Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here's our thread of work from newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please read, boost, comment, follow profiles, subscribe, donate money and show your support in any way you can.
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Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here's our thread of work from newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please read, boost, comment, follow profiles, subscribe, donate money and show your support in any way you can.
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Anti-immigrant rhetoric is part and parcel of some candidates’ campaigns in the U.S. election. @TucsonSentinel shares this Arizona Mirror story about Trump and Harris’s different visions for the 11 million people who live in the United States without legal status.
#USElection #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris #Immigration #SwingStates #Arizona #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
“Your smart TV knows what you’re watching,” write Mohamed Al Elew and Gabriel Hongsdusit for @themarkup. They’ve put together a guide to turning off that ability on three different platforms.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching
#Surveillance #Tech #Technology #SmartTVs #Gadgets #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
It’s legal for prisoners to unionize — and it can be invaluable for incarcerated people who are often laboring in difficult conditions without pay. @TexasObserver’s Michelle Pitcher talked to Texans in and out of prisons who are helping empower prisoners to seek better conditions — including the right to be paid and to refuse work.
https://texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/
#HumanRights #PrisonersRights #Texas #LaborRights #Unionization #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Hummingbirds live life on the edge. @KnowableMag looks at how these tiny creatures can shut their bodies down almost completely, fly thousands of miles, sometimes across open oceans, sometimes upside down and backwards, and can generate g-forces high enough to make a fighter pilot black out.
#Nature #Conservation #Environment #Ecology #Birds #Hummingbirds #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Combined, Gabon, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo are the largest suppliers of crude oil to Israel. @thecontinent reports on whether this might constitute support of genocide, and how African countries have limited ability to do anything, thanks to the power of western oil companies. “Economically and geopolitically we are at the bottom of the hierarchy, playing the same roles today as during colonization,” says Fadhel Kaboub, a Nairobi-based senior adviser at Power Shift Africa. “This takes away a lot of your sovereignty.”
https://continent.substack.com/p/three-african-countries-are-fuelling
#Africa #Israel #Palestine #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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