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floodlights & darkness seeks to provide a media space for good faith actors to help build a society based on human dignity, solidarity and collective action.

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Gregory Royal Pratt (@royalpratt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am a Latino reporter Chicago Tribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.

Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Amazon has disclosed spending $40 million with the Washington Post on ads and digital content since Bezos bought the paper. On Tuesday, the Post let Amazon take over their homepage and pretend to be a generous, progressive company dailyposter.com/bezos-weaponiz…

Dan Price (@danpriceseattle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're giving Blue Origin a $10 billion bailout so its owner (who is worth $194 billion) can sell tickets to space for $28 million. But yes the problem is $300/week in unemployment theintercept.com/2021/05/25/jef…

x (@gpkalltheway) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If the outrage of this pick ends with a pile on of a teen, it will be an opportunity missed. #NHL #Habs #HabsIO #GoHabsGo medium.com/@howard.mattho…

Matthew Sitman (@matthewsitman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Since "Orange Man bad" isn't a viable posture anymore, what we're seeing is that a decent number of high-profile commentators, journalists, etc have learned nothing these past 20 years and are simply reverting to form

Lee Fang (@lhfang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congressman Mike Waltz wants the US military to relaunch the Afghan war. He just sold an Afghan-focused defense contractor for a personal profit of up to $26 million. The deal was w/a contractor responsible for training the failed Afghan security forces. interc.pt/3y5ssVl

x (@gpkalltheway) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While this is a weird word salad of nonsense, it also perfectly exemplifies liberal ideology; woke language & identity politics sold as virtue to deflect from policies that allows for more pipelines & greater wealth inequality. #canpoli

Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And the U.S. is out of Afghanistan. It's hard to be positive about this withdrawal because the media is so hostile to the very idea of admitting defeat, but it was quite successful.

floodlights & darkness (@floodlightsd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

the 12 u.s troops who died at the kabul airport received more media attention than the following deaths 2400 u.s troops 3846 contractors 72 journalists 51 191 taliban fighters 444 aid workers 1 144 allied service members 66 000 afghan military members 47 245 civilians

Daniel Carcillo (@carbombboom13) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a sexual abuse survivor, I need to thank Rick Westhead publicly Without his reporting & real journalistic practices, we would never have such a bright spotlight on all of hockey’s shortcomings, and victims would continue to suffer in silence Much love Rick Westhead

Rick Westhead (@rwesthead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kyle Beach posts the Blackhawks “continue to attempt to destroy my case in court" after filing a motion Tues. asking his lawsuit be dismissed. (The team says it had to file those docs then to meet court deadlines.) Kyle grateful for an “outpouring of endless love and support…”