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Showing posts with label HBO. Show all posts
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Liske translates Yeats poem with link to dystopian sci-fi

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© Cyprian Liske; used by permission. My friend and scholar-translator Cyprian Liske has prepared a Polish translation (image) of W.B. Yeats...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

'Marketplace' features book, film, Wisconsin law class on wild risks at shuttered N.J. water park

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Action Park fun in 1994 (Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Marketplace today features a torts course about accident risk an...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Unregulated, 'Dark Waters' chemicals persist in cookware, clothing, sickening people, environment

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Comedian and social critic John Oliver's latest top story on HBO's Last Night concerned PFAS, the artificial chemical substances b...
Monday, April 12, 2021

From soccer pitch to memoir, and now to White House, Rapinoe shines in USWNT equal pay crusade

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Rapinoe speaks at the White House (from White House video). Today a federal district court in California is expected to approve a partial se...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

FOIA scores among John Oliver's three favorite things

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Of all the funny takes on an outraged voter's crashing of a Nevada election press conference, John Oliver's takes top honors for fe...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Canadian privacy advocate deploys anti-SLAPP law in suit by electronic exam proctoring company

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John Oliver's Big Coal SLAPP nemesis, Bob Murray, retires Pixabay by Aksa2011 An IT specialist at a Canadian university is defending a...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Anti-SLAPP is not all it's cracked up to be

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John Oliver this week on Last Week revisited the defamation lawsuit he drew against HBO from Bob Murray and Murray Energy.  The piece brings...