L.A.Spates

“Any politician who is not speaking about the role of Silicon Valley fascism in the destruction of our democracy is not someone who can be trusted.” Read “Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Innovation,” my interview with @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/silicon-vall...

Meanwhile I had beaten into me at @merrillcollege.bsky.social that I couldn’t accept anything over $25. Even a source buying me a cup of tea has made me uneasy ever since. WTF, man.

Thanks, @cnpa.bsky.social, for awarding me first place in the California Journalism Awards’ In-Depth Reporting category! I was already really proud of the series, and now I’m over the top. 🤩

Agreed. Same.

Give ‘em hell

Hi, @simonwillison.net I live in Sonoma County and am looking to calculate and display neighborhood-level historical outage data from PG&E. It’s for a local public safety initiative. I’ve found your work on GitHub and have questions. Can I connect with you somehow to chat?

Life’s candy and the sun’s a ball of butter.

Appalling move by Fortune. Absolutely horrendous.

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

A Post he doesn’t own can stick it to him. The one he does, can’t.

Will continue to ask this question: where are the Editorial Boards calling for impeachment?

SUPPORT MARISA!! She’s *always* breaking the news. Her work is exemplary. Seriously. PAY HER TO KEEP GOING. @thehandbasket.co.web.brid.gy!!

Mary Walsh, a name almost no one outside journalism knows, is one of the most significant and righteous truthfighters out there! Her departure is a five alarm fire.

It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

Really impressed with the Olympics commercials for AI that keep showing me all the amazing things it can do, like tell me that Olympic athletes train for their events for a long time and other amazing secrets that can only be found by paying big money and draining a lake.

Absolutely. And I’d really like to hear Gannon, Lipinski and Weir shout her out.

I really wonder if there is a level of overt racism from the Trump Administration, whether rhetorical or as explicit basis for policy, that would get traditional media outlets like @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com and @cnn.com to say he’s being racist.

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’

Do journalism, not stenography: ☑️Do not take DHS at it's word. The agency lies about everything. ☑️Do not minimize the massive force still in place IF a draw down occurs. Alt headline: "2300 federal agents to remain in besieged Minneapolis after unverified claims that 700 will be reassigned."

MacKenzie Scott could do the funniest thing right now….

“Democracy Dies is Darkness.” And Bezos turned off the lights.

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

I second. It’s not like any valuable reporting comes out of these things anyway. It’s all just antagonism and lies. (Should have happened after they revoked the AP’s credential.)

100%. And when Trump blows off the second ask, a third reporter should pick it up. Don’t relent. These reporters have failed the public. (I’m still of the mindset that the whole corps should have walked out after he pulled the AP’s credential. Access Journalism for the loss.)

@rcfp.org's statement on the arrest of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were charged with violating federal law while covering a protest inside a Minnesota church. 🔗 Read more: www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-a...

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

it turns out it's hard to write when you're in a state of emotional paralysis

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Ugh. Bills.

Twisted how they push corn tortillas while demonizing the Latino population. 🙄

It’s giving “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.”

Family friends were taking their tree down when they found A SNAKE wrapped around a branch. It’d been hanging out there for a MONTH!! After getting her outside they named her Sally. We all obviously still talk about her today. Gotta inspect the tree CLOSELY before she comes inside.

And what Trump said to Kennedy.

*twists the knife*

100% his old NY brain confused Magnificent Mile for Long Island’s Miracle Mile, a luxury shopping district since the ‘50s. 🙄 (Its location, Manhasset: Inspiration for East Egg, used for scenes in Wolf of Wall Street, Boiler Room, and in Miracle on 34th St., Mr. Gailey wants to buy a house there.)

Sad for the Jays and really sad for the woman knitting the totally rad Jays sweater. What a bummer.

Has any British prince or princess ever lost that particular title? Not talking about HRH etc., but specifically prince/ss. Help your curious and common American cousins, @lucyworsley.bsky.social!

Because threatening a reporter to get them off your case definitely always absolutely works and never results in further scrutiny. Genius move, dude.

As a native Long Islander I’m 💀. “…DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.” “(In DeBlasio's view, "low class Italians use a little d.") Perfect. No notes.

Tech nightmare. Working on an investigative series last night, computer crashed and then this happened, after first showing a file folder with a question mark. WHAT. THE. HELL.

If he never knows anything about anything, then why does the press keep showing up? Let him experience a room as empty as his responses, and the reporters can go do something useful with their time.

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

A very dark day, indeed.

“Copyright growing pains”? As in, ripping off creators?