smurph @Smurph@sfba.social

Today's addition to my RSS reader: the newly launched Bolts magazine. They have an amazing focus on critical down ballot elections and criminal justice issues. Here is their guide to coming state Supreme Court elections: https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2022-supreme-court-elections/

The Oaklandside on the increase in people living in cars and RVs in Oakland: https://oaklandside.org/2022/05/18/homeless-oakland-living-in-cars-rvs-vehicles/

In These Times on the way the construction industry exploits the recently incarcerated and legislative progress to prevent this: https://inthesetimes.com/article/work-requirements-construction-incarceration-union-new-york-labor

ProPublica on newly released documents that shed more light on the ways drug companies targeted physicians to prescribe opioids: https://www.propublica.org/article/pharmaceuticals-pay-doctors-drugs

Capital B on what the national baby formula shortage means for Black families: https://capitalbnews.org/baby-formula-shortage-impact/

Today's addition to my RSS feed reader: The Markup, an amazing big tech watchdog. Here is their update on terms available for targeted advertising on Facebook: https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2022/05/12/facebook-promised-to-remove-sensitive-ads-heres-what-it-left-behind

Propublica talks to three experts about the impact of climate change on droughts and fires in the southwest: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-southwests-drought-and-fires-are-a-window-to-our-climate-change-future

Meduza with two strong features today. One is the story of support for Russia's war in a small Siberian town: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/11/we-want-to-die-for-the-motherland-too . The other is the story of a woman who wrote anti-war graffiti: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/11/traitors-of-the-people

Rest of World with a critical look at Google and Facebook's role in the expansion of internet connectivity in Africa: https://restofworld.org/2022/google-meta-underwater-cables/

Joe Eskenazi with an analysis of the upcoming SF District 6 supervisor election over at Mission Local: https://missionlocal.org/2022/05/sources-mayor-to-tap-matt-dorsey-for-d6-supervisor-triggering-high-stakes-political-brawl/

Today's addition to the my RSS reader: In These Times, a great source of reporting on the labor movement among other topics: https://inthesetimes.com

Today's addition to my feed reader: Meduza, an valuable source of reporting on Russia: https://meduza.io/en

Adding another news source to my feed reader, Capital B. Here is their timely analysis of the impact that reversing Roe v. Wade would have on Black communities: https://capitalbnews.org/supreme-court-abortion-black-americans/

For folks reading up about abortion rights today, here is an article from Mother Jones about how advertising technology surveillance may be used against you: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/meet-abortion-bans-new-best-friend-your-phone/

Looking beyond the bay area to add some other news orgs to my feed reader, today's addition is the amazin ProPubilca: https://www.propublica.org

And back to the east bay today to add The Oaklandside's sister publication, Berkeleyside, to my RSS reader: https://www.berkeleyside.org

Moving down to the South Bay for today's additional news source for my RSS reader: https://sanjosespotlight.com