For an article about the SAVE Act, I’m looking to speak with trans people about your experiences voting with identification that doesn’t match your gender expression. What issues have you faced? I’d also like to talk to folks who can’t update their birth certificates due to state law. DM me plz!

NEW: More than 340 local U.S. news outlets are limiting @archive.org's access to their journalism. @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I have mapped out what at looks like across the country: www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...

You know who really, really hates data centers? Women.

Applications for the NAHJ-Apple News fellowship are open through May 29. buff.ly/dv8bN5R

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

I spent months speaking to trans politicians and scholars, as well as one victim of viral transphobia, to write about how trans hatred has become a political strategy to gain votes in Brazil for @globalvoices.org and @noornetwork.bsky.social: globalvoices.org/2026/05/21/a...

These findings confirm studies on chatbots and the recent US presidential election that my lab conducted with @proofnews.bsky.social apnews.com/article/ai-c...

god, there is nothing I want to watch less than a fully AI-generated Marvel-in-hell mishmash

NEW: An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

AI-generated podcasts are also money-makers for businesses that generate hundreds, thousands of podcasts and make a profit if they get 20 listens per podcast. As Kate Davies has shown in her post on AI slop podcasts, this leads to disinformation at scale. katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/k...

Board Rule takes you inside a very cool Chicago school that's lobbying the district for a 10-year renewal of its charter. & @maureenkelleher.bsky.social promises an upcoming newsletter will unpack the debate about the frequency of renewals. Subscribe and you won't miss the latter!

Q for my journalism network: is there general interest in a "working with data for movement journalists" virtual workshop or trainings w/ sliding-scale fees? I've been getting a lot of requests for data support/viz/justice-oriented lens on training from folks who are not in the conference circuit.

This is a review essay featuring three books on trans-inclusion in sport: @katiebarnes.bsky.social's Fair Play, Harrison Browne and @rachelbrowne.ca's Let Us Play, and Ellie Roscher and Anna Baethe's Fair Game. I recommend them all! I recommend reading them all together.

Also, this is incredible timing because @katiebarnes.bsky.social's really excellent Fair Play comes out TOMORROW in paperback so no excuse not to grab a copy now. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Young men and women split sharply in 2024. Teachers and students say that rift is reshaping classrooms, friendships and dating. This story was co-published with @the74.bsky.social:

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Minnesota state education officials repeatedly raised concerns about possible fraud in the federally funded meals program during the pandemic, but their supervisors stopped them from taking more aggressive action, according to law enforcement records reports @startribune.com.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

“[Anti-transgender discrimination] was in the bedrock of the country. It might not be super apparent. But it didn’t get excised from the American political body.” At least 10 states have imposed new misdemeanor or felony penalties to target trans people & their support networks, Kae Petrin reports.

If I was a journalist covering extremism and only could read one thing this weekend I'd make it this: revontulet.co/insights/vpx...

NEW: ICE violently arrested a US citizen, filmed high-res videos of the operation + made viral social media content out of him Christian Cerna, LA native, speaks out about his arrest at gunpoint while driving his baby + toddler and the turmoil in his life that followed "They tried to humiliate me"

Crucial reporting from @petrinkae.bsky.social @prismreports.org

NEW: The SIFF Cinema Workers Union says management is delaying contract bargaining until after the festival and are proposing deel cuts to wages, benefits, and hours that'd leave many of their members in "financial desperation." 📽️ My story for @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/uncategorize...

Family homelessness hit a record high in 2024, as the end of federal pandemic assistance and rising inflation pushed more families out of their homes. Now, a handful of school districts are considering their parking lots as a way to shelter homeless students and families.

A growing number of states are using their health agencies as arms of immigration enforcement, requiring them to report recipients of Medicaid to DHS if their legal status is in question. @arjonesreports.bsky.social has the story⤵️

A new crop of state laws are “leveraging criminalization as a tactic against trans people,” Kae Petrin reports. At least 10 states have imposed new misdemeanor or felony penalties since 2022—a stark increase in the use of criminal law to target trans people & their support networks.

New from me. Buried in the staggering numbers of new anti-trans laws is another trend: more and more new laws are creating new criminal penalties. 1 in 4 trans people now lives in a state that has since 2022 created a new misdemeanor or felony penalty related to trans life.

Have you ever wished things could be different? Less painful? More free? Come to Kindred Cove, where transformation is possible, healing is mandatory, and nothing is ever lost. MAKE ME BETTER is my novel about grief, belonging, and control. It's out today everywhere books are sold.

The families going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

found an interesting form the government puts out? ask for the database it feeds. where there's an interesting form there's usually interesting data.

Covering the hantavirus outbreak? Our latest guide breaks down what journalists need to know — without the hype. healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/05...

Thursday afternoon, millions of students at thousands of universities and K-12 schools were locked out of Canvas, a piece of catch-all education technology software that has become the de facto core of many classes. www.404media.co/the-biggest-...

Surviving a gunshot wound, losing a loved one to a shooting, or simply witnessing gun violence can leave people with chronic pain long after the event, according to a new study by Rutgers University.

The deadline to apply for this grant has been extended to Friday May 15th! Please spread the word to young artists who have been impacted by criminalization.

Hollow‑Earth Myths and Nazi UFOs on Tiktok Are Bringing White Supremacism Into the Mainstream | The online Agartha trend blends occult pseudoscience with neo-Nazism and weaponized irony to open a doorway to radicalization.

The US government has targeted thousands of parents for deportation since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. A Guardian analysis of government records has found that, during the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children. 🧵

Residential school denialists are led by about twenty retired academics and lawyers who "form a closed community that cites each other in a loop to suggest legitimacy" thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

For reporting, I'm looking to speak to a Black novelist whose screen adaptation has been scrapped or delayed for a long period of time. If that's you or someone you know, please email me at [email protected].

OpenAI claims they improved safeguards, but ChatGPT gushed with encouragement and tactical advice when we simulated planning a mass shooting. It kept going even after talk of the Uvalde massacre, defending against police gunfire, and more.

The U.S. killed two more people in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. One person is still missing. 193 people are now dead from extrajudicial boat strikes.

For the past year, Hell Gate and Type Investigations have been working the phones, haunting courtrooms, hanging out in strange outerborough political clubhouses, and filing endless requests for transcripts to produce the Courts of Contempt.

“Emmy award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has retained a prominent litigator as her tenure at the prestigious CBS News program heads for an abrupt end — the result of a public clash with newly appointed CBS News head Bari Weiss that has escalated into legal threats.“

I got to do this VERY fun interview, in which I share the worst writing advice I've ever been given and put Literary Calvinism on notice

2/ We found at least 79 children hurt by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation blitz. It’s likely a vast underestimate. Kids were at home, sitting in strollers or attending a daytime protest with their parents. Then, chemicals left them gasping for air.

WHERE ARE THE TEARS FOR AVA CORDERO? You may have heard about the young trans woman who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein and then sued him. But you don't know what happened to her afterward. I do and her story appears in my latest column for Pride Source. pridesource.com/article/ava-...

P.S. this event is open to the public!

Join us for “Behind the Stories: Roundtable with TJA Pulitzer Winners and Finalists” a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists from across the TJA community. 🗓️: Thursday, May 14 ⌚️: 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET RSVP: bit.ly/42qrqot

The Trans Journalists Association is proud to celebrate several of our members who were recognized as Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists in the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes. Read more: bit.ly/4dwOTui

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy invokes misinformation about trans people and so-called “left-wing violence.” TJA urges journalists and newsrooms to avoid repeating inaccurate claims about mass violence in the U.S. Read more: bit.ly/3QUtMte