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Teenaged YA fiction novelist Dominika Pindor recently revealed that a xenophobic male Karen gave her book, Wings and Shadows, a one-star rating when he found out she was an immigrant. It also turns out there's much more to the poor review.

A video with more than 6.2 million views on Twitter shows hundreds of people cheering and clapping as two men detained by U.K. Immigration Enforcement are released from a police van.

Antebellum America infrastructure begins and ends with the Eerie Canal. Oh, and a few railroads. There are some of those, too. Including the famous Underground Railroad. Of course, it wasn't truly underground. It also wasn't a railroad. But...what if it was?

A viral video shows a woman dubbed a "Karen" lashing out at a man who asks her to keep her unleashed dog away from his child in a New York City park. The woman then calls someone who threatens the dad.

The Underground Railroad is not an easy watch. Sitting at 10 episodes, Barry Jenkins (who directed every episode and wrote or co-wrote several of them) doesn’t shy away from depicting the trauma or violence faced by the characters in Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. That violence, both intentional and incidental, is often brutal and tough to sit through, particularly as white slave owners and their guests casually watch it take place. The aftermath of what these characters see... Читать дальше...

Welcome to the Friday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect the week online. Today:

What's the most dangerous and worrying thing you can buy at a big box store? According Target and Walmart, the answer is apparently Pokémon cards. Both chains have suspended sales in collectible cards due to "safety concerns."

A popular TikToker recently shared a video celebrating her relationship, prompting viewers to accuse her boyfriend of "grooming" her.

A former police officer was arrested in Florida after allegedly posing as a high school student to gain Instagram followers.

Adapted from the bestselling novel by A.J. Finn —who was scandalously outed as a serial liar in 2019—The Woman in the Window is neither realistic enough nor stylized enough to really work. A psychological thriller in the mold of Rear Window, it stars Amy Adams as Anna Fox, an agoraphobe who witnesses a crime in her neighbor's house across the street. Or rather she thinks she witnessed a crime, but her meds may be messing with her head.

An image of a sign posted in the drive-thru window of a Burger King is causing controversy for asking parents to get their children to apply for a job there.

Opinion

Valve's Steam is back in the news again after banning yet another adult video game. Itch.io, one of its smaller, oft-praised competitors, is in the same boat.

Despite claims to the contrary, the two marketplaces have more in common than they do not. I know this as a queer adult creator. Instead of championing one company to spite another, the games industry must take a collective step back and look at the facts.

Itch.io is just a temporary accommodation that... Читать дальше...

A young woman in Saudi Arabia was allegedly killed by her brother for revealing her face on TikTok, according to TikToker and women’s rights activist, @infidelnoodle. 

A 2017 presentation about how to request records from big tech companies from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department ended with a photo of police officers spraying protesters.