Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
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How Many Students Have Been Expelled Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law? There’s No Clear Answer.
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Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure out just how many students were affected.
#News #Tennessee #Government #Education #School #Students #Teaching
In the Wild West of School Voucher Expansions, States Rely on Untested Companies, With Mixed Results
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States are handing multimillion-dollar contracts to a handful of fledgling private companies to manage the rapidly growing, convoluted marketplace of school-choice programs. The process has been bumpy.
Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 27F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.
Trump administration freezes on federal loans and grants have been unfrozen.
Another Trump executive order seeks to restrict how race and racism is taught in schools and to "promote patriotic education."
A passenger plane and a military helicopter crashed over the Potomac; there are 27 known casualties of the midair collision.
Texas Lawmakers Pull Funding for Child Identification Kits Again After Newsrooms Report They Don’t Work
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For the second legislative session, lawmakers have withdrawn funding for a company selling kits that promise to help find missing kids after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported there’s no evidence to support that claim.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-child-id-kits-funding-pulled?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Law #Children #Safety #Budget #Government #Policy
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
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Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.
#News #Trump #USPolitics #Palestine #Sudan #Ukraine #Yemen #Humanitarian #Aid
"Wait, isn't this the plot to the "Terminator" movies?"
https://futurism.com/openai-signs-deal-us-government-nuclear-weapon-security
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #OpenAI #military #terminator
Photographer Justin Hamel joined Battalion Search and Rescue in their attempt to rescue lost migrants ... or discover the remains of those who hadn't made it through the El Paso desert.
Find his photo essay in our magazine, or on our website: https://www.texasobserver.org/death-in-the-desert/
#SouthTexas #border #immigration #HumanRights #environment #politics #USpol #Mexico #Texas #news
"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. 🚨
The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power — a requirement Musk has simply ignored"
Here’s a thread with links to articles about the #ElonMusk takeover of the US #government.
Is it a #coup? Will anyone stop it?
#Oligarchy #Politics #USPol #Musk #Trump #GOP #News #USA #US #USNews
Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked
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Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers strategize to prevent a return of abortion services.
Washington Governor Orders Team to Study Data Centers’ Impact on Energy Use, Job Creation and Tax Revenue
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Last year, The Seattle Times and ProPublica reported on how the state created a massive tax break for data centers, encouraging the growth of an industry whose energy use conflicts with a goal for utilities to go carbon neutral by 2030.
#News #Washington #Data #Energy #Climate #Labor #Taxes #Tech #Sustainability
The Nashville school shooter previously pulled a knife on another student. He returned to school after a two-day suspension.
“He had a whole knife in school, and he didn’t get expelled,” the victim said. “It just doesn’t sit right with me.”
#News #Tennessee #Nashville #School #Shooting #Students #Violence
Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
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ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Native #Indigenous #Education #College #University #HigherEd #Trump
Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
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The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students
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The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.
#News #Education #Trump #Trans #TransRights #Transgender #Students #Government
It’s #NewstodonFriday again, where we share a thread of stories from the independent newsrooms that have a presence in the fediverse, plus a couple of articles that our own editorial desks shared. This week we discovered yet another brilliant publication is here: @msfreepress. If there are any newsrooms or journos you’d like to put on our radar, please tell us in the comments — and don’t forget to read and boost the stories in this thread, donate to publishers, and support independent media doing incredible, brave, important work.
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"Inevitably creating the potential for bots emailing other bots and absolutely nothing else to worry about."
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
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The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.
Among the data used by Cambridge Analytica to profile gun owners in the database: income, debt, religious affiliation, whether they liked the paintings of Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite.
#News #Data #Privacy #Technology #Guns #Tech #USPolitics #Trump
By giving Elon Musk’s engineers access to USAID’s entire digital network, including personal information for thousands of employees, the Trump administration may have violated the Privacy Act of 1974, three experts told ProPublica.
Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons immediately upended the biggest single prosecution in U.S. history and signaled a broader reversal that threatens to create a more permissive climate in which extremists could regroup and weaken the FBI’s independence.
The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
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Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — and the limits of the presidency.
#News #Law #Trump #Congress #Government #USPolitics #Funding
President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe.
ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.
Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
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The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
Idaho Passed $2 Billion in Funding for School Building Repairs. It’s Not Nearly Enough.
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A new cost estimate and early reports from districts receiving state funds show that small districts are still struggling to meet their most dire needs, forcing them to turn to voters to approve additional funds.