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happy mutants Facebook forced to drop "feature" that let advertisers block black people, old people and women Cory Doctorow
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human rights Canadian detained by ICE for two weeks tells her story: "Everything felt like it was meant to break you" Ellsworth Toohey
Science RFK Jr establishes Soviet-style pre-approval system for 23 "controversial" research topics at National Cancer Institute Ellsworth Toohey
