Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“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)

I volunteer to write the next chapter of THE TWITTER FILES on how the decision was made to deactivate the accounts of a bunch of journalists that reported on Musk

Just send me all the internal communications.

My email is in my bio.

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Big Business Sounds Alarms Over GOP Debt Limit Hostage Plan - The outgoing House Budget chairman said bypassing the issue in the lame duck period is akin to giving Republicans “a legislative nuclear weapon.” #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-business-debt-limit-republicans_n_639b9663e4b0a13a9504ebc6

It is possible to find your inner power.
It is possible to forgive.
It is possible to clear the mind.
It is possible to throw out the bitterness in the deepest bin.
It is possible to let fresh air pass through your lungs one more time.
AFFIRM YES
(📸 Christian Kuntz Photography)