Sounds actually terrifying. I mean, I can out-peddle antsy geese I've encountered on the canal towpath! To decide as a group that you're going to stop and wrestle with a mountain lion until help arrives must have been one hell of a decision!
I also like the double meaning in the headline, like a randy middle-aged woman smelt fresh blood!!!
It appears MAGA Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made a weekend trip to Avdiivka Ukraine to watch his Russians finish off the remaining Ukrainian civilians that were still living in their basements
Oh, the power of the pen of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives!
We could be world leader in a strong immerging market of "green jobs", but why not forsake that long term growth opportunity for short term financial gain?
If standing shoulder to shoulder with my queer, trans, black, Asian (and any other identity that's persecuted but not listed here) brothers and sisters makes me an extremist then colour me an extremist!..
In this week's #news#quiz we test your knowledge of the Middle East, Central American politics, dogs, drugs and Danish royalty. Are you ready?
While appearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 31, what did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg say to the families of online child abuse victims?
It's a 501 (c) 3 but what's the gap between what the entry-level disabled worker makes and the abled top brass make?
I did a web search. This was a Connecticut company being featured on an SF Bay Area news segment. I found the press release. And basically the segment was free advertising for the company. This is why abled people "do things for" disabled people.
I used to not see this stuff, either. Even after I became disabled. But once others in the disability community gave me the tools to think about this stuff, that changed.
And I'm tooting about it now trying to pay it forward.
THINK about how disability stories are covered and who's telling the story.
It could be this is a genuinely good company doing good things in an equitable and sustainable way.
But you don't know because the "news" program didn't do actual journalism. Because abled people have been trained to package disability in certain ways that are about keeping systemic ableism in place while making abled people feel good about it.
We need better reporting on disability issues. And newsrooms need more diversely disabled reporters. https://ncdj.org/
It's Friday #NewsQuiz time! Since I seem to have forgotten to post last week's #quiz, we'll do two questions this week, the first question and my favorite.
In the 2024 Iowa GOP caucuses, Donald Trump won 51% of the vote, and Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis split about 40%. Which very conservative candidate was the only other person to get more than 1% of the vote?
Wayne LaPierre announced his resignation as head of the National Rifle Association just days before the #NRA's civil fraud trial began in New York. Which of these is a quote from LaPierre's resignation statement and not a quote from Mohandas #Gandhi?
...who also expressed concern that she is in the House of Commons, yet no one lives there, so it can't be a house. Also being part of the Tory party wondered where the party music is.
Today, the U.S. Senate decided to shield Israel from scrutiny over how it has been using our money and the weapons sold to them. One senator claimed that the tabled resolution would have required our State Dept to do an unreasonable amount of work over 30 days, trigger a cut-off funds to Israel:
Hey, academics! What'a news story about your school or field or both that you think more people need to know about? Can be breaking news or ongoing news.
Let's share and elevate each other's discoveries, research, whistleblowing, and other news!
Story from UC Davis not many are taking notice of is a huge, confusing upset in student government. Some may think that unimportant, but not only are they viewed as the voice of students, they run the bus system (Unitrans) that Davis depends on. It is enormously important that UC Davis student gov't be run well.
Yet turnout for elections is usually very low and most students don't know what their student gov't does.
Choose a major CA newspaper like LA Times or SJ Mercury
Tally how many articles about University of California are about NCAA sports teams vs how many are about this giant component of our state budget, how it's run, how well it's doing its job of educating the people of California, and conducting research in the public interest.
This needs to go national. Consider how numerous states have been rolling back child labor laws. That should also be stopped, but if you want kids to have jobs then they deserve voting rights.
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