BIG NEWS: Congress is ready to give the City of Jackson $600 million under the federal omnibus package—an enormous sum that would finally make addressing the Jackson water crisis and fixing the city's broken water system a reality.
@[email protected] reports: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29778/congress-includes-600-million-for-jackson-water-system-in-omnibus-bill
Been five days since Twitter suspended a bunch of journalists, including me, for tweeting out factual reporting. And we're still suspended.
CNN's @donieosullivan, NYT's Ryan Mac and I can't access Twitter until we delete specific tweets that they said included "private information" but were actually just reporting.
Journalists Linette Lopez and Susan Li, who also covered Musk, are still suspended. No explanation given.
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by @micahflee
Big Journalism mustered a few pathetic protests to Musk's control freakery with reporters' accounts, but maintained business as usual on the birdsite.
In other words, Musk is winning his campaign against freedom of expression that he dislikes.
You'd imagine that the journalism business would take genuine action -- eg leaving Twitter -- to demonstrate a backbone, and help preserve press freedom. You would be wrong, sadly.
BIG NEWS: New York Mayor #EricAdams has announced a “reimagining of Fifth Avenue — from Bryant Park at 42nd Street to Central Park at 59th Street — as a safer, less congested, pedestrian-centered boulevard that also prioritizes cyclists, mass transit, & the public realm.”
This is one I’ll be watching!
https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/917-22/mayor-adams-moves-reimagine-fifth-avenue-bryant-park-central-park
#NYC #NewYork #NewYorkCity #urbanism #cities #StreetsForPeople #cities #city
He Defended the NYPD in Court. Then They Arrested Him.
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Officer Shapiro claimed in criminal filings that Ashanti -- senior litigator in a unit that defends NYPD officers in lawsuits -- resisted arrest & shoved him twice, so forcefully that Shapiro had to step back to catch his balance.
The NY Post splashed the allegations in its pages, calling Ashanti a “livid lawyer.” It wasn’t true. Security-camera footage showed no shoving during the incident.
#NYPD #Police #NYC
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-karl-ashanti-special-federal-arrest
Reporters have blamed "intelligence failures" and "unique breakdowns" in communication, when the obvious reason law enforcement leaders didn't mobilize was racism and Trumpism.
@caseynewton's crystal ball: "By the end of 2023, Twitter no longer sets the daily news agenda by default for the entire US press. This will come as an enormous relief to many publishers, who have long wished their reporters wouldn’t spend so much time tweeting anyway"
https://www.platformer.news/p/13-predictions-for-platforms-in-2023
Donie O'Sullivan
Ashton Pittman
Drew Harwell
Quinta Jurecic
Dan Gillmor
Brent Toderian
ProPublica
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org