Librarians continue to be on the front lines of the war against knowledge and humanity, with little help from those in power. From @404media.co www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

SCOOP: Trump Has a Secret List of 24 “Designated Terrorist Organizations.” We Got Some of the Names. The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others. theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of our attorneys in our most recent FOIA lawsuit against ICE. Thank you to Ginger and @kevinok.bsky.social at Free Information Group making this suit possible.

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages. Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office. Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS. It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football. www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...

This is tonight in Philly. Come see if my pants are normal or not.

seems like quite a lot of accounts were suspended from this 😅

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

In Philly and want to know how to get verified information out to people? The News Creator Corps is having me do a Citing Sources training session on Dec. 3! A few tickets left www.eventbrite.com/e/news-creat...

i will be at mozfest with @trevortimm.bsky.social - come say hi!

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

The Office of the Secretary of War acknowledged a series of detailed questions by The Intercept about designated terrorist organizations but would not even say if it knew which DTOs the U.S. is targeting with lethal attacks, much less provide a list of the groups.

Ask us anything: the New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast wants listeners’ questions this week for an episode on the 2026 midterms. What issues, candidates, causes are on your mind? Send questions to [email protected] with the subject line “midterms.” Thanks!

We’re on a 15 minute break. Hopefully we we emerge with a solution to bring you those sweet sweet voir dire quotes about the sandwich guy you’re hungry for.

Jury selection is underway in the trial of the DC “sandwich guy,” but Judge Nichols is doing the whole thing with hushers. Closing voir dire has previously been a violation of 6th Amendment. @nbcnews.com and other outlets have raised objections. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

JSK alum Matt Kiefer and colleague Hannah Harris Green created an open-source database for their investigation into drug overdose trends across the country. It's powerful example of data-driven #journalism serving the public good. Links to their reporting are in the comments. buff.ly/hsVqpsU

I'm very excited to announce `usaspending-orm` a new Python library to ease access to data from the USASpending API. Available now on PyPI and GitHub. Repo link in thread.

The company behind ChatGPT is converting to a for-profit company and settling an investigation by California’s attorney general. Experts and advocates say the company could still exploit its charitable roots. bit.ly/4oJqKnd 📝 @levisu.bsky.social& @khari.bsky.social 📸 Eric Risberg, AP

Shining a light. #foi

Has web Gmail gotten really, really bad in terms of loading and weird lag for anyone else? Particularly on Safari -- not sure if it's a browser thing, extension thing, 139GB of email thing?

"Modi doesn’t really do interviews, so I think that’s unlikely. Kissinger seems even more unlikely at this point." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling. New from @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com: truthout.org/articles/ice...

ICE reportedly removed leaders in Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix and San Diego, replacing at least some with “senior Border Patrol agents,” in an effort to ratchet up deportations. “The five cities are believed to be the first of more to come.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3864929...

Fun fact about this: CourtListener.com is now hard-coded into the Blue Sky code base. If you want to do this for your PDFs, search for CourtListener, and you should be on your way. Looking at you @morisy.bsky.social.

In a nice touch, Tish James cited the texts Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer sent Anna Bower in the motion to DQ her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was just looking at the excellent round-up of how to access state court records around the country created by @allyjar.bsky.social. I'd encourage any lawyers or journalists to update the info for their state (if needed). #courtrecords #courts #journalism docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“A wave of anti-AI ads is appearing on TV screens, billboards, and social media feeds worldwide, as big brands tap into consumers' weariness with the technology.”

I'm still processing the Day 0 meme coins. bsky.app/profile/pwna...

JUST IN: Most detailed description I've seen from DOJ about how it is handling/triaging civil litigation during the shutdown. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Colorado Transparency News: Suppression order in private divorce case; a newspaper is a "citizen"; fee increase for judicial branch records; the First Amendment; Loveland open meetings lawsuit; amusement park inspections; QuiztheVote; more.

New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination. My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...

Busy couple days for police transparency in Portland starting today, Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 9:30 am when City Council will be voting to approve a $300,000 police (and prosecutorial) misconduct settlement.

We need your help! Please take the public records Transparency Alliance survey: forms.gle/mR7FM6LJuBJg...

🚨 Big news 🚨 @sunlightresearch.bsky.social is joining MuckRock! Together, we’re expanding tools, training, and hands-on support for local investigative reporting. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

The web is human civilization's greatest knowledge project. Library of Alexandria x ♾️. Without people to contribute to a healthy web, no amount of computing power will make aggregation of that project good enough to use. And if people can't pay bills by contributing to the web, it will die.

i physically cannot stop myself from posting this even though no one will care but hands down best book for a hand cameo has gotta be "hand book". exact perfect book for a hand. thanks to this hands on google books employee whoever you are!!! (via wikimedia commons)

Got a few minutes waiting for your #FOIA request to get back to you? Take our requester survey — in cooperation with RCFP, NFOIC, Brechner, and other state transparency orgs! — and help us plan a more transparent future: forms.gle/DB6DBfqQuYsz...

(screaming at my computer) IT'S POOP! SAY POOP! www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

Small acts of rebellion can be quite consequential.

Got a few minutes waiting for your #FOIA request to get back to you? Take our requester survey — in cooperation with RCFP, NFOIC, Brechner, and other state transparency orgs! — and help us plan a more transparent future: forms.gle/DB6DBfqQuYsz...

File public records requests? A transparency super group — Reporters Committee, Brechner, NFOIC, MuckRock & more — is working on better tools and resources for the requester community. First step is better understanding problems requesters face. Take the survey to help: forms.gle/wQ1772gX3gth...

“Production will stop, shipments will be frozen, and some companies may not make it”: board game industry braces for further pain after Trump threatens 130% tariffs on China boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Want to find out about censorship in your backyard? Join the FOIAs tour www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Don‘t glaze me, Bro.

The student newspaper was ordered to produce a newspaper without news, a concept so absurd it betrays an intellectual dishonesty fundamentally incompatible with being the dean of a media school. How can any student or faculty member have confidence in this leadership?

In the same way that Lucy withdrawing the football from Charlie Brown is a Black Swan Event. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"...I will well and faithfully perform the duties of a classroom teacher in a professional, independent, objective, and nonpartisan manner..."