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• Heartgaze’s outré pop will twist up your emotions

  16-10-2023 23:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As Heartgaze, Clemente Calandra makes skewed underground pop songs that stitch together stiff-legged drum ’n’ bass breaks, nimble acoustic guitars with the raw vulnerability of mainstream emo, and shocks of feedback that smell like dimly lit basement noise shows. Born and raised in Argentina, Calandra created Heartgaze in Chile and then moved to Chicago in […]
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• White Professor Harasses Black Student Studying In Viral TikTok

  16-10-2023 16:40
  
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  A white professor appeared to harass a Black student while she was studying in a video that’s going viral on TikTok.
  TikTok user Coritoocutee shared a clip of the incident, which seemingly occurred at the University of Dallas in Irving.
  The student said she was studying in a common area between her classes when she was approached by the professor. The professor requested the student lower the volume of a video she was watching because she planned to hold office hours in
  
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• The Dirty Truth about Utility Companies’ Clean Energy Efforts

  16-10-2023 16:22
  
  By Ben Jealous
  Imagine telling your boss that you’ll complete less than half of the work that’s needed, getting almost nothing done over 12 months, then asking for a raise.
  That’s essentially the story of the 77 utility companies still most heavily invested in fossil fuel-fired electric plants, according to a report last week by the Sierra Club and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The utilities plan to replace only 30 percent of that coal and gas with clean energy by 2030, and more th
  
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