DHS filed an answer today in the lawsuit Los Angeles Press Club filed against them for violently assaulting journalists, legal observers and protesters. Basically two dozen pages that look like this. Days I'm glad I'm not a lawyer ...

Officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in a U.S. immigration enforcement operation can't detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren't obstructing authorities, a judge ruled Friday.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

As the NFL playoffs begin, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. https://youtu.be/vLkyULxrWiE?si=yOBm-M2Y7pcokmRO

Sending this out again because for some reason David Carson's @pdpj.bsky.social photo didn't make it. www.stltoday.com/sports/profe...

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...

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

The green shoots are sometimes hard to see. But they are there.

Free article: Organizations are organizing food drives, donating proceeds from sales and offering volunteers to prepare for the loss of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beginning Saturday.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

I just canceled my Disney+ and Hulu subscription, and cited ABC's decision to censor @jimmykimmel.com as the reason. Will resubscribe when ABC's parent company shows that they are willing to resist Trump's fascist regime #CancelDisney #CancelHulu

The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.

This company stole my work and I’ve submitted my name to the class action lawsuit. Details on how to do that are in this thread:

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.

CPJ is actively investigating new online Israeli smear campaigns targeting a dozen Palestinian journalists — the same precursor to Israel's murder of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on August 10. The international community must act.🚨 cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

THE GUARDIAN: How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @theguardian.com ‪@hahauenstein.bsky.social‬ #photojournalism #journalism

Have you been following the saga of the lonely hedge fund who keeps offering more money for the newspaper he wants — really wants — and it doesn't work? www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/alde... By @joshuabenton.com

On Friday, August 8, LAPD arrested several photojournalists. Be careful when covering protests. Tap the link below from the National Press Photographers Foundation to understand your rights when you're out on the street covering the day's events in your community.

Ferguson holds a prayer, reflection, and healing ceremony dedicated to injured officer Travis “T.J.” Brown, a year after he was hurt trying to arrest a protester. www.stltoday.com/news/multime...

11th anniversary of Michael Brown shooting & start of #Ferguson protests. Compared to past years, the crowd was small, still some strong anti-police vibes, but a Canfield resident thanked a cop she liked with a snow cone she was making & selling to people www.stltoday.com/news/multime...

UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year. Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders. This is why we need Medicare for All.

The average price of a pound of ground beef rose to $6.12 in June, up nearly 12% from a year ago, according to U.S. government data. The average price of all uncooked beef steaks rose 8% to $11.49 per pound. https://tinyurl.com/muauynzs

Experts from India, Belarus, Nigeria, Mali, Paraguay and the Philippines explain how they are building tools to bridge gaps between newsrooms and audiences to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news. Read more from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social ⤵️

Former U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, Richard Callahan, "masked or hooded law enforcement officers is not what our country is about." www.stltoday.com/opinion/lett...

LOOKING FOR VIDEO/PHOTO EVIDENCE: - No Kings protest in Downtown LA/City Hall - June 14 from 5:43pm-5:49pm (probably on earlier side) - Spring St near Temple St There's a line of police at intersection who shoot LLMs, lots of press around. DM me or email pressrights [at] lapressclub [dot] org.

Federal workers: If you have information to share with us, we want to hear from you. We take your privacy seriously. We collect tips using encrypted forms and apps, meaning your messages can’t be read by anyone other than you and ProPublica.

The death toll in Texas rose to 79 on Sunday afternoon and forecasters warned that downpours would continue in areas already reeling from the deadly floods. Dozens of people remained unaccounted for, including 10 girls from a summer camp on the Guadalupe River. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4knBZ1S

Happy Fourth of July.

Fireworks light up the St. Louis skyline and the Gateway Arch on Thursday, July 3, 2025. #STL More pix here www.stltoday.com/news/multime...

Federal budget megabill would shift billions in cost to Missouri taxpayers www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.

I wrote a similar response to a similar argument in a libertarian law pub —just came out! The arguments are well-trod by this point; my essay responds to a specific provocation. Look: the structures for discourse are different now. Sensemaking changed. So: we adapt. lawliberty.org/content-mode...

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

Big news! Bravo to the all who stood up for the rights of photographer Anthony Orendorff, arrested Thursday by LAPD. Still haven't seen video. But prosecutors rejecting charges suggests LAPD held him in jail for 4 days just to punish him for taking photos in public. #JournalismIsNotACrime

For journalists covering protests in Los Angeles, join us for this online safety training on Monday. Colin Pereira, chief strategist on journalist safety for @pressfreedom.bsky.social (CPJ) will lead this session. All welcome, but will have some CA local focus. tinyurl.com/cpjsafety

News stories that include graphic content, use episodic framing of individual incidents with little or no context, leave out potential solutions, and rely only or mostly on law enforcement sources instead of impacted community members can cause harm on all three levels, the study determined.

Here's the lawsuit filed by @lapressclub.bsky.social and @statuscoupnews.bsky.social against LAPD*. Thank you attorneys who powered through weekend. This is a first step. More when there's more... Full complaint: drive.google.com/file/d/1kOFl... *Technically City of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief.

Me & @kirkman.bsky.social spent months looking into a new firm called Truehold, now one of the largest real estate investors in #STL. Its biz model: Buys houses & offers to lease them back to sellers. It's a strategy that's faced scrutiny when used by other firms www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

Heads up. Please read. The Marines and National Guard shouldn’t be deployed to protests in LA, Texas or anywhere else. But since they are…

"If C2PA is deployed in its current state, it can lead to incredibly serious problems. It would become the start of something with a massive domino effect" An essential read for those interested in the authenticity and integrity of‬ digital media

LAPD appears to break several laws here (mainly one I helped write) in treatment of CNN. Their discipline process usually goes nowhere, but there's already an internal affairs case open. LAPD officer headshots and info are on this site, helping ID likely suspect: watchthewatchers.net/lapd/cop/312...

Silentó, the rapper known for his viral hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges related to the fatal shooting of his cousin.

If an LAPD officer responds this way they are unfit for duty. Maybe they're tired, untrained, incompetent, or their mom died today. Doesn't matter, they need to be removed from field. If I wore a badge, I wouldn't feel safe serving with them. Why tolerate it in their ranks? (I only have theories.)

Deploying troops creates a shit magnet, and now everyone looking to start some shit has a place to focus their energy.

The Infowars founder declared bankruptcy after families sued him for defamation and won more than a billion dollars in damages, but Jones has yet to pay them a dime.

STLPR: A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist tested AI. What he found troubled him www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...? @stlpublicradio.bsky.social‬ ‪ ‪@dtowski.bsky.social‬ @pdpj.bsky.social‬ #photojournalism #journalism #photography

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