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   • ProPublica

   Happy new year, fedi friends and welcome to the fascinating world of 2025, which has already lasted approximately 15 months. Here’s a selection of stories from newsrooms with an active presence in the fediverse, plus a couple from our own desks.These include Meta employee reactions to their new policies (not good!), an exploration of the social worker shortage in Texas, an article on making peace with our younger selves, and a story for the ages about the man who infiltrated right-wing militia and shared his experiences with @ProPublica. Please follow all the newsrooms featured, click on their stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and support any way you can.
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   #Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

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     • The Conversation U.S.

     Shakespeare’s “Richard III” depicts the reign of the infamous monarch as “wrought with chaos, confusion and corruption that fueled civil conflict,” says Trinity College associate professor David Sterling Brown, writing for @TheConversationUS. He draws parallels between King Richard and Donald Trump.

     https://theconversation.com/what-shakespeare-revealed-about-the-chaotic-reign-of-richard-iii-and-why-the-play-still-resonates-in-the-age-of-donald-trump-233189

     #Literature #Arts #Culture #Shakespeare #Writing @histodons #Trump #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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     • ProPublica

     Is there anyone in the fediverse who hasn’t read this extraordinary story? Just in case, we’re posting it here. It’s about John Williams, a man who infiltrated right-wing militia, and then shared what he found exclusively with @ProPublica. “Williams turned on a recording device and dialed. [Retired detective Bobby] Kinch picked up after one ring: ‘What’s going on?’ he bellowed. ‘How you doing, man?’ ‘I don’t know if you remember me,’ Kinch continued, but they’d met years before … ‘Well I’m the sitting, current national director of the Oath Keepers now.’”

     https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

     #USPolitics #OathKeepers #Militias #News #News #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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     • The Tyee

     Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Liberal, has stood down and the Conservative Party of Canada looks set to win the next election. @thetyee reports on the “highlights” of its leader, Pierre Poilievre’s conversation with Jordan Peterson.

     https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/01/08/What-Pierre-Poilievre-Told-Jordan-Peterson/

     #Canada #PierrePoilievre #JordanPeterson #CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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     • Jason Koebler
     • 404 Media

     Meta’s “anything goes” attitude to free speech doesn’t extend to its own employees. @jasonkoebler of @404mediaco writes about how the company is deleting internal criticism of new board member, UFC president Dana White. “Major W,” one employee posted. “We hire Connor [McGregor] next for after work sparring?.” Employees are also livid about changes where Meta users can now say LGBTQ people have mental illness. “I am LGBT and Mentally Ill,” one post by an employee on an internal Meta platform called Workplace reads. “Just to let you know that I’ll be taking time out to look after my mental health.”

     https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/

     https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/

     #Meta #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #DanaWhite #Technology #Tech #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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     • Texas Observer

     Texas has a dire shortage of social workers. @TexasObserver explores how the state is shooting itself in the foot by imposing a lifetime ban on candidates who’ve been convicted of certain crimes such as assault. The law came into place in 2019 and does not allow for rehabilitation or glowing recommendations — it’s one strike, and you’re out. James Knight and Daryl James spoke to Katherin Youniacutt, a grandmother and recovering alcoholic with more than 10 years of sobriety who is still being punished for a mistake she made in 2007.

     https://www.texasobserver.org/social-worker-license-lawsuit-texas-law/

     #SocialWork #Crime #Texas #TexasObserver #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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