May there be more compassionate and kind people defining our public life and body politic in 2023.

https://america.substack.com/p/kindness-is-a-show-of-strength-redux

Somehow get from New York City to Maine after our plane was canceled due to extreme weather (via rental car): Check.

Take long walk with family on Christmas Day with 17 degrees and four layers: Check.

Return to inn and drink two glasses of red wine bought at local grocery upon arrival: Check.

Feeling grateful, despite so much trouble in the body politic: Check.

This is the first time in ~17 yrs that the majority of the people in my network are talking to each other in public via an open protocol on community-run servers rather than a startup's service.

It's really nice to have gotten here, in a way that's entwined not only with nostalgic feelings, but also their optimistic underpinnings that were the reason I was interested in all this in the first place.

I heard there was another look-at-me antic on the old site, and it was my pleasure not to care.

I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.

Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.

Leave. Now.

I am once again locked out of Twitter.

Twitter just locked my account after I asked Twitter's head of Trust & Safety Ella Irwin why I haven't been informed of what tweet broke Twitter's policies

Seems they forgot to force me to delete the tweet the first time, like they did the other suspended journalists.

This is the tweet they want me to delete to get back into my account: