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Women’s soccer fans are online, organized, and refuse to be ignored

The Verge

These are typical responses from fans of the National Women’s Soccer League, which was the first contact sports league to return to play during the COVID-19 pandemic with its Challenge Cup. American soccer meme power rankings: 1. NWSL memes (a friend just told me that NWSL fans were "raised in the pits of tumblr.") USL memes 3.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

Lately, he has been addressing the consumer technology problems highlighted during the pandemic, including the lack of access to broadband at home in rural areas, an education gap with children due to limited internet access, and a threat to privacy with the introduction of contact tracing. But also, you’ve kind of become a meme.

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The antitrust case against Google is becoming just another partisan fight

The Verge

The liberal Facebook page Occupy Democrats has emerged as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing meme factories on the platform. Utah spent $2.75 million an a contact tracing app that only 40,000 people have used. Data from The New York Times. Test data from The COVID Tracking Project. Governing. ?

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