Hard to imagine advertisers don’t want to put ads on a platform whose unpredictable owner continuously posts insults and explicit memes, where the entire brand protection team has quit or been fired and where “freedom of speech” means bringing back offensive and dangerous accounts despite advertiser warnings that doing so kills their trust in Twitter’s commitment to safety and inclusion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/twitter-advertiser-exodus-musk/
The NIH finally got their SARS2 self-reporting tool off the ground. The data will be passed off to public health systems, which means case rates will likely reflect results reported through their system.
BOOST. SHARE. REPORT RESULTS.
Abe Hamadeh files lawsuit challenging Az election results, citing Maricopa County problems https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112222_hamadeh_election_suit/abe-hamadeh-files-lawsuit-challenging-az-election-results-citing-maricopa-county-problems/
Abe Hamadeh, the Republican nominee for attorney general, filed a lawsuit late Tuesday alleging that Maricopa County officials bungled Election Day so severely that it cost him a victory in the race, which he lost by just 510 votes.
Pima County warns of rise in RSV, COVID & flu cases ahead of holiday weekend https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112222_pima_rsv_holidays/pima-county-warns-rise-rsv-covid-flu-cases-ahead-holiday-weekend/
Respiratory viruses such as RSV, COVID-19 and the flu are spreading at higher rates than normal for this time of year, and people be cautious during Thanksgiving weekend, Pima County health officials said.
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/
Still got my 7" of this. It's a song that demands to be cranked up. Do so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9wX_87J-54
25 years gone. INXS on the Kick tour remains one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen.
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.”
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
Arizona recount context: Don't expect much to change.
In 2014's recount of the race btwn Ron Barber & Martha McSally, the challenger picked up just 6 votes over her initial margin — out of 219,261 cast
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.
Democrat Kris Mayes ekes out narrow win for Arizona attorney general; beating GOP's Abe Hamadeh by 510 — Maricopa County counts final ballots/recount pending
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
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.
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