Dan Sinker is doing us all a great service in rounding up and helping make sense of each day's impeachment news. Again

If you are in a position of responsibility at a tech or media co and think of yourself as an ally/someone who takes DEI seriously, the point stacy-marie ishmael is making here is critically important.

can't emphasize enough how strange it is to see D.C. as a veritable ghost town on Inauguration Day

Is Pete Seeger rolling in his grave or doing a jig?

.URL Media: "We’re building a decentralized, multi-platform network of high-performing Black and Brown media organizations. We’ll share content, distribution, [...] expand revenue and build long-term sustainability. Congrats and TY S. Mitra Kalita & @slomaxreese! This is excellent

Seeing "love" in the name of a media company, along with "uplift" and "respect" around the communities a news organization serves is so radical (in both senses) and so needed. May it be a model. Brava S. Mitra Kalita and @slomaxreese

Respectful bird parties are my kind of parties these days.

Stories like this make you wonder if Andrew Cuomo will be remembered as having the temperament of Donald Trump— just smarter, and with more interest in public policy nytimes.com/2021/02/01/nyr…

In which a Chicago kid (💀 damned sinker 💀's) plays to the recent obsession with owls here in upper Manhattan.

What to do when an anti-vax neighbor starts posting lengthy warnings about COVID vaccines to a building email list?! Lots of unsubstantiated details about vaccines’ bad effects & links to Children’s Health Defense. I would usually ignore her but just can’t let this one slide.

Sasha Koren Suggestion: Don’t try to correct point by point or engage the neighbor. Post links to valid, useful information and encourage people to check it out.

Sasha Koren First Draft News has a bunch of resources on how to talk to family/neighbors/students etc. about COVID misinformation. Offering up the facts works better after making some kind of personal connection/validates a shared experience. firstdraftnews.org/latest/too-muc…

Yes, unfortunately.

A thread of incomparable reporters laid off from HuffPost today who you, an esteemed media organization, should scoop up immediately: 1/

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In which Pop Koren talks NYer cartoon history — Charles Addams, Steinberg, Helen Hokanson et al — and artistic process in this excellent interview.