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Borsch is so important that a Russian official once claimed Ukraine’s lack of willingness to share credit for it was a reason behind the war (yes, really). The team at @timkmak@journa.host’s Counteroffensive look into the history and cultural significance of the sour, sweet, smoky beetroot delight.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/who-owns-delicious-delicious-borsch
#Food #FoodCulture #Ukraine #Borsch #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
How good is the emergency alert system where you live? @themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org and @CALMatters collaborated on a story about how to test what’s in place in your U.S. state, and even build your own guide.
https://themarkup.org/story-recipes/2024/09/27/emergency-alerts-how-to-guide
#USA #EmergencyAlert #NaturalDisasters #Technology #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
How good is the emergency alert system where you live? For @themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org and @CALMatters collaborated on a story about how to test what’s in place in your U.S. state, and even build your own guide.
https://themarkup.org/story-recipes/2024/09/27/emergency-alerts-how-to-guide
#USA #EmergencyAlert #NaturalDisasters #Technology #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Donald Trump’s plan to reduce healthcare costs rests on deporting migrants. But @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social’s John Canham Clyne says Trump has it backwards: “Undocumented immigrants spend large portions of their income subsidizing healthcare for the rest of us, and certainly for elderly and disabled Americans.” Here’s how.
https://www.texasobserver.org/undocumented-immigrants-subsidize-healthcare/
#USElection #Immigration #Healthcare #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Who are America’s real swing voters? @damemagazine@newsie.social’s Parker Molloy says that it might be “left-leaning voters who are just about ready to walk away from the political process altogether” — and there’s a lot of them out there. What’s the first step to engaging them? Understanding what most voters DON’T want. “A study by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center found that 2020 election coverage was mostly horse-race nonsense, with barely any attention given to the policies that actually impact people’s lives,” Molloy writes. “When the media treats elections like a reality-TV show, it just reinforces the idea that politics is disconnected from real life.”
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/09/24/the-real-swing-voters-arent-who-you-think/
#USElection #SwingVoters #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Canada geese were once almost extinct, but now they’re ubiquitous in the country that gave them their name. Julia-Simone Rutgers writes for @thenarwhal about a new film that views the world through the eyes of geese, and examines whether the pooping, meandering, traffic-blocking birds are misunderstood.
https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-goose-film/
#Canada #CanadaGeese #Film #Documentary #Wildlife #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Over the past few years, Nike has talked a good game about plans to shrink its carbon footprint, and @ProPublica@newsie.social has put in the hard yards to keep the mega brand honest. Most recently, reporter Rob Davis has zeroed in on private jet usage. His latest report shows that, rather than becoming more transparent, Nike is taking steps to make tracking execs’ plane usage harder.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-just-made-it-harder-to-track-executives-use-of-private-jets
#Nike #Business #CarbonFootprint #Environment #ClimateChange #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Last of all, our @CultureDesk, which shared the newly available @BBCNews sound effects archive (it’s free for non-commercial use). 73 results for plane; just the two farts. Happy Friday!
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
#Music #Radio #Sounds #SoundEffects #TGIF #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Now, to Philadelphia, where @TheConversationUS@newsie.social says Afrofuturism is thriving. Professor Aaron X. Smith writes about five artists you should know.
https://theconversation.com/afrofuturism-thrives-in-philly-5-artists-you-should-know-235069
#Art #Artists #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Our @NewsDesk@flipboard.social sent out a newsletter this week, which they turned into this Flipboard Storyboard. It’s a fascinating look at who might win the “bro vote” in November, including stories from @Salon on Tim Walz’s normal-dad energy, @politico on the ever-widening gender gap, and GQ on the strange history of toxic masculinity.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/who-will-win-the-bro-vote-jtoamv4n0ck8lan7
#News #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris #Masculinity #Voting #USPolitics #USElection #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
“Your smart TV knows what you’re watching,” write Mohamed Al Elew and Gabriel Hongsdusit for @themarkup. They’ve put together a guide to turning off that ability on three different platforms.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching
#Surveillance #Tech #Technology #SmartTVs #Gadgets #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Anti-immigrant rhetoric is part and parcel of some candidates’ campaigns in the U.S. election. @TucsonSentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com shares this Arizona Mirror story about Trump and Harris’s different visions for the 11 million people who live in the United States without legal status.
#USElection #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris #Immigration #SwingStates #Arizona #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Combined, Gabon, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo are the largest suppliers of crude oil to Israel. @thecontinent@mas.to reports on whether this might constitute support of genocide, and how African countries have limited ability to do anything, thanks to the power of western oil companies. “Economically and geopolitically we are at the bottom of the hierarchy, playing the same roles today as during colonization,” says Fadhel Kaboub, a Nairobi-based senior adviser at Power Shift Africa. “This takes away a lot of your sovereignty.”
https://continent.substack.com/p/three-african-countries-are-fuelling
#Africa #Israel #Palestine #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Hummingbirds live life on the edge. @KnowableMag looks at how these tiny creatures can shut their bodies down almost completely, fly thousands of miles, sometimes across open oceans, sometimes upside down and backwards, and can generate g-forces high enough to make a fighter pilot black out.
#Nature #Conservation #Environment #Ecology #Birds #Hummingbirds #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
It’s legal for prisoners to unionize — and it can be invaluable for incarcerated people who are often laboring in difficult conditions without pay. @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social’s Michelle Pitcher talked to Texans in and out of prisons who are helping empower prisoners to seek better conditions — including the right to be paid and to refuse work.
https://texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/
#HumanRights #PrisonersRights #Texas #LaborRights #Unionization #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
@killua99@social.linux.pizza All fixed now!
@killua99@social.linux.pizza SO much CNET! Thanks for flagging, we’ll get that corrected!
@cobalt@awscommunity.social That’s great! If you search for the name of the account you are interested in, that should bring up all the Magazines they are curating — then you can follow the profile for everything, or just specific Magazines if you’re only interested in a specific topic. It’s great for publications that publish a lot, across a range of different subject areas, so it won’t flood your feed with everything!
Finally, how much do you know about money? @restofworld has created a quiz “to test your knowledge of skyrocketing inflation rates, sketchy loan apps, and crypto-funded revolutions.” Give it a try here:
https://restofworld.org/2024/quiz-global-inflation-rates/
#Money #Economics #Finance #WorldNews #Crypto #Inflation #Quiz #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
And finally, this gorgeous photo essay from @thecontinent, which shows brass musicians in Uganda, practicing, performing, and polishing and restoring instruments.
https://continent.substack.com/p/photo-essay-brass-roots
#Music #BrassInstruments #Uganda #Photos #Photography #Africa #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday