Posts by nickmartin@masto.ai
(DIR) Post #AXSzWL69IO6zUWEQMq by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-07T22:55:23Z
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Instagram's boss says Threads isn't really interested in being a home for politics or news. That alone is an extreme political position. Everything is politics, after all. Nothing is neutral.
(DIR) Post #AXT6TEQkKTAnccKawa by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-08T01:01:01Z
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@john Exactly
(DIR) Post #AXsKNFMADG3FTIbPbE by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-19T21:35:38Z
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Matt Browning spent 20 years as an undercover cop investigating the worst neo-Nazis: murderers, rapists, and wannabe terrorists.Now he's written a compelling and sometimes shocking book about it all, including the awful toll it took on him and his family. https://a.co/d/gqM1r2g
(DIR) Post #AY28dAxnC8DzZnIoHw by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-24T02:42:25Z
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@dangillmor I haven't been on social media much this year due to health reasons, but the news that Twitter is now funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in ad revenue to the kinds of extremists you mention was a deal breaker for me.I justified it before because there are still important folks (like the disability community) that are kind of stuck there or haven't found another platform yet. But I'm not going to be a party to financially supporting bigots.
(DIR) Post #AY3dOt0gRJa9ZtHT7I by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-25T10:28:53Z
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I decided this weekend to leave Twitter/X behind. I'm not deleting my account, but I'm not going to post my work or ideas there anymore. There's no amount of clicks, likes, or retweets that can make up for the fact that merely using the platform is now helping directly fund bigots, rapists, and conspiracy mongers through Twitter's revenue sharing program.As a journalist who cares about my community and our shared future, that's a red line for me. If you're here, I suspect it is for you too.
(DIR) Post #AY3dOwi2gZ313EadcG by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-25T11:31:53Z
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Some folks have asked me why I haven't deleted my Twitter account completely or at least locked it down. It's a fair question. The answer is this: I was on Twitter for 15 years, which is about 75% of my career as journalist so far. Over the years, I posted information there that really can't be found anywhere else — about politicians, extremists, terror attacks, and more.Deleting that seems like it would cause more harm than leaving it up. So I'll keep it alive for as long as it makes sense.
(DIR) Post #AY4KaU1lRiHHbFYwPA by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-25T14:47:21Z
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This person just scolded me and blocked me here on Mastodon because I posted about my decision to leave Twitter but not to delete 15 years of work and ideas I'd posted there.This is just one person. I'm also far from perfect and don't have everything figured out. But I want to ask this of others, especially folks who have been here a while: Please show kindness and support to people who are trying to figure these transitions out. Look for understanding. Work towards building a better world.
(DIR) Post #AYCecqiP1XsULWnN9U by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-07-30T00:17:25Z
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If you're a journalist and still active on Twitter, you're helping prop up a company that hates you and everything you do. Continuing to give your time and effort to Elon Musk is a self-inflicted wound that won't stop bleeding until you tend to it. Many of your readers have already exited. You should too.
(DIR) Post #AYeuxYWpeOYMV5WVRA by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-08-12T09:32:14Z
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This judge in Orange County, California (who's a former prosecutor) shot and killed his wife, texted his clerk and baliff that he just shot his wife, was found with 47 guns and 26,000 rounds of ammunition in his house, has a rifle registered to him that hasn't been located, was charged with murder, and was just released on bail after spending one night in jail. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-11/orange-county-judge-charged-with-murdering-his-wife-47-guns-found-authorities-say
(DIR) Post #AYfFX7PrveuFvBV8pk by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-08-12T03:44:58Z
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Police in Marion, Kansas (population 1,852) effectively shut down the town's only newspaper on Friday, raiding it and seizing most of its equipment, including cell phones of its journalists. The raid took place after the paper received information that a local restaurant owner, who's very politically connected, had been arrested for drunken driving.https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/
(DIR) Post #AYuZ1PErkOXZWc1euu by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-08-20T01:36:36Z
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Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system.It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But it's also not nothing.Elon Musk has not only welcomed Nazis. He's now directly paying them too.
(DIR) Post #AZD0FjZd8NgUFq4buS by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-08-29T00:43:04Z
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About two years ago, the Biden administration released a 32-page plan to counter domestic terrorism.At the time, I published this interview with Michael German, a former FBI agent who was critical of the strategy and said officials were largely repeating mistakes of the past. I got some flack for it from folks who were cheerleading the plan.Now, after the racist massacre in #Jacksonville and with extremism continuing apace, German's assessment seems sadly prescient.https://www.informant.news/p/whats-old-is-new-again
(DIR) Post #AZD0FlGCrZKrUB07ua by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-08-29T00:52:14Z
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I'd love to see a journalist with more capacity than I have these days do a deep dive into what happened to President Biden's “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” in the two-plus years since it was announced. It was released and then we barely heard about it again.
(DIR) Post #AZQIvjc6iz5O83tLe4 by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-09-04T11:31:22Z
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Twitter owner Elon Musk just blamed the ADL, a Jewish advocacy organization, for the explosion of antisemitism on his platform.Blaming Jewish people or groups for the hatred of Jewish people is the same perverted logic found in Hitler's "Mein Kampf."Musk is the world's richest person and his companies are paid billions by the US government. He posted the message in conversation with Keith Woods, an Irish neo-Nazi whose account Musk reinstated in April a few months after buying Twitter.
(DIR) Post #AZR5kL3EbPXMWCm9dg by nickmartin@masto.ai
2023-09-04T21:27:52Z
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@rato He seems to understand it just fine and has picked the side of hate and bigotry.
(DIR) Post #AdOQVPsyTAjw9ROZRQ by nickmartin@masto.ai
2024-01-01T01:17:27Z
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Hi all, as we ring in the new year, I'd like to ask you to consider donating to Jan Kelly if you're able.Her son Jake Kelly was a gay man killed in a beating tied to neo-Nazi skinheads in Arizona. Jan is fighting to make sure her son's killers are brought to justice, and she needs immediate financial help to keep doing that.Links to PayPal, Cash App and Venmo plus more info can be found here: https://linktr.ee/jankellyPlease help however you can, even if it's just by re-posting. Thank you.
(DIR) Post #AdOQVSpXWOm7HeoN0K by nickmartin@masto.ai
2024-01-01T01:54:08Z
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Housing for Jan Kelly, who is fighting to get justice for her son who was killed in a possible anti-gay hate crime, is somewhat in flux at the moment.We're working to immediately raise at least $1,500 to make sure she has a place to stay and transportation for January.There's a major court hearing she needs to attend on Thursday, so this is really important.Links to donate can be found here: https://linktr.ee/jankelly#JusticeForJakeKelly #JusticeForJake #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
(DIR) Post #AdOQVVq0L7vgby3He4 by nickmartin@masto.ai
2024-01-01T02:19:50Z
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Major thanks to everyone who has donated to Jan Kelly in recent days. I know it means a lot to her.It means a lot to me, too. I'm fortunate to have enough paying work to be able to help her for free behind the scenes, so it's great to find other folks who are willing to help too.#JusticeForJakeKelly #JusticeForJake
(DIR) Post #AdOQVYzKcuAmNlRH6G by nickmartin@masto.ai
2024-01-01T02:21:58Z
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I'll have more to say soon about the ways in which I've been helping in the effort to get justice for Jake Kelly.For now, we really need to meet that $1,500 goal as soon as possible so Jake's mom has a place to stay and transportation for January.Please donate if you can: https://linktr.ee/jankelly#JusticeForJakeKelly #JusticeForJake #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
(DIR) Post #AiyaIz8DhkNDluxmBE by nickmartin@masto.ai
2024-06-16T05:35:23Z
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NEWS: Lauren Witzke, a former Republican US Senate nominee, helped neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes secure a last-minute backup venue in Detroit on Saturday after his annual racist and antisemitic conference was canceled by its original venue. Right-wing platform Tenet Media briefly posted and then deleted a video on Twitter showing an agreement signed by Witzke on behalf of Fuentes's America First Foundation for the Exodos Rooftop nightclub.I grabbed this screenshot before the tweet was deleted.