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Looking forward to talking about @MLK50Memphis and how to build an amazing team like my crew: @andreamorales @megawatts2000 @jdylan901 @lkleinmann @kirstinlcheers @deadlinedd and many more! @LIONPubs @NABJ #NABJ18
Gonna share some of our good work. We focused on economic justice in the city where MLK was killed. What has Memphis done with King’s sacrifice?

Not enough. mlk50.com/50-years-after…
We surveyed the area’s largest employers and learned that nearly half of them won’t even say if they pay a living wage.

Which, researchers say, says they aren’t. mlk50.com/do-memphis-25-…
This woman is @MLK50Memphis managing editor and SHE MADE MLK50 POSSIBLE. @deadlinedd is an amazing editor, writer and manager. @NABJ #NABJ18
More great stories from @MLK50Memphis: mlk50.com/so-close-to-ml… #NABJ18 @NABJ
@MLK50Memphis was also made possible by @Surdna_Fndn, which just funded us for a second year, and @communitychange, which is also continuing its support.
A beautiful illustrated piece by Martha Park, on lynching. #IdaBWells @MLK50Memphis mlk50.com/lynching-aa9a0…
Commentary from @uofmemphis professor Antonio de Velasco on the unsettling similarities in the tough-on-crime rhetoric of Memphis’ mayor and the president. mlk50.com/can-memphis-ma…
The incredibly talented photographer and @MLK50Memphis visual director @andreamorales. mlk50.com/visualizing-dr… #NABJ18 @NABJ
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Day 3 of the Memphis police surveillance trial set to begin in federal court soon. @mem_police Director Mike Rallings will testify first. Follow me on Twitter at @wendi_c_thomas for updates throughout the day. #MLK50
To catch up, check out @DanielConnolly @memphisnews story: commercialappeal.com/story/news/201…
That’s not a cause for concern at all. The top of @DanielConnolly story from Day 2.
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Court is back in session: ACLU wants longtime ACLU attorney and local member Bruce Kramer to testify to clear up some of the discrepancy about the history of the West TN chapter. Problem is...
Kramer has been sitting in court all morning and he’s the attorney for the four plaintiffs who were dismissed because the judge decided they didn’t have standing.
Looks like Kramer is going to leave now and get deposed later tonight. Defense isn’t liking this at all, but they’re not protesting too much. Judge is directing Kramer to produce any relevant documents.
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I'll be live tweeting from the Shelby County Commission at @wendi_c_thomas. This is our local government at work. Y'all follow along. #ElectionsMatter
Here's the agenda for this afternoon's meeting. documentcloud.org/documents/4755… I'm interested in a few items, including this one re county contracts with minority and women-owned businesses, otherwise known as MWBEs.
Local nonprofit leader Bennie Nelson West speaking against an ordinance that would further regulate short-term rentals, i.e. AirBnBs. You can find all the docs associated with this meeting here: agenda.shelbycountytn.gov//sirepub/meeti…
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When a theist asks "where do you get your morality from?" to a liberal, they generally never concede that whatever ethic they subscribe to is cladistically derived from Western Christianity. They believe they derived it themselves, uninfluenced, except by "pure logic."
I point this out to Liberals all the time, at which point they generally admit that this is necessarily the case, but that they have "evolved" past Christianity (or, are "more Christian" than Christianity). This is when customized meme-Jesuses appear in discourse.
When they're upset by ppo calling America / The West a "Christian nation/civilization" they are upset because they don't say "MORE than a Christian nation." Christianity has been surpassed they say, God is dead, God is but the dream of good governance which we can now fulfill etc
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"We do push the event model as an integration abstraction between logs, traces and metrics." 🙌📈🌈

~ @rictomm, studying observability from a scientific point of view with his student @mario_scrock (and officially making my day).
"As an integration abstraction", events as a bridge. That is a fascinating way of unifying the worldviews and it makes perfect sense.

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Metrics are shit because you have discarded all the connective tissue of the event, so you can always derive metrics and aggregates from events and never vice versa.

Logs are just primordial events, begging for structure.

Tracing is just a particular visualization for events.
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Welcome to the #Metpolice

justlivewithit.co.uk/metpolice/blog…

#skynews #TargetedIndividual #bbcnews #coverup #c4news #worldnews #euronews #conspiracy #news #ukgov #theresamay #LBC
It's a criminal offence to falsifying a legal instrument. But if the #MetPolice / #LBRUT do it, then there is not even an investigation. 12 years of silence. Evidence to prove it - ukcoverup.com/search-warrant-

#skynews #lbc #theresamay #uk #bbcnews #coverup #c4news #worldnews #ukgov
Welcome to the #Metpolice who also changed & falsified my arrest details. Have a look at the evidence here ukcoverup.com/arrest-details as it's all easy to prove & that's why it's never addressed

#R4today #corruption #coverup #leadership #values #corevalues #bbcnews #skynews #itvnews
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A lot of xenophobia thrives on language phobia (h/t @Linguacene). We can do something about this.

What I've chosen to do asks me to trade something effective for something equitable. Hopefully this *thread* on teaching languages w/ Trump in office can kindle new solidarities 1/
I teach language and the various ways in which people relate to it in literature, culture, history.

That I use “language” in the singular is telling, b/c this is how my generation of language teachers has been trained. 2/
The pedagogy trends that have influenced my generation’s training (which is about to become preeminent in the language-teaching profession) the most have been the Direct Method, the Communicative Method, & Immersion. All prioritize having only the target language spoken. 3/
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I've been working on Brawl ever since Gerritt Turner brought it to my attention ages ago, and in addition to the article today, I also want to provide a bit of additional context about how it came to be, and the story behind Gerritt creating it. So here's a thread! #wotcstaff
(And just to clarify first: this story isn't to say Brawl is only for new players. Even the most seasoned R&D veterans have had a blast with it! But I like its creation story because it shows how it's a great way to game with your less experienced Magic friends, too.) #wotcstaff
A lot of the concept stemmed from remembering what it was like to be a new player and introducing many friends to Magic. You see, Gerritt had a playgroup that he thought a Standard card pool might be the best fit for. However, they were a social gaming group. #wotcstaff
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This is always on my mind now, when I’m at work. And when I’m not there, but thinking about work.

Here’s what I’ve noticed...just in the last month...
I teach one small US History class. When brainstorming what they could remember or connect to Civil Rights, I got some MLKs, a Rosa Parks, a few associations with racism or better treatment, and a surprising (to me) number of kids saying 2nd Amendment.
In my class of 18, no one could tell me anything about Malcolm X or the Black Panther Party.
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