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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-11 21:35:54

Survey: 80% of Americans say being informed about the news is essential to voting, but only 8% say people in the US have a responsibility to pay for news (Pew Research Center)
pewresearch.org/journalism/202

Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News
Most say being informed is essential for voting. Yet views differ on the importance of following news – and many say they're worn out by it.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-09 20:14:07
Content warning: photograph in linked article shows blood on a steering wheel

The first paragraphs of this article are big news (I think?? IANAL): the FBI tried to shut MN out of the investigation of ICE’s murder of Renee Good, which almost certainly is the start of a cover-up. Minnesota initially threw up its hands and said “well that sucks.”
Today we learn that Minnesota and Hennepin County are still gathering evidence themselves, apparently independently of the FBI. My hope is that this is in pursuit of state charges, in defiance of the Trump-controlled FBI.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-02-09 03:44:09

Hell yes
ground.news/article/progressiv

Progressive candidate launches last-minute challenge to Karen Bass for LA mayor
Progressive Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman (D) on Saturday made a last-minute bid to challenge Mayor Karen Bass (D) in the June primary election. Raman made the announcement hours before the 12 p.m. filing deadline for candidates be on the ballot. She praised Bass in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, calling the mayor “an icon” but said the city needs someone who will tackle its problems.

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-11 00:30:17

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- La Flamboyance: Festive music of the 15th century
Sollazzo Ensemble, Anna Danilevskaia directing from the fiddle, perform Franco-Flemish music of the 15th Century from the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bruges.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqx4

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-11 00:49:48

How many think the following just might be a bad .
Passed Dev unit tests. In client UA. Prepare for a code release into production in five weeks. I just finished the draft release document.
Now they want a new table, changes to the structures of multiple tables, screen changes and possible new screens along with changes to programs and SPUFIs. That is on top of working on the coding for June.
Fortunately I was attending via a teams call and on mute and not physically p…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-08 15:25:44

ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for First Amendment violations after Apple removed its app following White House pressure (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-56318

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-07 20:05:09

A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-12-07 08:11:06

I just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-03 20:17:55

PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS DEPUTY CHAIR CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE VOTE TO END TRUMP'S ILLEGAL WAR ON VENEZUELA
Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Deputy Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05)
released the following statement after news that Trump launched airstrikes inside Venezuela and captured its head of state:
"Trump's invasion of Venezuela is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.
He has no authority to deploy U.S. forces into foreign countries to bomb them, capture …

A statement from Rep. Ilhan Omar, Deputy Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, criticizing Trump's actions in Venezuela. She calls for Congress to vote on a War Powers Resolution to prevent unauthorized military actions and protect international law and sovereignty.
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-03 15:13:56

Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.

That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company’s chief executive.