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politics Kansas' news anti-Trans "bathroom ban" turned on cis woman and disabled son at Wichita Public Library Rob Beschizza
politics Alex Jones' phone contains 'intimate messages with Roger Stone,' says Sandy Hook lawyer Rob Beschizza
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happy mutants Normal: Warren Ellis's story of futurists driven mad by staring into the abyss of tomorrow Cory Doctorow
politics 370 economists sign letter slamming Trump for 'magical thinking and conspiracy theories' Xeni Jardin
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