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Hello @ai6yr! If you deem it worthy of sharing, could you share this with folks in the #conejovalley We’re trying to spread the word far and wide! Thank you! πŸ™‚

#ThousandOaks Districting Map 113 prioritizes communities of interest and does more to include underrepresented residents than any of the other proposed maps.

Watch @BuenVecino805’s video and then let your voice be heard: https://youtu.be/J0wcn3vr3oY

City of Thousand Oaks Redistricting

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Despite changes that lawmakers have made to the latest version of the Kids Online Safety Act, it still leaves platforms with no choice but to institute censorship and age verification requirements. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online
The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online

Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like KOSA? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
A potential new law gives incentive for messaging services to go snooping through your private communications. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant
Your Messaging Service Should Not Be a DEA Informant

A new U.S. Senate bill would require private messaging services, social media companies, and even cloud providers to report their users to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) if they find out about certain illegal drug sales. This would lead to inaccurate reports and turn messaging services into government informants.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
NPR to stop using Twitter, says account's new label misleading

National Public Radio (NPR) will no longer post content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a label by the social media platform that implies government involvement in the U.S. organization's editorial content.

Reuters
@TOCCNewman How are you holding up? Can I bring you anything? I’ll have time this weekend to do a drop-off, if you need one!
Reflecting on the start of the Iraq War 20 years later. I cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was in the US during the buildup to the invasion.
@ai6yr Quick question for you! I see that Tomatomania πŸ…πŸ’₯ is coming up soon. With the wild weather and cold mornings we’re having, is it too early to start growing tomato plants? Thanks for any help! πŸ…πŸ˜ƒ

Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/meat-dairy-rice-high-methane-food-production-bust-climate-target-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled

The Guardian

Looks Like Cops Put a Fake MLK Quote on a Police Cruiser for Black History Month

The director of The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University said β€œwe have no record of the maxim.”

Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axzkd/ohio-police-mlk-quote

Looks Like Cops Put a Fake MLK Quote on a Police Cruiser for Black History Month

The director of The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University said β€œwe have no record of the maxim.”