Friday Cat Blogging – 23 October 2020

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“You guys were one of the outlets who got singled out to balance the ledger”: That’s what a former Facebook employee told Monika Bauerlein and me as we dug into recent news that the platform was throttling traffic to certain publishers, including Mother Jones. It’s enraging for several reasons, and since it happened during our fall fundraising drive and affects our bottom line, we hope the Mother Jones community will stand up for our fearless journalism and send a message with a donation to support it today.

“You guys were one of the outlets who got singled out to balance the ledger”: That’s what a former Facebook employee said as we dug into recent news that the platform was throttling traffic to certain publishers, including Mother Jones. It’s enraging, and since it happened during our fall fundraising drive, we hope the Mother Jones community will stand up for our fearless journalism and send a message with a donation to support it today.

Here is Hopper heading over to our neighbor’s house and then suddenly changing her mind. Was it because she heard my camera? Or just because some neuron happened to fire in her brain? We will never know.
But here’s something we do know: Hopper would like you to make a donation to Mother Jones. She’s a smart cat. Just click here.

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