How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream
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Americans have long accumulated wealth by owning their homes, but a new study predicts that spiking insurance rates and climate disasters now herald an era of widespread losses.
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Another Friday, another #NewstodonFriday thread, with our usual mix of tech, politics, books and culture (if you haven’t heard of prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, check out @TheConversationUS’s story about her). All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have invested time and energy in establishing a presence in the fediverse. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.
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“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
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More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections.
#News #Trump #EPA #Environment #Pollution #Health #Government #DEI
“We Will Fight Back”: Aid Workers Fear Closing a Camp on the Arizona Border Will Endanger Migrants
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For the past two years, religious and humanitarian organizations have provided food and aid to migrants at a camp near Sasabe, Arizona. Just before Donald Trump took office, volunteers were told to clear off federal land.
Happy #NewstodonFriday! Once again, the many newsrooms who have an active presence in the #fediverse have produced inspiring, informative, interesting stories, and we’re highlighting their work in the thread below. If you like what you see, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments.
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as she keeps going up the route leading to the summit, Perseverance sends us new visions of the crater rim and beyond
#Mars Nov. 30, 2024 (Sol 1344)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#perseverance #rover #Sol1344 #PerseveranceRover #PicoTurquino #JezeroCrater #JezeroCraterRim #RimCampaign #RimScience #Navcam #photography #space #science #STEM #geology #landscape #Mars2020 #solarocks #Astrodon #news
Beautiful, totally new, long-distance vistas captured 12 hours ago by Perseverance with her Mastcam Zoom camera, after her latest move up the slopes of the crater
#Mars Dec. 5, 2024 (Sol 1349)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
#Perseverance #rover #Sol1349 #PerseveranceRover #JezeroCrater #Astrodon #geology #Mars2020 #RimCampaign #RimScience #science #STEM #news #Martian #landscape #photography
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’
#news #politics #spain #lgbtq #abortion #rights #humanrights #womensrights
Alas, we've not had time to pull together our usual #NewstodonFriday thread this week (sometimes you've just got to prioritize watching a group of seven-year-olds wave paper plates to the "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy"). Instead, we're going to re-share our list of the brilliant indie publishers with an active presence on Mastodon, all of whom would love your support. The spreadsheet below shows all the Flipboard publisher accounts we've federated, many of which are also small independent publishers that would appreciate your cash and/or clicks.
@bolts
@damemagazine
@gbhnews
@KnowableMag
@ProPublica
@restofworld
@SFPublicPress
@TexasObserver
@thecontinent
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social
@themarkup
@thetyee
@thexylom
@timkmak
@TucsonSentinel
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit
#Newstodon #News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews #IndependentMedia #IndependentNews #Flipboard
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New today: The Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on X. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas.
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#extremism #politics #USpol #SocialMedia #Texas #ElonMusk #news #racism
Under #Trump, #EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including #cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
#News #Science #Environment #Health #Government
(Published Sept. 2024) https://propub.li/3Zx4ljp
Happy #NewstodonFriday! We love highlighting the fantastic work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please boost the stories you enjoy reading and follow the profiles (in some cases, you can also make a donation to support the work of the publications you’re reading). As always, please feel free to share your favorite journalist and newsroom profiles (with a link to a great article if you like!) in the comments.
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Today, we announced that we have federated the Flipboard accounts of nine more trusted publishers. Read more about this in the blogpost by managing editor @csullivan, and check out the "Media Organizations & Brands" tab of our spreadsheet to discover the other 100 federated Flipboard publishers.
Bloomberg, @bloomberg
Bloomberg Law, @BloombergLaw
Bloomberg CityLab, @citylab
The Kyiv Independent, @KyivIndependent
Politico, @politico
Quartz, @quartz
Salon, @Salon
Time, @time
Vox, @Vox
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-brings-more-news-to-the-fediverse/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
#Flipboard #Federation #Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #News #Media #Publishers
As part of our mission to bring more high-quality journalism to the fediverse, we’re federating today the profiles of nine U.S. media sites, bringing their content to Mastodon and other platforms. We think this is especially important now as the world faces serious crises like Ukraine, Gaza and climate change — not to mention pivotal elections coming up this year in several countries.
We’re delighted to welcome this next wave of trusted publishers:
Bloomberg: @bloomberg
Bloomberg Law: @BloombergLaw
Bloomberg CityLab: @citylab
The Kyiv Independent: @KyivIndependent
Politico: @politico
Quartz: @quartz
Salon: @Salon
Time: @time
Vox: @Vox
Here are just a few of the amazing Magazines you’ll be able to follow:
Business News by Quartz, @business-news-quartz
Congress by Politico, @congress-politico
Markets by Bloomberg, @markets-bloomberg
News & Politics by Salon, @news-politics-Salon
Supreme Court by Vox, @supreme-court-Vox
Urban Planning by Bloomberg City Lab, @urban-planning-citylab
World News by Time, @world-time
More details on today's announcement: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-brings-more-news-to-the-fediverse/
#Journalism #News #Media #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Flipboard #Federation
🛜This Week In Global Museum:
World's Most Beautiful Museum Stuns Internet | Goering's Art Dealer Plundered The World | Vampire Reconstructions | Science Museum Monitoring US Bribery Case | $6 Million Banana Collector Buying 100,000 More | The Museum Man With A Plan | More Museum News .
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #news #museumnews #Museumjobs #artgallery #jobs
in the #arXiv
A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
by the VEXAG Exploration Strategy Study Analysis Workgroup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06830
#Venus #PlanetaryScience #Astrodon #Science #STEM #planet #planets #solarsystem #engineering #news
🎄Screaming Museum Workers | Top Archaeologist Accused of Faking Discoveries | 350,000 Artefacts Discovered In Storage | Magnificent Stuffed Rhinos | Antiquities Theft Expert Challenges British Museum's Marbles Claim | More Museum News.
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!
"Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process."
Is it us, or do Friday the Thirteenths seem to come around more often these days? Fittingly, we have some scary stuff this #NewstodonFriday, including stories about Medicare, media obeying in advance, and AI movies that aren’t technically supposed to be horror — but they gave us a fright. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.
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We've been publishing stories all year related to our 70th anniversary, but today marks the actual date that the Texas Observer published its first issue in 1954, with the top story dedicated to a retail workers' #strike in Port Arthur: https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1954/12/13#page=1
#journalism #history #media #nonprofit #news #Texas #politics #USpol
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If, like us, you’re donning your holiday gear (it’s sweatpants!) and bidding farewell to work till 2025, then here’s a collection of stories to entertain you through the fortnight. And if you’re deskbound, well, hopefully this #NewstodonFriday thread offers some distraction from the humdrum. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. We’ll be around through the festive season but taking a break from Newstodon — and hopefully, the news. Happy holidays, and tidings of comfort and joy.
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The January/February 2025 issue is coming soon for members of the Texas Observer.
Want to be among the first to read the great reporting in every issue? Join us today: https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/
#journalism #nonprofit #Texas #politics #news #culture #border
Alice Munro stood by her man. She's not the only one
CBC reporter and podcast host Julie Ireton provides analysis of the reported sexual abuse of Alice Munro's daughter in the context of the stories and investigations Julie has for years produced at the request of sexual assault victims.
#cbc #news #News #Canada #Ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/alice-munro-stood-by-her-man-she-s-not-the-only-one-1.7267722?cmp=rss
Linda Ronstadt roasts the Don and JD
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