{"id":7344,"date":"2018-04-01T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2018-03-27T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:51:28","slug":"linked-alabama-sends-message-we-are-too-broke-to-care-about-right-and-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/04\/01\/linked-alabama-sends-message-we-are-too-broke-to-care-about-right-and-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Alabama sends message: We are too broke to care about right and wrong&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2218,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.al.com\\\/opinion\\\/index.ssf\\\/2015\\\/09\\\/alabama_sends_message_we_are_t.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;new&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/alabama_sends_message_we_are_t.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama sends message: We are too broke to care about right and wrong:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But maybe it&#8217;s not racial at all, right? Maybe it&#8217;s just political. And let&#8217;s face it, it may not be either.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But no matter the intent, the consequence is the same.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I lived in Central-Alabama for 5 years. This is intentional like the Dixie Flag and George Wallace bumper stickers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama sends message: We are too broke to care about right and wrong: Every single county in which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-01T23:48:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"9dc25cc7-8b95-4dd0-8fdd-8796cd82acda","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-01T23:48:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AncJcx4uVTdCP3YeWzYKs2g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Us","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4916,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/linked-how-email-became-the-most-reviled-communication-experience-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":7344,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;How email became the most reviled communication experience ever&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Engadget: Here's what makes email the most reviled technology ever, Stewart Butterfield says: \"There's a billion fucking things you have to do in your life, and email is the distillation of the other stuff that other people want you to do.\" So maybe the solution to email is just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8449,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/02\/17\/linked-on-blocking-criticism\/","url_meta":{"origin":7344,"position":1},"title":"Linked: On Blocking &#038; Criticism","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Great Twitter Thread by Zeynep who is a writer \/ journalist for various publications: I try not to block actual criticism but things I've started pretty much automatically blocking to make Twitter usable: Snitch-tagging; \"Oh you're surprised?\" reply guys; People who respond to an article *I* wrote with a point\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5550,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/linked-google-is-teaming-up-with-phone-operators-to-elbow-its-way-back-into-messaging-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":7344,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Google is teaming up with phone operators to elbow its way back into messaging&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Quartz: RCS lets users share photos and videos, see when others are typing, and set up group chats\u2013in other words, much of what the OTT apps already offer. 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