Must-read by journalist Mario Guevara for @bittersouth.bsky.social: "On the afternoon of Saturday, June 14, 2025, my life changed completely. Just as I was doing a regular news coverage, I was arrested by the police in the state of Georgia."

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

what the fuck is “transgender ideology”

Without offering an opinion on the quality of WSJ's sourcing, we would note that extreme dishonesty has been a longstanding problem with administration sources. Good journalism is served by reporters keeping that in mind in the course of their reporting on this administration.

The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.

It's only political violence if it targets white conservatives, otherwise it's the way things are.

Racism is a violence that's perfectly acceptable to way too many. andscape.com/features/keh...

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Under Trump, the criminal legal system now targets another population: Green card holders. While there is little public data about the number of lawful permanent residents targeted at ports of entry, an uptick in reports leaves many fearful of traveling abroad, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports.

Massachusetts plans for antisemitism education spark backlash over Anti-Defamation League’s influence, @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social reports. State recommendations face pushback from educators & advocates who warn that the ADL’s influence may limit academic freedom & distort historical perspectives.

I’ve been working on this for months! It is now out. Read. Read. Read. The stories I collected reveal the extent of bias tactics in U.S. newsrooms, even those we wouldn’t expect Palestine to be muzzled in. Thank you for trusting me to report!

A new report from @prismreports.org reveals how mainstream newsrooms across the country have been silencing journalists—particularly those who are Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim—in their reporting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

‘Here, no bombs fall. But hope does’: Palestinians displaced in Egypt long for home in Gaza, writes Athar Ihab Abu Samra in a new dispatch. Some Palestinians fled to Egypt to escape the genocide, while others were visitors stuck there after Oct. 7. All are now in endless exile.

🚨 Seattle Council voted 7-2 to expand police surveillance despite: • 1,000+ residents opposed • 60+ community groups against it • Civil rights office said no This is democratic deficit in action, ignoring overwhelming public opposition for surveillance state expansion.

A racist criminal system is now being leveraged at ports of entry to arbitrarily harass and detain noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents and green card holders, advocates warn. @vera.org @nlgnews.bsky.social @immcouncil.org @nipnlg.bsky.social prismreports.org/2025/09/09/u...

today @prismreports.org is launching its partnership with Visualizing Palestine, featuring this reporting on media bias from the incredible Laura Albast. i'm proud as hell of prism's work every day, but i'm especially proud of this; please give it a read. prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

NEW: Today, Prism published a year-long investigation with Visualizing Palestine, spotlighting media bias on Palestine and amplifying voices from top U.S. newsrooms. prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

"The Commission is rushing through recommendations that call for Massachusetts schools to employ a contentious and widely criticized definition of antisemitism." "We've broken the facade of the ADL being a civil rights organization." #Massachusetts #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

If you read one thing today, let it be this stunning piece of journalism from Laura Albast about the pro-Israel bias that exists across mainstream newsrooms that was edited over months with great care from my brilliant @prismreports.org colleague @sfatima.bsky.social prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

Today, Prism is publishing a monthslong investigation by @laubast.bsky.social in partnership with Visualizing Palestine, that takes a deep dive into the experiences of repression that Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists face in the U.S. while attempting to cover the genocide.

A monthslong @prismreports.org investigation by @laubast.bsky.social reveals pro-Israel bias at the highest levels in U.S. newsrooms. Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim journalists said they felt dehumanized and were questioned over stories even mentioning Palestine. With Visualizing Palestine:

As a construction worker i feel a couple times a week at least i have to deal with things that would break an average person physically and/ or mentally. I don't know about single person in this industry that isn't depressed

@moderation.bsky.app has labeled our story as “graphic” & censored an interview with a physician about Gaza. If it’s too graphic for Bluesky to see, you can only imagine what it’s like for the children Dr Syed treats to live through. You can access front-lines movement journalism at prismreports.org

NEW: FIU workers were directed to secretly deliver equipment to “Alligator Alcatraz.” Amazing investigative work by the brilliant @alexmar.bsky.social prismreports.org/2025/08/11/f...

It’s almost as tho a certain kind of establishment liberal would prefer to work w fascists than to pay a slightly higher tax on the upper bracket of their capital gains

Nadera Mushtha, author of our recent story on starvation by pricing, is a writer & poet from Gaza. She is fundraising for her family & community. You can donate to support her using the link below ⤵️ gofund.me/e5af764e

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

When we resist AI in our news, treat reporting as essential labor, honor fellow workers, & acknowledge our shared conditions & concerns, we center the dignity of people fighting injustice. Help sustain Prism's life-affirming journalism by donating today! 💫 secure.actblue.com/donate/prism...

The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

For my debut in @prismreports.org, I talked to Harvard students about how they are coping with the Trump administration’s treatment of Chinese internstional students. Thank you to all the students who spoke with me & to @sfatima.bsky.social for the opportunity. prismreports.org/2025/07/14/c...

I had not heard of this documentary until now, but based on this Guardian review of it, it seems incredibly important. A system at 200% capacity and 1/3 its official staffing levels is a system destined to be brutal, but Alabama clearly goes above and beyond.

"Sayfollah 'Saif' Musallet was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers while he was on his family’s farm in an area near Ramallah. "Another Palestinian man, 23-year-old Razek Hussein al-Shalabi, was fatally shot during the attack and was left to bleed to death." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

READ: Palestinians screamed for months: Israel is turning U.S.-run “aid” sites into killing fields. No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...

The U.S. is the only wealthy country in the world that doesn’t have a universal health care system. As a result, the U.S. spends the most on health care as a proportion of GDP, while having the worst health outcomes among those wealthy countries.

Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.

Breaking: Puerto Rico appears to be about to pass into law a bill that would ban transgender care up to the age of 21, which would be devastating for trans people on the island, given they cannot as easily travel to get care elsewhere.

Breaking: In the span of about 30 min, BPD officers who arrived at the scene of a behavioral health crisis went from telling a family member they had no ability to enter the home to breaking down the front door with Taser in hand. w/ @darreonna.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

Ontario environment minister Todd McCarthy asked the federal government not to reintroduce a bill that would enshrine clean drinking water rights for First Nations communities Now several dozen First Nations in Ontario are calling for McCarthy to resign globalnews.ca/news/1128210...

The foster care system is an extension of white supremacy. Breaking up Black families keeps our power at bay which keeps us down. And foster care is the gateway to the criminal justice system for parents and children. And of course, OF COURSE, its about the money.

She refused to induce her labor. She ended up losing custody of her newborn son. A N.C. woman’s story shows how the child welfare system perpetuates white supremacy and settler colonialism, abolitionists say. “Family separation is embedded in the foundation of the U.S.” Read on @prismreports.org:

‘We waited a year, then they shut the door’: Iranian students are being denied U.S. visas, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. Students say their dreams are crushed & lives are on hold after the Trump admin invoked a special authority typically used for national security to issue blanket visa rejections.

Most dangerously, the NYT published false claims of mass rape of Israelis & beheaded babies, despite internal & external concerns about the reporting. These lies continue to circulate globally, further manufacturing consent for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. prismreports.org/2024/10/09/f...

A free and independent media is a key ingredient of democracy, but that’s not what we have in the US. Over the past 2 years, as Americans watched a genocide unfold in real time on their phones, mainstream media outlets acted in direct contrast to these roles. prismreports.org/2025/03/05/m...

Criticism of the New York Times is mounting. From manufacturing consent for genocide & platforming Zionist lies, to pushing blatant transphobia, & working with a eugenicist while profiling NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani, the institution has broken trust with readers, a purportedly center-left base.