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Dandelion is running out of time. They’re going to kill this sweet senior dog if we don’t find her a foster. Please, please repost! 🙏

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

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Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out. In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Please take a moment to read this first hand account from a 20yo soldier’s POV at Kent State. Lessons not learned by the 🟠 regime as they put more young soldiers in a precarious situation. Two screenshots from Tom Joad’s harrowing recounting of that dark day.👇🏽 Thank you, @cajunblue.bsky.social 🙏🏽

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"People who regularly follow local news are more likely to participate in politics, including voting in local elections, contacting a local public official, and attending a town hall meeting." Very interesting read about the current #localmedia landscape. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/amer...

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“our paper has largely shown that a strong local press is an important part of how society holds off public corruption” www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 4 days ago • 693 comments

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 328 comments

That’s how you write a push alert www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

PC409 exempts media from dispersal orders. The law changed, in part, after LAPD detained multiple reporters, including me, during demonstrations against a sweep of an Echo Park homeless encampment in 2021. I’m not there but this seems legally dubious…

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

I went into this prepared to be pissed off but… This is a fair and even handed evaluation of potential pros and cons of protest that acknowledges 1. Trump does not need a pretext to do awful stuff and 2. Organizers can’t police everyone.

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Very clearly a deliberate targeting of the reporter.

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed." The letter:

submitted 8 days ago • 120 comments

Just want to shout out the reporters and photojournalists of the @latimes.com. They have a shitty owner, and as a result there are far fewer of them than a few years before, but on this story, as with the fires, they are giving it their all.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

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I wanted to share this so that people know how dangerous these less lethal munitions are. I left the protest early last night to take my friend and coworker, Nick Stern, to the ER. He is having surgery this morning to remove embedded shrapnel. These protesters came to his rescue when he went down ❤️.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

🧵 worth reading

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In LA, officers deployed tear gas and shot rubber bullets at protesters fighting against ICE raids. Here’s a reminder that those anti-protest weapons—which are billed as relatively safe—can actually cause serious harm.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 9 days ago • 735 comments

Got news our university president received a letter filled with a white powder. She’s fine, but it sure sounds like a clear threat. My guess is that the current attacks on higher ed are inspiring bad behavior. This is not OK. #AcademicSky

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500. Five days after his pharmacy visit last year, Cole had a severe asthma attack and died. nbcnews.to/4mM9cGV

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NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

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To steal @rincewind.run shtick, here’s a Terry Pratchett quote that feels very apropos: “Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.” (from Mort)

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What helps people trust the news? It's not just facts, it’s who’s sharing them and how. I was on a panel at the GBH Media Summit last month and wrote up a few reflections, including why local messengers and “newsfluencers” matter more than we think. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/five-takea...

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Journalism in high school saved my life, got me into college, wounded me, made me who I am. You’ll never regret it. Kudos to these kids, and to the funders.

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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I don't think that an event slated for a few billion years in the future should be considered a valid rationale for being a selfish dick over the short term. bsky.app/profile/mich...

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The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

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Across the US, state lawmakers, primarily Republicans the past few years, are trying to undermine ballot initiatives adopted by voters. “This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism," one expert said. /By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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This is some of the best YIMBY messaging and policy explanation out there.

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