Ron DeSantis banned lessons on racism in Florida public schools. ‘Freedom schools’ fill the gaps (www.theguardian.com)
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At DNC, the Squad Warns Democrats to Wake Up to the Threat of AIPAC (theintercept.com)
WITH THE DEMOCRATIC primary season winding down, members of the Squad are speaking more directly than ever about the role that the pro-Israel lobby played in silencing critics of Israel’s human rights abuses in Congress, as well as Democrats’ complicity....
LGBTQ advocates say Mormon church's new transgender policies marginalize trans members (apnews.com)
Egyptian start-up turns plastic waste into tiles (www.africanews.com)
TileGreen, which started three years ago, aims to make the country’s construction industry more environmentally friendly.
Abrupt transfers for Stateville prisoners in Illinois begin as officials rush to comply with a federal court ruling, disrupting prisoners' education (www.wbez.org)
A federal ruling that came down two weeks ago ordering Illinois prison officials to empty the decrepit facility by Sept. 30 seems to have resulted in abrupt transfers from Stateville, despite what educators have said were assurances from the Illinois Department of Corrections that students and alumni from the same education...
Fire damages vehicles in Rivian lot; cause under investigation (pantagraph.com)
NORMAL — Rivian Automotive is investigating the cause of a fire that damaged vehicles in a parking lot at its campus on the community’s west side....
Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story (abcnews.go.com)
NYU issues hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting ‘Zionists’ [Andrew Lapin | 24 August 2024 | timesofisrael.com] (www.timesofisrael.com)
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists claim targeting Zionists isn’t antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists; new policy shows school disagrees, given that most Jews do...
Why I Left the Network: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance (projects.propublica.org)
Nicholas Rossi: fugitive abandons mistaken identity claims (www.thetimes.com)
A fugitive who faked his own death is set to stand trial over rape charges in the United States after his lawyer finally confirmed his identity, bringing a legal stand-off to an end....
Chicago shootings: Tracking gun violence in 2024 (abc7chicago.com)
One of Gaza's last functioning hospitals is emptying out as Israeli forces draw near (apnews.com)
Fucking heart breaking that we are still watching this shit unfold. Playing musical chairs with bombing locations need to stop. Those directing the bombings need to be charged. Peace isn’t enough anymore, the Palestinians need protection.
Armed police raid Andrew Tate’s home in Romania over allegations involving minors (indianexpress.com)
Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle (www.nbcnews.com)
Newly appointed Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol won’t be required to relocate to the company’s headquarters in Seattle when he joins the coffee giant next month....
Scientists amazed at the discovery of an underwater road that points to a 7000-year-old city (www.good.is)
The submerged Neolithic city most possibly belonged to the pre-historic remains of ancient Hvar civilization located in Croatia.
‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating (www.theguardian.com)
Temperatures above 50C used to be a rarity confined to two or three global hotspots, but the World Meteorological Organization noted that at least 10 countries have reported this level of searing heat in the past year: the US, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Pakistan, India and China....
Trump says he's refusing intel briefings so he won't be accused of leaks (www.axioscom)
I realize Axios sucks, but it was this or the Daily Mail, which was who Trump talked to, and fuck them.
‘Hitting kids should never be allowed’: Illinois bans corporal punishment in all schools (apnews.com)
Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools implemented 30 years ago....
The Fastest Growing Demographic In The Workforce? People Over Age 75 (www.forbes.com)
After Iran Steals Sensitive Israeli Data, Israel Tries to Censor the Internet [Omer Benjakob | Aug 21, 2024 | haaretz.com] (www.haaretz.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19058785...
Tìm hiểu quy định quay thưởng kết quả xổ số miền Trung cơ bản nhất Uyghur
Tìm hiểu quy định quay thưởng kết quả xổ số miền Trung cơ bản nhất...
U.S. Plans to Accuse RealPage of Enabling Collusion on Rents - The New York Times (Free Article) (www.nytimes.com)
RealPage, maker of YieldStar, is almost singlehandedly the ones causing rent to skyrocket across much of the United States....
Moscow and Kyiv swap hundreds of prisoners of war on Ukrainian Independence Day | PBS News (www.pbs.org)
Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 100 prisoners of war each on Saturday as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Statue of John Lewis unveiled in Georgia to honor late civil rights leader (www.theguardian.com)
Is Electronomy Soft Landing? - 2024 U.S. 1st Half Electricity Sales, (www.chart2char.com)
Electricity sales change YOY...