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Freelance writer covering politics, activist movements, and pop culture.

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What Happens When a Grocery Store Job Is the Only One You Can Get?

What Happens When a Grocery Store Job Is the Only One You Can Get?

My great-aunt works at a grocery store in a populous suburb of Philadelphia. She’s worked there for about two…

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Media Bits and Bytes - July 7, 2026

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By Casey Newton, Lex McMenamin, Katie Drummond Verified
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Media Bits and Bytes — July 7, 2026 Published July 7, 2026 Data Centers: The Big Backlash How Distributing Zines Brought On an Inquisition Bernie on Tech Crypto, AI and Corporate Political Spending The Case Against Geofence Warrants Tribal Radio Needs Independence AI and Labor Luddites Get Down The Humanoid Cometh DePalma’s “Blow Out”, Timely After 45 Years Data Centers: The Big Backlash By Casey Newton, Platformer Three and a half years after the launch of ChatGPT, the initial wonder that...
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Seven More Sentenced to Prison Over Protest Outside Texas Detention Center

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By Lex McMenamin
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Judge hands down 50-year sentence to defendant Ines Soto, whose wife Elizabeth was sentenced to same prison term Seven more people were sentenced to prison Wednesday over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer and has left many protesters facing decades behind bars. All but one of the defendants sentenced in Fort Worth courtrooms pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting outside the Prairieland detention center near Dallas last 4 July.
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Seven more sentenced to prison over protest outside Texas detention center

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