Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here’s a collection of stories, this week featuring private jets, emergency alerts, the U.S. election, geese, brass bands, and delicious, delicious borsch. The purpose of this thread is to highlight newsrooms that are active in the fediverse, so please boost, follow, subscribe, donate, comment, and show your support for great journalism, any way you can.
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Over the past few years, Nike has talked a good game about plans to shrink its carbon footprint, and @ProPublica 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
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
Who are America’s real swing voters? @damemagazine’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
While the media is busy obsessing over the mythical “swing voters” who supposedly can’t decide between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, there’s an equally significant—and just as important—group of voters they’re ignoring: left-leaning voters who are just about ready to walk away from the political process altogether. These people aren’t wrestling with a choice between
Donald Trump’s plan to reduce healthcare costs rests on deporting migrants. But @TexasObserver’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
How good is the emergency alert system where you live? @themarkup 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
CalMatters and The Markup reported on how residents in each of California’s 58 counties can sign up for local emergency alerts, and found a few surprises along the way. Here’s how you can build the same guide in your state
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’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
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
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