Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Jeff Bezos chose Sir Will Lewis as a “fixer” as was his reputation. -Fixer for Murdoch (phone hacking) -Fixer for Boris Johnson (knighted) We and @froomkin.bsky.social called for a replacement in 2024 (not realizing Bezos had an even more malevolent plan). presswatchers.org/2024/06/will...

One thing I have learned from @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social is that in giving up some awful media, it's key to replace it with better small scale journalism. They have a vetted directory of local news outlets. Share far and wide! www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

#WolffBites: Our "Free Press" lets billionaires like Bezos cut and ruin an important newspaper institution however he pleases. Maybe what he saves by crippling the Washington Post helps subsidize the Melania movie. www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/b...

Grok users prompted the AI chatbot to identify victims from redacted Epstein Files images. Of 31 requests reviewed, Grok generated images for 27, spanning 18 images and one video. X did not respond to requests for comment on Grok's behaviour by time of publication. www.youtube.com/shorts/dhD8O...

Yesterday’s rally at The Post drew a huge crowd to fight for journalism and to #SaveThePost. These layoffs are shameful, and we are all worse off because of them. Still, we will continue to fight for journalism and for a free press.

There's a different way. News is a public good and so the market will undersupply it. It should be subsidized and Americans can each decide which media institutions they want to support. democracypolicy.network/agenda/stron...

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal. @passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

The havoc ICE is wreaking on the First Amendment simply cannot stand in our democracy. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social recount the numerous gruesome attacks on reporters in Minnesota. It goes way beyond the arrest of Don Lemon.

💯🤔✊ "Without facts, there is no truth. Without truth, there is no trust. ..." ... and there can be no facts or trust without honest debate to combat one-sided polemics and uncontested propaganda. Thank you, @mariaressa.bsky.social and @thebulletin.org... h/t @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social

#LocalJournalism is more important than ever. The latest from the El Paso Times @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i....

Last night RU launched 40 missiles/400 drones, destroying substations, transmission lines, power plants 2 DTEK power stations severely damage. Temperatures expected to fall to −20C/-4F by Mon. Without air-defense and diplomatic support, Ukraine’s energy crisis is becoming humanitarian crisis.

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"The Alabama Reflector is an independent nonprofit website covering politics and policy in our state. We look at the problems affecting Alabamians, and search for solutions." I've spent maybe a week in Alabama, tops, but I subscribed to the Reflector's Bluesky feed for links to excellent reporting.

Interview: driven out of Turkey in 2016, writer @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social responded with a book– subtitled The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism – that foreshadowed today’s authoritarian resurgence. Her new work explores how dissidents find new communities in exile www.thenerve.news/p/turkish-ec...

"The crowd cheered for the Americans but jeers & whistles could be heard as Vance & his wife...were shown on the stadium screens..." As @apnews.com reports, videos & eyewitness accounts prove Vance was booed. Shame on news outlets that ignore or mislead about it ... apnews.com/article/vanc...

This is not true. All of the evidence from videos and eyewitnesses show the booing started when Vance appeared on the jumbotron. An accurate headline would say this: "VANCE BOOED AT MILAN CORTINA OPENING CEREMONY"

Free speech ain’t bean bag, in short. Every step of the way, and even after the ratification of the First Amendment, we’ve had to be confrontational in its preservation. A quiet, collegial speech alone cannot preserve itself.

Staggering profits add insult to injury for Bezos’ now-former employees at the Post, who could have kept their jobs in perpetuity if the billionaire valued the Fourth Estate as much as he’s claimed. Latest for @theintercept.com

#LocalJournalism is more important than ever. The latest from the El Paso Times @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i....

Must read report by @mariaressa.bsky.social and colleagues: "Narrative warfare and the breakdown of reality" "Having lived through the collapse of an information ecosystem before, we know that understanding the mechanism is the first step to resisting it." thenerve.co/story/report...

Must Read: How a meme became state policy then kinetic reality in less than a year thenerve.co/story/report...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved to 85 seconds. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social gave the keynote—and went in on why the West is in "hell" and how AI plays a part. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/the-doomsday...

LIVE now 🔴 Join @mariaressa.bsky.social, Julie Posetti, Sarah Hendriks, and Jen Klein for a panel on the threat of online violence against women in public life. With intro remarks by @camillefrancois.bsky.social. Tune in: youtube.com/live/NyRaDdi... @citystgeorges.bsky.social

The Bulletin was honored to welcome Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa as the guest speaker at the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement. Watch the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement to hear her remarks: buff.ly/BGu0Zse

We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social & 90+ other media groups around the world to call on Philippine Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to “right the wrong” and release jailed journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, as she marks 6 years behind bars today. #PressFreedom #FreeFrenchieMayCumpio cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-...

Today marks Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s 6th year behind bars. CPJ and more than 90 media groups around the world have called on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to “right the wrong” and reverse Cumpio’s unjust conviction. cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-... #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio

The WaPo layoffs are a journalistic bloodbath that marks a shift from the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” era back into darkness.

there are 3,300 words in this article, including praise for Britt from two Democratic senators, her husband, and her mom. there are photos of her reading to children that might as well be a campaign ad. zero criticism of her from the left.

After 8 years writing the tech column @washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI. You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com

A sad reminder that so much of the media has succumbed to both-sides coverage. They are afraid of Trump and are paralyzed by the new challenges we face. I started Democracy Docket to be different: Fearless, independent and pro-democracy. Sign up now to support and stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

www.economist.com/leaders/2026... 50% of politicians were corrupt WITH a free press. Cannot imagine how bad it will be without a free press.

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

On 1/25/15, Peter Thiel wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, “I do hope you’re holding up well, & that the cycle won’t go much further…” (At the time, Epstein was dealing with renewed media scrutiny of his child sex crimes & plea deal, as shown below). 1/

“.. at some point, you have to ask: How much is too much? At what point is a line finally crossed? .. At what point are you no longer supporting your country, but supporting one man, and all of the ugliness he brings to the table?” @goodyk.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/entert...

Here's Epstein emailing to NYT journalist Landon Thomas Jr talking about Murdoch and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... #doj #epstein #files #murdoch

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines.” But records obtained by @theguardian.com + @apnews.com — stemming from a FOIA lawsuit filed by @rcfp.org attorneys on the outlets' behalf — tell a different story.

4/ Here are some news outlets that got the story right:

HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.

Bezos isn't just using his power to help crush the free press, and Amazon is not simply profiting from its government contracts. Amazon and the Trump administration have converged on a shared program enabled by mass surveillance, dehumanization, and the elimination of opposing voices

A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID Our case now moves into discovery As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN

This week's Post layoffs hit a chord for me, so I wrote something personal, timed with the anniversary of my own layoff a year ago. "What is it that they say, again? Journalism is the thing you love that doesn’t love you back." mirandacgreen.substack.com/p/where-do-t...

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

I was in East Palestine this week for the 3-yr anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Here's the compilation of testimonies residents in/around EP shared w/ me @therealnews.com I beg you to listen & share their stories w/ everyone you can therealnews.com/biden-trump-...

The President of the United States is racist in deed and word. Legacy media has whitewashed and normalized his racism for decades. POTUS is now even posting Obamas-as-apes videos. Not calling out racism enables racism. “Normalization warriors are central to fascist creep”. -Jason Stanley

FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.

Past six days in Dayton have been similar:

this is why I will die on the hill of "every outlet needs a public editor"—explaining how the news works to the public is actually so important and has been completely abandoned by most organizations.

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...