Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here we are again, highlighting the work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Like what you see? Boost the post, follow the profiles, subscribe to the publications, and tell us in the comments what you’d like to see more of.
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The Yakama Nation holds treaty rights to gather food in Pushpum, a ridgeline overlooking the Columbia River in Washington. When a new green energy project was proposed for the land, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) talked to leaders of the tribal nation, but asked them to disclose exactly why the land was considered sacred — knowledge that could make it vulnerable to desecration. Eventually, the project was moved forward without consultation. For @ProPublica and High Country News, @Toastie reports on the question of whether and how the U.S. government should protect tribal privacy and cultural resources.
https://www.propublica.org/article/yakama-nation-green-energy-federal-government
#Indigenous #IndigenousCulture #LandDevelopment #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
“Scientists built an artificial shark uterus,” says the headline of @hakaimagazine’s latest story. How could we resist sharing it? Learn more about how the technology was developed, and the potential it has to bolster populations of sharks threatened with extinction.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/scientists-built-an-artificial-shark-uterus/
#Science #Sharks #Ecology #Zoology #MarineBiology #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
The recent campus protests led to renewed debates around academic freedom and freedom of speech. @themarkup’s Mohamed Al Elew spoke to author and professor Julia Schleck about academic labor, university policies, politics, and her new vision for higher education.
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/06/15/a-new-dirty-vision-for-higher-education
#Education #HigherEducation #Academia #CampusProtests #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
India’s heatwave has been going on since May. Here’s @restofworld’s story on how gig workers are attempting to stay cool.
https://restofworld.org/2024/india-heat-wave-delivery-workers/
#India #Heatwave #ClimateChange #Photojournalism #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Massachusetts is the only U.S. state with a right-to-shelter law, which mandates that families and pregnant people are housed. Currently, over 8,000 families are in state-run shelters or on an overflow list. That doesn’t include the dozens of people — mostly Haitian migrants — who are sleeping at Logan Airport and spending their days at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mattapan. Sarah Betancourt of @gbhnews spoke to some of the families about their experiences.
#USA #Immigration #Boston #Massachusetts #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Stereotypes say that it’s hard to make friends when you’re middle-aged. But that’s not always the case, according to @damemagazine’s Temim Fruchter. She writes about how queerness has enabled her to defy expectations: “To make new friends and commence new adventures later and later, and to make friends and friendship a distinct priority, no matter when they come along.”
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/06/14/im-here-im-queer-im-45-and-still-making-new-friends/
#LGBTQ #Pride #Friendship #Lifestyle #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
A few months ago, I had an accidental phone call with a friend. I say accidental because we’d only gotten on the phone after texting about an event we were planning had grown tiresome, but we wound up talking for two hours, a leisurely conversation about writing and aging, spiritually winding nonexistent phone cords around
“Cruise ship essays read like an obituary for civilization,” writes @maria in an essay for @flaminghydra. She details her own experiences touring the Summer Isles in the Highlands of Scotland, and discusses the essays of writers including David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Caity Weaver and more.
"The joke of all these essays is supposed to be that the reader is in on how horrible the essayist’s cruise ship experience is going to be. Ha-ha! Sending a fun-loving intellectual to go suffer among the MAGAs is not all that funny, I am now thinking; Decades later, this sneering, superior, high-ticket slumming seems just sad.”
https://flaminghydra.com/my-boat-essay/
#Travel #Cruises #Writing #Essays #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
And to close out Pride Month, NBC created this Storyboard, which we shared on @CultureDesk. It features uplifting, joyful stories about queer history, LGBTQ summer camps for kids, lesbian ballet dancers, and the organization offering hundreds of free digital books, in defiance of book bans.
https://flipboard.com/@nbcnews/lgbtq-pride-month-2024-8se103sf5n96kd4t
#Pride #LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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I NEVER want to go on a cruise. It’s my idea of Hell: stuck somewhere with 3500 noisy strangers and no way off!
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