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This is a gift to everyone in academia. And a lot of the rest of us. zenodo.org/records/1569...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

URGENT Save Patches! This 1 yr old puppy loves cuddling & tug of war! Super friendly & well behaved. And yet she’s on the list to be killed very soon. Begging for reposts so someone who can foster ot adopt will see her 🙏🙏🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Without the paywall. 👇 archive.ph/2025.06.08-1...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“When I see what’s happening now with ABC, with CBS, and with other companies that are bending the knee, that reminds me of that situation in Hungary,” he added. (April) www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-hu...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE. The Trump administration shipped a guy to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial, in conditions worse than we treat even convicted serial killers, because he was in a picture standing next to someone with tattoos. LITERALLY NO OTHER EVIDENCE.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Several states have adopted shield laws to protect providers of gender affirming care, including from out-of-state actors who want to punish them for treating ban-state residents. Some states cover repro but not GAC. Know your state’s law & advocate for your state leaders to strengthen protections

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Because Trump Admin has heartlessly cut funding for LGBTQ child suicide hotline program, now is a good time to give to the Trevor Project, as I did today. www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just plain evil

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"There’s more footage of conflict than there’s ever been, but a lot of it is fake." 👇🏾 An important read & a reminder to be discerning about what you share online - especially during breaking news events. #NewsLiteracy

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jfc Lander, as he's being cuffed: "You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. You don't have the — I'm not obstructing; I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. [...] You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant."

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Repugnant stats

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

New from 404 Media: cops in California investigated what they called an "immigration protest" with AI-powered cameras, according to new data we obtained. Data also shows local cops around the country tapping into California cameras on behalf of ICE. This is illegal www.404media.co/california-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

In June 2025 the Nat'l Park Svc put up a sign at #Manzanar Nat'l Historic Site asking visitors to report "any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans..." www.sfgate.com/california-p... What follows are things that happened there in June 1943, 1944, & 1945:

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Previous studies showed how Republicans share more misinformation. This was disputed by some, blaming fact-checking biases. Enter Community Notes. Guess what: "2.3 times more posts by Republicans are flagged as misleading compared to posts by Democrats." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is horrible. If you don’t know about know about Joshua trees, you should look them up. They are amazing but also at risk for extinction.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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! 🙏

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 436 comments

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...

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

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 🙏🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

"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...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“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...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

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 7 days ago • 692 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 9 days ago • 327 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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 10 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 10 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.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Very clearly a deliberate targeting of the reporter.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 2539 comments

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 11 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 11 days ago • 23 comments