Jonathan Massaquoi

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@drewharwell yeah and a little frustrating that pretty much every outlet misreported it as us being reinstated. Alas.

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

Congress Includes $600 Million For Jackson Water System In Omnibus Bill

The City of Jackson is on the cusp of an unprecedented $600 million to alleviate the water crisis from the congressional omnibus bill.

Mississippi Free Press

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.

the intercept story is so eager to present twitter's actions as nefarious that it ironically backs into the trap of framing information operations as more effective than they necessarily are—eg referring to "the CENTCOM psyop campaign" (lol). I say ironic because, when it comes to eg Russian election interference, leftists tend to play down the effects of such measures. (imo skepticism is good, but we should apply it across the board!)

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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.

@drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa @tony

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

Mayor Adams Moves to Reimagine Fifth Avenue From Bryant Park to Central Park

Mayor Adams Moves to Reimagine Fifth Avenue From Bryant Park to Central Park

The official website of the City of New York

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

He Defended the NYPD in Court. Then They Arrested Him.

For 11 years, Karl Ashanti represented New York City cops in civil-rights cases. Then he was charged with a crime he didn’t commit.

ProPublica
Reminder:
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RT @froomkin
There's really only one big mystery left unresolved about 1/6: Why did federal law enforcement ignore all the warnings? The hearings never touched on that. But the report, reportedly, does. Was it racism? Was it empathy? Was it political? (Yes yes yes.) https://presswatchers.org/2022/05/warnings-of-1-6-attack-were-ignored-for-obvious-but-still-unnamed-reasons/
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1603855652031500311
Warnings of 1/6 attack were ignored for obvious but still unnamed reasons - Press Watch

Reporters have blamed "intelligence failures" and "unique breakdowns" in communication, when the obvious reason law enforcement leaders didn't mobilize was racism and Trumpism.

Press Watch - An intervention for American political journalism

@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

13 predictions for platforms in 2023

Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more

Platformer