Joey Scott

It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

It’s a disservice to people to post headlines but not provide the rest of the reporting, leaving the reader without context and nuance.

It’d be really cool if accounts like this shared links to their sources rather than referencing another outlet’s work for engagement.

I am available to go on your podcast and talk the Iran War/Trump's foreign policy

This is also happening at a difficult start to the year for me, too. Optimism is not an emotional tradition in my life. There's typically an inner bully there to snuff it out before feeling hopeful for more than a day.

The police are defunding us.

I’m doing these weird things called believing in yourself and having hope while I finish up this application for a journalism fellowship.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

Sentences that no one wrote Today Keith Plocek, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, and the permission structure "AI" gives us to doubt...

Today @keithplocek.com, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, his students using "AI" and the permission structure it gives us to doubt and devalue one another's humanity. www.welcometohellworld.com/sentences-th...

A government run by 12 year olds.

The police are defunding us.

Chris's conviction was overturned & he's been out of Angola since November, but the state is *still* trying to reinstate his guilty verdict & death sentence. The family of the girl he was accused of killing now believes deeply in his innocence & has filed a remarkable amicus brief:

Here's what we know about the new US military operations in Ecuador. Comes after 1) Ecuadorian voters rejected reopening foreign bases and 2) US announced in December it was sending troops to Ecuador for a temporary deployment to fight drug groups.

New from me:

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee who was blind, died after Border Patrol abandoned him miles away from his home, the Investigative Post reports.

Incarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better Conditions After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.

My latest for @theappeal.org
Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...

Neither would've stopped it. That's the issue. Both are beholden to Israel's foreign policy efforts.

Isn’t there a conspiracy that britpop was a psyop by MI6 to influence people to embrace British nationalism?

It’d still be helping bomb Gaza.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

Billy has always been like this.

Thot daughter or Ayatollah son

Mr. J Scott of Ogden was buried in the Willard cemetery las evening. Last Wednesday evening he washed himself for supper, apparently as well as ever, and then sat down and died. Mr Scott was the husband of Jane Woods. About 15 or 16 vehicles met the six o'clock train last evening and accompanied the remains to the cemetary.

Obit for a great x4 grandfather: "Last Wednesday evening he washed himself for supper, apparently as well as ever, and then sat down and died."

Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social

Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential

The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...

Funny moment where Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen introduced himself to some members of the media and then asked to be let into the courtroom early, only to stand awkwardly at the door, waiting.

Americans are less likely to be victims of crime than they were 30 years ago The overall trend in both violent and property crimes has been downward over the last 30 years. Americans in the 1990s were at least twice as likely to be victims of crime as they are today. This is also true at a global level. While we don't have consistent data on theft and assaults, we see that global homicide rates have gone down in recent decades. This is not necessarily how the public perceives it. The polling agency Gallup has conducted numerous surveys asking Americans how they perceive changes in crime rates since 1993. In 23 out of the 27 annual surveys, the majority said that they believed crime rates had increased from the previous year.

Perception is reality and fears about crimewaves are lucrative opportunities to justify putting more people in cages and selling the public on carceral solutions to socioeconomic problems.

All of them, plus police depts, seized on a small uptick in crime in 2020 to 2021 to push their tough-on-crime agendas. More $ for cops, tougher laws (Prop 36), and more surveillance tech. Progressive DA’s were also voted out before the results of their reforms could come to fruition.

I’ve watched too many wars and invasions live on TV in my lifetime.

Dems gotta cut promos like this if they wanna win elections. Ric Flair the private jet flying opponent to the American Dream Dusty Rhodes. Working class vs. the rich.

Trump Labor Secretary Caught Using Govt Funds for Her Birthday Party The birthday party was “renamed” in order to avoid greater scrutiny about using public funds.

Man, remember when someone would resign in shame for shit like this. Sure, they might end up with some sweet media gig, but at least they weren't running the joint. newrepublic.com/post/207234/...

Individuals who carefully followed the rules in place until just last week now face criminal penalties for having the "wrong" gender marker on their identity documents. Simply driving to the Division of Vehicles to change a license back to one's birth sex becomes "operating a vehicle without a valid credential," a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine, and a 90-day license suspension. More troubling, officials are required to keep a list of everyone who reverts the gender marker on the driver's license back to their birth sex. According to an email obtained by independent journalist Marissa Kabas, Ken Selk, Driver's Services Manager for the Kansas Department of Vehicles, instructed employees to track people complying with SB 244.

The Kansas law labeled existing IDs as no longer legal, was implemented without giving people a reasonable window to change their IDs, and establishes a special state database to track and monitor trans people. Is there any other group for whom this would be acceptable?