Month: May 2022

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Serial Killers On The Loose: 2022, Part II

It sounds like something straight out of a noir film -- an unidentified killer goes on a murder spree and vanishes, taunting the cops before disappearing. Unfortunately, this phenomenon isn't limited to the world of fiction. Learn more about murderers who remain on the loose in in the second part of this two-part update on serial killers who, as of today, seem to have escaped justice.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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Headlines From The Times - A TikTok president for the Philippines

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has been campaigning to become the next president of the Philippines via the power of TikTok and other social media. And Bongbong’s whitewashing of his family’s violent past has him on the cusp of victory.

Today we go to the Philippines, where the presidential election is taking place next week. And we talk about how social media disinformation, yet again, might put a populist onto the global stage of power. Read the transcript.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times Asia correspondent David Pierson

More reading:

Dictator’s son uses TikTok to lead in Philippine election and rewrite his family’s past

Troll armies, a growth industry in the Philippines, may soon be coming to an election near you

The Marcos diary : A lust for power, an eye on glory

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.6.22

Alabama

  • Senator Tuberville offers legislation involving cryptocurrency and retirement
  • Former clerk at Akron indicted for embezzling $100,000 from town accounts
  • Airbus out of Mobile is expanding its assembly line for A320 Airplane

National

  • 8 GOP Senators demand answers about biometric data now in the hands of Taliban
  • Special Counsel Durham wins another filing on evidence in Michael Sussman trial
  • LA Senator Kennedy confronts DHS secretary about Nina Jankewicz
  • National group of doctors horrified that FDA approved Remdesivir for babies
  • A PA senate primary debate brings in latest SCOTUS docs and abortion issue

Link to promoted story: Alabama mom texts deceased son, get miraculous response

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - TGIF: Welcome Back to Both 1973 and 1984

If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles delivers us all the news from the week that was. 


Today, we bring you: Everything you need to know about this week's Supreme Court Leak, the new singing-and-dancing truth czar, revelations about youth gender transition and signs of change in the Republican party. Plus some attempts at tasteful humor. TGIF!

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