DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

Latino artists have long contributed to the soundtrack of our lives.
The Library of Congress needs recommendations for songs/albums (+10 years old) by your favorite Latino artists or groups to preserve in the National Recording Registry. Leave a comment on who should be included👇🏼

Pima, Santa Cruz to certify election canvasses, but Cochise County goes haywire https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112022_canvass_agenda_op/pima-santa-cruz-certify-election-canvasses-but-cochise-county-goes-haywire/
Not even the Arizona Legislature envisioned an entire county saying "Know what? We don't like elections anymore. We're out." Enter: Cochise County. Pima and Santa Cruz are set to approve their canvasses. Not doing it could very well be a crime in Arizona. A felony, in fact.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Dem lawmakers give Chief Justice Roberts an ultimatum on ethics issues, in wake of reports on alleged 2014 #SCOTUS leak & lobbying of justices. You probe or Congress will, Sen. Whitehouse & Rep. Hank Johnson declare in new letter https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/20/supreme-court-roberts-whitehouse-johnson-00069673

Why are food prices continuing to increase?

The four largest food companies control 82 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of soybean processing, 63 percent of pork packing, and 53 percent of chicken processing.

Corporations are raising prices because they can.

Jack Shafer at Politico:

"The over-reliance on predictive journalism does a disservice to everybody."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/20/pundits-blew-midterm-results-00069539

One thing he misses: The press organizes election coverage around "who's gonna win?" for many reasons. It's easy. It's portable. It sells. But it's also that "who's gonna win?" feels to them like a non-ideological question.

That makes it "safe" for journalists to dive in, even though the predictions themselves are risky— and often end in ridicule.

#journalism

You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Starting to see publications setting up instances on their own domains. Among them:

@TexasObserver

@TucsonSentinel #journalist #journalism

#news #newspapers

This new Ringo song/music video is giving me so much joy at the end of a week when very little was giving me joy. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-mz7ZMGCr9U&feature=share

Each attack is meant to inspire the next:

“Far-right extremist groups [celebrated the Club Q] killings in blogs & chatrooms. On one channel used by neo-Nazi groups, postings showered praise on the gunman and called for more killings of gays & lesbians…”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/20/colorado-springs-shooter-suspect/

This is pretty much the dynamic I would have expected re Musk and Trump's Twitter account—Musk wants the attention that comes from reactivating DJT; DJT doesn't want to give him the satisfaction; now EM is just posting memes like a weird little kid tugging at the hem of DJT's jacket https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594470952187805696