We passed 20,000 followers in this week on #mastodon!
In less than a year, we've accumulated 29% of the followers we got in 9 years of regular posting on the #birdsite, and we get far, far more engagement with our content here.
Thank you.
We will continue to post regularly here because we have found it is a community that values our kind of thoughtful journalism, written by experts for the public.
If you know folks who haven't discovered us yet, we'd really appreciate a boost #Newstodon
Earlier this week the New York Times claimed to have partially corroborated some of Jamie Reed's allegations against a clinic for transgender youth in St. Louis.
Their story did not back up the assertion that they corroborated Reed's claims. I know that because I looked at every single one of the 69 claims. #trans#transgender#news#journalism#Newstodon#bias
I guess this means I have to walk to the top of Great Blue Hill?
Does anyone know when I can do this at a time where I won't be hit with a torrential downpour and/or lightning? Say in the next week or so? I will say hi at the top.
[Backstory: GBH's radio call letters stand for "Great Blue Hill," a hill in Milton. Our transmitter is at the top of this hill].
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I'd like to get in touch with a current employee of the #Texas Department of #Agriculture, particularly if you are #trans or otherwise #LGBTQIA+. It's for a story, but you can be anonymous.
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Happy #Newstodon Friday, here’s a short list of just some of our #news and #journalism friends to follow on the #fediverse (and not bots). Follow and boost these great outlets.
We’re wishing everyone a good weekend filled with things that bring you joy and hope. #FollowFriday#feditips
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Our friends at the BBC (@BBCRD) are running a six-month experiment to test whether running own instance (social.bbc) on the fediverse is worth it. Please follow and boost the accounts they’re testing to show your support!
At dawn on November 29, hundreds of U.S. soldiers led by Colonel John Chivington surrounded the village. Residents responded by waving white flags and pleading for mercy; one of the chiefs even raised the American flag in an attempt to demonstrate that he, too, was American. Ignoring these symbols of surrender and peace, the white troops opened fire with carbines and cannons, slaughtering more than 200 Native American people. Most of the victims of the massacre were women, children, and the elderly and infirm. After the massacre, the troops burned the village, mutilated the bodies of the deceased, and removed body parts to keep as trophies. Some scalps of the dead became props in plays that the troops later performed to celebrate, as one soldier boasted, “almost an annihilation of the entire tribe.” #history#histodon#journalism#media#newstodon#government