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Why #LocalNews matters: Reporter catches Oklahoma county officials in a racist, hate-filled tirade. My latest for Media Nation. https://dankennedy.net/2023/04/18/local-reporter-catches-oklahoma-county-officials-in-a-racist-hate-filled-tirade/
Local reporter catches Oklahoma county officials in a racist, hate-filled tirade

Media Nation

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire: SCOTUS Justice Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
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Island-hopping on a superyacht.

Private jet rides around the world.

The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court.

“It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #Ethics #Travel #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

ProPublica
I've got a commentary up at The Boston Globe on how #LocalNews is thriving in places where communities have taken back their newspapers from the corporate chains. How can we encourage more of that? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/10/opinion/local-news-startups-are-overcoming-evils-corporate-chain-ownership/
Local news startups are overcoming the evils of corporate chain ownership

At a time of intense polarization at the national level, local news can be a way to bring us together.

The Boston Globe
Not sure how I lost a working link to the desktop/web version of this instance. When at the office fat-fingers here doesn't like to use the phone...
ManRay set to re-open in Cambridge after nearly two decades

Music, Film, Comedy & Beyond

Vanyaland
Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/world/europe/adolfo-kaminsky-dead.html?smid=tw-share
Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews

His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.

New at Media Nation: Some common-sense ideas for reforming Section 230. #FirstAmendment https://dankennedy.net/2023/01/10/some-common-sense-ideas-for-reforming-section-230/
Some common-sense ideas for reforming Section 230

Media Nation
Do not leave already established 501c3 community media centers out of local news conversations. We have the infrastructure. We need some more funding to expand "written" content, but we're ready to go!

That we knew by 2015 Russian ‘bloggers’ were paid to flood networks with anti-Western propaganda and pro-Kremlin posts is maddening.

It is vital we take a look back before the 2016 election to piece together what happened and to admit attacks are ongoing.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/the-kremlin-school-of-bloggers-an?utm_source=direct&r=1tfo38&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Kremlin School of Bloggers - An Origin Story

As we enter another year as a target nation of an undeclared Information War, it is important to expose the origins and truth behind ongoing psychological attacks. Truth is always worth knowing

Bette Dangerous
I would like to calculate the cost of lost productivity while waiting for "Verifying "Microsoft Word.app" and deduct that amount from my organizations annual subscription cost.