1/ Great job alert: Come run the @MotherJones fact-checking operation and fellowship program as Research Editor. You get to recruit and train beginning journalists, and make our work bulletproof. Intense, but a career turbocharge: motherjones.com/jobs/research-…
4/ Here's a a sampling of where former fellows are now. (slightly outdated, must update @mat). We're recruiting the next class of fellows right now! motherjones.com/jobs/fellowshi…
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Reporter finds massive state security breach. @stltoday holds off on publication until breach is fixed. @GovParsonMO calls reporter a hacker (uh, no) and threatens them with prosecution.
Incredible example of conter-productive dumbassery and basic tech ignorance.
If you're going to create a definitive ranking of America's dumbest governors (which I am not), you have to separate "dumb" from "venal." Some are both. Some of the most venal play dumb. But then there are just the actual idiots.
A thing you notice in countries with much better infrastructure, in addition to great transit, and bike lanes, and public space, is you can refill a water bottle easily.
During prohibition, often quite massive Temperance Fountains were installed all over big cities. We could do that now. Some airports have done to great success.
1/ This weekend @MotherJones and @reveal/@CIRonline published a big investigation into conditions inside the Fanjul's sugar Dominican plantations, which provides much of America's sugar and in which workers face horrible conditions: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
2/ @Sandy_Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel spent two years trying to find a Haitian boy trafficked to the cane fields 20 years ago, a mission that eventually morphed into documenting the full picture of current abuse: revealnews.org/podcast/the-bi…
3/ 20 years ago, kidnapping gangs took kids and adults from Haiti to work on Domincan plantations; today some 20,000 Haitians work there without papers or any protections.
Exit polls (which, grains of salt, but usually about particular demographics) show that Californians approve of mask mandates and other ant-pandemic measures.