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AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are.
Overstating the power of algorithmic systems only serves to benefit the tech companies behind them.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames
The Orange County Public Schools’ anti-trans policies are extreme, even in Ron DeSantis’s Florida.
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Atlanta City Leaders Are Subverting Democracy to Save Cop City
With a referendum against the police facility in the works, Atlanta is making sure it won’t be valid. Activists have other ways to fight.
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Judges Keep Ruling That Anti-Trans Health Care Bans Make Shitty Law. The GOP Isn’t Giving Up.
Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook shows they’re ready to fight the legal challenges — all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Dangerous Pathogens and Cruelty Law Violations at Perdue Subsidiary, Animal Rights Report Alleges
In conjunction with the release of an undercover investigation on the factory farm, the group DxE mounted an “open rescue” of birds from a slaughterhouse.
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Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters
Part of a brutal crackdown on dissent against the police training facility, the SWAT raid and charges against the protest bail fund are unprecedented.
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Abortion Rights Activists Face Attack From DeSantis and Conspiracy Lawsuit — for Spray Painting
The absurd RICO allegations come after the Biden administration hit the activists with federal charges that carry a 12-year sentence.
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Texas GOP Opens Up a New Front in Genocidal Anti-Trans Campaign
A new bill proposes a novel way to block access to transition-related treatment — for adults too.
The People vs. Cop City
Activists Face Felonies for Distributing Flyers on "Cop City" Protester Killing
The activists face 20 years in prison for handing out flyers that identified a cop they said was linked to the killing of a protester in the Atlanta forest.
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Oregon Domestic Terrorism Law Targets the Far Right. Here’s How It’ll Backfire.
The Democrat-sponsored bill has broad bipartisan support, but civil rights groups say it’s open to misuse against climate and racial justice activists.