With ridiculously checkered past, & Pulitzer nom for investigative reporting, I write for the 99%, love hearing water flow, and work to save green land. She/her
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wapo's presenting Cameron as a racial hero, a pioneer, without even mentioning the fact that he is viewed by many blacks and whites in Louisville as both a race traitor and the "token black" of the deeply corrupt McConnell machine, fails to inform the public of what's at issue.
Cameron's skin is being used by the McConnell machine to try to unseat a governor with a 67% approval rating, the only Democrat standing between Kentucky and its MAGA legislature. Cameron is seen by many Louisville blacks and whites as "Kentucky's budding Clarence Thomas."
Nov 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@LakotaMan1 Mayflower colonists weren't "illegal immigrants." Native Americans had no laws barring immigration. By 1620, the white invasion had been in progress for 228 years, but these people were refugees from a death sentence. Squanto, kidnapped to England as a child, returning to find
@LakotaMan1 his village dead from white diseases, watched the whites starve and die over a long winter, perhaps glad. His heart softened. He gave them not turkey or deer -- the forest gave them that -- but the seeds of the Three Sisters. He taught them to plant them. In fall, the whites had
Nov 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Musk is no champion of citizen journalism. If he were, he'd praise African Americans with cell phones who risk themselves to record how different "US justice" is for blacks and whites. The last thing he'd unleash is anonymous sources, lies, fearmongering, hate and superstition.
Real journalism is bedrock grounded in fact, transparent, all its sources identified by name and bias, and the reporter's bias acknowledged. It presents conflicting opinions without false equations that give equal weight to physicists and plumbers in discussions of astrophysics.
Oct 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
From National Geographic researcher working on the spectacular 12,000 year old rock art site in Colombia, who insists that it is indeed new to science. Will append the rest of the dispute, raising issues from from artistic colonialism to media accuracy. Be fair. Read all sides.
To make sense of this, read the Nat Geo researcher's statement (tweet above) before you continue. Here's a sample of media coverage. theguardian.com/science/2020/n…
Sep 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The world's full of conspiracies. People do conspire. The difference between conspiracy theories and investigative reporting is that the former *begin* with the Answer, are out to prove something that they dream or intuit, so all dots seem to connect. 1/5
Reporting based on guesses, agendas and anonymous sources (so easy to make up) is often conspiracy thinking, masked. Clear thinking does not begin with an Answer. It wants to find out what happened. If an avenue does not pan out, no agenda or belief is threatened. 2/5
Aug 1, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
THE CERTAINTY is that we don't understand what Biden and Garland faced when they came into office, denied transition, NATO in ruins, white supremacists permeating gov't incl SS, police and military, US computer system & elections invaded by Russia, plague, coup, near civil war
2) an insurrectionary Supreme Court, a subverted Republican Party, and oh yeah climate change. Biden and Garland had to gather around them, instantly, absolutely trustworthy incredibly competent people who could work on the worst threat in our history without a single leak,
Jul 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
TROLLS
Russian political scientists hypothesized that US could be dismembered by leaning on cracks. Trolls say:
1) Secession the "American way." 2) Texas "not worth having" (actually contains more anti-Trump voters than New England, not evident because of "winner takes all")
TROLLS say [continued]
3) If state left US, it would be because all its citizens decided [actually gerrymandered legislature decided] 4) We can provide abortions on sovereign Native rez [setting them up for attack, and did I say "sovereign"?] 5) Fed lands, SCOTUS would overrule.
