The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands
How the United Nations lost its first flag
Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic?
A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.
Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone
Framing our phones as glossy portraits of the world comes at a cost: we spend more time gazing instead of gaining utility.
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Good Flag, Bad Flag - North American Vexillological Association
"Good" Flag, "Bad" Flag, compiled by Ted Kaye from the expert wisdom of over 20 vexillologists/vexillographers, has become a classic resource for those wishing to design or re-design a flag. The booklet lays out five basic principles for good flag design, and then shows examples of flags that follow them and flags that disregard them, all illustrated in color.
Twitter ‘Blue’: Sex workers, censorship and the fight for online visibility - Index on Censorship
After being shut out online, sex workers saw Twitter Blue as a tool for more visibility. However, it's had the opposite effect
Flag Guesser | The Ultimate Flag Quiz Game | Test your World Flag Knowledge
The best flag guessing game including all countries of the world, US states, coats of arms, emblems & more! Continent specific quizzes, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America!
Last year, the Trump administration launched a sweeping campaign to censor American history and science in the National Park Service. A crowdsourced project aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the government removes them 🧵
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