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How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 15 hours ago • 78 comments

When was the last time America (more or less) collectively aligned on something? Was it George Floyd? If so, what do we think contributed to that? Trying to understand what are the components that better unite vs. divide us as a people when it comes to both moral compass and common sense things.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

And we wonder why the public is semi removed from the reality of what’s going on. How can news orgs better distribute info amidst a crisis in simple, plain English and cut to the chase!? Ask for volunteers to help distribute info if you’re understaffed and can’t reach audience. Figure out a plan!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

A good plan is to every day reconfirm with at least three other people that, "None of this is 'normal.'"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I have been going off about how the performance of objectivity goes awry for so gd long and even I am aghast that we are doing it with NAZI SALUTES I mean COME ON

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yes. News organizations must stand up for the First Amendment, for the ability to serve as an essential press on power, and to show power what it cannot get away with. We must be pro-democracy. apnews.com/article/ap-l...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I hope every single employee of the AP is implementing rigorous digital security protections capable of withstanding intrusion from state actors. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

WH comes out blazing against AP lawsuit, calling it “frivolous and demented” and saying that “a severe, debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted their peanut-sized brains.” Full statement of WH spox Steven Cheung below 👇🏼

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: We’re cyber fucked: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

When Trump names unqualified loyalist Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and purges our top military leaders, it raises rational fears that he wants a military willing to train its guns on American citizens upon his orders.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Mass #surveillance in the US has historically targeted racial and ethnic minorities. Experts warn this pattern could intensify under a second Trump term, with a focus on people of color and immigrants. @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @raqueldelerme.bsky.social @usc.edu #deportation

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the eastern bloc during the cold war

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 473 comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

There ought to be a dozen stories every day on our major news websites about the essential workers who have been fired by Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities to end all DEI programs or risk losing federal funding. The DoE has already canceled some $600 million in grants for teacher training on race, social justice and other topics as part of its crusade against “woke” policies.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The NYTimes apparently didn’t even consider Bannon’s Nazi salute at CPAC to be newsworthy until the far-right French politicians tried to distance themselves from it. And even then, the headline is “Bannon Salute, Echoing Musk, Draws Criticism from French Right”.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users. Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

When M. Gessen and Bret Stephens are 95% in agreement, that seems worth paying attention to… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Oh happy day! 😀 ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Steve Glazer former Cal state senator lays out the problems of news industry taking ‘charity’ from Google, FB etc . ‘Be careful folks’ . Google etc never paid for the damage done. Much shifting in seats at the Knight Media Forum from Google boosters …whole session youtu.be/BobDyZHFzOk?...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Patriotic Americans must get their minds around the idea that mass protests likely will be necessary to stop a Trump-Musk dictatorship. Consider what outrage would get you into the streets. Keep bottled water and snacks handy. But mostly, get psychologically ready to defend your country.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

A former “Goon Squad” deputy described how he and others in the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department regularly entered homes without warrants, beat people to get information and illegally seized evidence that helped convict people of drug crimes. mississippitoday.org/2025/02/21/e...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

People not knowing this is an indictment on mainstream media and journalism for refusing to prioritize products and services that make sense for the general public over the past decade. We need a complete overhaul of how we provide information to the public and who gets editorial control/say.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

An important reminder, since people are wrongly freaking out: Small private planes crash all the time. The Philly crash, the Alaska crash, this one — all count as such. There are 1,000 small plane crashes a year. This is normal. Them making headlines is what is scaring you.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

This editorial, "Secrecy, deception erode public trust," has been taken offline. But here's an archived version, preserved by @archive.org for everyone to read: webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20250219...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Newspapers across the country owned by the news media company Lee Enterprises were unable to print, had problems with their websites and published smaller issues after a cyberattack last week, the company said.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

This is what local news orgs should be doing now: "In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions. The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding. NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs" www.al.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments