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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 20:33:55 JST myrmepropagandist

   Tell the news.

   It's nice to link to an article, or do more in depth analysis, but I really appreciate it when people who I trust and who are knowledgeable (especially in areas I know less about) summarize news and events.

   Even if it's very local stuff. Especially the local stuff.

   Big newsrooms are dying. The editor of the paper or producer of a "new hour" used to do this job, and it a powerful job with tremendous responsibility.

   Social media is taking the place of editorial control.

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   Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:09:03 JST Karl Auerbach

   @kenwhite.bsky.social I once watched as the LAPD shot and killed a naked man standing on his front lawn. Yes, the guy had a knife but the officers were all nearly 50 feet away - totally out of danger. But they shot him anyway and left him dying, flipping and flopping on the ground, with no assistance or help from the cops, while they brought an ambulance from downtown Los Angeles at rush hour, although UCLA medical center was a few blocks away. He died in the 30+ minutes before the ambulance arrived.

   It didn't even make the news.

   It was murder by cop.

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   EvolLove (evollove@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 01:48:05 JST EvolLove

   in reply to

   @chris @abgreport

   I remember the first reports. No one actually saw or heard any plains until the news.

   It was fckd up from the begining to the end. And just like always, everything was a mess.

   1 No one was able to overpower men armed with "box cutters"

   2 Air force was grounded

   3 Not a single piece of an airplane to be found on either of the 4 crash sites

   4 only trace of planes involvement were passports. While steal and concrete were melting

   5 fire fighters told about bombs in basement.

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   Tea time. (krafttea@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 00:52:24 JST Tea time.

   If, as the experts say, Pennsylvania is the most important state for either side to win in the national election, due to its 19 electoral votes, then having both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the top markets for Biden's speech is VERY good news.

   It suggests that a lot of Pennsylvanians are chomping at the bit to be active in this election.

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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 12:47:13 JST Joe Ortiz

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   @Streakmachine That actually started when Google Reader shut down, it changed into people relying on RSS to switching to social media such as the now dead birdsite and Meta/FB to get their news.

   It was obviously detrimental in retrospect.

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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 03:42:23 JST clacke

   @evan Qualified No. News is entertainment. The purpose for following the News is to keep up with watercooler talk.

   It is good if the voting populace stays educated on what's going on in the country, what decisions are going to be made and why. Most of what is called News does not cover that.

   Citizens have so much going on and they all cope in their ways. It is not fair to say the burden is on each of them to read and analyze multiple sources, sift through the noise, follow the trails that lead back from there. Because that is the way to meaningfully follow the news.

   It's a hobby, a special interest, to know what's going on. Preferably everyone would at least have a friend like that, but in reality not everyone will. Second best is that activist organizations make themselves heard when something is seriously going wrong.