Not enough people are paying attention to a major target for Brendan Carr and the Trump admin’s crackdown on free speech: social media. It’s under bipartisan attack, even though it’s a crucial forum for reaching the public and fighting back. spitfirenews.com/p/is-anyone-...

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

there’s a lot going on but this seems uh extremely bad. our duterte era spreading its wings www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

she has many many many "important announcements" and I treasure every single of one of them

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Morning. ☕️ ICYMI: Republicans in Congress are simultaneously condemning and fueling violent political rhetoric in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing. They're just using different social media accounts to send different messages. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

COYOTE is off! if you haven’t already, read Emma’s piece on what alt weeklies brought us. In short, oftentimes the real story you wouldn’t find elsewhere I’m one of those who owes their career launching to an alt weekly, and looking back was certainly at my most fearless then

Banger of an obit by @espiers.bsky.social, seemingly the only one willing to do Kirk’s legacy justice by quoting his own words

Charlie Kirk's shooter's shell casings don't suggest "trans ideology," as the WSJ initially reported. Here's what they do mean. www.huffpost.com/entry/charli...

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

The white washing of Charlie Kirk's life of hate by corporate media, Republicans, and even some Democrats is making me feel like I'm in the worst episode of The Twilight Zone. America is the best country for mediocre white conservative men who traffic in hate. Made into heroes in death.

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

great accountability piece by @anyaviolet.bsky.social. Another ignored voter-approved ballot measure, in this case both unfunded AND services cut for life or death stakes sfstandard.com/2025/09/09/s...

“One of the challenges we face in San Francisco is we need the rent to go back up" "The increase in evictions is a negative impact of a positive trend" quite a choice to frame more people struggling to hang on, drowning in debt, lives upended as an overall win

SCOTUS will let ICE resume its racial profiling. “Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor,” wrote the eldest liberal justice. trib.al/6Qzidha

Can't believe this needs to be said: If "Face the Nation" won't edit interviews to remove lies or misleading claims, it's doing stenography, not journalism. A shameful capitulation by CBS, Paramount and David Ellison to the Trump administration. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It's pretty undeniable. Black women (and men) are being hit particularly hard by job loss. Just look at that climb. Black women's unemployment rate in August (6.7%) is the highest in four years. We noticed this trend in July: 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

The amount of times voter approved measures and funding are stamped out or significantly altered more or less unilaterally by City Hall leaders seriously needs to be studied

As one of the co-creators of Don't Look Up and someone who struggles with an impending sense of doom, this is one of the most optimism-inspiring articles I've read in a very long time.

Excited for this workshop at the Internet Archive! The awesome staff showed some tools when we were last there for our conference's keynote in May and it had more to it than I realized. Also another chance to visit their curious building Note: geared toward journos but open to all

📐 NEW, MATH MAKEOVER: School’s about to start for SFUSD — and so will new math curriculums and teaching methods meant to revive a student outcome slump. The changes are a bright spot amid budget cuts and staffing shortages. @idamoj.bsky.social reports: thefrisc.com/how-sfusds-t...

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Next Saturday 8/16, our chapter and @kalwradio.bsky.social are hosting a fundraiser for our San Quentin State Prison Chapter. Don’t miss this rare gathering of powerful voices and creative visionaries who are changing the narrative around incarceration—from the inside out

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

(allow me a superficial post in these dark and troubled times) Sue’s hair in Fantastic 4 was so bad. I mean, how was the retrofuturistic aesthetics the best thing about the movie not have her hair to match? but more so, the back had like a clump of curls up top then waves the rest of the way wth

I don’t really know how world leaders can largely sit back and watch blatantly imposed starvation on an entire population. We are swimming in evidence and images and testimony in real time that should be actionable and urgent

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening. CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

Please read. Excellent summary and analysis of what Trump and the oligarchs in Silicon Valley are planning. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI..."

This is insightful by @publicenlightenment.com The power of words - and defining words. #intifada #medialiteracy youtube.com/shorts/9PidU...

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

Yeah I think one thing that hasn't really been articulated is that it is a separate, distinct harm to sexual violence victims to see stories like this consumed as prurient entertainment.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Why I'm masking more lately, and you should, too: www.kqed.org/news/1204597...

gift link to the WSJ story Trump didn’t want anyone ever to see www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

I spoke with legal and policy experts to break down what steps trans people should follow to update their passports right now and what risks they may face while doing so. Read more here — and if you need to update an expiring passport, time is of the essence!

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

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"...the pandemic is still having effects on our health, even though everyone may have mentally moved on and wants to forget about it,” said study co-author Janet Currie, a professor of economics at Yale. “It’s still with us.”

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

decided to test the new shoes-stay-on reality at SFO with hiking boots and got sent back to take them off lol cowboy boots and other high-top types shoes, ones with zippers, etc can also set the machine off fyi

back in college, my prof mentioned that Japanese Americans were incarcerated right here in the Bay Area, in San Bruno. I was astonished that such dark history could now just be a mall, at risk of being forgotten what happened here my last for @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

I think a really important thing is giving yourself permission to do thing slowly. You aren’t going to cook a good meal rushing, aren’t going to write a good book rushing, aren’t going to enjoy your day with a friend rushing. It’s really important to practice intentional slowness sometimes.

ICE in San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2025/07/vide...