Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

2/ NewsGuild members are fighting hard for AI protections and now it’s YOUR turn. Visit: NewsNotSlop.org and sign the petition now!

Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop. Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom. Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5. newsguild.org/release-stan...

Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/47O4mT0

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

New York has paused its 34th Street busway project, after the Trump admin threatened to withhold unnamed federal transit funds. It's the latest in a long list of federal interventions on local transit matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Thread 🧵 Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️ 🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

Emily Damari, who spent 471 days in captivity in Gaza, has become a symbol of resilience and a voice for the release of all remaining Israeli hostages. Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, a photographer, has met more than 100 survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, and followed Damari’s journey. nyti.ms/3KCQaEi

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

The Israeli military has destroyed block after block of Gaza City as part of a new ground offensive in what was once the territory’s largest urban center. Though much of the city is still standing, satellite images show Israeli forces are flattening whole areas. nyti.ms/3WbpxZw

An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP

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"The federal Department of Transportation has withdrawn funds from several discretionary grants aimed at improving safety for people for walk and bike." usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/b...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, Andrew Cuomo said the situation in Gaza had become “horrific,” called for an immediate end to the war and gently distanced himself from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. nyti.ms/48eRgzO

UG Solutions (UGS), the firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found. www.bbc.com/news/article... By Andy Verity, Tom Beal & Will Dahlgreen Thread (1/9)

“Equating a call for Palestinian freedom with violent white supremacy is not only wholly inaccurate but profoundly offensive,” per a statement by several student groups. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u... @aimee-ortiz.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence. "In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

What a way to end my work day: arranging for law enforcement to pick up a potato chip bag stuffed with cash.

NEW: Israel targeted and killed five @aljazeera.com journalists in Gaza. They risked everything to document atrocities so we could know the truth. Killing them is an attack on journalism itself. With @nwu.org, we demand accountability: newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

"Friday’s incident was just one of many that have targeted journalists in the roughly 10 weeks since the Trump regime and ICE launched large-scale immigration raids in California." www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...

Also from Meta's GenAI risk standards: "It is acceptable to create statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics." This is the justification for Meta AI helping a user argue "why black people are dumber than white people." www.reuters.com/investigates...

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it. AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement. www.reuters.com/investigates...

The glum predictions reflect President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, which went into effect this month, and a downward revision by New York City tourism officials for what was expected to be a record number of visitors this year. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...

In a letter, top White House officials said they want to ensure the museums’ “unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story” and reflect the Trump’s executive order calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Here is what goes into an accurate weather forecast that reaches your phone and how government cuts could affect that data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

[REPLAY] 📺 C'est une intervention qui avait été à l'époque largement ignorée par la presse française. Elle a refait surface lorsque l'abbé Pierre a été accusé d'agressions sexuelles. Les coulisses d'un moment de télé, racontées par @deslandes.bsky.social‬ 👇 larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/abbe-pierre-...

Une rescapée d’Hiroshima raconte des années de silence : « Cela pouvait être perçu comme quelque chose de honteux d’en parler, pour la personne ou pour sa famille »

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

A federal appeals court allowed Trump to move forward with an order instructing a broad swath of government agencies to end collective bargaining with federal unions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. [...] We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there.”

Losses indirectly attributed to Israeli military included cases where they compelled aid groups to use delivery routes with high risks of theft or looting, ignoring requests for alternative routes, the analysis said. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution or risk having to pay compensation to nations hard hit by climate change.

⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️

Lawyers are making their final arguments this morning in AAUP v. Rubio — the pro-Palestinian student activist deportations case. Some highlights to follow...

"To this day, only a few scholars of the Holocaust, and no institution dedicated to researching and commemorating it, has issued a warning that Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide."