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Little Bits: Issue #29 For September 2025

A fresh new issue is here overflowing with discovered little bits to explore and a message of personal reflection on the challenges of writing.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-29/

#blog #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #tech #news #LinkDump

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20d

Most of the journalists who cover the Pentagon, include the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News, decided to surrender their press credentials rather than sign the U.S. Defense Department's pact restricting their coverage. Enter the new generation. The list of organizations and "independent journalists" now largely consists of MAGA-friendly outlets such as Just the News, Canadian far-right site The Post Millennial, Lindell TV (founded by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell), Turning Point USA’s media brand Frontlines, and influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast. @Independent has more.

https://flip.it/5JGJJl

#News #Media #Journalism #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration

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23d

Russell Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.

https://www.propublica.org/article/about-russell-vought-trump-shadow-president?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #USPolitics #Government

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23d

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Idaho #Vaccines #Health

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23d

AWS outage: How Coinbase, Roblox, Reddit are affected https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/aws-outage-reddit-roblox-coinbase
#axios #news #usnews

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The last time I asked for donations here, the fediverse delivered. So many more people care about investigating abuses of trust in the public interest on Mastodon than on any other social network. If you have the ability, please consider donating to ProPublica today: https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben-mastodon

#fediverse #journalism #news

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22d

After we broke the story of the #ICE lawyer with a white supremacist X account, no one seems to be able to tell us whether James Rodden still works with the agency. Even Congress can't get answers. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-supremacist-x-account-veasey-answers/

#racism #fascism #genocide #law #Dallas #NorthTexas #Texas #Immigration #politics #USpol #news #Trump

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22d

Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook.

“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arizona #ICE #Police #Immigration #Discrimination #CivilRights

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21d

MAGA targets Disney, Netflix in cancellation spree https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/maga-disney-plus-netflix-cancellation-numbers
#axios #news #usnews

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1y

http://www.globalmuseum.org #museums #globalmuseum #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery

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1y

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Multiple reports of 4 Western tourists stabbed in Beishan Park in Jilin City, China.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #China

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21d

The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center is calling for an inspector general investigation into potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations in the office of border czar Tom Homan related to government contracting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #TomHoman #Ethics #Government #Immigration #USPolitics

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20d

Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
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The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #FDA #Medicine #Health #Safety #Drugs #Manufacturing

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20d

New from José Luis Martínez: Last year, state investigators faced the highest number of paycheck complaints in nine years and a prior internal audit noted that it typically took months just for complaints to be assigned to an investigator. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-workers-wage-theft-complaints-surge/

#labor #workers #poverty #Texas #politics #USpol #news #economy

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21d

Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025

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20d

Trump's "Peace" efforts result in 40% increase of Russian aerial bombs attacking civilians in Ukraine.

You won't hear this from US Corporate media though - we have to rely on foreign journalists to actually set foot in the war zone and report the truth they find there.

So thank you to Georgio from Italy, who shares the friend link to enable the truth to be spread. He needs your support, please share.

https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/donald-trump-denies-reality-2bd68440e3eb?sk=4a682bd4039f2f2853de9ac3175e1c57

#ukraine #warcrimes #trump #corruption #putin #criminal #genocide #journalism #press #news #USA #corporateMedia #ghoulishGreed

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19d

Exclusive: Trump's border czar says 600k to be deported in 2025 https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/trump-ice-immigration-tom-homan-axios-summit
#axios #news #usnews

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1y

“Of all people, you have a #disability so you can relate, I hope.”

Out today from Austin Free Press: Disability rights activists protested outside the Governor's Mansion, for the "liberation" of more people from institutions, marking the anniversary of a key #SCOTUS decision:
https://austinfreepress.org/wheres-abbott-austin-disability-activists-picket-one-of-their-own-at-governors-mansion/

#news #politics #activism #health #HumanRights #disabled #protest #GregAbbott #USpol #politics #law #CivilRights

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19d

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas