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2025-04-11T16:09:55Z
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It’s #NewstodonFriday once again. Please enjoy a selection of stories from independent newsrooms on politics, technology, books, history, and giant almond trucks. Check out the thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:11:09Z
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As we all know, President Donald Trump’s on/off tariffs will lead to a manufacturing boom in the U.S., with legions of former USAID workers happily screwing tiny components into dirt-cheap smart phones. Or… will it? @404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler talked to Todd Weaver, founder of Purism, creator of the “made in the USA” Liberty Phone. “The phone that you were able to manufacture in the United States is not as fast as the latest iPhone. Can the newest best chips and components be manufactured in the U.S., and what would it take to do it here?” asks Koebler. “The short answer is yes ... because you didn't ask me the timing,” replies Weaver.https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/#Technology #Tech #iPhone #Manufacturing #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:11:28Z
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A new independent publisher for the fediverse! @nybooks joined last week (h/t to @FediFollows for letting us know). Here’s their review of historian Catherine Hall’s “Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism.” [Story may be paywalled]https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/charting-an-unheroic-past-lucky-valley-catherine-hall/#Books @bookstodon #Reading #History @histodons #Jamaica #Slavery #HistoryOfSlavery
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2025-04-11T16:11:45Z
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Reality TV show “The First 48,” which focuses on the first 48 hours after a homicide, has had 24 seasons over the past 16 years. @ProPublica’s Jessica Lussenhop has written two stories about how the show works and why some police departments have stopped collaborating with it, including a detailed account of how it contributed to Edgar Barrientos-Quintana being jailed at 25 for a murder he didn’t commit.https://www.propublica.org/article/first-48-reality-tv-police-dallas-memphis-mobilehttps://www.propublica.org/article/first-48-reality-tv-police-minneapolis-wrongful-conviction-barrientos-quintana#USPoliceForce #Television #TV #TheFirst48 #Entertainment #LawEnforcement #USNews #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:11:57Z
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Paul Revere is mostly known for his midnight ride — his horseback journey in 1775 to warn Massachusetts militiamen that the British were coming. @gbhnews contends that the activist and artisan’s real legacy is in his political cartoons, in particular, “The Bloody Massacre,” a 1770 work that showed a group of colonists being fired upon by red-coated soldiers. “He really played a hand in … shaping public understanding of events,” says Boston Public Library curator Jay Moschella.https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-10/were-paul-reveres-political-cartoons-more-influential-than-his-midnight-ride#PaulRevere #Boston #Massachusetts #History @histodons #Art #PoliticalCartoons #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T22:40:15Z
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2025-04-11T16:12:58Z
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Amanda Johnston is Texas’ first Black woman poet laureate. She spoke to @TexasObserver about how she’s using her platform to build something bigger — a project called Praisesongs for the People. This involves her recruiting poets from throughout the state to write poems for unsung Texas heroes. Sebastian Páramo wrote about his mother, a school lunch lady, who, he wrote, “taught me to season myself.” Mag Gabbert wrote about the oncologist treating her mother for cancer who, in Johnston’s words, “is carrying hope into each of these families' lives.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-black-woman-poet-laureate-praise/#Literature #Poetry #Books #Culture @bookstodon #AmandaJohnston @blackmastodon #USA #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:13:09Z
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The Starlink service has been critical for the Ukrainian military, but owner Elon Musk is far from a reliable partner. @timkmak’s Counteroffensive looks at the search for alternatives. There are currently four in the frame: Luxembourg's SES, Spain's Hisdesat, Britain's Viasat, and France's Eutelsat/OneWeb. “We can successfully defend the country without Starlink. We did it at the very beginning of the full-scale invasion, and we can do it now. It is more difficult, more expensive… but it is possible,” says Volodymyr Stepanets, who works with a group that deals with the repair and procurement of Starlink terminals.https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/can-ukrainian-soldiers-survive-without#Tech #Technology #ElonMusk #Starlink #Ukraine #UkraineRussia #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:13:36Z
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“Ever notice how Russia’s always the bad guy?” Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted back in March, claiming that Hollywood is responsible for the world’s negative perception of the former USSR. @damemagazine’s Zeb Larson says actually Marj, it’s a bit more complicated than that. He takes us from the 19th century through WWII and the Cold War to today to explain America and Russia’s constantly evolving relationship. https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/08/hasnt-russia-always-been-our-worst-enemy/#History @histodons #Russia #USA #MarjorieTaylorGreene #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:13:46Z
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How might stress affect cancer? It’s a question that’s been asked for millennia. @KnowableMag reports on the hundreds of sometimes contradictory studies that have been done on the subject, and how scientists are finding consensus.https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-stress-affects-cancer#Health #Medicine #Science #Research #Cancer #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:14:11Z
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Postal services in some areas of the USA are unreliable, so it makes sense to have a grace period when it comes to returning election ballots — at least, that’s been the case for a number of years in around half of the states across the political spectrum. @bolts reports on how that’s changing. “This past March alone brought news that two states … will repeal their grace periods; that conservative federal judges are on the brink of killing grace periods in two other states; and that Trump, who for years has falsely alleged rampant mail-voting fraud, wants to pressure the rest of the nation to reject every mail ballot that arrives after polls close,” writes Alex Burness. https://boltsmag.org/restrictions-on-grace-periods-for-mail-ballots/#USPolitics #Voting #VoterSuppression #ELections #USElections #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:14:27Z
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Race isn’t a “biological reality.” For @TheConversationUS, professor John P. Jackson, Jr. looks at the evidence that says race was invented by humans, not nature.https://theconversation.com/race-isnt-a-biological-reality-contrary-to-recent-political-claims-heres-how-scientific-consensus-on-race-developed-in-the-20th-century-253504#Race #History @histodons #Science #Anthropology #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:14:42Z
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@thecontinent has a guest post this week from the Harare Review of Books. Here’s a review of Freda Epum’s memoir, “The Gloomy Girl Variety Show,” a book about the Nigerian-American writer and artists’s search for belonging in Tucson, Arizona. “Epum may call herself a gloomy girl, but she is cool to hang out with in these pages. Her memoir is lively, sometimes sad, and always vulnerable. And she is upbeat, if somewhat wry. It’s a raw, beautiful and deep work,” the review concludes. https://continent.substack.com/p/review-gloom-to-manoeuvre#Nigeria #Tucson #Arizona #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Memoirs #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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2025-04-11T16:15:06Z
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Last of all, Atlas Obscura’s story about a giant almond that’s driving its way around America, and the uniquely American habit of making massive food vehicles, which @CultureDesk shared earlier this week. They wanted to know if any other countries had Poutine Mobiles, Camembert Camions or Kartoffelwagens. “Keep your wiener and almonds to yourselves,” wrote one commenter.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/promotional-food-vehicles#Almonds #Food #FoodCulture #PopCulture #OscarMayer #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday