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And dayum, how fast did that cassette tape sell out?! By the time I saw the email, the Swim cassette was sold out!! 😭😭😭
#BTS_Arirang

ARIRANG IS COMIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!

Showing up for…????

Alabama Governor Spares Life Of 75-Year-Old Who Never Killed Anyone Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

BREAKING: AL Gov. Kay Ivey (R) commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-yo-old wheelchair user who, by the state's own admission, never killed anyone www.huffpost.com/entry/alabam...

Uhhhh…either I can’t read, or this letter to Marisa Kabas fails to mention or take accountability for the fact that they took credit for *HER WORK*.

It’s giving “Work for Experience”. 🤬

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

I had to miss this today, but looking forward to catching up! 🥺💜

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🥳🎉💜🎈🎂Happy Birthday, Yoongi!! 🥳🎉💜🎈🎂😘

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

“The immediate theory is that the AI program included the school’s position based on older, archived intelligence. The logic behind the launch, and the mechanics of who authorized it is unclear.”

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I love this so much!! 🥰💜

I’ve been listening to Thundercat this week, too. Namjoon, are you in my brain? 😆😆😆

Respiratory weekly update: Dials showing that Influenza A, Influenza B, SARS-CoV-2, RSV, and HMPV are in the high category, and the other seasonal pathogen (EV-D68) is in the low category and not in seasonal onset.

📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data:

Respiratory weekly update: Influenza A, Influenza B, RSV, and HMPV are in the high category. SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘Medium’ category, and EV-D68 is in the ‘Low’ category nationwide.🛟😷🧪

Measles Map: A map that shows which plants and regions have detected measles in the past 10 days. There have been detections in 2 states in the West (CA and UT).

📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data:

Measles (wild-type): Measles has been detected in 2 states in the West in the last 10 days.🛟😷🧪

I’m just now seeing this but owwwwwwww, wishing your arm a speedy recovery!!

Just as I thought, Joy continues to grow on me. 😆 #ThePitt

Dr. McKay has such good bedside manner. A lot of real life doctors could learn from her.
#ThePitt

The siblings. 😭😭😭😭😭
#ThePitt

Monica wasn’t playin’! She said, “I’m gonna show y’all what you’ve been missing!” #ThePitt

Dr. Santos ought to go to that furry convention. She and Dr. Garcia are too similar in personality, she needs to find herself a super bubbly girlfriend who kinda gets on her nerves. I think that’s secretly her real type, lol. #ThePitt

I never knew about these!!

You’re trapped in the last tv show you watched, where are you?

(I’m rewatching)

The State of US Vaccine Policy

w/ Unbiased Science

Latest:
-14 states have filed vaccine lawsuits
-CDC lost its 2 most senior officials in rapid succession
-surgeon general nominee can't bring herself to recommend measles vaccine
-and more!

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

That job title has “give the baby an unplugged controller” vibes.

For a story in @thesicktimes.org, seeking organizers in any left movement work who’ve taken a break or fully stepped away from organizing sometime since 2020 due to Long COVID. They can be anonymous in the piece and may reach out directly at longdefeat.08 on Signal #LongCOVID #NEISvoid

I forgot to mention I had a dream where Taehyung was doing a surprise jazz concert at a fair. I just remember walking around, and suddenly there was a nearby stage, and Taehyung was doing soundcheck. I kept asking, “Am I supposed to know about this yet?”, lol.

That’s mostly all I remember. 😆

I once fell asleep in a gallery at the US capitol building in DC. I don’t recall if it was the House or Senate though, lol.