Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court affirms lower court's decision that #SB824, a law requiring photo ID to vote, violates the NC Constitution because it was passed with the intent to discriminate against Black voters. More info to come.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-carolina-photo-id-requirement-challenge-holmes/

I wrote something about Twitter, God help me. I suspected that Elon's ownership might be a train wreck, but I didn't expect what happened -- a train wreck in which each car of the train is a dumpster, and they are all on fire. And Elon is standing on top of the train, laughing maniacally and pouring gasoline everywhere. https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2022/12/16/has-twitter-reached-a-turning-point-now-that-elon-has-banned-several-journalists/

I'm surprised that news agencies are still using #Twitter at this point. It shows the power the platform still holds over them. #journalism needs credibility to function, Twitter has lost it under #elonmusk

Statement from The Intercept on Twitter's suspension of @micahflee and other journalists.

Don't forget to be awesome

Last weekend we attended a small christmas market in #bauhaus university #weimar . One of the events was a competition of ginger bread houses, where they give the ginger bread and you come in with your creativity. After the production, the new real state was put to auction, with all proceeds donated to relief effort in the #Ukraine

Fun to do, fun to watch, and fighting world suck, I feel this was a nice example for us to #DFTBA

#12DaysOfAwesome

“Washington DC is making public buses free forever… the D.C. Council also agreed to expand bus service to 24 hours on 12 major routes downtown.”
https://fortune.com/2022/12/12/washington-dc-making-public-buses-free-forever/ #dc #washingtondc #transit #buses #freepublictransit #urbanism

Starbucks Workers Plan 3-day Walkout At 100 US Stores - The strike will be the longest in the year-old unionization campaign. #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-starbucks-strike_n_639cb651e4b0e2fa1a445fd0

When on twitter, you didn't @-mention Facebook handles. Stop using them when posting here about twitter-folk! We don't wanna know!

Just a suggestion.

Lawmakers Rip FIFA For Threatening World Cup Players Over 'OneLove' Armbands - U.S. officials lashed soccer's governing body for sending "a message to LGBTQ+ people that neither they nor their allies are welcome at the World Cup." #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fif-world-cup-lgbtq-rights-qatar_n_639c9238e4b0f4895adae147

"They have not pointed out that the Republican Party has no agenda at this point but to obstruct the government and flood the zone with..."

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/dan-froomkin-interview-political-journalism

#USPol #PressCorpse

Why Doesn’t the Cherokee Nation Have a Delegate to Congress?
A promise made in the Treaty of 1835 is yet to be fulfilled. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-doesnt-the-cherokee-nation-have-a-delegate-to-congress/

I reviewed the ShiftCam SnapGrip on Digital Trends. It’s becoming another favorite MagSafe accessory of mine, but you can also use it with any phone thanks to magnetic stickers. It turns your phone into a pseudo-DSLR with the wireless shutter button and grip! It’s also a battery pack for MagSafe devices! Pretty cool and highly recommend it!

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/shiftcam-snapgrip-review-iphone-dslr/

Remember: Running a Mastodon server well isn't free or even cheap. If you have the means consider financially supporting not just the Mastodon project generally, but also your local instance.

There's likely to be another stampede of new users here, and while more voices will make this system richer and more useful, they can also put a strain on existing resources.

You’re not going to fight him by staying on Twitter. You’re going to fight him by helping him fail. That means staying *off * Twitter.

Do I have to draw a diagram or something?

With the great news that the KY #schoolvouchers #education program was rejected by the state Supreme Court, my bit @courierjournal in October on the mess that would have been for KY kids and taxpayers 👇
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2022/10/20/school-choice-why-tuition-tax-credits-are-vouchers-by-another-name/69572948007/

Here is a list of journalists to follow on Mastodon. Added to frequently.

Managed by @tchambers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview

One note:
Taylor Lorenz is taylorlorenz@mastodon.social

#journalism #journalists #infosec #techie #womenintech #reporters #follow

Three weeks ago

The purge has begun
Journalists suspended from Twitter so far tonight:

• @atrupar (WaPo)
• @drewharwell (WaPo)
• @rmac18 (NYT)
• @donie (CNN)
• @mattbinder (Mashable)
• @micahflee (The Intercept)
• @webster (freelance)