Notices by Bruno J. Navarro (bruno_j_navarro@mastodon.social)

Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-chopra-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-47b6b39d0eff05ea0c9bca4eacf55b79

Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps after a man was crushed inside a tent as a bulldozer destroyed makeshift homes in preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events.

https://apnews.com/article/homeless-atlanta-ebenezer-mlk-ff421e31ebc13dc53919190074931c42

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?” https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/18/judith-butler-interview-el-pais-gender-trans/

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed his first lawsuit against an out-of-state abortion provider, alleging that a New York physician prescribed abortion-inducing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/12/13/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-first-interstate-abortion-pill-lawsuit/76967237007/

Social media influencers need “urgent” help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the spread of misinformation online, Unesco has warned. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/26/online-influencers-need-urgent-fact-checking-training-warns-unesco

“I have yet to see a single video that’s pounding the drum of ‘we have to find him,’ and that is unique,” said Michael McWhorter, better known as TizzyEnt on TikTok, where he posts true crime and viral news content for his 6.7 million followers. “And in other situations of some kind of blatant violence, I would absolutely be seeing that.” https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228

Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Elon Musk's X social media platform as concerns over its role in promoting violence and extreme content persist, a Reuters survey of forces' social media output showed.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-police-forces-quietly-withdraw-x-platform-amid-content-concerns-2024-11-26/

The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-meta-facebook-lawsuit-9173ad92e11df4b2a565418e419dfb88

A solitary dolphin swimming off Denmark’s frigid coast is chirping and yelling into the vast nothingness, and no one is responding. https://www.popsci.com/environment/dolphin-alone/

“It’s a very common theme in the history of fascism that lots of people think that the fascist leader is joking,” Stanley warns. “People don’t want to believe what’s right in front of their eyes. Let’s take Trump seriously this time.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/if-trump-wins-2024-election-1235096091/

Trump is promising to carry out what he described as an unprecedented crackdown on his political enemies should he win the 2024 election, saying that after his victory there will be a wave of arrests and prosecutions at a level "never seen before in our Country."

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/08/pledges-authoritarian-crackdown-saying-enemies-to-be-prosecuted-at-levels-never-seen-before/

Four days after last scanning in for work, a 60-year-old office worker in Arizona was found dead in a cubicle at her workplace, having never left the building during that time, authorities said.

https://apnews.com/article/office-worker-dies-arizona-5f8a38e4b1929740d931482132233966

Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, urging him to “immediately implement changes” to X’s AI chatbot Grok, after it shared with millions of users false information suggesting that Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/04/secretaries-state-urge-musk-fix-ai-chatbot-spreading-false-election-info/

There have been no known major injuries of any community responder on the job so far, according to experts. And data suggests unarmed responders rarely need to call in police.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/07/25/police-mental-health-alternative-911

Video: Polling shows Kamala Harris has multiple paths to victory | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/28/politics/video/harris-trump-electoral-paths-enten-digvid

JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions

VP nominee pushed baseless warning in 2022 that George Soros would pack planes of Black women to get abortions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/jd-vance-abortion-ban-travel

We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers, according to a leading expert in happiness.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert

Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of Earth’s rotation and increasing the length of each day, in a trend set to accelerate over this century as humans continue to pump out planet-heating pollution, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/climate/polar-ice-melting-day-length-time/index.html

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it may be violating the law.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

In short, if you want your kids to be smarter, you're better off having them learn a musical instrument or take music education in school, rather than teaching them to code.

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/want-smarter-kids-teach-music-not-coding-according-to-mit.html