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Wednesday March 11, 2014

The Guardian

Utah passes firing squad bill

Homan Square detentions become major issue in Chicago mayoral race

Republicans' new climate strategy: just ban the words 'climate change'

UN plan to resettle Syrian refugees in northern Europe

A long way from home: Syrians find unlikely refuge in Brazil

Why does America continue to subsidize housing for the wealthy?

The New York Times

Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson Steps Down Amid Criticism

Ferguson City Manager Cited in Justice Department Report Resigns

How Other Missouri Cities Are Like Ferguson

Invisible Primary: Elizabeth Warren Is No Barack Obama

Women on Boards: Where the U.S. Ranks

Wired

A building designed to solve haiti's Cholera problem

Google just made near-infinite storage cheap and easy

Report: CIA has tried for years to break into Apple gear

Hillary Clinton says her email was secure; she can't know

Fusion

Class anxiety, brought to you by Apple

Bloomberg

Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality

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Monday March 9,  2015

The Guardian

Bjarke Ingels on the New York Dryline: 'We think of it as the love-child of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs'

Chelsea Manning: The CIA's torturers and the leaders who approved their actions must face the law

Clinton benefitted from email double-standard, says former US ambassador

Boko Haram-Isis alliance is nothing but superficial propaganda

Should we hack the hackers?

How your phone and fitness band could end up giving evidence against you

New York Times

U.N. Finds ‘Alarmingly High’ Levels of Violence Against Women

No Cause to Delay the Afghan Pullout

Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Yet Over’

Fatal Police Shooting of Unarmed 19-Year-Old Prompts Protest

Wired

The elaborate quest to fly a solar-powered plane around the world

How a circular smartphone could help us rethink tech

Watch: Mesmerizing animation of NASA satellites

Dis Magazine

Data is the New “___”

The Verge

White House releases draft of consumer privacy bill

Main Street

Debt Collective Wants Out of Federal Student Loans Borrowed to Attend Corinthian Colleges

Media Matters

How The Merchants Of Doubt Push Climate Denial On Your Television

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Friday March 6, 2015

The Guardian

US jails are warehouses of sick, poor and low-risk people

Naomi Klein: If enough of us decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one

US unemployment at lowest since 2008 – but young people still can't find work

Mother Jones

Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Help Me Tackle Student Debt

New York Just Showed Every Other State How to Do Solar Right

The Nation

Court: Army Must Refer to Chelsea Manning as a Woman

It’s Not Just Ferguson: Cities nationwide are criminalizing black people to pay the bills

Ten Urban Experiments That Your City Should Adopt

How the Movement to Unseat Rahm Emanuel Is Challenging ‘1 Percent’ Urbanism

American Drone Operators Are Quitting in Record Numbers

Democracy Now

As Boston Marathon Bomber Admits Guilt, FBI Sued for Killing Friend of Tsarnaevs in Florida

Meet Jesús 'Chuy' García, the Chicago Activist Aiming to Unseat "Mayor 1%" Rahm Emanuel

"I Thought I Saw Death": John Lewis Remembers Police Attack on Bloody Sunday in Selma 50 Years Ago

Wired

MIT Media Lab students turn power cords into interfaces

In the future, robots will write news that's all about you

Favela students to control Mars mission

Wall Street Journal

Entrepreneur Seeks to Demonstrate Cure for Crowded Wireless Networks

Mashable

Apple to replace AT&T on the Dow Jones Industrial Average

New plane tracking to be tested following Malaysia jet mystery

Report finds FAA systems are unnecessarily vulnerable to hacking

The New York Times

The Hardest (and Most Important) Job in Afghanistan: A week on the front lines with the Afghan National Police

U.S. Economy Added 295,000 Jobs in February, but Wages Continued to Lag

The President’s Weak Privacy Proposal

Alternet

This Man Faces Life in Prison for Posting a Photo of a Gang Sign to Facebook

Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You

Why the Ownership of Personal Data in the Hands of a Few Should Worry Us

A New Kind of Mental Disturbance? Drone Pilots Are Quitting in Droves

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Thursday March 5, 2015

The NY Times

Shortchanging New Jersey by Billions

Christie Administration Praises Exxon Deal

De Blasio and Developer Are Close, but Not on Lower-Cost Housing

Last Ebola Patient in Liberia Discharged From Treatment Center

Mars Had an Ocean, Scientists Say, Pointing to New Data

Reuters

FBI to open field office in North Dakota's oil capital

The Guardian

The East India Company: The original corporate raiders

New Zealand spying on Pacific allies for 'Five Eyes' and NSA, Snowden files show

Return to Cuba or die: healthcare woes ended this refugee's American Dream

Target to cut thousands of jobs in US and India as it seeks to cut costs by $2bn

Petraeus won't serve a day in jail for his leaks. Edward Snowden shouldn't either

The Marshall Project

Missed by a Mile: How hard is it to count deaths by police?

How to Cut the Prison Population by 50 Percent

Jacobin

It’s Not Just the Drug War: Progressive narratives about what’s driving mass incarceration don’t quite add up

Slate

There’s Nothing Quaint About Etsy’s IPO

Ellen Pao Trial Reveals the Subtle Sexism of Silicon Valley

The World Is Running Out of Places to Store All of Its Oil

How our transportation system discriminates against the most vulnerable.

Wired

Woman controls a fighter jet simulator using only her mind

Motherboard

Cops Need Warrant to Get Cellphone Location Data, California Judge Rules

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Wednesday March 4, 2015

Washington Post

‘FREAK’ flaw undermines security for Apple and Google users, researchers discover

Ferguson police routinely violate blacks’ rights, Justice Dept. finds

Justice Department clears Ferguson police officer in civil rights probe

Tech Crunch

Alibaba Is Expanding Its Cloud Services To The U.S. To Give Amazon New Competition

NY Times

Chicago Under Rahm Emanuel: Readers Respond

Nextdoor Social Network Digs Deep Into Neighborhoods

The Guardian

Supreme court hears challenge to Obama's health law: everything you need to know

CIA, NSA and MI5: why our intelligence agencies aren't so smart

Mobile phones hacked: can the NSA and GCHQ listen to all our phone calls?

From GCHQ to tech giants: why the fight for your personal data matters

Apple Pay: a new frontier for scammers

US offers highest-ever cybercrime reward for arrest of Russian hacker

Twitter's new bid to end online abuse could endanger dissidents

The racial bias in policing found in Ferguson is not unique to Missouri

Inside Chicago's legacy of police abuse: violence 'as routine as traffic lights'

Undocumented New York students undeterred in their fight for higher education

Vice News

Rikers Island Inmates Tear Into Locked Room to Save Prison Officer from Rape 

Mother Jones

The Senate Just Failed to Override Obama's Keystone XL Veto

Quartz

Ferguson is what happens when you run a police force as a profit-making business

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Tuesday March 3, 2015

Mapping Police Violence

Mapping Police Violence

The Guardian

Netanyahu on Iran nuclear deal: ‘We’re better off without it’

Afghanistan officials sanctioned murder, torture and rape, says Human Rights Watch report

David Petraeus pleads guilty in deal over passing classified information to lover

Phone hacking at Mirror titles was on mass industrial scale, one journalist hacked phones of 100 celebrities every day for 18 months

British refusal to cooperate with spy inquiry causes row in Germany

Indian state, Maharashtra, bans beef and brings in five-year jail terms for possession

Too much human poo on Mount Everest says Nepal

The New York Times

How to Ensure and Improve Teacher Quality

House, in Reversal, Will Vote on Year’s Funding for Homeland Security

Mark Zuckerberg Goes on Charm Offensive for Internet.org

HP to Buy Wi-Fi Equipment Maker Aruba Networks for About $3 Billion

Chip Makers Will Merge in Deal Worth $11.8 Billion

Uber Driver Database Breached by Someone Outside Company

Wired

How Google’s new wireless service will change the internet

Opinion: The FCC’s Net Neutrality victory is anything but

Vox

City of Cleveland apologizes for blaming Tamir Rice for own death in police shooting

Read the full transcript of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Iran

Are Border Patrol agents threatening to go rogue?

The Supreme Court’s hugely important new Obamacare case, explained in 3 sentences

Copyright for APIs is going to be a disaster and only the Supreme Court can stop it

Arstechnica

Seattle police unveil blurred, soundless body cam YouTube channel

Plan C

We Are All Very Anxious

Mashable

British Museum now lets you 3D print its artifacts using Sketchfab

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Monday March 2, 2015

The NY Times

Justice Department to Fault Ferguson Police, Seeing Racial Bias in Traffic Stops

The Phony Legal Attack on Health Care

Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin

Make School a Democracy

The Guardian

Tamir Rice 'directly and proximately' responsible for own police shooting death, says city

Watch: LAPD officers shoot dead homeless man after street altercation

Watch: Homan Square protesters demand Chicago police 'black site' be shut down

Silicon valley is more Flintstones than Jetsons when it comes to women

The Washington Post

The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose

A searchable index of Clinton Foundation donors

Mother Jones

Watch: A US Senator Uses a Snowball to Deny Global Warming

Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?

Mashable

Google confirms it wants to be a wireless carrier

Blackphone 2 wants to be your super secure work phone

Vox

Why Elizabeth Warren is declaring war on an obscure trade policy

Huffington Post

Bernie Sanders Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama's Trade Deal

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Friday February 27th, 2015

The New York Times

How We Learned To Kill

Secret Marijuana Farm Beneath Brooklyn Cherry Factory Leaves Many Mysteries 

F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility

Out of Prison, and Staying Out, After 3rd Strike in California

The Guardian

Homeland Security shutdown may be averted as Senate approves emergency funding

Scott Walker woos CPAC by boasting about crusade against Wisconsin unions

Three years after Trayvon Martin, a new civil rights movement grows in strength

Walmart and eBay oppose shareholder resolutions to disclose gender pay gap

Slate

Venmo Security is not as Strong as the Company Wants You to Think

The Next Attack on Voting Rights

Wired

Hyperloop Construction Starts Next Year With the First Full-Scale Track

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Thursday February 26, 2015

Truth Out

Underpaying Adjuncts Hurts Full-Time Professors and Students Too

The New York Times

Arms Control for a Cyberage

A Faster Way to Try Many Drugs on Many Cancers

Next Goal for Walmart Workers: More Hours

Video: The Two Americas of Health Care

Video: How Net Neutrality Works

The Guardian

Net neutrality: FCC set to vote on new rules governing future of broadband

Net neutrality is only the beginning of an open internet

Drone warfare: life on the new frontline

Vox

What Comcast's huge profits tell us about the state of the broadband industry

Elizabeth Warren is furious over Obama’s proposed trade deal

The simple reason Walmart & TJ Maxx are handing out raises — people are quitting

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Wednesday Feburary 25, 2015

Gawker

Happy National Adjunct Walkout Day

The New York Times

Google Plans New Headquarters, and a City Fears Being Overrun

I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

The Guardian

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'

Trayvon Martin’s family ‘heartbroken’ over outcome of federal investigation

Mother Jones

Sales of ADHD Meds Are Skyrocketing.

Obama Just Vetoed the GOP’s Keystone Bill

Gizmodo

Why We Need a Right to Privacy for Brain Data

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Tuesday February 24, 2015

The Guardian

Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Israeli Intelligence Agency

NSA director defends plan to maintain ‘backdoors’ into technology companies

US prisons outsource inmate healthcare to private companies. My son died in their care

Apple adds racially diverse emoji, and they come in five skin shades

Dis Magazine

The Data Issue