Costco wouldn't back down on DEI, and now it's going up against the Trump administration, suing on the grounds that Trump overstepped his emergency powers by imposing tariffs — and asking for a refund. Here's more from @CNN on what Costco said in the lawsuit, and the handful of other companies that are separately suing the government.

https://flip.it/NWo8NH

#USNews #USGovernment #TrumpAdministration #Trump #USPolitics #Tariffs #Law #Costco #DEI

Is it always election season in the U.S? Here's @bolts's guide to who's voting for what this month across eight states. Tomorrow's key races include a Congressional seat in Tennessee and mayoral runoffs in Georgia and New Jersey.

https://flip.it/Xu3CGU

#USPolitics #USNews #Elections #Tennessee #Georgia #NewJersey #News #AftynBehn

Costco wouldn't back down on DEI, and now it's going up against the Trump administration, suing on the grounds that Trump overstepped his emergency powers by imposing tariffs — and asking for a refund. Here's more from @CNN on what Costco said in the lawsuit, and the handful of other companies that are separately suing the government.

https://flip.it/NWo8NH

#USNews #USGovernment #TrumpAdministration #Trump #USPolitics #Tariffs #Law #Costco #DEI

US will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, reports say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/world-aids-day #AidsandHIV #Society #USnews

Is it always election season in the U.S? Here's @bolts's guide to who's voting for what this month across eight states. Tomorrow's key races include a Congressional seat in Tennessee and mayoral runoffs in Georgia and New Jersey.

https://flip.it/Xu3CGU

#USPolitics #USNews #Elections #Tennessee #Georgia #NewJersey #News #AftynBehn

A team at three U.S. universities developed an AI-powered browser extension that modifies how content appears on X and then tested it on 1,200 participants in the run up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The tool scans posts for anti-democratic and negative partisan views (such as calling for violence towards supporters of an opposing party) and then re-orders the posts so polarizing content is shown either more or less to participants. The scientists found that attitudes towards the opposing party changed on average by two points, and that the participants who saw less hostile content reported feeling less angry and sad while using X. The extension did not need the participation of X and, the team behind it noted, could be a way of reranking social media posts "without platform collaboration." Here's more from @euronews.

https://flip.it/hD.OWw

#USNews #USPolitics #Technology #Twitter #X #SocialMedia

A team at three U.S. universities developed an AI-powered browser extension that modifies how content appears on X and then tested it on 1,200 participants in the run up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The tool scans posts for anti-democratic and negative partisan views (such as calling for violence towards supporters of an opposing party) and then re-orders the posts so polarizing content is shown either more or less to participants. The scientists found that attitudes towards the opposing party changed on average by two points, and that the participants who saw less hostile content reported feeling less angry and sad while using X. The extension did not need the participation of X and, the team behind it noted, could be a way of reranking social media posts "without platform collaboration." Here's more from @euronews.

https://flip.it/hD.OWw

#USNews #USPolitics #Technology #Twitter #X #SocialMedia

When the U.S. House Oversight Committee released 20,000 of Jeffrey Epstein's emails earlier this month, some people wanted to check out the messages for themselves, but without having to wade through the whole digital dump. @motherjonesmag reports on Jmail, which presents the documents as if they were in a Gmail account, with a working search function. Here's how programmer Luke Igel and prankster Riley Walz made it. At the second link, find the inbox, with some familiar names within: Steve Bannon, Quora, and, erm, @Flipboard.

https://flip.it/482.CA

https://jmail.world/
#Technology #Tech #JeffreyEpstein #USNews #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Flipboard #Jmail

US will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, reports say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/world-aids-day #AidsandHIV #Society #USnews

"For the most part, the only ‘psyop’ here is one being run on social media users by social media companies themselves in search of getting more ad revenue by any means necessary."

https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/

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#news #USNews #USPol #SocialMedia

When the U.S. House Oversight Committee released 20,000 of Jeffrey Epstein's emails earlier this month, some people wanted to check out the messages for themselves, but without having to wade through the whole digital dump. @motherjonesmag reports on Jmail, which presents the documents as if they were in a Gmail account, with a working search function. Here's how programmer Luke Igel and prankster Riley Walz made it. At the second link, find the inbox, with some familiar names within: Steve Bannon, Quora, and, erm, @Flipboard.

https://flip.it/482.CA

https://jmail.world/
#Technology #Tech #JeffreyEpstein #USNews #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Flipboard #Jmail

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/in-a-u-s-first-new-mexico-opens-doors-to-free-child-care-for-all-2dfdea96

#HackerNews #FreeChildCare #NewMexico #ChildCareAccess #EducationForAll #USNews #FamilySupport

FBI worker says he was wrongfully terminated for having Pride flag at desk https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/fbi-wrongful-termination-pride-flag #Workers'rights #LGBTQ+rights #USpolitics #USnews #FBI

FBI worker says he was wrongfully terminated for having Pride flag at desk https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/fbi-wrongful-termination-pride-flag #Workers'rights #LGBTQ+rights #USpolitics #USnews #FBI

Lots of journalists have searched through the 26,000 Jeffrey Epstein documents that were released earlier this week, but if you want to do so yourself, here's data journalist @micahflee's guide.

https://flip.it/IE7zgJ

#JeffreyEpstein #DonaldTrump #USNews #TrumpAdministration

Lots of journalists have searched through the 26,000 Jeffrey Epstein documents that were released earlier this week, but if you want to do so yourself, here's data journalist @micahflee's guide.

https://flip.it/IE7zgJ

#JeffreyEpstein #DonaldTrump #USNews #TrumpAdministration

People held in ‘decrepit’ California ICE facility sue over ‘inhumane’ conditions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/california-ice-detention-lawsuit #ICE(USImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement) #USimmigration #California #USpolitics #Worldnews #WestCoast #USnews

People held in ‘decrepit’ California ICE facility sue over ‘inhumane’ conditions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/california-ice-detention-lawsuit #ICE(USImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement) #USimmigration #California #USpolitics #Worldnews #WestCoast #USnews

"What is genuinely new is the privatization of interpretation. ICE isn’t just collecting more data, it is outsourcing judgment to private contractors. Private analysts, aided by artificial intelligence, are likely to decide what online behavior signals danger and what doesn’t. That decision-making happens rapidly and across large numbers of people, for the most part beyond public oversight."

https://theconversation.com/always-watching-how-ices-plan-to-monitor-social-media-24-7-threatens-privacy-and-civic-participation-268175

#news #USnews #immigration #surveillance