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Still can't believe that The Odyssey opened with a land acknowledgement delivered in dactylic hexameter, followed by an apology in English for the flagrant linguistic appropriation.

In which @anthonymkreis.bsky.social reaches offscreen and pulls The National Archives into view à la Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall.

The 21st-century klan wears red caps instead of white hoods, consumes Fox News and alt-right podcasts instead of The Searchlight and other klan publications, and has traded secrecy for center stage. It has achieved what the 1920s klan could only aspire to: control over every branch of government.

and this is why @jontheanthroman.bsky.social rocks! anthropomics2.blogspot.com/2026/06/why-...

Targeting noncombatants is a war crime. Journalists are noncombatants. Aid workers are noncombatants. The overwhelming majority of people living in neighborhoods that have been flattened by the IDF are noncombatants. There is no justification, legal, moral or otherwise, for these heinous crimes.

Amal Khalil, the Lebanese journalist at Al Akhbar Newspaper, who was targeted and killed by the IDF yesterday, had shared with ARIJ her testimony on the explicit threats she received from Israel for her revelatory work www.linkedin.com/posts/arijne...

It's also a question that grad students and contingent faculty have been asking for a while now.

Sign this petition to help free well-respected journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. A contributor to numerous outlets, including The New York Times, PBS, and Al Jazeera English, he is jailed in Kuwait on vague charges for sharing news on social media. #FreeAhmed

I find it incredible — as in literally not credible — that when the president orders fast food delivery in DC, the driver who shows up is the same person who's shown up in multiple videos with Rs from multiple states. Grammy may be a gig worker, but she's also on the payroll.

THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE. Unless we do nothing. If we're unwilling to stop the madness — and the madman — this IS who we are.

Like Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." As an undergrad in the early 90s, I took an interdisciplinary class called "Hate," co-taught by a cultural historian and a social psychologist. Things today are, like, 87 times worse. (95% CI [1, 999], p = .00001)

You know who else wanted Arab states to help pay for his war on Iran? Saddam Hussein. 😐 www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Stellar reporting by @lewisgoodall.com with jaw-dropping interviews & thoughtful commentary. Watch the entire video. Pay attention to segments on the right-wing mediaverse (27:47) and so-called "patriot economy" (37:34). The infrastructure + demand that's been built ain't going away anytime soon!

A new bill from @wyden.senate.gov and @balint.house.gov would give real teeth to an important federal law meant to protect journalists from searches and raids. We’re proud to endorse this update to the Privacy Protection Act.

Every boulevard, bridge, building, park, plaza, library, and school that's been named after an abuser should be renamed in honor of someone they abused. Dolores Huerta Highway has a nice ring to it. Sí, se puede.

Still true.

If they were capable of shame, they probably wouldn't be working for a paper where this biased, bullshit framing happens on the regular.

Hey media people, if you're going to quote Sen. Petersen's claim that "The FBI has the records," don't you think you should ask him WHAT records? Seems like an important detail.

Appalling behavior from @nbcwashington.com

"Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom."

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Trump has turned the US military into the Make-A-Settler-Colonial-Wish Foundation.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Senior foreign correspondents spent nearly 4 decades drinking the Neocon Kool-Aid. They are almost all useless. The younger ones haven't been anywhere and don't know anything. But at least we have reputable media outlets that relentlessly seek to uncover the truth no matter the cost, right? Oh.

I've seen this movie more than once before, and it doesn't have a happy ending. Stop the madness. www.citizen.org/news/congres...

@marisakabas.bsky.social has identified the central paradox of our time: What happens when an unstoppable evil meets an immovable stupid?

Corruption is a bipartisan initiative.

once a year the brunchlords at Semafor host a "restoring trust in news" conference where they unironically platform most of the people responsible for destroying trust in news, then lob softball questions at them this year's lineup is a real doozy (notice the complete absence of indie media)

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Hey @wcvb5.bsky.social -- why are you pretending that this story appeared out of nowhere, or, even worse, that your reporters investigated it? I spent weeks digging through these documents and doing actual reporting for our nonprofit news outlet @brooklinenews.bsky.social

"the prosecution’s narrative sits in noticeable tension with facts currently reflected in the public record" There's a word for that: lying. The inJustice Department is waging LIEfare.

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

📣 WE'RE HIRING! KJZZ is looking for a reporter to cover environmental issues across Arizona and the Southwest.

وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ ٱللَّهُۖ وَٱللَّهُ خَيْرُ ٱلْمَـٰكِرِينَ

Hey @timmarchman.bsky.social every time I read descriptions of the June incident, I can't help but wonder if Ross broke the rear window, reached in, and tased Muñoz-Guatemala, CAUSING him to accelerate (and drag Ross) as his muscles involuntarily contracted and his body went rigid. 🤔

It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.

From a @columjournreview.bsky.social interview with actor and free press activist John Cusack. www.cjr.org/the-intervie... "...not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important." Very important. Too often Ignored.

I must once again remind you that 43 out of 45 US presidents have ordered military force against foreign adversaries without a formal declaration of war. It's going to take more than another impeachment to unfuck this place.

An extreme disregard for US law has become the de facto US government policy, while our record on international law speaks for itself... and says nothing reassuring.

Now is really not the time to sow distrust and punch down on independent media. It’s particularly galling to do in light of how we’ve actually gotten news and information about the latest global conflicts and federal corruption in the U.S.

All I want for Xmas is a @karaswisher.bsky.social WOTD desk calendar with 365 days of glorious name-calling: Thirsty Dingbat Unctuous Toady Termagant Boy Men Giant Man Babies Space Karen Chaos Monkey Uncle Satan Musk-splainer Feckless etc. (Too bad I'm on still on Santa's naughty list.)

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

"Accountability journalism" is a professionalized form of truth-seeking and truth-telling that has very little in common with the self-serving suck-uppery of so-called "access" journalism.

... at which time the turkey was perma-pardoned for all federal crimes—past, present, and future—and appointed to a Cabinet-level position so it could enrich itself with impunity in perpetuity. 🦃🤡

The loudest voices are often the wrongest. Bill Gates is one of them. @dfenton.bsky.social recommends a clear course of action: "TALK MORE ABOUT HOW CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WE LOVE. Spend more time and money reaching the public with the truth." 1/2