DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

Cissy Suyat Marshall, wife of the late Thurgood Marshall, has passed at 92. Filipino American from Hawaii, she was an NAACP legal secretary and a key advisor and supporter of Justice Marshall and mother of his two children.

At 4’11” Cissy was often teased by her 6’2” husband: “How’s the weather down there?” Her answer: “Same as up there, I don’t care how tall you are. I can still beat you up—I’ll get on a chair.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/11/22/cissy-marshall-thurgood-dead/

A blockbuster investigation from *The Markup* and *The Verge* reveals that major tax-prep services illegally embedded the Facebook tracking pixel in their sites, configured so that it transmitted as much data as possible to the surveillance giant.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23471842/facebook-hr-block-taxact-taxslayer-info-sharing

In their defense, the companies say that they didn't know that they were sending all this data to Facebook, and that they were using Facebook's #surveillance pixel to "deliver a more personalized customer experience."

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I’m glad to see officials from within the Biden administration calling out the bullshit.
Mayor Pete: “If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared - not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful - then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows.
Don’t you dare act surprised.”

Veteran stopped Club Q shooter. Per NYT
It was Mr. Fierro’s first time at a drag show, and he was digging it. He had spent 15 years in the Army, and now relished his role as a civilian and a father, watching one of his daughter’s old high-school friends perform.
“These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it,” he said as he described the night. “I’m happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever they hell they want.”

https://baratun.de/3i3h89V

The AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for the retracted story claiming Russian missiles crossed into Poland that relied upon a single unnamed government source https://www.thedailybeast.com/ap-fires-reporter-behind-retracted-russian-missiles-story

It took me all day to find some more words to throw at this evil in Colorado Springs.

I waited because I wanted to be careful. I wanted to be a good reporter and not saying anything I didn't know for sure.

We can't wait forever though. At a certain point, you have to call a hate crime a hate crime.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-frustrations-of-careful-reporting-on-the-colorodo-springs-massacre

Football / soccer journalist Grant Wahl on being detained for about 30 minutes for wearing a rainbow shirt when trying to enter the stadium to cover #WAL #USA #WorldCup game today. https://grantwahl.substack.com/p/an-unexpected-detention-by-world

FIFA really is a dank pile of flaming garbage, aren’t they? #fifaWorldCup #LBGTQA #humanrights

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.