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Stacy Kess, dissident editor

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Editor of @equalaccesspublicmedia.org. Woman on a mission to make news accessible. #Journalist with 25-plus yrs experience and handful of awards. Former #RN. View from #Boston. Zero filter. Cuss too much. https://equalaccesspublicmedia.org

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 8d

I think this is a challenge @equalaccesspublicmedia.org has faced a lot.

What are we? Are we affiliated with NPR and PBS, or before it started shutting down, CPB? Did we get government funding from the public media funds for CPB?

The answer to all that is no.

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Anemone @zeenemywithin.bsky.social · 8d

Why donate here when every Public Media Affiliate station takes donations?

IMO people should donate to their local station

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 9h

When will we accept that Politico is not quality news?

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 9h

Big win for accessibility and us a11y nerds this week. Thank you @ire.org!

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Equal Access Public Media (EAPM) @equalaccesspublicmedia.org · 10h

If you love what you've been reading in the The Word, be a part of it!

1. Pitch: eapmstyleguide.org/t...

2. Support: eapmstyleguide.org/s...

Pitching

A guide to pitching articles, commentary, and analysis to The Word.

eapmstyleguide.org

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 9h

Bonus: we got to introduce a bunch of journalists to what a screen reader sounds like!

I played a screen reader reading a bunch of emojis. And then I played a screen reader reading the same sentence without emojis.

Friends don't let friends emoji.

Patrick Garvin @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social · 11h

Today wraps up @ire.org's AccessFest. I'm grateful for getting to present with James Ku on Thursday, and again today with @stacykess.bsky.social and Sam Evans. Each focused on what journalists can start doing to make their work more accessible to people with disabilities. #AccessFest25 #AccessFest

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 13h

Someone get me better video and I can tell you exactly what model iPhone.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 13h

Also, that's an iPhone, if anyone wondered.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 13h

It took me a few times, and slowing down the video, but yeah. There it is.

The ICE agent on the left taking a fucking selfie as they violently arrest the women they dragged from the vehicle they crashed into just a moment earlier.

Frame at 1:07 from video in quoted post. ICE agent on left takes a self as he and ICE agent on right violently arrest woman they dragged out of vehicle they sideswiped just moments earlier.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

It happens to be the Fall Fund Drive. There's literally no minimum to donate, so even $1 helps. We suggest $5, but yes, you can even donate a $1. Our goal is $1,500. We've already raised $75. So help @equalaccesspublicmedia.org raise a little more.

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Equal Access Public Meda

Making journalism more accessible for you

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

And someday, last on the list, have enough to pay me. Not that I don't love working for nothing, but I can't do it forever.

So if you're hearing Mr. Rhames voice in your head too, saying, "Damn, this girl has everything with nothing" consider helping @equalaccesspublicmedia.org.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

Things we need to do:
• Raise our freelance pay to industry standard for The Word.
• Get funding to hire full-timers to launch the National Tab.
• Hire others to run this org.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

How do we do that? By me not taking any pay despite all the work I do. By keeping all our overhead to a minimum. And sadly, keeping our freelance pay low at the moment.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway, I'm really proud of what we've built with this shoestring budget. We've raised a little over $3,000 in the little over a year we've been fundraising, and we're down to about $1,000 left. That will get us through the end of the year.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

In my head, that voice sounds a lot like Ving Rhames. I dunno. Just go with it.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

I have this dream that someday, someone is going to recognize the extremely long hours and all the work I put in to @equalaccesspublicmedia.org and say, "Damn girl! You built all this with nothing. Here's all the money EAPM needs."

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

I slept late today. (5 a.m. instead of 4:30. I'm usually up and at my desk by 5 a.m.) But I've already updated @equalaccesspublicmedia.org's websites, scheduled the social media the volunteers did for the next few days, scanned slides for today's #AccessFest25 panel one more time, etc.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 17h

Husband just called my handwriting "a lot of scribbles there."

I'd say them are fightin' words, but he's correct.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 18h

Two things you should know about me:

1. I spill coffee on my desk almost every day. Damn hands that don't work right anymore.

2. I still make edits on hard copies in non-photo blue. Old habits die hard.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think enough times would teach me, but sometimes I give fellow "journalists" too much leeway.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, it's enough interactions with the OP that turned into me getting very *cough* interesting responses from her that have convinced me that she has an attitude that I no longer wish to deal with.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

With journalists being tackled to the ground in Chicago and arrested for no goddamn reason, I'd like to link to a piece I wrote last week. I'm actually dusting off the old reporter chops and working on a story right now. So hey, you'll get more out of me soon.

eapmstyleguide.org/9-25-2025-de...

The declaration of an independent Press - The Word / EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide

We, the journalists of the free Press, hold these truths to be self evident.

eapmstyleguide.org

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

I lived in NY. I'm not "trying too hard." That was someone shitting on someone else for the sake of it.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

I don't deal with people shit on other people for the sake of shitting on other people.

Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to hard? Guess living in New York was a problem. I'm happy I no longer live there.

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Equal Access Public Media (EAPM) @equalaccesspublicmedia.org · 1d

You can sue us.
You can jail us.
You can tackle us to the ground.

We still have a job to do.

We'll still investigate. We'll still expose. We'll still report.

We're the journalists who make up the free press.

We're only beholden to one thing:

The facts.

#PressFreedom

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

I personally think this is the correct order.