Brennan Center for JusticeWhen President Obama warned that Citizens United would invite foreign money into U.S. elections, Justice Alito responded, "Not true." The verdict is in: Obama was right. Alito was wrong. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/obama-was-right-about-citizens-united?fbclid=IwAR3ht00QwA68zuBATnVryXsQvllEiyATs0-e-aCKzesuHhQ7XsQo8tb2PJY
Nancy Sutherland
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Seattle librarian (retired). Vaccinated, wears a mask in public. #Democracy #VotingRights, #AbortionRights #BLM #HumanRights #Libraries #Librarians
SeattleAnother #indie #Seattle #Podcast recommendation: You Know Me Now @ykmnow
A storytelling project giving voice to those marginalized in our community. In depth interviews and life stories of folks living outside on Seattle Streets as well as other hard hitting topics. Two thumbs up! They need more ❤️
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-know-me-now/id1606562361
Robert ReichToday is a good day to remind you that whitewashing American history is how white supremacy thrives.
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.orgVERY TROUBLING: "Potentially left on the cutting room floor…were many revelations from…the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence community’s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/
Qasim Rashid, Esq.The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳
A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.
Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
After #Twitter, it takes a leap of faith to sign up for a community named for an animal that’s already extinct. #LeapOfFaith #TwitterMigration
Ed Sanders@strandedselkie step back and draw a breath.
Not all apps have all functions.
If you use the website, the search function for users (and hashtags) is under the # not🔍️
Follow someone and pull a thread from there.
Here are two great places to start:
You can also find specific interest servers (infosec.exchange for computer security for instance you can find @SwiftOnSecurity there)
Lisa PSOk y’all I tried to do a thread 🧵 re:
How to FIND people to follow & somehow lost the first Toot 💩
Basically: for my #lostTwitter #TwitterMigration folks
Several strategies/ tactics
i. Organically
Scroll your local & federated feeds for interesting folks
ii. Hashtags
Click or search for tags s/as #art #LGBTQ #journalism #sports #nola
Whatever
Also trending topics & #introduction are good to explore
Rest of thread 🧵
Lisa Petrovich (@[email protected])
iii. Search You can search hashtags or people In some apps, you can search a server instance and it will list all the folks on that server Note full text search is deliberately limited so use hashtags or usernames iv. Import / Lists Download a list of Twitter followers using Debirdify or the Glitch app and import it [links with instructions to come] Download list / .csv files from others regarding your interest areas & import [links TBP]
Coeur66 
I think @TexasObserver must be the first organisation doing mastodon right.
Their own instance and their own accounts.
Wow!
#mastodon #journalists #journalism #nonprofit #EverythingIsBiggerInTexas
Sherrilyn IfillMany commentators are tweeting & tooting that we need to expand the SCOTUS. That is not the answer to everything. Unless you just want a larger Court, not bound by ethics rules, engaging in the kind of behavior described in the NYT piece. What we need are guardrails - an understanding that the Court sits w/i our democracy. Our job us to strengthen it by creating the processes that promote impartiality & insulation from lobbying, not crossing our fingers & hoping for the best.