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Mollie Bryant

@MollieEBryant

Editor of

@streetlightorg

, previously BigIfTrue.org. Former investigative reporter for

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. 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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Elon Musk is pro-business, right? I certainly hear that all the time. And he's hurt so many people's businesses. Honestly, fuck that.

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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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Seeing huge accounts get like 100/200 views clinches for me that the company is failing intentionally. quite a choice from the mind of a man who brought us cars that don't have manual locks

washingtonpost.com

A man died in a burning Tesla because its futuristic doors wouldn’t open, lawsuit alleges

The case is one in a string of recent incidents that have been blamed on Tesla’s innovative technology.

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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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public tweet view counts, just what I wanted and needed from a dying social media platform

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Fort Worth NewsGuild

@FortWorthGuild

We are proud of our members - we made Texas history, banded with labor folks across the country and laid the groundwork for other unions to fight unfair conditions. We saw enormous community support: hundreds of people donated to our strike fund and raised $60,000.

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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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Muddy Waters and poncho villa battling arctic temperatures

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I somehow thought there was a week between this week and last week. There isn't, but there really should be

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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.

Colorado’s college students are feeling the pressure as inflation exacerbates food insecurity

According to federal data, grocery prices have risen nearly 12 percent since last year, straining college students' budgets.

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I love this winter birding guide from

so much. Can confirm that dark-eyed juncos are "like a scoop of charcoal ice cream was granted a wish and turned into a bird"

A Bird Idiot's Guide To Winter Birding | Defector

During migration, you may only see a given species a handful of times, or just once, or never. In winter, you will have the comfort of the same friends every day.

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Maurice Chammah

@MauriceChammah

Breaking: Oregon commutes the sentences of EVERYONE on death row. No more executions in Oregon, maybe ever.

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Governor Kate Brown

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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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This

episode explains how to identify downy vs hairy woodpeckers and how to tell their calls apart.

Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers | BirdNote

How do you tell them apart?

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dont test me ill shrink u

i dreamed i invented a new type of egg dish. it’s called the “leonard cohen” and it’s a cottage cheese omelet in the shape of a fully 3 dimensional fedora

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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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Ten years ago I found the best classified ad I had ever seen in Oklahoma City. This lives rent free in my head.

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It's also how I saw this guy up close for the first time today - like the dark-eyed juncos, they're understated but really beautiful birds imo

More brightly colored than most wrens, and with a rich musical song, Carolina Wrens are common in open woods and backyards in the southeast. There they busily explore brushpiles and low tangles. The...

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One thing I've learned this year is that downy woodpeckers travel with other types of birds A LOT. Listening for downies is how I've been able to see other types of woodpeckers, chickadees, etc.

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also I daydream about turning my computer into spacejunk. It's a real lemon, a dud, a future asteroid

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trying to look at a map of OKC school districts killed my computer for like 15 minutes. the first thing I did after it came back to life was try to look at the map again and I sort of understand why it died

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Christmas Tree goals 🎄

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Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, recently returned to Midway Atoll! The beloved Laysan albatross, or mōlī, is at least 71 years old. Biologists first identified and banded Wisdom in 1956 after she laid an egg, and the large seabirds aren’t known to breed before age 5.

Large seabird, with white chest, yellow beak and banded right leg, stands on grass.

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I know some people think of sparrows as ordinary birds that don't deserve much attention, but they're one of my favorites. they're taking it easy for all us sinners

Dark-eyed Junco

In winter over much of the continent, flocks of Juncos can be found around woodland edges and suburban yards, feeding on the ground, making ticking calls as they fly up into the bushes. East of the...

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Just saw a crew of these lil guys. They are so pretty, each one looks different, and some of them have peach on their sides, kind of like a scissor-tailed flycatcher wildlifedepartment.com/wildlife/field

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Day 10 of our strike. Here are some wild policies

has proposed: 1) Parental Leave: the company insists people should have less paid leave depending on how they gave birth. Meaning staff would have to tell the company whether they gave birth vaginally or via c-section

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My favorite part of this game cover was adding the horrible little glint to his eye

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𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞

@warmyellowlight

the nice thing about places is they are everywhere

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After 20 months of negotiations, enough is enough: Today, more than 1,000

members pledged to walk out if

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Omar L. Gallaga

More pain

nytimes.com/2022/12/01/bus

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Day 3 of picketing to protest

’s refusal to bargain for fair conditions for journalists. We’ve had enough. They can take our health care, they can’t take our fight. #StarTelegramOnStrike

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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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