BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Hey look, it me! Giving out some simple, easy, high-level device security tips that can help protect you! (It's giving the news segment on Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, iykyk)

Excellent reporting from @leahfeiger.bsky.social on ICE's strategy that they've been trying to hide.

@freedom.press is making moves and takin' names

RESCHEDULE ALERT: I'm still hosting this panel, it's just moved to this Thursday Feb 12, 12noon - 1pm ET! See you there

This is literally all I will have to say about the football game. Well also: te amo Benito.

I'm moderating this panel on device and data security in the face of arrest and seizure. Come through!

Uncalled for, beyond disgusting, sick, cruel and racist, all at the same time.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

"The public interest in protecting First Amendment rights cannot be overemphasized." An important decision out of Oregon everyone should read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Here's our team's take on how to use Signal group chats safely from a digisec perspective.

I was interviewed for this great lil piece on how to use Signal safely and responsibly by @steviebonifield.bsky.social for @theverge.com. TLDR Signal has NOT been hacked by the FBI but public groups are *public* "Chat, if you wouldn't say it in court, don't say it in here". tinyurl.com/bdx5affn

There is a lot of discussion about the future of news in Pittsburgh in the wake of the Post-Gazette’s closure. Letrell Crittenden weighs in that community voices must be at the center of the evolving media landscape.

Schumer said this the morning after TX dems wiped out the reddest district in the country over the weekend... If you're feeling like that was a turn around moment for the Dems, well, ol' Sen CS really wants to make sure that it isn't. He'll find a way. Democrats don't want to win elections.

“.. the largest expansion of such detention capacity in US history.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Journalists should "disable biometrics when they expect to be in a situation where they expect a possible search," @freedom.press' Martin Shelton told @theintercept.com.

We’re launching a pop-up newsletter to keep tabs on everything going on with ICE - including @wired.com reporting and essential coverage from other outlets, plus analysis to help you make sense of the chaos. Sign up here, first edition next week:

old billy's still got it

Recording police or ICE agents "is an act of journalism, no matter who does it. If those recording are not journalists themselves, their relationship with the press is symbiotic," @freedom.press' @seth-stern.bsky.social writes. "They’re journalists’ sources — even whistleblowers."

fucking sickening is right.

I regret to inform you that a DC Examiner reporter who tweeted that Border Patrol was leaving the Twin Cities has deleted her post, and as a result I deleted my post sharing what she reported

We've been selected as a 2026 Report for America newsroom partner. We'll hire a reporter to investigate the effects of modern industry in Appalachia across environmental, economic and other systemic impacts that make up our region’s current dystopian landscape.

I'll be sharing a few more fundraisers from the twin cities, and once again, I am only sharing those that are vouched for by people I personally know who are on the ground. This is a bail fund that helps people who were arrested and are facing charges.

I cannot say this enough as a Jewish Pittsburgher: FUCK BARI WEISS

An office printer was used to surveil IT contractor accused by FBI of retaining natsec info The "employer could see not only the typical metadata stored by printers...but it could also view the actual contents of the printed materials — in this case...the screenshots themselves." @theintercept.com

frontlinedignity.org have been working hard to lay the groundwork for local PGH community protection from and resilience to ICE. Check them out!

“It is not stalking to follow a law enforcement officer to document what they’re up to — that’s constitutionally protected conduct,” @seth-stern.bsky.social tells @salon.com.

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I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

Rojava, the largest actually-democratic project in the world, has entered what might (or might not) be a last desperate stand.

If your phone is seized by law enforcement, your digital belongings could have been copied and scrutinized. Learn about your rights and how to prepare your devices before you head out on assignment:

US journalists covering protests and ICE raids: We've got your back!

Riddle me this: if Elephant Birds really went extinct in the late 1600s, why does this one look exactly like Stephen Miller? #stephenmiller is simply a big bird in a man suit. He must be hunted for sport until extinction.

"Abolish ICE" is so mainstream, here's a lawyer who had high-level roles in DHS (parent agency of ICE) under Bush and Obama saying something even bigger: "Maybe DHS was a bad idea."

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Major safety update for journalists -- and protesters! Wrong goggles make you LESS safe. If shattered, they become shrapnel in your eye. Z87+ rating was long recommended, but maybe inadequate for ICE weapons. 👇 (Crisis Ready Media is new on Bluesky but legit. Chris Post leads their trainings.)

evergreen

nothing more properly honors Scott's memory than a crude cartoon drawn incompetently by a plagiarism robot

“For every blue-collar Dem we lose in western PA, we will pick up 2 moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philly, and you can repeat that in OH & IL & WI.” << Schumer, 2016. Anyone still listening to this man about election strategy is 2nd to the wall after all the ICE agents and Trump officials.

A reporter doing her best in impossible times, posts an essay on how hard this is both for her and her sources. The federal government then raided @hannahnatanson.bsky.social 's home. My heart goes out to her and her family. No one should feel the yoke of the govt because they talked to people.

You'd think the Post could publicly stick up for its reporter, who just had their house raided by the Trump admin, a little more than saying "[We are] reviewing and monitoring the situation" !

Zero percent chance this is true.

FUCK THIS FUCKING NOISE

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

I swear, JD wears more eyeliner everytime I see him.

use your eyes www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs