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The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies

The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.

I don’t care how different these 2 stories are, Biden just f**** over his party. And the boyscout Merrick Garland is all too happy to help.
@omi_geek what a magical location. I’m totally jealous.
Before i pop a Xanax and get ready for Christmas Eve with my family, here’s a gentle PSA:
There is no wrong way to Mastodon. This isn’t the Blue Bird of Hostility app. Being kind to new users helps further the community. Starting out with telling people what they should and shouldn’t do is tacky and rude. Welcome people into the fold. Help them out. Be kind-we’ve all started over at one point or another.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.
Xoxo
Jenn
Come on now. Let’s erase the last shred of doubt that this guy is in cahoots with the radical right.
As @mmasnick points out, it's crazy that in a matter of two weeks Elon Musk went from proudly revealing purportedly damning internal Twitter discussions about blocking links to a news article about Hunter Biden's laptop to banning users who posted publicly available information (flight data) and blocking users from posting links to a competing service. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/elon-tries-badly-to-defend-the-banning-of-journalists-as-twitter-starts-blocking-links-mentions-of-mastodon/
Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They promised that they would moderate “based off the FCC and the Supreme cou…

Techdirt
Elon Musk Kills Twitter Audio Feature After Bizarre Talk With Journalists

Twitter Spaces, the audio feature that allows people to participate in group chats using the social media platform, has been...

Gizmodo Australia

One of the leading newsrooms in trust-through-transparency is @ProPublica

Here, they publish a review of criticisms they got after publishing a story on the lab leak hypothesis in debate over the origins of COVID-19.

https://www.propublica.org/article/editors-note-a-review-of-criticisms-of-a-propublica-vanity-fair-story-on-a-covid-origins-report

This is quite different from the "we stand by our story" routine.

In fact, they DO stand by their story in this case, but they also take criticisms seriously and respond in detail, which is sound practice.

#journalism #lableak #propublica #transparency

Editor’s Note: A Review of Criticisms of a ProPublica-Vanity Fair Story on a COVID Origins Report

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

ProPublica
@micahflee @chadloder @VPS_Reports @CrimethInc @efjbgc @robertmackey it feels like he’s just lashing out at this point. Clearly he has honed in on “the left” as the source of all his troubles. I mean if Andy Ngo has his ear there are clearly problems with this man.