My latest on the issues plaguing military families' health care. The Defense Health Agency and its contractors say the challenges in processing medical claims was a glitch that's been fixed, but many people I talked to showed that's not the case at all.

She was not alone. Immigration agents have shot at least 14 people over the past year. That includes: -3 people who were observing ICE. -5 people who were driving away. -4 people who’ve been killed. -5 people injured. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

use your eyes www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

Oakland police say city is too unsafe to conduct its news conferences the way every other agency in the city does. Instead, it picks and chooses who passes an application for a police-issued credential just to be present at routine news conferences.

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory. www.wired.com/story/maga-r...

It’s 1.5 miles in 14 minutes

This morning, protesters gathered at the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Oakland/Alameda, to rally against Customs & Border Protection agents who are part of a reported immigration operation targeting the SF Bay Area, ordered by the Trump admin. Here's what happened....

Global protests target Israel and media outlets who have ‘made excuses’ after killing of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza.

The future of journalism is one million Bari Weisses writing soothing Billionaire Appreciation Month essays while all the laid-off reporters work gig economy jobs at food delivery companies owned by those billionaires. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/first-kill...

FAC, @spj-norcal.bsky.social, Pacific Workers Media Guild oppose a Modesto law that prohibits possession of safety gear like gas masks or helmets at protests. Reporters should not have to choose between their personal safety and doing their jobs. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/07/21/c...

They did this to detainees in Abu Ghraib, they’re doing it to migrants now, they’re gonna do it to American inmates next www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's been 178 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

#USA: RSF condemns the wave of violence – at least 27 separate attacks – that swept across journalists covering protests in Los Angeles this weekend. Violence against journalists trying to do their jobs is unacceptable. #JournalismIsNotACrime rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...

I’m back on the nursing home beat for this one; tracking some proposals in the gov’s May budget revise that would roll back some standards for the nursing home industry.

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

"why does the American public not understand what's happening in their own country" I shout over the hedge fund dessicated corpse of local journalism

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Oakland schools prepare for escalation of immigration enforcement

Tech oligarchs were a notable presence at the inauguration ceremony. Thanks to Citizens United, we have a political system dominated by ultra-wealthy individuals to a degree never before seen in American politics — a cash-for-access economy. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

After becoming increasingly enmeshed in the wildfire world, you start to notice things about the way we've systematically altered our relationship with the natural environment in a way that has increased the risk of destructive fires. And then you stop being able to unsee them.

Oakland FBI investigation: Ex-Mayor Sheng Thao indicted amid sprawling public corruption inquiry

The reporters of @edsource.org are excited to announce the formation of the #EdSourceGuild.