Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Armed Michigan voters escort their state rep to work; Konstantine Anthony for Burbank City Council; Flooding Ohio's "work-refusal" snitchline; and more!

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Armed Michigan voters escort their state rep to work: If the police won't stop the flu klux klan...

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1258808781405777920

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Konstantine Anthony for Burbank City Council: A candidate for working Burbankers.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1258812370442268672

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Flooding Ohio's "work-refusal" snitchline: Volcano gods go hungry tonight.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1258833790807359488

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Brett Favre received $1.1m in welfare money for speeches he never gave: Part of Mississippi's $98m corruption scandal.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259132717431582723

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The real Lord of the Flies kids were really nice to each other: Another paradise built in hell.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259139976421183488

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Phil Ochs rarities: Treasures from a lost and beautiful radical musician and writer.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259146997971341317

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#15yrsago Hillary "RIAA" Rosen: iPod DRM is cruel and unfriendly! web.archive.org/web/2005051403…

#15yrsago PSP will only run apps that Sony has signed -- Sony shooting self in head crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/200…

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#15yrsago Chaining Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases web.archive.org/web/2005100405…

#5yrsago Citizen journo who videod Eric Garner's murder now hounded by NYPD vice.com/en_us/article/…

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#5yrsago DOJ tells judges they don't get a say in whether information is classified theintercept.com/2015/05/08/gov…

#5yrsago Commercial prison messaging system's terms of service lands inmate in solitary eff.org/deeplinks/2015…

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#5yrsago Solving San Francisco's housing crisis with narrow, human-scale streets web.archive.org/web/2015033000…

#5yrsago Senators demand CIA boss admit he lied about hacking torture committee dailydot.com/debug/senate-d…

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#5yrsago Smart Grid consortium rolled its own crypto, which is always, always a bad idea threatpost.com/weak-homegrown…

#1yrago Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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#1yrago Towards a method for fixing machine learning's persistent and catastrophic blind spots arxiv.org/pdf/1905.02175…

#1yrago Americans with diabetes are forming caravans to buy Canadian insulin at 90% off cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

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#1yrago Co-founder of Facebook calls for breakup of Facebook nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opi…

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Yesterday's threads: US public health officials on apps: "Meh"; Volcano gods demand workers; Animal Crossing Haunted Mansion; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1258799334637748225

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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145

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Today's top sources: The Verge (theverge.com), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Dave Hughes (twitter.com/DopedSi).

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