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1. Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:36:43 JST Flipboard

   A curious theme emerged when we were compiling this week’s #NewstodonFriday — the importance of down-ballot elections in the U.S. School choice, state judicial elections, and school boards don’t get a lot of attention, but can have a long-lasting, outsized impact on people’s lives. If you’re motivated to run for something and don’t know how, it’s worth following @amandalitm, who founded the Run For Something organization. But we digress.

   Also in this week’s selection, find stories about alternatives to loss and damage funds for climate disasters, going incognito, Infowars, earwigs, and, of course, Elon Musk. Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.

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   #Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday #Newstodon

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:36:43 JST Flipboard

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     • 404 Media

     Don’t worry, America, Elon Musk is coming to save you — or so the AI slop going megaviral on Facebook would have you believe. @404mediaco reports on proliferating nonsense about how Trump’s latest BFF is going to solve climate change and the housing crisis.

     [This story may be paywalled]

     https://www.404media.co/absurd-ai-slop-about-how-elon-musk-will-fix-america-is-megaviral-on-facebook/

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     #ElonMusk #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Facebook #Slop #Technology #Tech #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

     Flipboard Science Desk repeated this.
   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:36:43 JST Flipboard

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     • The Conversation U.S.

     Loss and damage funds that are supposed to help countries hit by climate disasters are nowhere near adequate. For @TheConversationUS, Erin Coughlan de Perez looks at other ways governments and organizations can help those in need.

     https://theconversation.com/3-innovative-ways-to-help-countries-hit-by-climate-disasters-beyond-a-loss-and-damage-fund-238943

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     #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #InternationalAid #UnitedNations #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:37:13 JST Flipboard

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     • Knowable Magazine

     Now, to earwigs, which seemingly have more vibrant social lives than we do (though based on this @KnowableMag story, we’ll stick with what we’ve got). Tim Vernimmen writes about their 20-hour mating rituals, peculiar penises, protective parenting, and occasional cannibalism.

     https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/social-life-of-earwigs

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     #Science #Nature #Insects #Entomology #Earwigs #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:37:14 JST Flipboard

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     • ProPublica

     No one likes school vouchers — even conservative voters. Here’s @ProPublica’s story on how “school choice” was rejected at the polls in Kentucky, Nebraska, Colorado, but is sneaking through as Republicans build legislative majorities that can enact voucher laws, regardless of what voters want.

     https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-2024-election-trump

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     #Education #Schools #SchoolChoice #SchoolVouchers #StateElections #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:37:14 JST Flipboard

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     • Daniel Nichanian
     • BoltsMag.org

     Here’s another story on how important state elections are in the U.S. For @bolts, @taniel covers how, with SCOTUS locked in for the conservatives, judicial elections at the state level are increasingly important, and what happened at last week’s election.

     https://boltsmag.org/state-supreme-court-results-2024/

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     #USElections #USPolitics #Government #GOP #Democrats #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:37:14 JST Flipboard

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     • Texas Observer

     PTX Diverse is an advocacy group in Princeton, Texas, one of America’s fastest growing cities. Its goal is to promote diverse education, and it was also the organizer of Princeton’s Pride events for several years. @TexasObserver reports on how the city’s school board used technicalities in its permitting to cancel Pride. “The school board’s votes represent one of the first Pride events ever canceled by a government entity in the state, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, transforming Princeton’s LGBTQ+ advocates into a symbol of progressive Texans’ struggle to survive in pockets of the state that have been targeted for right-wing school board takeovers,” writes Candice Bernd.

     https://www.texasobserver.org/pride-and-prejudice-in-princeton/

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     #LGBTQ #Pride #USSchools #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:37:14 JST Flipboard

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     • DAME Magazine

     A rallying cry from @damemagazine as Kaitlin Byrd asks, “Can anything stop Trump now?”

     “The system would not stop Donald Trump. Ballots didn’t either,” she writes. “But we will be enough. We will not acquiesce. And when we meet our next turn at the crossroads of time, we will know that we did everything we could.”

     https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/12/can-anything-stop-trump-now/

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     #Trump #Newstodon #USPolitics

     Flipboard Science Desk repeated this.