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poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

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