Progressive Democrats are rallying to save FTC Commissioner Lina Khan after Mark Cuban put a target on her back under a potential Kamala Harris administration.
MASTODON 4.3 UPDATE 🚨
Mastodon is arguably the best free and open-source social media platform, using the same shared (federated) network as Flipboard, Meta’s Threads, and other platforms. Mastodon 4.3 is now rolling out to servers with some fantastic improvements.
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'Highly Defensive' Mother Bear Grazer Defeats Male That Killed Her Cub to Win Fat Bear Week
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/highly-defensive-mother-bear-grazer-defeats-male-that-killed-her-cub-to-win-fat-bear-week-180985241/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Foreign influence campaigns - large-scale efforts to shift public opinion, push false narratives or change behaviors among a target population - have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and they can add friction in combination with educational efforts.
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The abortion rights referendums in Arizona and other states with sizable Latinx populations are testing the long-held assumption that religion and traditional cultural norms make Latinas less supportive of the right to abortion.
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Some days you just need to sit at the beach and look.
#birds #birdsofmastodon #photo #photography #nature #naturephotography #art #fineart #mastoart #fediart
Chefs use a broiling appliance called a salamander, and how it got that name is just one of the fun restaurant words Susan Herman served up for this week's Grammar Girl podcast.
And heads-up people of Michigan! I also looked at the debate over your demonym: Michigander, Michiganite, or Michiganian? Which one do you like?
Read: grammar-girl.simplecast.com/ep…
Listen: pod.link/173429229
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“In yrs that #Pennsylvania Sen candidate McCormick led 1 of world’s largest hedge funds, firm bet millions against some of state’s biggest & most iconic co’s”
Under McCormick’s leadership, Bridgewater Assoc shorted stocks of nearly 50 co’s headquartered in PA, incl Hershey Co & US Steel
Short positions, bets that companies’ stocks will drop, can hurt corps by depressing their stock prices, making it harder to gain new financing, invest or hire more workers” cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/da…
Implosion brings down Tropicana casino in Vegas to make way for baseball stadium
The Tropicana, the third-oldest casino on the Las Vegas Strip, closed in April after welcoming guests for 67 years. An elaborate implosion reduced it to rubble on Wednesday.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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