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Alex Jones

Alex Jones Asks Government to Protect Him

Court records show Jones has filed for personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Anna Merlan
12.2.22
SURVEILLANCE

‘NO’: Grad Students Analyze, Hack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices Designed to Track Them

In October, the university quietly introduced heat sensors under desk without notifying students or seeking their consent. Students removed the devices, hacked them, and were able to force the university to stop its surveillance.
Edward Ongweso Jr
12.2.22
Freight Rail

More than 500 Labor Historians Condemn Biden’s Intervention in Freight Rail Dispute

It’s never good when people who spend their entire professional lives studying the subject say you fucked up.
Aaron Gordon
12.2.22
Tech news

A Huge Satellite Is Now One of the Brightest Objects In the Sky, Astronomers Warn

The BlueWalker 3 satellite now out-shines all but the brightest stars and “could severely hamper progress in our understanding of the cosmos.”
Becky Ferreira
12.2.22
Twitter

Anti-Vaxers Celebrate Twitter's New COVID Misinformation Policy

Some of the most pernicious bad actors on the platform are cheering Twitter’s sudden decision to stop enforcing COVID guidelines. 
Anna Merlan
12.2.22
El Salvador

Hacked El Salvador Journalists Sue Spyware Maker Pegasus in US Court

Journalists from the El Faro investigative outlet believe President Nayib Bukele's government purchased the spyware and is behind the hacking.
Emily Green
12.2.22
housing

Rental Opportunity of the Week: Only a Landlord Would Do This to a Nice Room

This room could have been beautiful. Now it's a one-bed studio for rent with a futon.
Joel Golby
12.2.22
News

This Teen Was Raped in a State That Has an Abortion Exception. She Still Couldn't Get One.

“It was the ugliest feeling explaining to the doctor that delivered your child that she was raped, and then him telling you he can't do anything to help you.”
Carter Sherman
12.2.22
japan

Japanese Cannibal Who Got Away With Eating and Raping a Dutch Woman Is Dead

Issei Sagawa admitted to killing his classmate so he could taste her flesh, but loopholes in international law let him walk free.
Hanako Montgomery
12.2.22
kanye west

Kanye West Suspended From Twitter Again for ‘Inciting Violence’

“Sorry, but you have gone too far,” Elon Musk apparently wrote in a text exchange posted by Ye on Truth Social. “This is not love.”
David Gilbert
12.2.22
News

Why Almost No One’s Being Let Out of Prison in Alabama

After a parolee murdered three people in 2018, Alabama’s parole rate has dropped to just 10 percent. It’s causing overcrowding and violence.
Gabrielle Caplan
Gilad Thaler
12.2.22
sexually assault

Top Secret Service Officer Accused of Raping Army Lieutenant at G20 Summit

Dozens of world leaders and VVIPs were protected by 18,000 military and police officers at the G20 Summit in Indonesia’s paradise island Bali.
Pallavi Pundir
12.2.22
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