Vital reporting by Theresa. She is one of my top reads on LGBTQ health/science reporting

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

“How many girls and women would have been saved if society took a trans woman's allegations seriously back then?” Excellent question Katelyn.

American Medical Association has concurred with statement, though they say the procedures should be "generally deferred to adulthood" not the Trump-endorsed 19-yo that the ASPS cited.

Like always, Madison is downplaying a gargantuan reporting task she embarked on that took significant effort, poise, and the utmost dedication to the truth.

A really, really essential read. “The emails reveal that Epstein at least took part in introducing the international moral panic against trans people that is currently underway in multiple countries.”

I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people. So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified

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Notable news: a detransitioner has won a malpractice case about a mastectomy received while a minor. Notably, the plaintiff had the support of WPATH who said the defendants (a psychologist and surgeon without experience treating trans patients) did not adhere to medical guidelines.

We're doing a reddit AMA! right now! come! www.reddit.com/r/technology...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

"In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an authoritarian regime, that is not the case. Our nation is now at a crossroads" oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/03/f...

This would be less dire if the industry invested in archives, but alas. When we are tasked with creating a public record, writing the first draft of history, and are a pillar of free democracy, we have a *moral* obligation to make that accessible--both to current and future readers.

Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️‍♀️ Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes, Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...

Meta is sending $5 million to rehab the image of one data center outside of Des Moines Iowa. Their advertising campaign highlights all the jobs the center will add. While data centers are growing, they have been around for a while and studies show they add very few jobs to a community.

The world sucks, but poetry makes it suck less. Go check out (& pre-order) my partner's book. To describe the book in a few emojis: 💻🫀🌋🤖🪴 A good read for people: with a gender (or not), who have ever used a computer, who have touched grass or want to.

CNN interviews the 'woman in the pink jacket,' aka Stella Carlson: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Why can people watch the same video footage—and see different things? I took a deep dive on the psychology of video evidence and eyewitness accounts: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

everyone should go listen to this comprehensive episode on trans athletes and take note! everyone involved did a great job of digging into how trans women ended up banned from athletics -- and a profile by me of the last openly trans woman to swim as a woman in the NCAA

Practice good media hygiene! Don't just post screenshots. Include the link to the news source and use alt text for images. Sharing where the information comes from is paramount when it's easier than ever to just make stuff up. Supporting trustworthy media means including story links!

Reupping ⬇️

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“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.” Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.

“We’re furious that our neighbors are getting kidnapped and murdered in the streets,” a protester named John told me. “This is supposed to be America, the land of the free, and this is not freedom.” I spoke Minnesotans who showed up where Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents:

Our @samveep.bsky.social is at the scene where 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Read his heartbreaking dispatch from on the ground.

If you're interested in seeing how framing contests are taking shape after the ICE killing of another person in Minneapolis, here's a window into the conversation on X this morning. Link to interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot... * I put this together quickly. Sorry for any errors

Another good feed/list

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

I am a journalist, producer, and MLIS student in Oregon. I am thinking & posting about disinformation, science, tech, climate. Information access is vital to freedom & democracy. Journalism should be an accessible information resource. (1/)

I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out. Scott Olson, Getty.

Also bumping the website for Eyes Up to follow/add to. It is an archive of videos of ICE. Founder told @404media.co “Our goal is government accountability," when the app version was was banned from Apple/Google stores. eyesupapp.com

I don't have words. I put together a feed to Minneapolis news outlets, reporters, and legal observers for on the ground coverage in one place. Will add more.

The temperature in Minneapolis is -10 degrees

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud of a piece in my life. Honored to have been able to tell this story. It pains me every time I watch it, but I hope that pain can do something good for the world. Please give it a watch and share widely.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

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I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

This is the reporting from @apmreports.org the doctor is citing. Renee Good had a pulse for at least 8 minutes and 34 seconds. www.apmreports.org/story/2026/0...

someone once told me that metadata was an act of passing the torch forward & it is; it's an act of hope against the darkness and the hope of knowing in a sea of known unknowns and unknown unknowns

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

Martin Luther King, Jr. National favorable rating via Gallup: AUGUST 1966: 33% 👍 to 63% 👎 AUGUST 2011: 94% 👍 to 4% 👎

"For over a year now, more than a dozen groups have been working together to rescue environment and climate data—and the majority are being led by women."

The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.

The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

Since they are being scraped anyways, I see why they would want to monetize it & Wales’ comments about how LLMs aren’t capable of producing wikipedia’s content are good. Still other comments open up questions/concerns, & what do the wiki editors think?