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More evidence that @kittypurrzog has managed to transform an impulse for "hot takes" into a career in promoting reactionary crap. More below.

thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/2…
Mind you, Herzog seems to have just discovered "The Book of Matt" -- even though its contents were discussed and debunked shortly after its publication. But the surprising thing is that The Stranger would be willing to host anti-LGBT disinformation.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013…
It was probably most thoroughly debunked at Media Matters:

mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/0…
And it was thoroughly torn apart at Think Progress as well:

thinkprogress.org/the-book-of-ma…
Most notably, the Shepard family was very critical, pointing out numerous errors of fact in the book.

ebar.com/news///243965
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Big news for my readers: It's with some sadness and some excitement that the new year will bring some career changes for me. I'm leaving the regular employ of @splcenter and joining the staff at @dailykos, where I will become their reporter specializing in extremism.
It's exciting because @markos and his team are gearing up to make @dailykos a major news operation, and it will be great to be part of that. Also, I can do some environmental reporting there!

FWIW, I will continue to write for @splcenter, just not as frequently or regularly.
I've been at @splcenter for over five years now, and am very proud of what we managed to achieve there.

If you'd like a retrospective on my work there, check out the Hatewatch YouTube channel sometime. I created all of these videos. It tells a tale.

youtube.com/user/hatewatch…
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There's a big problem with this story: Hillborn simply is wrong about the SRKWs' primary food source. Fraser River Chinook are their primary feed only in summer months.

mynorthwest.com/1217574/expert…
In the non-summer months, multiple studies have demonstrated that SRKWs primarily feed on salmon along the Continental Shelf. The No. 1 source of those salmon is the Columbia. SRKWs have been recorded multiple foraging at the mouth of the Columbia in the winter.
Here's a graphic representation of the data:

westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/publications/p…
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Ahahahahahaha. I missed this in our exchange last week.

Let's do a compare-and-contrast, shall we, @caitoz? I'll list the pieces I've done attacking Trump and his followers, and then you can do the same, and we'll stack 'em up, OK?
First, there's this. It's 400 pages long.

amazon.com/dp/B01MT2KCB2/…
Then the piece I cowrote with Sarah Posner for Mother Jones. This, BTW, is known as _investigative journalism_ (the real thing) and took us eight months to assemble.

motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
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Follow this thread as I share some of my favorite work I was involved in from 2018.
First up: Back in January I wrote about a pair of young Canadian Muslim siblings who made up a story about being the victims of an Islamophobia attack. Predictably, the credulous fools who lapped it all up were the media: quillette.com/2018/01/25/isl…
This was a typical response at the time when the story broke. The siblings later told police (falsely) that the suspect was an Asian man with glasses and black hair.
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Washington state is about to become the first place in the U.S. where Facebook and Google won't sell local election ads. How'd that happen? A thread:

thestranger.com/slog/2018/12/1…
It begins decades ago, before the internet existed—before Mark Zuckerberg was even alive.

In 1972, amid disgust at Nixon-era corruption, Washington voters overwhelmingly approved a law bringing daylight to the financing of political campaigns.

thestranger.com/slog/2018/01/0…
This landmark transparency law requires campaigns in Washington state *and* the companies that sell local political advertising to make significant disclosures to the public.

If that sounds like a wild idea, it's not.
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And none of us hate trans people or wish to deny them human rights
I've spoken to a number of detransitioners recently who wish they'd had access to more information, more mental health care, more "gatekeeping." Contrary to the claim by Olson-Kennedy and others, there ARE (a growing number of) regreters. They deserve to have their voices heard
One young woman told me that when her father asked her doctor, "What happens if (s)he decides to stop taking T," the doc laughed and said, "no one EVER stops T." Was this doc lying or uninformed?
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Eight days from now, polls will be closing across the country. What you do between now and then will determine how you feel at that moment—and what kind of country we'll be for the rest of our lives.
There are things that you are powerless to affect. This election is not one of them. No matter where you live, no matter whether you have a lot of time or a little, no matter whether you're poor or rich, you can make a difference NOW.
Remember how, in 2017, majority control of the Virginia House of Delegates was decided by pulling a name out of a bowl because the vote count in the majority-determining Delegate race was literally tied? One more voter showing up could've won it for Dems.
thestranger.com/slog/2018/01/0…
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1. I recently talked about churnalism that resulted from a Reddit AMA but I didn’t share all the articles that it generated or track exactly how the story spread
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism

2. In this thread I will trace the path that the story of Evergreen’s abysmal enrollment projections took after Heterodox Academy posted a blog post written by Evergreen faculty member, Mike Paros.
3. I knew as soon as I saw the post that this would happen, but I didn’t think to check back until Wednesday when some Google Alerts I set up to monitor Evergreen news started sending me articles.
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Peoples Party debate for city council position 8 then mayor starts at 5. Watch live here: facebook.com/seattlepeoples…
.@NikkitaOliver is moderating. The crowd is huge and full of young people.
Oliver on the reason for the debate: "We have to change the material conditions of the most vulnerable in our city."
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