The Biden administration implemented a “gag order” in January 2023 that restrains federal scientists from addressing controversial research topics to the public, the Guardian reported in February 2023. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled a rule requiring scientists to receive approval before publishing opinions and…
According to a MintPress News article by Alan MacLeod, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has partnered with the makers of the Call of Duty video game to create military propaganda to further the interests of the US empire. Documents obtained by journalist and researcher Tom Secker using the…
Tenants across the United States are being harassed by landlords with “smart locks” installed without the renters’ consent, and very little is being done about it. According to Mario Trujillo and Adam Schwartz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York City is one of the only jurisdictions to pass a…
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Big Oil has been donating millions of dollars to US universities for climate and energy research projects. Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT are some of the universities that have been called out for accepting money from Big Oil. In fact, Tim Barckholtz, ExxonMobil’s scientific adviser, not only had office space…
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In February 2023, the Mississippi House passed Bill 1020, which would create a majority-White district within the predominantly Black capital city of Jackson. State Representative Trey Lamar, the new district’s chief proponent, claims the bill will lower crime; critics describe it as modern Jim Crow law. The new district’s officials…
As soon as 2024, Kentucky residents may have access to applications such as the “Rapid Refresh Forecast System” and the “New United Forecast System” as a response to shortcomings in Kentucky’s existing weather forecasting system, which has failed to predict natural disasters in rural parts of the state on multiple…
The Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has placed pregnant incarcerated women in an extremely vulnerable position. In some states, they will be obligated to carry pregnancies to term while denied prenatal and medical care, The Appeal and Mother Jones reported. According…
Government officials told residents of East Palestine, Ohio, that it was safe to remain in their homes after the February 3, 2023, train derailment and fire that spilled toxic chemicals in their town. The decision was made based on results not from independent testers but from a firm hired by…
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While popular conceptions of hazing involve brutal rites of passage to join fraternities and other social organizations, the new digital trend is “friend hazing,” in which adolescents are victimized without warning by peers they thought were their friends, apparently only for sadistic enjoyment and online notoriety. On March 16, 2023,…
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In December 2022, the Guardian reported that 33 states in the US maintain laws that criminalize HIV exposure or transmission, “many developed long before the illness was understood.” These laws “fail to take into account,” Amelia Abraham reported, that therapeutic medications have dramatically reduced the risk of infection. Nevertheless, in…
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