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Mollie Bryant
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Editor of , previously BigIfTrue.org. Former investigative reporter for and . bryant@streetlightnews.org
Oklahoma City, OKstreetlightnews.org/streetlight-is…Joined December 2012

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I'm happy to share that BigIfTrue.org has changed its name to Streetlight - and even happier to share our new site with y'all >>>>>>>>
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As part of our name change, we’re elated to unveil our new website. We hope this site can be a safe harbor for information, conversation and empowerment. Read more here: streetlightnews.org/streetlight-is
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Thank you for following me here. And for anyone trying to use the internet to get people to look at what you're doing: I'm sorry this is happening, but we will figure it out. The solution just isn't staying on this site to watch it fail so that Musk can benefit.
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Logging into this site and having to hear his thoughts every time since the sale has felt so shitty. Why do I have to follow what he says and does? I don't care how the richest man on earth is doing, I care about people working to make the world better and more beautiful
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I'm not Elon Musk's employee, I'm not his pawn, I don't owe him anything. Men like him make "business decisions" that hurt people and then frame that pain as something we deserved because of our status or god knows what.
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The whole thing where we weren't "allowed" to post things from other social platforms...I saw a post from Musk saying something like, yeah that's inappropriate, like we were his employees and we were getting reprimanded for bad behavior.
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The person leading Twitter doesn't care about this site, its users, the fact that it started with a lot of buzz that it could help expand human rights globally or that many people, including me, have been literally required to use this site for work, regardless of how toxic it is
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It's been really frustrating, to say the least, BUT we have other sources for traffic. That's why this isn't going to hurt us as much as I'm worried it could hurt newspapers or other news outlets that have relied on social traffic to, like, exist
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I'll tell y'all this: Our site has gotten barely any traffic from Facebook or Twitter since maybe 2020. Not enough to rely on and definitely not enough to grow our audience. I tried everything people recommended with Facebook and our posts there still get 0 views usually
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If only I had the business mind of Elon Musk, but I have to go with what I know. My gut says staying on the same site where I got doxxed and received death threats/harassment/insults - some of which started up again after Musk's purchase - staying for work reasons is nuts
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OK, I've done some research and staying on a platform I use to promote my work, the same platform where an account with 29K followers gets 200 views per post is......objectively bleak in a marketing and business sense.
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Since Twitter is also planning to de-amplify everyone who doesn't pay for blue, they're setting us up to watch our views fall in real time. Business sense from business experts! bc consumers want platforms where you have the power of invisibility
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babes, we're back. Send me all of your juicy tips and gossip: nmanna@star-telegram. (in the meantime, please read the below thread and thank you to every single person who supported us over the last 24 days)
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Big news: We are back at work. Over 24 days, the Fort Worth Newsguild protested @mcclatchy’s unwillingness to negotiate fair conditions and made history as the first Texas newsroom in modern history to go on strike. 🧵
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When inflation started rising rapidly earlier this year, I caught a glimpse of Tony's at my local Target -- it was $3.50. It gave me the idea to go grocery shopping with a college student to see how inflation was affecting them.
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Breaking: Oregon commutes the sentences of EVERYONE on death row. No more executions in Oregon, maybe ever.
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Justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people— even if a terrible crime placed them in prison. Today I am commuting all death sentences in Oregon to life without parole, so we no longer have anyone facing execution here.
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I'd go a step further and say look at why the Legislature has decided against investing in Jackson State (and UMMC) as economic engines for the city and state. Here in Birmingham, UAB gets about $300 million from the state and draws hundreds of millions more in other funding
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If you can fully understand how Jackson, Mississippi ended up without clean water, you can fully understand how Jackson State University (located in Jackson, Mississippi) ended up without adequate funding. I know it’s the holiday season but stop playing reindeer games.
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In each of those books, there's a part where the journalists are like, "wow, that was a real whirlwind. I'm headed off for a three-month paid vacation!" Here it's like, "the holidays are coming, here's a furlough + you might get laid off, btw we value yr work"
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