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The Wars in Our Schools
original.antiwar.com link posted by c_prompt 440 days ago in politics
Ex-Army Ranger Rory Fanning is speaking to high school kids and giving free copies of his book Worth Fighting For in an attempt to counter the massive, militarized propaganda effort of JROTC pr...
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What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics?
theweek.com link posted by c_prompt 595 days ago in economics
Feeding America is a network of food banks that feeds more than 46 million people. In 2005, four professors at the University of Chicago helped replace their centralized distribution system with an a...
Image of TIL Chris Catrambone, a 33-year-old millionaire, swapped his million-dollar yacht for a fishing trawler and is personally funding rescue missions to save migrants. He wanted to do something with his money that's more meaningful.
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Tales from the Bizarro World
linkedin.com link posted by c_prompt 746 days ago in philosophy
Back in the 1960s, DC Comics introduced a parallel Earth called Bizarro, where everything is inverted and everyone is insane. They even have their own wacky Superman, which ends up being a formidab...