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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Who are America’s real swing voters? @[email protected]’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/
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Donald Trump’s plan to reduce healthcare costs rests on deporting migrants. But @[email protected]’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/
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How good is the emergency alert system where you live? @[email protected] 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
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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 @[email protected]’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
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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
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How good is the emergency alert system where you live? For @[email protected] 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