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Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists ( www.theguardian.com )

A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or...

Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demagogue ( www.theguardian.com )

"We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”...

‘Stakes are really high’: misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 election ( www.theguardian.com )

Kate Starbird, co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, added that she feared that the entirely false story of rigged elections has now “sunk in” for many Americans on the right. “The idea that they’re already going to the polls with the belief that they’re being cheated means...

One was a tech VC, the other was unhoused. They forged an unlikely friendship in a deeply unequal city. ( www.theguardian.com )

From the outside, a friendship between Todd and Armstrong may have seemed unlikely. They occupy two worlds that are emblematic of San Francisco but rarely collide. Todd, 64, is a slightly built African American man who had been living on the streets, shelters, and in and out of prison for years. Armstrong, 62, is a white partner...

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