake Bay
Virginia
Virginia Republican linked to tax-filing companies that scammed poor Virginians
shareblue.com - Dan Desai Martin
Del. Tim Hugo is linked to Intuit and H&R Block, two companies that allegedly steered low-income Virginians away from free tax-filing options to …
23 hours ago
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flipped into World News and Analysis
Teargas
Lebanon: Authorities must immediately end the use of excessive force against peaceful protesters
amnesty.org
Lebanon security forces used excessive force to disperse an overwhelmingly peaceful protest in downtown Beirut, including by firing huge amounts of …
October 1
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flipped into Pain & Chronic Illness
Sometimes, Physical Pain Isn’t the Worst Part About Chronic Illness
achronicvoice.com - by Sheryl Chan
Physical pain is no laughing matter, that’s for sure. When we mention the word ‘pain’, the type of pain that often comes to mind first is that of a …
September 7
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flipped into Education, Teaching and Child Development
Students
Students walkout of Madison West High School in support of fired staff member - WKOW
wkow.com
Students of Madison West High School staged a walkout Friday in protest of a staff member being fired for using a racial slur earlier this …
1 day ago
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flipped into Economics, Development, and Business
NGOs
Economics as a moral tale
aeon.co - John Rapley
The development sector set out to summon the magic of capitalism from the ashes of communism. How is it going?By John RapleyRead at Aeon
January 9
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flipped into Political Scandal, Corruption & Incompetence
Donald Trump
The Scariest Part of the Trump-Ukraine Scandal? He Really Believes His Own Conspiracy Theories.
motherjones.com
It would be more comforting if he were just a serial liar. It’s been a long-standing question: Does Donald Trump believe his own crap? Does he truly …
October 2
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flipped into Russia
Krasnoyarsk
Russia dam collapse at Siberia gold mine kills 15
BBC News
At least 15 people have died and 13 others are missing after a dam collapse at a gold mine in Siberia. The dam, on the Seiba river in the region of Krasnoyarsk, burst after heavy rain on Saturday, flooding
8 hours ago
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flipped into Journalism and Media
Ann Arbor, MI
When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town
The New York Times - Dan Levin
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Municipal committee meetings — the tedious minutiae of Ann Arbor’s local governance — do not tend to draw a crowd. On a recent afternoon, Katherina Sourine was among only a few in attendance.
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flipped into Crime, Policing, and Justice
NYPD
De Blasio does not support full repeal of police secrecy law
POLITICO - By ERIN DURKIN
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD are not supporting a full repeal of the law that keeps NYPD disciplinary records secret, they said Thursday as the state Senate took up the bill for the first time. The
2 days ago
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flipped into Baseball
New York Yankees
Get ready for chaos in Astros-Yankees battle of the bullpen games
ESPN - Jeff Passan
ESPN MLB insider Author of "The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports" NEW YORK -- It's just like any other …
14 hours ago
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flipped into Geopolitics, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy
Modi
PM Modi cancels Turkey visit over its Kashmir remarks
newsxset.com - Disha sharma
The Government of India (GoI) has decided to call off the expected visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Ankara, Turkey over Turkish President …
8 hours ago
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flipped into Political Scandal, Corruption & Incompetence
Donald Trump
Trump awarded the G7 to his resort in Doral – without telling anyone in Doral
Guardian US - Richard Luscombe in Miami
It was billed as “far and away” the best venue when the acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney declared that Donald Trump had awarded next year’s G7 summit to the president’s own luxury golf in
14 hours ago
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flipped into Political Scandal, Corruption & Incompetence
Donald Trump
Trump’s Dallas rally showed how untethered from reality his impeachment pushback is
Vox
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s disastrous press briefing on Thursday was a prime example of how the White House is struggling to explain President Donald Trump’s efforts in Ukraine in a way that
20 hours ago
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flipped into China and Tibet
China
Hong Kong deserves support, but the world is self-censoring
Quartz - Nikhil Sonnad
There is a long and growing list of global companies, artists, and institutions that have “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.” Last week it was video-game powerhouse Blizzard. Before that, the general
10 hours ago
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flipped into Military, Intel, Conflict and Terrorism
F-35
Israel 'Modified' Their F-35 Stealth Fighters. The Results Speak for Themselves.
nationalinterest.org - Sebastien Roblin
The finest.Key point: Israel's F-35I is customized for Jerusalem's preferences.On May 22, 2018 Israeli Air Force commander Amikam Norkin announced …
7 hours ago
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flipped into Earth Sciences
East Africa
Strange waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.
National Geographic - Maya Wei-Haas
An “exceptional phenomenon” near the tiny islands of Mayotte may help explain a low-frequency rumble that swept around the world last year. On May 10, 2018, the geologic beasts of the tiny island of Mayotte
May 21
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flipped into Planetary Science
Reddit
Map of the Moon by H. Percy Wilkins “The Last Traditional Selenographer”
reddit.com
17 hours ago
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flipped into Political Scandal, Corruption & Incompetence
Alex Azar
Donald Trump nominates man whose firm tripled price of insulin to regulate drug companies
independent.co.uk - Chantal Da Silva
Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, Alex Azar, was previously an executive at a pharmaceutical company that repeatedly raised the prices of its …
Nov 18, 2017
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flipped into NCAA Sports
Scrimmage
Five observations for Duke men's basketball's Countdown to Craziness scrimmage
dukechronicle.com
In 2019's annual Countdown to Craziness, the Vernon Carey and Cassius Stanley-led Blue Team trounced the Tre Jones and Matthew Hurt led White team …
4 days ago
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flipped into Political Scandal, Corruption & Incompetence
U.S. Politics
Senate Republicans to Hold “Save the Senate” Retreat at Trump Hotel
The Intercept - Akela Lacy
Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is hosting a multi-day retreat at the Trump International Hotel next month, the latest in a series of GOP events …
1 day ago
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flipped into Trump's Amerikkka
Spotted by Scott Hadden at a Trump 2020 rally in Dallas, TX: a flag with a swastika and the words “gun owner” on it. None
twitter.com
20 hours ago
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flipped into Politics & Government
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings Was Not Done
Rolling Stone - Jamil Smith
Even with the deaths of our elders today and the 400th anniversary of chattel slavery, we are often reminded that this terrible American past is …
1 day ago
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flipped into Pain & Chronic Illness
Addiction
Safe injections sites aren’t immoral. But attempting to block them sure is.
The Washington Post
The facility has animated some on the right for fear that it promotes drug use and lawlessness. After a federal judge ruled on Oct. 2 that the proposed safe injection site would not violate federal law,
1 day ago
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flipped into Science and Mathematics
Women in Science
Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize
Quanta Magazine - Erica Klarreich
A founder of modern geometric analysis who produced “some of the most dramatic advances in mathematics in the last 40 years,” Uhlenbeck is the first …
March 19

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