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An Out Trans Man Was Just Elected to a State Legislature for the First Time Ever
The historic victory is part of a “rainbow wave.”
Anya Zoledziowski
11.9.22
mexico

Neo-Nazis Held a Secret Concert Called ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in Mexico City
Many of the attendees made the Nazi salute popularized by Adolf Hitler, while others had tattoos of the German dictator, according to a press report.
Emily Green
11.9.22
Proposition 30

California Votes Not to Tax the Rich to Pay for Electric Cars and Wildfire-Fighting Funding
The No to 30 campaign falsely but successfully billed the proposition as a corporate handout.
Aaron Gordon
11.9.22
Tech

CYBER: What Comes After Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are dying. What comes next might not be better, but now is the time to fight for change.
Matthew Gault
11.9.22
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg Picks Wild Billionaire Metaverse Fantasy Over 11,000 Jobs
Meta's CEO blamed the company's mass layoffs on "macroeconomic" forces and "increased competition," not his massive, faith-based bet on the metaverse.
Maxwell Strachan
11.9.22
TikTok

TikTok Creators Sentenced to 20 Lashes For Video Mocking Nigerian Politician
Rights groups have condemned the sentences handed to Mubarak Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad for a TikTok skit about Kano governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Sophia Smith Galer
11.9.22
News

Abortion Rights Triumphed in Michigan and Almost Everywhere Else in the Midterms
Voters in Michigan, California, and Vermont agreed to enshrine abortion protections in their state constitution.
Carter Sherman
11.9.22
News

The House Is Getting a Bunch of New Progressives
Winners include the youngest person ever elected to the chamber and a Pennsylvania candidate who was heavily targeted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Paul Blest
11.9.22
News

Extremists Respond to Trump’s Voter Fraud Conspiracies: ‘Fuck It, Arm Up’
“Georgians better be ready to lock and load. If it gets violent, shoot first,” one member of The Donald wrote on Tuesday.
David Gilbert
11.9.22
News

Republicans Thought They Were Going to Win Big. Then They Didn’t.
Democrats are outperforming expectations and winning nearly every tossup race as they fight to hang onto Congress.
Cameron Joseph
11.9.22
japan

Japanese Pet Cremators Burned Their Garbage With Pets for 10 Years
The practice became so normal that employees were burning their garbage with the pet corpses every day.
Hanako Montgomery
11.9.22
inequality

This Country Has 70 New Millionaires Every Day. Why Is it Among the World’s Hungriest?
Nearly 800 million Indians depend on the government’s chronically underfunded food security programme.
Srishti Jaswal
11.9.22
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