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Jan 15, 2025

How Facebook Weeds Out Cannabis Content

It’s weird you might be censored for mentioning weed on Facebook and not, for instance, saying that Covid vaccines might kill you.
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Jan 15, 2025

Can ‘People Before Profit’ Model for Healthcare Work in the US?

The December killing of United Health’s CEO Brian Thompson revealed deep disappointment with America’s profit-before-people healthcare model.
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Jan 8, 2025

Zoe Lofgren: The Weeklys Interview

After celebrating the holidays with family and recovering from Covid, congressional veteran Zoe Lofgren flew back to DC to begin her new term.
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Jan 8, 2025

We Build This City

Donald Trump made a lot of big promises during his campaign, including a contest to build 10 new “Freedom Cities” from the ground up.
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Jan 8, 2025

Urban Crawl: Traversing San Jose Avenue’s Industrial Backwater

San Jose Avenue took me from Monterey Road all the way to Old Almaden Road, providing a half-mile cross-section of humanity.
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Jan 8, 2025

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for Jan 9–15, 2025

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.
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Dec 31, 2024

Study: Using Weed for Pain Can Prevent Overdose Fatalities

Research has shown pot helps people get off opioids, but the effectiveness has been hard to measure. A new study claims to have solved this.

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