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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists

Hundreds of emails and internal documents reviewed by WIRED reveal top lobbyists and representatives of America’s agricultural industry led a persistent and often covert campaign to surveil, discredit, and suppress animal rights organizations for nearly a decade, while relying on corporate spies to infiltrate meetings and functionally serve as an …

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Trump’s Administration Wants to Erase Queer History. An Unconventional Book Club Is Fighting Back

“Queer history, it’s always a history of resistance, because that’s what queerness is,” he adds. Whether it’s sexual or gender identity, being queer is non-normative. “Institutions, even well-meaning ones, even schools that try really hard, even great public schools, they’re invested in a version of history that’s from the top …

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