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Donald Trump says if elected, he wants to close the Department of Education. Title IX protections and early education are on the line, and Trump wants to implement universal school choice and make it easier to fire “bad teachers.” In response, educators are getting out the vote for Kamala Harris, with some also citing gun reform, union protections, and Tim Walz as reasons to support the Democratic candidate. Here’s more from @damemagazine.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/24/americas-teachers-dont-want-another-trump-term/

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Former President Donald Trump says he’ll implement the “largest deportation in the history of our country.” This could target around 1.6 million undocumented people in Texas alone — and they’re the backbone of industries such as construction. “All this means Texas would be uniquely disrupted by Trump’s plans, with the tearing apart of mixed-status families placing a possibly massive burden on the state’s meager social services systems, and the exiling of a chunk of its workforce imperiling the economic development and affordability known as the so-called Texas Miracle.” writes Francesca D’Annunzio for @TexasObserver.

https://www.texasobserver.org/how-mass-deportations-would-devastate-texas/

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Bilinguality is a huge advantage for children and adults. Nearly 22 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home, and many kids struggle to achieve full proficiency in two tongues. @KnowableMag spoke with Adriana Weisleder, a developmental psychologist and language scientist, about learning to speak and read two languages at the same time, and how schools, parents and caregivers can help kids.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/how-a-child-becomes-bilingual

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Happy #NewstodonFriday! We really really wanted to keep it light, breezy and election-free this week. But if democracy dies in darkness, we must celebrate those newsrooms and reporters that are committed to shedding light.

This week, we are featuring news on how the plastics industry would welcome a second Trump administration, but teachers would loathe one. Texas Observer has a deeply reported story on the way mass deportations would devastate their state. New Hampshire’s election workers are under threat, but they’re standing up. An overlooked item on the Arizona ballot? Policy on how the state would treat unhoused people. A tech story on everyone’s favorite online retailer and how it says it has a First Amendment right to union bust. There’s a look at why people continue to support Donald Trump, despite the… everything. And sprinkled in, find articles on how kids become bilingual, the rise of Scientology in Ukraine, specimen collections in museums, clever cats, and zombie movies. Please support these newsrooms who have an active presence in the fediverse — give money, subscribe, read, share and comment.

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Can cats understand human words? This week our @ScienceDesk shared this story about feline cognition and language comprehension. A new study showed that cats could associate human words with images — building on older research that suggested cats know their names. What could this mean for bonds with our furry friends?

https://www.earth.com/news/cats-can-associate-human-words-with-images/

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Tucson does not currently have a policy of clearing homeless encampments — instead, it allows those that don’t pose a risk to public health and safety to stay, supporting the people who live there and connecting them with services to get them into a permanent living situation. Conservatives aren’t happy, so on Arizona’s election ballot this month, there’ll be a proposition that will likely lead to more unhoused people being arrested and forced into treatment — despite resistance from police and prosecutors who say it simply won’t work. @bolts explains more.

https://boltsmag.org/arizona-prop-312-unhoused-ballot-measure/

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First, Amazon said it wasn’t an employer of delivery drivers, who are unionized with the Teamsters. The National Labor Relations Board rejected that. Now, the tech giant is arguing that union-busting statements made by its managers, including threats to terminate, are covered under the U.S. First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech. Here’s more from @404mediaco.

https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/

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The oil and gas industry is increasingly dependent on the manufacture of plastics — and petrochemical lobbyists have endorsed a bill to roll back regulation and increase government assistance. Even though the bill itself is a legislative longshot, federal agencies under Donald Trump could adopt some of its most extreme provisions without congressional approval, said Daniel Rosenberg, director of federal toxics policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council told @ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-wish-list-second-trump-administration

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📢 Big News!

Today, we’re announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.

Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.

Read more in our announcement here:

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/

For a full list of federated accounts to follow, visit the Flipboard directory:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU

Follow our Mastodon accounts in Brazil and Germany to discover Flipboard accounts to follow and keep up with the day's news:

@FlipboardBR

@FlipboardDE

And as always, tell us in the comments what you think!

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“The push to get out the Native vote is strong,” @Toastie writes for @HighCountryNew. They looked into the web of dilemmas Native folks face each electoral season, from accessibility of polling stations and candidates’ attitudes to Indigenous interests to whether voting in U.S. elections is compatible with Native cultural values.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-10/the-native-vote-dilemma/

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When assistive technology for people with physical disabilities is developed, the final users of it — its “pilots” — are often not involved until the very end. That’s why robotics expert Robert Riener launched the Cybathlon. The technotopian competition takes place every four years — the next tournament is this month in Switzerland and online — and involves eight events including the assistance robot race, in which pilots control a robot assistant from their wheelchairs and the brain-computer interface race, where pilots with quadriplegia use their thoughts to guide an animated avatar through an obstacle course. Here’s more from @KnowableMag.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/cybathlon-competition-bionic-athletes-use-assistive-tech

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We certainly remember where we were on Jan. 6 2021 — and what we saw. But has the media in general forgotten? “With Trump running for president again, editors and producers have decided to prioritize everything but his treasonous actions. Their stories reflect a run-of-the-mill campaign with two people who have differing views on taxes and civil rights,” writes @damemagazine’s Allison Hantschel. She asks why legacy media has memory-holed the attack on the Capitol.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/15/legacy-media-has-memory-holed-january-6/

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@ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News collaborated on this distressing story about the state of criminal prosecutions in Anchorage. Defendants in at least 930 misdemeanor cases have walked free since May 1, with crimes ranging from violating a restraining order to driving drunk with children in the backseat. The reason? The overloaded court system, and the lack of prosecutors. Here’s more.

https://www.propublica.org/article/criminal-case-dismissals-anchorage-alaska

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Happy #NewstodonFriday! If you’re absolutely averse to seeing coverage of the U.S. election and Donald Trump, you might want to look away now — or scroll quickly. If you can bear to linger, you’ll find important stories about Elon Musk’s political funding, why the media aren’t talking about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the push to get out the Native note, and what happened after Hurricane Maria. Interspersed, there's an investigation into the state of criminal prosecution in Anchorage, two inspiring stories on assistive technology, a look at whether Alan Shepard hit three golf balls on the moon, and some gorgeous photos, including bracken that looks like Jabba the Hutt. To remind you, our goal with this thread is to highlight the work of newsrooms and individuals that maintain an active presence in the fediverse. Follow their accounts, click on their stories, donate and subscribe, and interact in the comments below.

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Alan Shepard was the first American in space and on a later trip to the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission, he famously hit two golf balls. In The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball,” excerpted in @TexasObserver, two writers investigate if there was a third ball — and what happened to it.

“Something that went to the moon is a Holy Grail, then there’s a hierarchy within that level, too,” says Robert Pearlman, a space memorabilia expert. A key measure: “Was it stained by moon dust?”

https://www.texasobserver.org/book-excerpt-moon-golf-ball/

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Here’s an important and sadly unsurprising story from @404mediaco. @jasonkoebler writes about how an Elon Musk-funded PAC is speaking out of both sides of its mouth, telling Muslims in Michigan that Kamala Harris is a close friend of Israel and Jews in Pennsylvania that she’s anti semitic.

https://www.404media.co/this-is-exactly-how-an-elon-musk-funded-pac-is-microtargeting-muslims-and-jews-with-opposing-messages/

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Around 15% of people develop PTSD after experiencing trauma due to violent conflict. Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko writes for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive about how, amidst the horror of war, experts in Ukraine are building VR technology to help veterans.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/ukraines-pioneering-virtual-reality

#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #MentalHealth #PTSD #AssistiveTechnology #Technology #Tech #VR #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Journalist @w7voa is a must-follow for fediverse folk who are interested in news. This week, he shared many stories, including this one from nonprofit, nonpartisan site NOTUS about the upcoming election. “Nearly a sixth of Donald Trump’s fake electors are back as his 2024 electors in key swing states,” wrote Jose Pagliery and @byrontau. “Several others are still in positions of political power across the country — despite criminal indictments and other efforts to hold them accountable.”

https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/fake-electors-2024-state-officials

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What does far-right government look like in America? We don’t need to guess. @ProPublica reports on Tim O’Hare, a county judge who has pursued an ultra-conservative agenda in Tarrant County, Texas, which voted for Beto O’Rourke in 2018 and Joe Biden in 2020. Glen Whitley, O’Hare’s predecessor, says O’Hare has implanted an “us vs. them” ideology that has increasingly been mainstreamed on the right.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-judge-tim-ohare-far-right

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“Beyond the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, voters are deciding tens of thousands of offices and ballot measures,” writes @taniel for @bolts. He’s created a guide with at least one non-federal election for every state, broken down by states and issues. It’s essential reading for every U.S. voter this year.

https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/your-guide-to-the-elections-in-november-2024/

#USElections #Politics #Voting #VotingRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday