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Stacy Cowley

@stacycowley.bsky.social

NYT biz reporter. Frequent union noisemaker.

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Alma Avalle@goodbyealma.bsky.social · 12mo ago

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

Alma Avalle@goodbyealma.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · last yr.

Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.

ProPublica Guild Secretary Jeff Ernsthausen presents CEO Robin Sparkman with our petition signatures.ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.ProPublica Guild members gather in the hallway outside CEO Robin Sparkman’s office, delivering petition signatures.
ACLU@aclu.org · last yr.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Caridad Svich@csvich.bsky.social · last yr.

an a accessibility anecdote from broadcast of GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK: my hard of hearing disabled dad hasnt been physically able to go to theatre in years but loves it. he was overjoyed to experience an art form he loves today with captions enabled on TV. @cnn.com

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, bars the CFPB from terminations pending appellate review of a district court injunction. Judge Pillard (Obama) and Katsas (Trump) take the action over the disset of Judge Rao (Trump).

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.

UPDATE: In the CFPB litigation, as discovery was produced, DOJ claimed several documents as privileged. Given that most relate to Paoletta, whose declaration was the key justification of the RIF, plaintiffs said, basically: "Hold up, you can't say he authorized this *and* we can't tell you why."

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. RUSSELL VOUGHT, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al., Defendants. Case No. !"-cv-&'(-ABJ MOTION TO COMPEL The defendants claim that they did not violate the preliminary injunction because they “determined, after a particularized assessment,” that the employees they RIFed were “unnecessary to the performance of [CFPB’s] statutory duties.” To support this assertion, they submitted a declaration from Mark Paoletta, the Chief Legal Officer of the CFPB, claiming to have conducted the required assessment—along with Victoria Dorfman and Daniel Shapiro. Paoletta Decl. ¶ Y. Yet now, the defendants seek to withhold information related to how they conducted that supposed assessment under the guise of privilege. They cannot have it both ways. The defendants cannot rely on Paoletta’s testimony and then shield the documents that would enable the plaintiffs and the Court to assess that testimony. Given the centrality of Paoletta’s purported assessment to the showcause hearing, this Court should reject (or at least investigate in camera) the defendants’ attempts to hide the discussions regarding this very assessment.
Stacy Cowley@stacycowley.bsky.social · 2y ago

The House floor fight over the discharge petition (used to block the GOP's move to kill proxy voting for lawmakers who are new parents) nuked these planned votes as well. So the CFPB overdraft and payments rules survive ... for now ...

Evan Weinberger@reporterev.bsky.social · 2y ago

The House was supposed to vote on a rule that would allow them to vote on a series of bills today, including the repeals of the CFPB's overdraft and digital payments larger participant rules. But there were a series of disputes tanking the rule vote, apparently. So the other votes are delayed.

Stacy Cowley@stacycowley.bsky.social · 2y ago

The lawsuit blocking attempts to shut down the CFPB included as a plaintiff a terminally ill Lutheran pastor. In legal filings, she said her dying wish was to resolve her student loan debt (which the bureau was helping with) so her family would not be burdened by it. She died this month.

WIRED@wired.com · 2y ago

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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