Young photographer behind viral Supreme Court hearing shot will join Detroit Free Press



Sarahbeth Maney, a sudden star of Washington photojournalism, plans to relocate to Detroit in June after a year-long New York Times fellowship.

Maney, 26, made a major splash this week with a viral photo from Day 1 of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. She snapped Leila Jackson, 17, glancing at her mother with emotions every parent hopes to earn. A Detroit Free Press arts and culture reporter voices a future's colleague's pride as he shares Maney's tweet of the image:

The young woman who snapped this powerful photo is coming this summer to work full time for the Detroit Free Press. #detroit #michigan https://t.co/Pq5K2piFF7
— Duante Beddingfield (@DBFreePress) March 24, 2022

The portrait of pride drawns national attention, as does the 2019 college graduate who captured it. The New York Times interviewed its staffer about the shot it calls "one of the event’s most widely shared images." The native of Oakland, Calif., also spoke with her home area NPR station, KQED, and did Saturday interviews with WDIV of Detroit and MSNBC, among others.

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30190/young_photographer_behind_viral_supreme_court_hearing_shot_will_join_detroit_free_press

Instead of a tweet thread about the unseriousness of some members of Congress in this serious time, I just decided to tell you on video:

A spokesman for the city of Lansing says the convoy of honking vehicles paid to reserve parking spaces downtown for all day Monday and Tuesday.

Cost to reserve parking spaces in downtown Lansing to spend 2 days honking in protest of COVID mandates that are generally no longer in existence at the state level:

$1,090.

One more fun fact on this protest:

The city tells me the person who paid for the parking reservations is from Indiana.

The app that Donald Trump once hoped would avenge his exile from social media and make him a MAGA Mark Zuckerberg has instead plummeted to the 28th most popular social media platform in Apple’s App Store, lagging behind the likes of more obscure social networks like “Wizz,” “BeReal,” and “Bloomer-random video chat.”

Soon after the start of the “soft launch” of his social media company Truth Social in late February, Donald Trump grew deeply annoyed with the anemic growth and the lackluster rollout of the website. Though Trump and his team were expecting the new app to be a huge hit with his political base, the site was handily trounced in recent weeks by competitor MAGA social networks, including one that caters primarily to neo-Nazis.

But this month, the situation has only gotten worse for Trump’s latest large-scale business venture, according to data analyses reviewed by The Daily Beast, and sources close to Trump say he has recently complained about the low-energy activity on the app and appears disengaged from trying to turn the platform around, much less post on it.

Download data shared by the analytics firm Apptopia shows that downloads of the app have plummeted from a peak of 170,000 downloads a day to just 8,000 now. The app is now just the 355th most popular app on Apple devices overall. And those who have downloaded it don’t seem to be using it that much.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-truth-social-is-doing-even-worse-than-you-thought