Ever-larger cars and trucks are causing a safety crisis on US streets – here's how communities can fight back https://theconversation.com/ever-larger-cars-and-trucks-are-causing-a-safety-crisis-on-us-streets-heres-how-communities-can-fight-back-206382
Cars are getting bigger on US roads, and that’s increasing pedestrian and cyclist deaths. A transport scholar identifies community-level strategies for making streets safer.
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Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166
The Russian effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential election focused in part on boosting Green Party candidate Jill Stein to aid Trump, reports say.
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Deadly floods hit Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria as extreme weather swarms Europe https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/09/05/greece-flooding-daniel-climate-europe/
Europe is facing record heat and floods, intensified by climate change, just after it endured historic fires. More than 30 inches of rain could fall in Greece.
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The Anti-Vax Movement Isn’t Going Away. We Must Adapt to It https://time.com/6311276/antivax-movement-adapt-essay/
If we can’t prevent outbreaks, we will need to learn to live with them,' write Mark Navin and Katie Attwell.
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Blinken Dodges Questions About Ukraine's Dependence on Musk's Starlink https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/blinken-musk-starlink-ukraine-1234821712/
“It sounds like Starlink is so important that the U.S. government doesn’t want to risk offending a capricious billionaire,” Jake Tapper said when confronting the secretary of stat…
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Ginni Thomas, Activists Worked to Exploit Citizens United Ruling: Report https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-1234821759/
Funded by Harlan Crow, who was recently exposed for footing the bill for Ginni and Clarence Thomas’ lavish vacations and more, the Supreme Court justice’s wife worked with Federalist So…
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Extreme heat is forcing America’s farmers to go nocturnal https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/09/heat-night-harvesting-farmers/
Rising temperatures have led more farmers to harvest crops in the middle of the night to protect their workforce and the quality of their produce from extreme heat.
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Ron Johnson Parrots Misinformation That 'Windmills Are Killing Whales' https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ron-johnson-misinformation-windmills-killing-whales-1234821737/
If the senator is so concerned about wind turbines impacting marine life, wait until he hears about whale deaths caused by oil spills
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Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist's perspective, it’s inevitable https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496
Access to fossil fuels allowed humanity to overshoot Earth’s biophysical limits. The crises we now face are all symptoms of this overshoot, and the only fix is to cut our demands on the biosphere.
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What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a trove of so-called "dark money" was about to be unleashed. Two activists prepared to seize the moment.
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The truth is out there: Celebrate 30 years of The X-Files with our 30 favorite episodes https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/the-truth-is-out-there-celebrate-30-years-of-the-x-files-with-our-30-favorite-episodes/
From alien abductions to monsters of the week, this sci-fi series had something for everyone.
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Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/10/dutch-police-use-water-cannon-detain-2400-climate-activists
More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to do so.
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Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe https://www.newsweek.com/russian-general-admits-ukraine-just-stepping-stone-invade-europe-1825776
Ukraine "is only the beginning," Colonel-General Andrey Mordvichev warned in a recent interview.
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Covid-19 linked to elevated risk of type 1 diabetes in young children https://www.newscientist.com/article/2391359-covid-19-linked-to-elevated-risk-of-type-1-diabetes-in-young-children/
Children between the ages of 4 months and 2 years seem more likely to have antibodies that attack insulin-producing cells, a feature of type 1 diabetes, if they have had covid-19, which may show how viral infections can lead to this type of diabetes
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Sam Bankman-Fried's jail conditions offer a glimpse at systemic failure https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-frieds-jail-conditions
The fallen crypto billionaire's pleas for proper meals and medical care are an unlikely illustration of America's broken jail system.
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X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyers argue https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/x-unfit-for-banking-because-of-complicity-in-saudi-spying-lawyers-argue/
Read the letter urging regulators to end Musk’s dream of turning X into a bank.
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The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes https://apnews.com/article/irs-millionaires-back-taxes-2624282ac20388311bd03ee76ae36f70
The IRS is launching an effort to crack down on 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel says that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelli
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Ukraine slams SpaceX founder Elon Musk over blocked Starlink access https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-ukraine-zelenskyy-starlink-access-crimea-russia-invasion-2023-9
Ukraine is not happy that SpaceX founder Elon Musk might have blocked his Starlink satellite network to prevent an attack on Russia.
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Voter Registration Efforts Ramp Across the Country Ahead of 2024 https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/voter-registration-efforts-ramp-across-the-country-ahead-of-2024/
Read more here.
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OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/openai-admits-that-ai-writing-detectors-dont-work/
No detectors "reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content."
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