DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

Cullen scuttled as Az state health chief as Republicans blast Pima's pandemic measures https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/021423_cullen_adhs/cullen-scuttled-as-az-state-health-chief-as-republicans-blast-pimas-pandemic-measures/
Despite a "mountain of expertise," Dr. Theresa Cullen will not lead the Arizona Department of Health Services after Gov. Hobbs withdrew her nomination Tuesday. Cullen was blasted by Republican legislators for measures Pima County took during the COVID pandemic.
#Tucson #Arizona

Elon tweeted this, and then a few hours later respond to a literal fake news site. How pray tell are people supposed to learn about things that happen outside their direct observation and experience other than through “the press?” Just look for some local people you don’t know who are tweeting about something and then “do your own research?”

Another right-wing member of Congress with a (partially) fictional resume. Not as egregious as Santos, but still pretty flagrant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/

I'd like to see a foundation fund an organized crowdsourcing of resume checks of every candidate for Congress.

After Ducey's container wall dismantled, enviro groups push for remediation on border https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/021123_container_wall_removed/after-duceys-container-wall-dismantled-enviro-groups-push-remediation-border/
After state contractors dismantled the last sections of Arizona's ad-hoc border barrier in the Coronado National Forest last week, environmental groups continue to press for remediation efforts in the protected landscape.
#Tucson #Arizona

As Tucson's Jones Photo closes doors, film processor Gary Kittell remembers his 61-year career https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020923_jones_photo_closes/as-tucsons-jones-photo-closes-doors-film-processor-gary-kittell-remembers-his-61-year-career/
Vacation snapshots. Family portraits. Romantic landscapes of the desert Southwest. For most of the last 61 years, Gary Kittell has cared for thousands upon thousands of photographs as a film processor and developer for Jones Photo, which closed its doors last week.
#Tucson #Arizona

Man ruining Twitter upset that his ruining of Twitter is harming how much people want to interact with him https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

Live-streaming traffic stop is free speech, but protecting it is a challenge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/07/livestream-police-traffic-stop-constitution-allowed/

In the wake of news from the bird site that Twitter will end free access to its API, I pulled together a blog post about what that may mean for academic researchers, including those I work with at the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.

As CIP director @katestarbird observed, this action “will profoundly change how researchers (and society) can study and understand online behavior.”

https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/02/02/twitters-api-access-changes-academic-research/

#MisinformationResearch #UniversityOfWashington #UWCIP

Journalists FOIAed Trump's FOIA requests for documents surrounding the IRS's behind-the-scenes deliberations over releasing his taxes to Congress and I am extremely here for this meta-FOIA action.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/trump-used-foia-requests-to-stymie-irs-release-of-his-tax-returns

Statement on the suspected Chinese spy balloon from Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.

Imagine the pure embarassment of being a RW politician who does not own a gas stove in this critical time?

And what if your subdivision does not even provide city gas? You are gonna have to go micro-batch and have individual tanks delivered to the house.

Hopefully in unlabeled canisters to avoid further embarassment.

I recently reviewed a book written by an author who identifies as gender nonbinary. I wanted to respect their pronoun preference, but not writing in this mode on a regular basis I found it tricker than I anticipated. The experience prompted me to write about how we just need to come around and accept singular they (already!), and that we owe it to others to honor their pronoun preference.

https://mypointbeing.com/2023/01/30/singular-they-and-respecting-an-individuals-pronoun-preference/

#language #grammar #English #style #writing #inclusion

@karenyin

George #Santos appears to admit drag queen past in Wiki post

A user with the name Anthony Devolder wrote in 2011 that they won several drag pageants. Anthony Devolder is a Santos alias.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/20/george-santos-appears-to-admit-drag-queen-past-in-wiki-post-00078812

"“Here, we are confronted with a #lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually & legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” Middlebrooks wrote, decrying what he called “abusive litigation tactics.”

...the case was “intended for a political purpose” and showed a “continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by #Trump & his lawyers”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/20/donald-trump-fine-court-clinton/

“longtermism, which emerged out of the effective altruism (EA) movement over the past few years, is eugenics on steroids. […] many of the same racist, xenophobic, classist and ableist attitudes that animated 20th-century eugenics are found all over the longtermist literature and community.”
https://www.truthdig.com/dig/nick-bostrom-longtermism-and-the-eternal-return-of-eugenics/

PACC extends shutdown through Monday to limit disease spread in animal shelter https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/012023_pacc_closure/pacc-extends-shutdown-through-monday-limit-disease-spread-animal-shelter/
Pima Animal Care Center will stay closed to the public through Monday as officials work to stem the contagious respiratory disease strep zoo. Two dogs were euthanized because of the infection, and several more have contracted it.
#Tucson #Arizona