Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
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“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
propublica.org/article/ucla-an…

#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest

The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism

An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

^{shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

Should other countries treat Americans the same way America is now treating tourists by taking DNA, fingerprints, mug shots and by going through the past 5 years of their social media?

#poll #america #tourism #travel #news

• Yes (55%, 50 votes)
• Not sure (2%, 2 votes)
• No (37%, 34 votes)
• They can’t do that. I’m an American (4%, 4 votes)

TURKIYE ENTERS SYRIA!

Turkish army convoys entered Syria from three directions. Afrin, Ras al-Ain and northern Aleppo.

Some reports said that Turkish army convoys are heading to Manbij.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Turkiye #Syria

Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰

Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.

404 Meda, @404mediaco

Bolts, @bolts

Brian Krebs, @briankrebs

Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant

Casey Newton, @caseynewton

Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic


Joan Westenberg , @Daojoan

Gareth Halfacree, @ghalfacree


GBH News, @gbhnews

Kim Zetter, @kimzetter


Knowable Magazine @KnowableMag

LWN.net, @lwn

Molly White, @molly0xfff


ProPublica, @ProPublica

Rest of World, @restofworld

San Francisco Public Press, @SFPublicPress

Steve Herman, @w7voa

The Texas Observer, @TexasObserver

The Continent, @thecontinent

The Conversation, @TheConversationUS

The New York Review of Books, @nybooks

The Transmitter, @thetransmitter

The Tyee, @thetyee

The Xylom, @thexylom


The Tucson Sentinel, @TucsonSentinel

Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @timkmak

#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday

Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.

Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
propublica.org/article/trump-c…

#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Trump #Data #Science #Politics

Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

^{lena.groeger@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

'It would be the biggest middle finger' - Chilwell eyes World Cup

Ben Chilwell is keen to show he can go from the #Chelsea 'bomb squad' to England's World Cup squad thanks to his move to Strasbourg.

bbc.com/sport/football/article…

(c) #BBC #News #Sport #Football

Ben Chilwell on potential England recall and life in Strasbourg

Ben Chilwell is keen to show he can go from the Chelsea 'bomb squad' to England's World Cup squad thanks to his move to Strasbourg.

^{Nizaar Kinsella (BBC Sport)}

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
propublica.org/article/ice-bor…

#News #Trump #ICE #Immigration #CivilRights #Violence #Protest #Chicago #LosAngeles #Oakland #Portland

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters

^{Alex.Bandoni@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

MAGA BASED IN RUSSIA!

MANY, MANY MAGA X Accounts Supporting Trump Based In Eastern EUROPE!

A new update to X that shows the country or region where a user is based has revealed some popular accounts—many of which post wildly partisan support Trump—aren’t even United States-based, though they claim to be American!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #socialmedia #Fediverse #trending #Trump

forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2…

Europäische PayPal-Alternative: Bezahldienst Wero für Online-Einkäufe gestartet

Sparkassen, Volksbanken und etliche Händler sind schon dabei: Wero als europäische Antwort auf Dienste wie Paypal startet für Online-Shopping.

heise.de/news/Europaeische-Pay…

#Bezahldienst #eCommerce #IT #Paypal #Wirtschaft #news

Europäische PayPal-Alternative: Bezahldienst Wero für Online-Einkäufe gestartet

^{dpa (heise online)}

"The small modular reactor market could support the decarbonisation of at least 11 industrial sectors that make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe with a potential market of 700 GW by 2050, a study by LucidCatalyst has concluded."

#Nuclear #News

world-nuclear-news.org/article…

Study evaluates potential market for SMRs in industrial sector

The small modular reactor market could support the decarbonisation of at least 11 industrial sectors that make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe with a potential market of 700 GW by 2050, a study by Lucid…

^{World Nuclear News}

GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht

Das Landgericht München hat gegen OpenAI entschieden. Geklagt hatte die GEMA – es geht um Liedtexte von Helene Fischer und mehr.

heise.de/news/GEMA-vs-OpenAI-N…

#ChatGPT #GEMA #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #news

GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht

^{Eva-Maria Weiß (heise online)}

This week's In-Process blog post is out! Featuring:
- NVDA 2025.3.1
- Reece gets Behind the News with Audio Description
- Manual configuration profiles
- Featured add-on: “Check Input Gestures”
- Bonus tip: Report keystroke

Read it here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

(Or subscribe for future issues at: nvaccess.org/newsletter ).

It's definitely worth it for Reece at least, he's a little firecracker!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #Newsletter #News #BTN #Tips #ScreenReader

Long-term battery test: Does fast charging actually harm smartphone battery longevity?

The results are quite clear. Fast charging does not lead to significantly reduced battery capacity after 500 charging cycles on either iPhones or Android phones.

#news #technology #BetteridgesLaw

notebookcheck.net/Long-term-ba…

Long-term battery test: Does fast charging actually harm smartphone battery longevity?

The results of an extremely complex and professionally presented long-term test are clear. Several iPhones and Android phones were divided into different charging groups and tested over several months.

^{Alexander Fagot (Notebookcheck)}

"The world's governments have all signed up to "anticircumvention" laws that criminalize reverse-engineering & modifying US #tech products. This was done at the insistence of the #US Trade Rep... using the threat of #tariffs
....
getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their own behavior – unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies"
- @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/red…

#Technology #News #USA

Our In-Process blog is out! This time featuring:

- NVDA 2025.3.1 Release Candidate
- See Differently Tech Fest
- Typing Tutors
- Single Key Navigation Poll
- Featured Add-on: Screen Wrapping for NVDA

All this and more available to read now: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

Don't follow us on social media and never saw this post? Then sign up to receive the blog via email! nvaccess.org/newsletter

#NVDA #NVAccess #Newsletter #Blog #News #ScreenReader #Accessibility #PreRelease #Typing #Poll

#News #Gross

OPENAI has officially revealed its Atlas web browser, powered by its Operator AI agent and featuring built-in ChatGPT functionality.

The browser effectively promises to automate your life with the functionality to fill out forms, make dinner reservations, and even chat with a webpage at the touch of a button.

Prince Andrew's BBC Newsnight interview is back in the spotlight - watch key moments

The prince was interviewed in 2019 about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis.

bbc.com/news/videos/c07mkx9nz1…

(c) #BBC #News

Prince Andrew: Key moments from his famous Newsnight interview

^www.bbc.com

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way and overwhelmed challenges to their arrests.

propublica.org/article/trump-d…

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

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

^ProPublica

The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
propublica.org/article/immigra…

#News #ICE #Immigration #Trump #USPolitics #Law #American

Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

^ProPublica

NVDA 2025.3.1 Release Candidate is now available for testing.

This is a patch release to fix a security issue & a bug.

- Fixed a vulnerability which could prevent access to secure screens via Remote Access.

- Remote Access now returns control to the local computer if it locks while controlling the remote computer.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #PreRelease #News #NewVersion #Update #ScreenReader #Security

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
propublica.org/article/educati…

#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children

Trump’s Education Department Is Working to Erode the Public School System

^ProPublica

Well done to whoever is putting fake signs taking the piss out of the local council!

The city full of tongue-in-cheek road signs:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl5y2…

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Essex #Sign #Signage

Chelmsford tongue-in-cheek signs must end, says Essex Highways

A council says the prank signs could "mislead residents and cause confusion".

^{Elliot Deady (BBC News)}

After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
propublica.org/article/seattle…

#News #Seattle #Washington #Homeless #Housing #Hotel

Seattle Paid for Shelter Beds That It Left Vacant Despite a Massive Need for Housing

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

^ProPublica

"Israel trying to justify cold blooded murder"
- Aure

“Europe is absent from the peace plan for Gaza because it has shown tremendous weakness and has, in fact, become irrelevant…”

— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Europe’s absence from discussions about Gaza’s future.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza

Today, we’re officially introducing Kagi News: a once-a-day press review that cuts through the noise. Global stories, community-curated sources, and zero tracking.

Full announcement: blog.kagi.com/kagi-news

iOS download: apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-new…

Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Web: kite.kagi.com/

#Kagi #News #App #iOS #Android

This week's In-Process is out and it's a bumper edition! We've got:

1. NVDA 2025.3
2. Obtaining NVDA
3. Add-on of the week: AudioScreen
4. Chrome bug fix
5. Planned infrastructure outage notification
6. Bobby Singh – Finding Light Through NVDA
7. New issue template

Yes SEVEN articles! There's something for everyone :)

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Newsletter

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
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The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
propublica.org/article/kristi-…

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Florida #FEMA #Disaster #Aid

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked FEMA Funds for Naples After Donor Intervened

^ProPublica

God help us

“A new report from Senate Democrats claims members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team have access to the Social Security Numbers of all Americans in a cloud server lacking verified security measures, despite an internal assessment of potential “catastrophic” risk. The report, released by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), cites numerous disclosures from whistleblowers, including one who said a worst-case scenario could involve having to re-issue SSNs to everyone in the country.

As outlined in the report, DOGE staffers moved a live copy of Americans’ personal information to a cloud server despite an internal risk assessment done by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that determined the impact could be “catastrophic” without the proper safeguards. The report notes that this information is considered “production data,” potentially allowing DOGE to “directly manipulate” it.”

#doge #tech #ssn #news #security #privacy
theverge.com/news/785706/doge-…

DOGE might be storing every American’s SSN on an insecure cloud server

A new report from Senate Democrats reveals that Elon Musk’s DOGE has moved sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, to a cloud server without verified security measures.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
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As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending a decadeslong public health success story.
propublica.org/article/fluorid…

#News #Health #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Michigan #Water #Government

Local Officials Waver on Water Fluoridation in Michigan, Where It Started

^ProPublica

This week's bumper In-Process is out! Featuring:
- NVDA 2025.3 Released
- Using Chromium with the mouse issue
- We've been to WBU AND Something Digital
- and using Single Letter Navigation with web apps.

All that and more at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

And don't forget to subscribe to receive future posts by email: nvaccess.org/newsletter

#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Blog #Newsletter #NewVersion #Chrome #Chromium #WBU #WBU25 #SomethingDigital #Tips #FOSS

NV Access are very pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2025.3!

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

For full details and to download, please visit: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #FOSS #OpenSource #New #News #Software #Blind

NEW: Programs for #Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
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Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top #Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica.

#news #kids #trump #government #DEI

propublica.org/article/trump-d…

Education Dept. Halts Funds to Programs for Deafblind Students Over DEI Concerns

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

^ProPublica

Hi everyone,

The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility

This week's In-Process is out. Featuring all the news on NVDA 2025.2, info on the upcoming NVDA 2025.3, a recap on restarting after updating (no we're not about to enforce that!) and a look into the namesake feature of Microsoft Windows... and just how complicated ARE the Windows+arrow key commands? (Very, but we break it down for you!) All that and more, available now: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Windows #Desktop #NewVersion #NewRelease #FOSS #News #Newsletter