benny becker 🌸🪬🌸

Human earthling lifeform.

Past audio journo & @niemanfdn fellow.
Now learning/working my way into healthcare.

Also @bhebecker on bluesky & elsewhere

[benny becker 🌸🪬🌸 @BHEBecker]

Rest in power Lill

Here's a way to make sure their memory is a blessing
https://t.co/MoPEOTpBJu

[benny becker 🌸🪬🌸 @BHEBecker]

This is a mourning post. I'm trying to give bluesky a try. It's kinda lame having almost no audience or people I'm following, but also kinda rad.

[benny becker 🌸🪬🌸 @BHEBecker]

twitter has only ever so rarely been good, but it's never so frequently felt as bad as it has recently.

Not just in what's on here, but in the icky feeling of generating free content and viewership for this profit machine and it's particularly problematic patterns.

[Ill Will @illwilleditions]

“In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion prison in Virginia took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze. These are not acts of protest. These are human beings driven to extreme lengths, hoping for relief from torment.”

https://t.co/uwABO5uKQm

[Nieman Reports @NiemanReports]

📻 Public radio in a digital age: Layoffs, falling ratings, and a growing digital divide. NPR and local member stations are rethinking public radio’s future by adopting strategies for survival. Story by @gbullard.

https://t.co/EPBrQ8rxTB

[benny becker 🌸🪬🌸 @BHEBecker]

"planet-heating emissions from coal, oil and gas will rise by 0.8% in 2024. In stark contrast, emissions have to fall by 43% by 2030 for the world to have any chance...limiting “increasingly dramatic” climate impacts on people around the globe." https://t.co/NsDoxiGQw7

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Laugh+cry at state official saying "there are no intakes in the New River downstream...nothing released into the New River from the RAAP would have entered any Virginia waterworks"

Maybe true in VA, but ignores water intakes downstream in WV, OH, KY, and down the Mississippi.

[Charles Paullin @CPaullinVA]

“Due to areas of the plant being submerged, we’ve now identified the potential release of calcium sulfate and petroleum into the waterway and disclosed such instances to DEQ,” said Laura McLaughlin, a spokesperson for BAE Systems.
https://t.co/dKaDQFzX9C

[Blue Ridge Public Radio @BlueRidgePublic]

In Barnardsville, volunteers created a mutual aid hub to help meet each others' basic needs after Hurricane Helene. The experience, residents say, has forged a bond between generations living here.

https://t.co/SeSrnIZHQ5

[grist @grist]

Twenty days after Hurricane Helene brought torrential rain and deadly floods to western North Carolina, over 100,000 people still lack drinkable water. https://t.co/o51w7hjT7L

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Nearly 100,000 Asheville residents may not have access to water for weeks, the city announced
https://t.co/6RyR4p2ZPH

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

From North Carolina to Nepal. The climate crisis will not spare us, and the time for international action against the fossil fuel industry is right now.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

GOOD NEWS: The US government has announced that it will again offer free at-home Covid tests starting in late September.

You will be able to get 4 more free test kits sent through the mail.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

IMPORTANT: If you don't have insurance, or your insurance does not fully cover the COVID vaccine, it's a good idea to get your updated COVID vaccine NOW. The CDC Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free, stops at the end of August.

[Kyle Vass @WilliamKyleVass]

After citizens in White Sulphur Springs learned their town hired Timothy Loehmann (the man who shot and killed 12 year old Tamir Rice) these signs appeared outside city hall.

Someone who saw them said they went up around 8pm but were removed by 9:30pm.

[benny becker 🌸🪬🌸 @BHEBecker]

@GrimKim They're all just humans, and the app isn't that hard! They take people without degrees, and will love that you wrote a (great) book alread, and have unusual industry/life experience. I got it even though I was short years of work. Recs from Niemans helped.

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on edge of a heart attack, #quantezburks asked for help. He was instead cuffed, taken off camera, and brutalized by guards. The state autopsy report just said natural causes. Its taken so much from Quan's family to keep this from getting covered up. Makes sense so many have died.

[WVNS 59News @WVNS59News]

The documents allege that, instead of immediately providing medical care to Burks, Nurse Maynard suggested to the officers that "she could administer an overdose of insulin to Quantez to cover up his cause of death."
https://t.co/7qxjOgxTto

[WVNS 59News @WVNS59News]

The documents allege that, instead of immediately providing medical care to Burks, Nurse Maynard suggested to the officers that "she could administer an overdose of insulin to Quantez to cover up his cause of death."
https://t.co/7qxjOgxTto

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A couple years ago I spent months reporting on a similar situation the next county over. The article explains some national/historical context. It (and the) audio are also mainly from the voices of people affected.

https://t.co/8RjT3OEGaj

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Another case of poisoned wells and streams in the coalfields. In wyoming county, wv from illegal dumping of mine waste into old shafts. Coal companies using tangled corporate structures to avoid accountability.

Thanks for covering, @AppVoices.

https://t.co/lqxnsZmJlL