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automation, data, workflow @usatoday ❡ ex @Gannett @registerguard @usatoday @theolympian @MedillSchool Digital Equipment Corp ❡ I have a community news problem

Somewhere near the intersection of Highway 61 & Route 66
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24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;

270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;

4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii

--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Many people are hoping it's going to go away on its own, and it's not going to go away on its own."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
These people grew up under dictators. They're worried about what's happening here.
A number of Americans who started life in countries run by an authoritarian leader see lots of warning signs in Trump's behavior.
www.usatoday.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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One upside of the Kimmel story is that it gives us another chance to remember that Trump is still suing Gannett and Ann Selzer over a poll he didn't like.

Unlike Paramount and Disney, Gannett and Selzer are still fighting the suit.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-kimmel...
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
September 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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LIVE: USA TODAY reporter @willcarless.bsky.social
is live now in the Q&A and here to answer all your questions:' bit.ly/4p97WPs

In Extremely Normal: The Manosphere, we explores why young men follow Andrew Tate and other influencers — and what experts say about the risks for vulnerable youth.
'It's like dopamine.' Why lonely young men are turning to influencers like Andrew Tate
USA TODAY Extremism reporter Will Carless examines why lonely young men are turning to controversial influencers like Andrew Tate for guidance. Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/ #Men #Influencer #Investigation #Manosphere #AndrewTate
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September 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Man, haven’t thought about Zope in forever!
Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍

From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible: Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ @AnacondaInc. Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ @Dropbox Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ @FacebookOpenSource OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ @openteams PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ @PyCharmIDE Quansight: https://quansight.com/ @quansight And to all the amazing people who are featured: Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“us-east-1 is no longer a merrily burning dumpster fire of sadness and regret.”
August 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
First #monarch of the year! (And it appears to be female!)
August 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a few NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sport.

In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process.

New investigative reporting:

www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.
www.usatoday.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Upcoming Rallies, Marches, Talks, Trainings and Protests

• Rejecting Billionaire Rule and Corporate ownership, noon, August 2, Whole Foods, Boycott Amazon and Whole Foods. Find 50501 Eugene on Facebook.

• Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration, 7 pm, Wednesday, August 6, Alton Baker Park Peace Pavilion.
Activist Alert
‘Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.’ — Ovid Upcoming Rallies, Marches, Talks, Trainings and Protests • Rejecting Billionaire Rule and Corporate ownership, …
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August 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
But did they use ChatGPT to vibe code the new feature?!
This is hilarious - ChatGPT hallucinates repeatedly about a nonexistent feature on another website (confusing people), eventually leading the site's owners to implement the feature.

www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
www.holovaty.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social

Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
www.youtube.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The defense budget request is the biggest in U.S. history.
Despite DOGE, Pentagon escapes Donald Trump's budget cuts unscathed
The defense budget request is the biggest in U.S. history.
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July 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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“A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob…to kill police officers” on Jan. 6 “has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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If you are a journo covering the GOP budget and want to talk to people with medically complex kids who count on Medicaid to stay alive and in their communities, I have a trenchcoat of sources for you from all over the country, just drop me a line!

sesmith at realsesmith dot com
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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In @azcentral.com today talking about the free speech implications of making it harder to feed the hungry www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Tempe weighs changing rules for holding events, raising 1st Amendment concerns
Opponents of Tempe's proposed changes for permits point to the city's crackdown on volunteers who feed homeless people in the parks.
www.azcentral.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"I'm sleeping on the bathroom floor. It smells like piss. It smells like poop,'"

"18 women there in a small room, with one toilet, and there’s a camera over the toilet."

An ICE gulag in ... Burlington, Massachusetts. cc @warren.senate.gov

Where has our country's humanity gone?
'Atrocious:' lawyers, family and friends of detainees describe ICE detention
Lawyers, family and friends of ICE detainees in Burlington, Massachusetts describe "horrible" conditions including insufficient food and clean drinking water, and no soap, showers, or beds.
www.usatoday.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Re-upping this:

The Trump administration has quietly dismantled the DHS office that oversees programs that aim to spot and prevent exactly the sort of domestic terror attacks that have been booming recently.
Less than 24 hours before last Saturday’s shootings in Minnesota, the last handful of senior analysts who work on the program were reassigned to other roles, leaving fewer than 10 people still working at the office, down from dozens:

#SCOOP
My #LATEST: “Lone actor” politically motivated terror attacks are incredibly hard to predict and disrupt.

Trump is shutting down the main federal program that focuses on these attacks, just as they are surging across the country:

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
June 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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New figures from CBO about how Americans at different income levels are affected by the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill.
Topline finding: Richest decile gets about 2% richer. Poorest decile gets about 4% poorer.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
June 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM