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Pasa den astean, bi letter jaso beharrean, mezu bat jaso nuen Linkedin-en. Ez ezagutzeko zortea dutenentzat, Linkedin sare sozial bat da, non batzuek lana bilatzen duten (dugun!) eta beste batzuek psikopata batzuk direla erakusten diguten. Esaten dutenez, psikopaten Facebook-a da eta nik uste dut egia dela.  Ez zait maiz gertatzen ezezagunen batek idaztea Linkedinen. Bere profilean agertzen den informazioaren arabera, New Yorken kokatua dago pertsona hau. Indiako unibertsitate batean ikasi zuen 2011 eta 2015 urteen artean, eta bi lan baino ez ditu izan. “Senior Talent Sourcer” eta “Lead Talent Sourcer (Team Lead)”. Giza-baliabide arloan goi-mailako edo eskarmentu handikoa bata, eta giza baliabideetako talde bateko burua azken hiru urtetan. Kontxo. Bere profileko argazkian, Indiako emakume gazte bat. Mezua ingelesez da, Indiako jendeak batzuetan erabiltzen duten eta Adimen Artifizialak errepikatzea maite duen estilo gainkargatu, enpalagoso horrekin. Dena delakoagatik. “Zure eguna zoragarria izatea espero dut! Zure profilarekin topo egin nuen, eta txundituta geratu nintzen zure aurrekariekin. Badirudi zure esperientzia eta hizkuntza-gaitasuna bat datozela une honetan kontratatzen ari garen proiektu zirraragarri baterako”. Txundituta, aizue. Txundituta ni ere bai. “Gure enpresa euskarazko espezialista baten bila dabilelako idazten dizut:  “Freelance AI Trainer Project”. Urruneko kontratuaren rola da hau, eta zure profilarekin ondo lerrokatzen dela uste dut. Ez da Adimen Artifizialekin aldez aurreko esperientziarik behar: axola duena euskara idatzi eta ahozko bikaina, xehetasunarekiko arreta zorrotza eta testua berridazteko gaitasuna da, argitasun eta zehaztasunagatik. Ohiko zereginen artean daude, besteak beste, modeloak “prompt” desberdinekin probatzea, euskarazko arrazoiketa probatzea, itzulpenak berrikustea, erantzun naturalak lantzea, gramatika eta tonua zuzentzea eta testuinguru kulturala gehitzea, beraz, sortutako testua jatorra eta naturala sentiaraztea”. Baina xehetasun bitxiak ez dira oraindik amaitu. “Eskaera bidali ondoren, mesedez erantzun InMail honi (mezu honi) erantzuteko zure interesa baieztatzeko: honek zure berrikuspena lehenesten eta edozein galderari erantzuten laguntzen dit. Ez jarraitzea nahiago baduzu, ez dago arazorik. Mesedez, baztertu InMail hau, eta gure zeregin honetarako zabaltzeko zerrendetatik kenduko zaitugu”. Non dago gizakia, benetako pertsona bat, prozesu honetan guztian ba? Pantailaren aurrean eserita, mezuak irakurtzen eta bidaltzen? Lan-eskaintzan interesa dutenek betetzen eta bidaltzen dituzten formularioak prozesatuz? Edo ez dago ez leku batean ez bestean? 90eko hamarkadan lan-elkarrizketa bat egin nuen Madrilen, Microsoft jende bila zebilelako Microsoft Officeko laguntzak euskaratzeko. Seguru dakidana da ez zutela edonor kontratatzen ni kontratatu ez nindutelako. Kontua ez da lan ona egin ahal izan nuela, baina ea noiz izan den hori arazo bat batzuentzat. Office-eko laguntza desastre hutsa zen dagoeneko, baina nolabait bere funtzioa bete zuen. Inork ez zuen erabiltzen, inork ez duelako dokumentazioa irakurtzen, baina ziur nago batzuk aberastu egin zirela. Eta beste gutxi batzuk, sikiera hilabete batzuetan, lana izan zuten. Ohar garrantzitsua: nik ez dut itzulpen lanik egiten, ezta AAak entrenatze lanik ere. Euskara aipatzen dut nire profilean (noski) eta pantaila baten aurrean lan egin dut urte askotan. Eta kito. Nortzuk aberastuko dira honekin? Zer hondamendi berri ikusiko ditugu garatuko dizkiguten produktuekin? Nork eta nondik egingo digute hurrengo txerrikeria? Gauza batzuk egiten dituzu, edo egiten dizkizute. Ez bakarrik politika. Baina baita ere. Vicente "Bixen" Carrasco

Sergei Karaganov irakaslea Kanpo Politikako eta Defentsako Kontseiluko presidentea da eta atzerri politikan eragin handiena duen akademiko errusiarretako bat. Brezhnev, Gorbatxov, Jeltsin eta Vladimir Putinen aholkularia izana da. Errusiako doktrina nuklearra aldatzearen defendatzaile nagusietako bat izan zen eta Putin presidenteak bere proposamen asko onartu zuen. Jarraian irakurriko dituzuenak Glenn Diesen akademiko norvegiarrak egin zion elkarrizketa batean plazaratutakoak dira. "Denbora luzez aritu naiz gobernuan dauden nire kideak kritikatzen Mendebaldearen erasoak toleratzeagatik, irtenbide bat aurkitu ahal izanen genuelakoan. Baina irtenbide hori ez da inoiz agertu. Beraz, 2023tik proposatzen ari naizenera itzuliko naiz. Errusia erabateko gerra pairatzen ari da eta gerra hau irabazi egin behar dugu. Gerra honek onura asko ekarri dio Errusiari. Geldotasunetik atera gara, geure arima eta ohorea berreskuratu ditugu eta geure gizartean benetan baliotsuak diren elite meritokratikoak baloratzen hasi gara, akademikoak, medikuak, ofizialak… Herrialdea indartsuago eta osasuntsuago bihurtzen ari da. Baina bizitza gehiegi ordaintzen ari gara. Beraz, nire gobernuari Europako gerra honi amaiera eman diezaion aholkatzen diot, koska bat gora eginez. Lehenik eta behin, Europako zenbait puntu sinboliko eta logistikori arma konbentzionalekin erasoz. Eta amore ematen ez badute, eraso nuklearrekin jarraituz. Amore ematen ez badute, Europako herrialde batzuk hil egin beharko dira. Hori da nire iradokizuna, nahiz eta Jainkoari eskatzen diodan –ni fededuna naiz– horrelakorik ez gertatzea. Duela hiru urte ni gutxiengo baten ahotsa nintzen. Orain gehiengo ikaragarri baten ahotsa naiz, bai arlo militarrean bai zirkulu politikoetan eta gizartean ere. Elkarrekiko jokabidearen zenbait arauren inguruan estatubatuarrak eta errusiarrak ados jar daitezen espero dut. Hori bai, europarrak ez dira joko horren parte izanen". Nuklearren aurretik, arma konbentzionalak "Europan gauzak muturreraino eramaten ari dira. Gure etsaiak eskala handian zigortzen hasi beharko dugun puntura iristen ari gara. Nahiago nuke erabateko gerra nuklearra piztu gabe. Baina aurretik, egin dituzten krimenak zigortu egin behar dira. Egiteko modu asko daude eta prestatzen ari gara. Lehenik eta behin, Europan bertan garrantzitsuak diren helburuei eraso eginez. Baina hori baino lehen, Kieveko erregimena suntsitu beharko dugu, eskalada nuklearrera igo gabe. Nire herrikideei ematen diedan aholkua eskalatzea da, lehenik arma konbentzionalekin helburu sinboliko, logistiko edo militarrak erasoz. Eta gero, gelditzen ez badira, bonba nuklearrak erabiliz. Nekatuta gaude gure gizonik onenak Europa horretan galduta. Ahalmen ekonomiko, teknologiko eta demografikoan gure gainetik dauden herrialde-talde batek eraso egiten badigu, eskubidea ez ezik beharra ere badugu arma nuklearrak erabiltzeko. Planteatu dut, halaber, komandante-buruak bere boterearen zati bat Europa eremuko komandante-buruarengan delegatzea. Jeneral horrek eskarmentu handiko ofizialen babesa du, eta berak hartuko luke bere gain erantzukizuna eta baloratuko luke baliabide guztiak erabiltzeko aukera edo beharra, baita arma nuklearrak ere, Errusiaren aurkako gerra oldarkorra piztu duten Europako herrialdeen aurka. Neure herrikideei gogorarazten diet Europa dela gerra guztien, genozidio guztien, giza historiako gauzarik txarrenen iturria. Espero dut, guztion onerako, gai izanen garela hori saihesteko. Baina europarrek beren herrialdeak amildegira eramaten ari direla ulertu behar dute". Europak zigortua izan behar du "Orain garrantzitsuena Europako eliteek erasorako duten borondatea haustea da. Eraso bat egiten ari dira eta horregatik zigortuak izan behar dute. Gure barne eztabaidetan nire gobernua kritikatzen ari naiz pirateria ekintzekin bigunegia izateagatik. Behar izanez gero, Danimarkako kanalak itxiko balira, adibidez, ez litzateke Danimarkarik geratuko. Serio hartu behar dugu ergel horiek zentzutasuna berreskura dezaten. Eraso nuklear mugatu batek zakur amorratu horiei zentzua itzuliko balie, gizateriaren salbatzailea izanen litzateke. Kapitalismo modernoa gizakiari gizatasuna kentzen ari zaio. Munduan izan zuen nagusitasuna berreskuratu nahian dihardu bera arpilatzea ahalbidetu zion Mendebaldeak. Baina hori ez da berriro gertatuko. Nahiago nuke bideko punturen batean elkarren arteko errespetuan oinarritutako mundu multipolarra eraiki ahal izatea, mundu askoz baketsuagoa. Baina gutxienez hogei urteko gerrak ditugu zain". Joan Mari Beloki Kortexarena

The Florida Legislature signed off on a $114.5 billion budget Friday afternoon, even as some legislators worried it falls short of doing enough for schools, healthcare, and the environment. A handful of Democrats also sharply criticized a nearly $300 million tax cut package that they said does more to help special interests than everyday Floridians. […]

A spending frenzy has broken out in the pivotal 48th District Congressional race as the leading Democratic challengers look to survive Tuesday’s primary.

For the second time, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill that would eliminated a unique second election requirement in the state’s union formation law, after business and labor groups failed to reach a compromise on how to tweak the measure. “In the wake of (last year’s) veto and the substantial negotiations that preceded it, […]

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O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva disse nesta sexta-feira (29), em evento em Sergipe, “sonhar” em reverter a privatização de empresas como a Eletrobras e a BR Distribuidora. Em tom crítico aos processos de venda de estatais durante governos anteriores, afirmou que as privatizações ocorrem quando há “falta de competência” por parte dos gestores […] Fonte

(The Center Square) – Critics may not care for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s plan to deal with the drug-addicted homeless population, but a taxpayers organization and an economist say it isn't a bad approach. In a nine-minute video on X, Pratt said the other mayoral candidates in the June 2 primary - Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman - have forsaken the city. He said it's time for real leadership. “Los Angeles doesn't have a homeless problem. We have a drug problem,” Pratt said in his video on X. “The DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] will tell you that over 90% of the homeless population in LA are hardcore illicit drug users.” Pratt’s multi-step plan involves a treatment-first model, one that the Republican candidate argues is better than simply offering shelter beds. Under his plan, Pratt said city-funded assistance and long-term housing would require mandatory participation in drug treatment and mental health stabilization services. Meanwhile, Pratt proposes that Los Angeles cut off funding to what he describes as an “evil racket of corrupt politicians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who profit off the misery” of addicts. “They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets,” said Pratt in the video on X. “We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone.” In Pratt’s opinion, people who do not want help will choose to leave Los Angeles. In related interviews about his plan, Pratt has mentioned Seattle as one of the cities where homeless drug addicts would choose to go if Los Angeles halts funding for what he called its "broken nonprofit system." He said addicts would then choose Seattle and similar cities because of their more permissive policies. Whether homeless addicts leave or not, Pratt said he wants an aggressive enforcement of policies to clear encampments of sidewalks, parks and neighborhoods to ensure they are clean and safe. At the same time, Pratt is proposing audits of homelessness programs to ensure they are operating effectively. Funding under his administration would be tied to measurable recovery outcomes. The Center Square made multiple attempts to get comments from Bass, Raman, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and other leaders in Seattle, but did not receive a response by press time. Susan Shelley, vice president of communications for the Los Angeles-based Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said she's open to Pratt's plan. “The general plan is that he is going to enforce the laws against doing drugs openly on the street," Shelley told The Center Square. "It’s already against the law. He is going to enforce the law.” “I think it would be a more cost-effective approach, but more importantly, it would help people get well, instead of monetizing the bodies on the street, which is what’s currently happening," Shelley said. Shelley said Los Angeles has a situation where the city, county and state pay nonprofits based on the number of contacts that they have with homeless people. “We're helping people, and that's the metric. [It's] how many times you go and talk to them because the whole thing is based on willingness to accept services,” said Shelley. “So you can have someone living in a public bathroom at the beach, and I’ve seen this, living in a public bathroom at the beach. And you have like 10 or 15 publicly paid people coming out saying, 'Well, are you ready to accept services? We're ready to help you.' ” According to Shelley, people are getting very wealthy off this in the nonprofit world. “All of these different groups get contracts, and all of their executives get paid. And the more bodies there are on the street, the more it's perpetuated,” said Shelley. “He [Pratt] wants to end this corruption that is essentially exploiting the people on the street to get funding for nonprofit organizations and cronies of the political elite.” That, said Shelley, is the problem. Wayne Winegarden, senior business fellow and economist at Pasadena-based Pacific Research Institute, said Los Angeles needs to be comprehensive. “We need to be smarter,” said Winegarden. “We need to get away from housing first because housing first is exceptionally expensive, spending six, seven, $800,000 per unit, in some cases as high as $1 million.” And there is not enough money to buy everybody a million-dollar home, Winegarden said. Even if the money were available, Winegarden said the government still has not treated the underlying causes of homelessness. “We talk about using temporary housing or temporary shelter as a low-cost way to address homelessness. That's incredibly important,” said Winegarden. “You talk about mandatory treatment, especially when somebody's broken the law, you know, using those opportunities through homeless courts, which we've been using ineffectively. But it's still a good idea.” Both Shelley and Winegarden add that California and other states would benefit if this plan is implemented and proves effective. “Governments learn from one another,” said Winegarden. “A successful strategy would garner a lot of attention." Meanwhile, a new University of California, Berkeley/Los Angeles Times poll shows Mayor Karen Bass with a slim lead over Raman and Pratt heading into next week's primary. Bass had 26%, compared to Raman’s 25% and Pratt’s 22%. Pratt dismissed the poll, saying on X that as a Trojan, he would "never go off a UC Berkeley poll." Using the rally cry of the University of Southern California Trojans, Pratt then urged supporters to "Fight On!" Earlier this year, a poll from University of California, Los Angeles' Luskin School of Public Affairs had 40% of voters being undecided. The poll from UC Berkeley had the undecided share at 10%, leading observers to believe that a majority of undecideds have chosen their candidate.

(The Center Square) - The political runway for a major tax proposal this November is shrinking after a task force developing recommendations to help inform that ballot measure pushed its timeline to June. The Safe and Healthy Spokane Task Force launched last fall with an “aggressive goal” to finalize those recommendations in May. Some members discussed plans in April to hold their final meeting on May 7, before releasing a report sometime in the following weeks; now they have another meeting on June 2. Emilie Cameron, one of the task force conveners and president of the Downtown Spokane Partnership, has framed the delay as an opportunity to refine the outcome of what she called an “iterative process.” “We had a really aggressive goal to be able to finalize those recommendations in May over the course of eight meetings, but this is an important process,” Camerson told The Center Square on Thursday.​ She said the task force hopes to hold a press conference during the second week of June to release its final report. Those recommendations are intended to help elected officials address public safety issues stemming from a lack of interconnectivity between the criminal justice and behavioral health systems. The effort follows a tax proposal that voters overwhelmingly rejected in 2023 to replace the local jail. Critics at the time argued that the proposal was merely a capital plan that lacked funding for ongoing operations and didn’t address other regional priorities, such as expanding behavioral health services. Elected officials must submit a tax proposal by Aug. 4 for it to appear on the November 2026 ballot. When asked whether regional officials would have enough time to draft a proposal and build support for a tax if the recommendations are released in June — leaving about two months before the August deadline — Cameron said she hasn't discussed the specifics of a ballot measure with any jurisdiction in the county. “We're all well aware of what the county's timing would need to be to place a ballot measure on the November ballot, but … I just haven’t been a part of those conversations,” Cameron said Thursday. Spokane City Council President Betsy Wilkerson mentioned during a meeting at the start of May that the dais had received a copy of the task force's draft recommendations. The Center Square obtained the document in a records request last week, but Cameron said much of the report has changed since then. “I know you've seen an initial draft; I will tell you that it has evolved since,” she told The Center Square. The “confidential” draft is built around two themes: creating a coordinated public safety and behavioral health system under a cross-sector governance and accountability council; and investing in right-sized justice facilities alongside community-based treatment, diversion, reentry and housing infrastructure. The recommendations say taxpayers are subsidizing a revolving door without a coordinated system. Regarding funding for the recommended facilities, the draft report suggests enacting a public safety tax. “Neither investment succeeds without the other. Modernized justice facilities without the community infrastructure to divert, treat, and receive people back will not deliver the outcomes the public expects," according to the draft report. “A network of community facilities without justice facilities capable of safely and humanely holding people who must be incarcerated leaves a critical gap in the system,” the draft continues.​ Cameron said the core idea is that investments in infrastructure should not be about one or the other. She said Spokane needs a range of comprehensive facilities that are adequately funded and staffed.​ “These go hand in hand; it's not an either-or safe or healthy. It’s safe and healthy, and this broad cross-section of the communities is telling our jurisdictions to move these forward together,” Cameron said.

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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest.The U.S. Postal Service proposed new rules Friday that detail in part how the Trump administration intends to carry out its contested mail-ballot executive order — revealing a plan that, if it survives legal challenges, would create new barriers for mail voting and new burdens for election officials.Under the proposal, all states would be required to send the federal government a list of all registered voters to which they are sending mail-in and absentee ballots in key federal elections. The proposal appears to give the postal service new power to block delivery of ballots to people that are not on the list and allow the agency to refuse delivery of ballots that do not meet new federal standards outlined in the proposed rule.Jennifer Morrell, CEO of The Elections Group and a former Colorado election administrator, said that the proposal would create onerous new regulations that could be difficult and costly for local elections officials to follow, especially in rural counties which do not currently have the technology to produce the required barcodes. Such systems cost thousands of dollars. Morrell said the rules represent an unnecessarily broad attempt to crack down on extremely rare examples of voter fraud.“This proposal would fundamentally change the rules to address a problem that is extraordinarily rare,” she said. “This is adding significant complexity and new administrative burdens that can add additional costs with little-to-no evidence the current system is failing.”Release of the proposed rules created widespread confusion among local elections officials unsure how they would work, and sparked broad condemnation from voting rights advocates and Democratic leaders who accused the Trump administration of trying to take unconstitutional steps to deny Americans their right to vote.“Tens of millions of eligible voters could be prevented from voting by mail if states do not fully submit to this new federal mandate being rushed ahead of the 2026 election,” said U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat who previously served as California’s secretary of state. “Serious and consequential questions remain over how this new list will work with the Trump Administration’s ongoing illegal effort to create a national voter list.”Friday’s proposed regulations, which require a 30-day comment period before moving forward, are the latest step by the Trump administration to overhaul election rules and impose unprecedented new federal oversight on the voting process.Since returning to the White House last year, President Donald Trump has directed his administration to take sweeping new steps to alter an election system he has accused, without evidence, of cheating him out of the 2020 election. The Federal Bureau of Investigation in January seized ballots in Fulton County, Georgia as part of a probe of the 2020 election. He has issued two executive orders that attempt to assert broad presidential control over elections, though the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states and Congress. Both orders were quickly challenged in the courts, which froze major provisions of the first order, ruling the president exceeded his authority.Release of the rules came one day a federal judge refused to block the most recent executive order on mail-in ballots because the Postal Service had not yet released its proposed new regulations. Another challenge to the order is pending in Boston, where a federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments June 2 in cases brought by voting-rights groups and a coalition of states.Counties face steep compliance questionsLocal election officials and experts said the proposal raised urgent operational questions about whether existing ballot envelopes comply with the new standards, whether counties and vendors can produce unique barcodes for outgoing and return ballots, and whether USPS could reject ballot mailings if voter data is missing, late, or mismatched.“I don’t know how the states would potentially interpret what they need to do in order to comply, and what happens if the state doesn’t?” said Tammy Patrick, chief programs officer for the Election Center, which represents state and local election officials. “Does that mean the postal service will reject the ballots? I don’t think so. The postal service will deliver any mail provided to them so what happens if a state doesn’t do it?” In addition, Patrick added, “I haven’t seen much here that is giving me much confidence this can be done by the fall without creating a lot of confusion and potential chaos.” Patrick said many of the Postal Service’s proposed standards are best election-mail practices, many of which she worked on for years. But turning them into federal mandates could collide with state laws and leave local officials with no clear way — or funding — to comply.“Some of these things are actually really good,” Patrick said, though election officials have been unable to adopt them in the past, and there’s no funding in the executive order to help.“Who is going to pay for it?” Kathy Boockvar, a former Pennsylvania secretary of state, said implementing the changes before the 2026 midterms would place another burden on election officials who are already underfunded and understaffed.“Especially in situations like this, where there is no funding being provided and no time for election officials and voters to absorb the required changes, this means that voters will bear the brunt of a poorly planned, last minute attempt to upend electoral processes,” said Boockvar, a Democrat. “You can’t just snap your fingers and change how elections are run overnight.”A technical rule with major implicationsAmong the most concerning pieces of the 20-page proposal, voting rights advocates and election officials said, is a new requirement that every ballot envelope — both the one sent to the voter and the one used to return the ballot — carry a unique Postal Service barcode. Election officials would have to send those barcodes to USPS along with voters’ names and addresses, allowing the agency to check whether outbound ballot mailings match the state-submitted list before accepting them. The postal service said the new rules wouldn’t apply to primary elections or to military and overseas ballots, but critics said it could force some jurisdictions to redesign envelopes, update vendor contracts, and build new ballot-tracking systems before the next federal election in November.Thad Hall, the election director in Pennsylvania’s Mercer County, said he couldn’t determine what the state would have to do to meet the proposed rules that would create uniform standards for using intelligent barcodes and a Postal Service election mail logo.“It’s not clear if Pennsylvania’s mail ballot envelopes would comply with the proposed rule,” Hall said. “While Pennsylvania’s mail ballot envelopes do use the USPS election mail logo, not all may be using intelligent barcodes.”Gideon Cohn-Postar, director of federal affairs at the Institute for Responsive Government, a nonpartisan think tank, characterized the proposal as a confusing attempt to comply with Trump’s recent executive order.“The executive order they are trying to fulfill is incoherent in and of itself,” he said.Cohn-Postar said the proposals could have the biggest impact on small jurisdictions that may not have the funding to comply. In a small jurisdiction of about 2,500 voters, ordering new envelopes costs about $10,000 — a significant expense that requires them to learn entirely new technology.For those jurisdictions, he said, the proposal could be a “big change.”“Right now, in the heat of the midterm election cycle, election officials should be given the space and resources to focus on critical work like improving cyber and physical security,” he said. “More bureaucracy only pulls them away from those mission-critical priorities.”Dion Nissenbaum is Votebeat’s senior national reporter and is based in Houston. Contact Dion at dnissenbaum@votebeat.org.

Austin ISD will split librarians across some campuses after previously saying the positions would not be cut. The post Austin ISD librarian cuts spark backlash after district reverses course appeared first on Austin Current.

South Dakota’s new law criminalizing the providing and advertising of abortion pills and other abortion-related items faces a lawsuit alleging the advertising prohibition is unconstitutional. A New York-based nonprofit, Mayday Health, and a Democratic former South Dakota lawmaker, Nancy Turbak Berry, filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court against South Dakota’s Republican governor and attorney […]

As part of the “Inside the Newsroom” series, leading environmental data reporters shared projects on the impact of extractive activities and deforestation in the region. The post Data reporters explore tools and databases used to explain the climate crisis in Latin America appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

Como parte de la serie “Desde la Redacción”, destacados periodistas ambientales compartieron proyectos sobre el impacto de las actividades extractivas y la deforestación en la región. The post Periodistas de datos exploran herramientas y bases de datos utilizadas para explicar la crisis climática en América Latina appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review.

No último dia para entrega da declaração do Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física (IRPF), o sistema da Receita Federal apontou um recorde no volume de restituições: cerca de R$ 16 bilhões a serem pagos a aproximadamente 8,7 milhões de pessoas. A quantidade de declarações que foram entregues a partir da pré-preenchida também aumentou, estava em 59,8% do total, na tarde desta sexta-feira. Em 2025, esse número estava em 50,3%, no último dia de declaração. Notícias relacionadas:A 5 horas do fim do prazo, 900 mil não enviaram declaração do IR.Prazo para declarar Imposto de Renda termina às 23h59 desta sexta."Nós caminhamos cada vez mais para chegarmos àquela diretriz dada pelo ministro [da Fazenda] Dario Dorigan, de termos uma declaração 100% pré-preenchida, em que o contribuinte terá apenas que conferir os dados já apresentados pela Receita Federal. Estamos muito próximos disso", ressaltou o secretário da Receita Federal, Robinson Barreirinhas, em coletiva nesta sexta-feira. A Receita Federal estima que cerca de 44 milhões de declarações deverão ser entregues até o final do prazo, às 23h59min59s desta sexta-feira. Em 2025, dentro do prazo legal, foram entregues 43,3 milhões de declarações. "Devemos atingir esse volume, próximo de 44 milhões de contribuintes, fazendo a declaração do Imposto de Renda", destacou o secretário da Receita Federal. Malha Fina A Receita também informou que, proporcionalmente, a quantidade de declarações que caíram na malha fina aumentou no exercício de 2026: 4,97% ante 4,68%, em 2025, considerando os dados do último dia do prazo legal para entrega da declaração. De acordo com o supervisor Nacional do Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física, José Carlos Fonseca, o aumento pode ser explicado pela transição para o novo sistema de declaração das empresas que, no ano-calendário 2025, tiveram de passar a utilizar o eSocial no lugar da Declaração do Imposto sobre a Renda Retido na Fonte (Dirf). "Todo mundo criticava, foi difícil terminar com a Dirf. Com essa mudança, a gente percebeu que as informações que estavam chegando no eSocial não estavam 100% [corretas]. Algumas empresas entregavam de forma incorreta, classificando as verbas de forma incorreta", explicou. De acordo com o supervisor, "quase todas" as informações inconsistentes apresentadas pelas empresas pelo eSocial foram corrigidas até esta sexta-feira.  "Ainda tem algumas empresas que estão retificando, é normal, muitas vão levar cinco anos para resolver, é normal também, está no prazo legal, mas a gente conseguiu avançar bastante. Isso deu um impacto muito grande na malha", disse. Para os contribuintes que estão na malha fina, mesmo tendo feito a declaração corretamente de acordo com os comprovantes, a orientação é aguardar. "Se ele entregou a declaração corretamente, se ele entregou a declaração de acordo com os comprovantes de rendimentos que ele possui, com os comprovantes que ele tem em posse, e está em malha por alguma divergência, tranquilo, a empresa deve estar retificando e, a empresa corrigindo, ele não tem que fazer nada, ele não tem que apertar nenhum botão. A própria declaração dele vai ser reanalisada quando essa informação chegar e ele vai sair da malha", esclareceu Fonseca.

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