Verified Journalists Posts

Hooray for Open Government. Best practices for local boards and agencies https://highlandscurrent.org/?p=5804125

Congrats to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost, which today announced a public beta for users to connect their publications to the fediverse. If you're in their beta, you'll be able to find, follow and interact with people and publications on platforms including Ghost, WordPress, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard and more. Get details in the blogpost here. If you want to know more about Ghost's approach to decentralization and the open social web, check out John's DotSocial conversation with @mike at the second link.

https://ghost.org/changelog/social-web-beta/

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Ghost #ActivityPub #Decentralization #Fediverse #Publishing

City councillor calls for traffic-calming measures at crash-prone West End intersection https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/04/01/west-end-bakery-restaurant-supply-company-weary-of-doing-business-in-crash-zone

Costco and Target took opposite positions after the Trump administration began to pressure private companies to ditch diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Costco resisted and reaffirmed its support for DEI, while Target dumped its programs. So how has it affected foot traffic for the two chains? Retail Brew takes a look.

https://flip.it/3pCmVF

#DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI #Lifestyle #Retail #Costco #Target #Business

Senator Adam Schiff has placed a hold on Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C. https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-sen-schiff-announces-hold-on-d-c-u-s-attorney-nominee-ed-martin/

This is what Dem Senators could and should have been doing for every one of Trump’s horrible nominees. But I commend Schiff for stepping up now. 1/

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

As of the end of March 2025, Russia occupies 18.3% (+0.05%) of Ukraine, including Crimea and the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk occupied before 2022, shown in purple.

This represents a net gain by Russia of approximately 272.72km² over the month.

@Podnews Would love to know your opinion on this, after all is said and done. Do you feel PM still has the gravitas it once did?

‘A dream come true’ https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/04/01/a-dream-come-true-2