Reading articles
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What are you reading? April 26, 2024
In WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and commentyou note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books I am reading: Slow Horses by Mick
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Reading Animal Farm in Zimbabwe
I began to notice Animal Farm references proliferating in Zimbabwe in 2008. That was the year hyperinflation nosedived the economy, and long-time leader Robert Mugabe felt threatened enough by a newly formed opposition party that he silenced its supporters. In the years since, writers and independent media have repeatedly turned to Animal Farm as a way to illuminate our political reality—even after Mugabe’s 2017 ousting. Last year, a group of Zimbabwean writers published the first-ever Shona...
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Google Doesn’t Want You to Read This
Over the last year, we've alerted our readers to specific RedState articles that Google has demonetized, meaning that no ads can be shown on those articles and RedState doesn't receive any revenue on them, for allegedly violating its guidelines. Google claims the offending articles contain "dangerous or derogatory content" or "unreliable and harmful claims," but what they really contain is content Google and/or the government deem dangerous to groupthink and the accepted narratives – content...