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i had things to get off my chest!! grubstreet.com/2023/04/bad-ro…

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show. The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇

Many are worried the Chinese Communist Party propagandists are misusing the video to discredit the exiled leader. trib.al/4Xyg4yn

Reuters Joshua Schneyer Mica Rosenberg @kristinacooke VICE World News Alastair McCready Koh Ewe, Koyu Gavin Butler Dan Levine Mike Spector Disha Raychaudhuri Chalkbeat Alex Zimmerman The Daily Beast michael NYT Stefanos Chen Ted Clifford Camellia Burris Highlands Current Brian PJ Cronin lohud.com Diana Dombrowski Tania Savayan Finalists for Reporting by Independent Digital Media include nycitynews’ @Griffinkelly003, Sophia Lebowitz, Keith Paul Medelis, Harry Parker, @marynotmerry_; @thecityny ProPublica’s Abigail Kramer; & @thehdailybeast’s Roger Sollenberger

At least he was just leaking secrets not doing gay poetry amiright

For the right’s most strident culture warriors, meat is not simply a food; it’s a critical front in an existential conflict, write Jan Dutkiewicz and bearistotle. newrepublic.com/article/171781…

I'm sorry. It exploded? This is delightful.

“a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation.”

This is delightful. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Curious how many people actually signed up for Twitter Blue yesterday and today? Well, I've got the numbers and I'll be telling them to @JoyAnnReid on MSNBC in ten minutes. Here's a hint: They were net +28 between signups and cancellations. Not 2,800. Twenty-eight.

Videos shared on social media showed debris slamming into a van several hundred feet away and striking the nearby beach and the shoreline as if they were a war zone. wapo.st/3AiFbYi

Writers in other fields should be paying attention to the WGA negotiations. Here's the current position on the use of AI.

Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation. trib.al/TxFhlty

The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work. vice.com/en/article/pka…

New: Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer. propub.li/429jpT1

Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork. wapo.st/3LzCGpM

“'It has been so completely demoralizing,' an English teacher in Florida told me about AI cheating. 'I have gone from loving my job in September of last year to deciding to completely leave it behind by April.'” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The New York Times’ Elizabeth Holmes Profile Is Causing Drama in the Newsroom: “What the Hell Happened Here?” | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/e…

Y’all don’t listen. 😒