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A.J. Perez
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Documentary producer, investigative reporter and personal trainer. Proud dyslexic w ADHD. He/Him/His.
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The @columjournreview.bsky.social delved into @mississippitoday.org's coverage of the mini-scandal that the outlet created (and still hasn't corrected). www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Last Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that the National Park Service removed brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument that called the murderer of Medgar Evers a racist. The article cited Park Service officials who “asked not to be named for fear of retribution.” Evers, a renowned civil rights activist, was assassinated in 1963 by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Condemnation was swift. “The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical,” Martin Luther King III posted on X in response to the story. “Sanitizing history from violence and racism does not bring the country together. It weakens our understanding of who we are and how far we still have to go.” Senator Raphael Warnock also weighed in: “This administration is celebrating Black History Month by erasing it. We won’t let them get away with it.” And it would indeed be appalling if the administration were attempting to erase the context of Evers’s killing. There’s just one problem: it appears the brochures may not have been removed or edited at all.
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum & Opinion AND ~Util - Case Stay Lifted AND ~Util - Set Deadlines/Hearings – #182 in Flores v. The National Football League (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-00871) – CourtListener.com
Memorandum & Opinion AND ~Util - Case Stay Lifted AND ~Util - Set Deadlines/Hearings
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February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Whoops. Wrong thread.
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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My only argument there was Bobby Bonds v Mays. I was kinda sure Bonds was on the team that early or hit that many homers.
February 13, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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That was Matt’s call. I was leaning toward InBev/Anheuser-Busch. I don’t drink soda, so had no real clue.
February 13, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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We were one point down, second place out of 16 teams. It was just the three of us. Next week @gabelacques.bsky.social better join us. I did get Mantle, Maris and Mays right.
February 13, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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And @mississippitoday.org still insists their initial report was correct. (Narrator: Tripling down on an inaccurate story isn't a good look.) mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/m...
Medgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story - Mississippi Today
Medgar Evers home visitors said park rangers told them they can no longer discuss bloodstains on the driveway or refer to his assassin as a racist.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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The @theverge.com dug into this issue.
www.theverge.com/tech/877235/...
“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said the doorbell was disabled at 1:47AM on February 1st, and she was not reported missing until the next morning, more than three hours later. By that time, those recordings were no longer accessible to anyone with access to the account. (It’s possible members of the Guthrie family had access to the app; I know I have access to my elderly parents’ video doorbell app.) But because it had once been in the cloud, there was a chance it could be retrieved. According to Nick Barreiro, chief forensic analyst with Principle Forensics, deleting footage from the cloud doesn’t necessarily mean it’s immediately gone. “When you delete something from a server, it doesn’t get overwritten immediately — the file system is just told to ignore this data, and this space is now available to be used. But if no new data is written over it, it’s still going to be there, even though you can’t see it.” While it would be fairly straightforward to retrieve this data from a local server or hard drive, Barreiro said the process to retrieve it from Google’s servers was likely much more complicated. While Barreiro has no direct knowledge of Google’s processes, he spent a decade in law enforcement focused on recorded evidence before moving to the private sector five years ago. “These video files aren’t necessarily all stored on a single server; they are probably stored in fragments in servers all over the world. It probably gets very complicated with Google’s architecture,” he said.”
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Haha. I saved him from a kill shelter in Brooklyn and he's arguably the cutest dog we have ever rescued. But, man, his previous owner (or owners) must have really been awful. He's so reactive and the only dog who has bit me (many times). He goes from happy/chill to chupacabra.
February 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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My wife watching that commercial: "That's cool."
Me: "Screw that shit. I ain't opting into the surveillance state. Pebbles and Fria have AirTags already and I wouldn't miss Chucky."
February 10, 2026 at 10:24 PM