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Audio Shows Grace Church Head Teacher Admitting Were Demonizing White People for Being Born On 4/20/21 at 12:07 PM EDT A whistleblowing teacher at Manhattans elite Grace Church School released audio Tuesday to corroborate his claims that the head teacher is "indoctrinating" students in the name of "anti-racism." The audio, which was put out by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, relays a March 2 conversation between math teacher Paul Rossi and Head of School George Davison. In the disc...

A new publication from a Vanity Fair veteran aims to attract writers with a revenue-sharing plan. The project has private equity backing.

Credit...Christopher Griffith/Trunk Archive It was amazing how quickly it happened. For almost five years — from Donald Trump’s rise in the 2016 Republican primaries to the Jan. 6 insurrection following his defeat — the lurid spectacle of our national politics sucked up most of the country’s cultural energy. Almost every conversation I had during that time began with mutual expressions of outrage and incredulity about whatever was happening in the hourly news cycle. And then it was over...

Facebook to Compete With Twitter, Substack: Self-Publishing Feature for Writers, Journalists Coming to FB! Facebook aims to empower journalists and independent writers by giving them a platform to make some money. On Tuesday, the social media giant confirmed its plan to launch a new platform in its systems that supports writers to self-publish their works and gain money through subscriptions. (Photo : William Iven / Unsplash ) How Does Facebooks Writers Platform Work This planned platform by Fa...

Facebook to pay Murdochs News Corp for content, announces self-publishing platform for writers The new platform will be initially introduced in the US and is aimed at taking on Substack and Medium Facebook to pay Murdochs News Corp for content, announces self-publishing platform for writers To continue reading... Dont have an account? Computing helps IT leaders to make technology a revenue and innovation engine for their businesses. Our unique package of news and analysis enables you to discove...

On Wednesday, I wrote about how corporate journalists, realizing that the public’s increasing contempt for what they do is causing people to turn away in droves, are desperately inventing new tactics to maintain their stranglehold over the dissemination of information and generate captive audiences. That is why journalists have bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the the most vocal  censorship advocates, using their platforms to dem...

An interview with SF comic Alexis Gay, who made the viral video about park hangouts FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 San Francisco-based comedian Alexis Gay poked fun at park hangouts during the COVID-19 pandemic in a viral video posted on Twitter. Courtesy Alexis GayShow MoreShow Less 2of5 San Francisco-based comedian Alexis Gay poked fun at park hangouts during the COVID-19 pandemic in a viral video posted on Twitter.Courtesy Alexis GayShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 San Francisco-based comedian Alexi...

I failed at every attempt to combat my phone addiction. This new approach worked. FacebookTwitterEmail I spent 1/4 of every day on my phone. I decided to do something extreme to stop.bobmadbob/Getty Images One dreary January evening, after one of those long work days where I thought, “I’m tired, I’ll just lay in bed for a few minutes and check Instagram,” I fell into a black hole. I blinked, and suddenly I’d been in bed for an hour and my eyeballs were seared from all the blue light a...

Useful Idiots: Julian Assanges Partner Stella Moris on WikiLeaks, Concealing Their Pregnancy Plus, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper discuss arguments for and against Substack Reed Dunlea, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Stella Moris, a lawyer and the life partner of Julian Assange. Matt and Katie discuss a recent Twitter thread by Dr. Sarah T. Roberts of UCLA, in which ...

Unfortunately for America, “normalcy” for this administration means sticking to our out-of-touch elite’s sick and disastrous fondness for endless wars in far-flung nations.