Andy (River) Peterson

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

You cannot let it harden your heart. That’s how you end up chasing a byline or the thrill of a scoop, not the importance of the stories you can tell. Hold on to the part of you that seeks the perspective with the least power, even if it’s not the most convenient—center that. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

A hard part about living as a journalist is that you must choose to believe that empathy and storytelling are how we can save the world while being exposed to the trauma of the world so you can share it. We can only tell that story honestly if we talk about that trauma. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @RachelDonadio: 🇺🇦 Zelensky is deploying everything in his arsenal, including cheeky sarcasm. 💪 This one Tweet captures more about the… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

This war has been about misinfo from the beginning, including about when it began. Ukrainians have been defending themselves for years. They're living in the future we ALL will unless we build stronger infrastructures of democracy together focused on telling the truth. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is happening. We are witnessing it. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @terrelljstarr: Live on the scene from Southeast Kyiv. This residential building suffered massive damage. Trying to gather facts on what… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Daryna is a Ukrainian journalist who has been reporting, nonstop, while becoming a refugee herself. She is the beacon we should be looking to right now as we consider what kind of future we want to grow together. This is what she wants. https://t.co/ZCFypbXMn9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daryna_antoniuk: I want to see it like that again https://t.co/LNUODBn9hb — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Daryna is doing critical, breaking reporting on Ukraine—this live blog is one to follow. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

@erinoverbey With exclusions for luxury goods! — PolitiTweet.org

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@HayesBrown Same, essentially. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

We are witnessing a brave stand, all of us watching right now. So very many of us do not understand the true horror of modern warfare. I do not. But these are people, fighting to defend their right to exist. That, I understand. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JaneLytv: Facebook cutting off data access, disbanding the CrowdTangle team, and standing in the way of research now has a direct effec… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @byleahjohnson: Found out my book is under investigation by the Oklahoma Attorney General for being "obscene." So if you think less curs… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

So why not take a few minutes to meaningfully update your personal security, then make it your default messenger and explain why to your friends every time you message with them until they break down and install it too. Call it a cryptoparty, a la @Asher_Wolf — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

This is because Signal offers end-to-end encryption, meaning your messages are protected in a way that even Signal can’t read them, based on a toolset that is open source and audited. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

This will protect your ability to talk with sources and set a standard for security in your network that will ripple. Plus, using encrypted comms only real works if you use it consistently over time for all your comms, otherwise meta analysis will compromise your sources. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

If you are a journalist thinking about something substantial you can do to preserve democracy right now… Start using Signal, now. For all your messaging, with as many people as possible—everyone. And set your messages to disappear automatically. https://t.co/AeOKhLWyR7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @moxie: Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believ… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Promoting this feels sinister somehow? I don’t know how to process that I want all eyes on Ukraine, but urging people to WATCH NOW feels like entertainment framing of what is a human tragedy. Yet I am watching because I cannot look away. I am witnessing. https://t.co/GUnarJBwDd — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

It’s hard to disconnect, but it’s ok to do it so you can process. You have to do it to process. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Are you absorbing an overwhelming amount of information about awful things happening in Ukraine right now? So much it hurts? That is trauma you are experiencing and it is real, even if it is vicarious. Journalists, I am talking to you. Stay safe. https://t.co/QKMvdtDnqE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @laurenancona: let’s not conflate having social skills with neuronormativity get used to considering those as independent variables i… — PolitiTweet.org

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We now joke about how we are just having the same conversation, over and over again. Except it's not a joke, it's literally the thing that we built all of our infrastructure around even though the Cassandra's KEPT WARNING YOU THAT IT WASN'T SECURE. — PolitiTweet.org

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@campuscodi @TheRecord_Media A surreal things about warning people about the fragility of the internet like a woebegone Cassandra for a decade is you get to know the other Cassandras. Today, I realized I've been talking to @DougMadory and @james_a_lewis about the internet breaking for a quarter of my life. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emily_ladau: My passion is educating about disability by meeting people where they are, and that often means starting with foundational… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Russian government appears to deploy geofencing as digital defense after DDoS attacks, @campuscodi and I report for @TheRecord_Media https://t.co/vrvrYTbj2t — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

But there is power in choosing to do what tangible good you think you can. There is power in chasing utopia, knowing it is impossible to achieve. In fact, knowing we will make mistakes along the way lets us make room to learn from them. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

But there is power in choosing to do what tangible good you think you can—there is power in chasing utopia even while you know it is impossible to achieve. And, in fact, knowing that we will make mistakes allows us make room to learn from them. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Through the internet, we now live in a mass, continual retelling of the human narrative at a speed no one has ever experienced before. The inputs can be so overwhelming that we often forget that they are also ultimately, somehow, people or derived from people’s decisions. — PolitiTweet.org