Immigrants imprisoned in a Newark camp are on strike to demand their freedom. This is a work stoppage combined with a hunger strike, made harder because the strikers are behind locked doors. Important reporting from Luis Feliz Leon.

“Trying to force the entire federal government to adopt the Trump organization’s aggressive use of NDAs won’t make anybody safer and won’t improve agency processes,” FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @kgosztola.bsky.social.

A US Forest Service whistleblower named Scott Ashcraft faces a "six-figure legal debt." His whistleblowing ruined his life. He urges lawmakers in Washington and Raleigh, North Carolina (the state where he lives) to create a public defense system for whistleblowers

Patriotic individuals who alert the public to government wrongdoing are whistleblowers, not spies. Read the letter we signed with over two dozen press freedom groups and others calling for the Espionage Act charges against Courtney Williams to be dropped.

US Supreme Court refused to hear a constitutional challenge to the False Claims Act, which allows whistleblowers to bring lawsuits against corporations that defraud the government. Justice Clarence Thomas previously encouraged this type of challenge, but for now, the law has been spared.

"What we need is a truly independent free press reporting factually, transparently, and ethically in the public interest,” says @projectcensored.bsky.social's Mickey Huff. “[N]ot one owned by corporate conglomerates and big tech mogul billionaires blasting oligarchic propaganda and AI slop.”

The U.S. Army is planning to give 50-year leases to the world's biggest private equity firms to build and operate data centers on Army land to service the military's growing use of AI. For @truthout.org.

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. Two more were killed on Friday and one remains missing. We’re tracking them all, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

The government’s probe of @wsj.com is "an outrageous attempt to silence sources, intimidate journalists, and bury the truth" about Trump’s decision to launch a war even his own generals warned against, FPF's Seth Stern said. Read more from @kgosztola.bsky.social:

I signed on to this letter demanding that the DOJ end its retaliatory Espionage Act prosecution against Fort Bragg whistleblower Courtney Williams.

Dear DOJ, I have a long list of obstructionist FOIA officers -- past and present -- for you to pursue! theintercept.com/2026/05/09/d...

Blocking donations to the SPLC based on this bogus indictment is wrong on every level. My new article in the Intercept: theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

Since January 2025, the Trump admin has consistently targeted journalists for their reporting. Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, we're urging the DOJ to drop charges against @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social and others. Read the letter we signed with @amnesty.org: www.amnestyusa.org/blog/civil-s...

🚨 #Breaking: CPJ welcomes the news that Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been acquitted. Full details are still being ascertained but his international legal team confirms that he has been found innocent of the charges and he is expected to be released imminently. Read more⤵️ cpj.org/wp-content/u...

What happens when financial companies shutter the accounts of people engaged in legal forms of speech, like journalists and activists, who have important stories to tell? @reitman.bsky.social #FreedomOfSpeech

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an American journalist, has been detained for over six weeks in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws. The Kuwaiti government must release our friend and colleague immediately. Journalism is NOT a crime. Sign the petition here. #freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldin

The Movement Media Alliance stands in solidarity with journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who has now been held in a Kuwaiti prison for over a month, denied regular access to legal counsel, and cut off from the public work that has defined a distinguished career in international journalism.

The fight over the death of Shujir Balaji tells us a great deal about the crisis of accountability in a sector of the AI industry that has come to dominate our investment economy and dramatically alter our daily lives. https://bit.ly/4vwlk3i

Israel killed three journalists in one day in Gaza and Lebanon. This isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a pattern enabled by impunity — and by U.S. political and military backing. Israel has killed at least 257 journalists in five countries since 2023, according to @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

De-banking of dissent. "...as soon as those ['Cablegate' Wikileaks] started coming out, we saw a banking blockade go into effect.... I explore the... concept of what happens when financial companies shutter the accounts of people engaged in legal forms of speech...’” thedissenter.org/interview-wi...

The DOJ charged Fort Bragg whistleblower Courtney Williams with violating the Espionage Act. Williams challenged sexual harassment in her military unit and faced retaliation. She shared her story with journalist Seth Harp for his 2025 book "The Fort Bragg Cartel." thedissenter.org/doj-targets-...

Israel targeted and assassinated Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah, and under cover of a ceasefire. Iran insisted that Israel end attacks on Lebanon. But the Israeli government refused to end that front in their war & killed hundreds of Lebanese people today. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

"Transaction Denied: Big Finance's Power To Punish Speech" by Rainey Reitman, a co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, is out today. In this clip, Reitman discusses an appalling example of censorship involving Jackie Bryant, a journalist who covers the cannabis industry.

Poynter found more than 70 stories dating back to October that included reporting, writing and photography from local journalists without attribution. www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

In US Judge Randolph Moss's ruling against Trump's executive order that defunded NPR and PBS, he noted that "neither Congress nor any prior Administration [had] ever attempted something so extreme." Or if Congress or a past president had tried this route to suppress speech, it failed.

Librarian Luanne James fired for refusing to move books from children's to adult section. "Her story will echo from the Courthouse in Murfreesboro, TN, across the country, as emblematic of the fight against censorship and suppression,” said PEN America's Kasey Meehan. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I joined @kgosztola.bsky.social for this conversation exploring how financial access can be a tool to punish journalists who challenge powerful interests. Check it out and subscribe to Kevin's newsletter.

In a new book that will be released on April 7, @reitman.bsky.social exposes a pattern of financial censorship by companies like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Chase. Reitman spoke with me about the book, specifically focusing on examples of journalists who have been targeted

The Biden DOJ argued that reporters' files are criminal contraband in the prosecution of Florida journalist Tim Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz) Now, the Trump administration is taking that reasoning to even more absurd new places that threaten the most routine of newsgathering methods.

"The Israeli public is so sensitive to news that might help the enemy, and are so aggressive towards the media, they would rather have a harsher censorship," says Oren Persico, a staff writer for the Israeli publication The Seventh Eye

For #SunshineWeek, the National Security Archive’s Annual FOIA Audit found that federal agencies’ use of “clarification of scope” letters undermines the rights of FOIA requesters. Read our investigation here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f... @nsarchive.bsky.social

The Espionage Act is “not just a loaded gun. It is a loaded army that is facing whistleblowers and journalists right now,” @freedom.press' Trevor Timm said at an FPF and @rightsdissent.bsky.social webinar about a new bill to reform the outdated law.

Reintroduced Espionage Act reform legislation honors Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg

Lawyers for Boulder and Yellow Scene Magazine clashed in the Court of Appeals over whether Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act lets agencies charge hundreds or thousands of dollars to provide body-worn camera footage showing possible misconduct by police officers.

NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) strongly condemns the reported decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to exclude press photographers from Pentagon briefings after photographs of Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth were published that officials reportedly considered “unflattering.”

BREAKING: Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who disclosed the Watergate tapes, dies at 99.

ICE continues to retaliate against non-US journalists who cover their operations by detaining them for deportation. Last year, it was Mario Guevara, who was removed to El Salvador. Now, Estefany Rodriguez could be deported to Colombia. Both fled their countries and sought safety in the US.

The government’s official story would unravel in court — refuted by video surveillance, crime scene photos and witness statements.

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

for the @chicagoreader.com's 2025 best of chicago issue, i wrote about cops! for the best conglomeration of local police to protect a murderous army of federal agents, look no further than the unified command of broadview, illinois.

The Pentagon's media policy is “unconstitutional, but ... what they say after the fact makes their arguments even worse,” @freedom.press's Trevor Timm told @columjournreview.bsky.social. They "admitted that they don’t care if people break this as long as they agree with them."

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:

“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one intelligence official said of plans to share criminal case information with intelligence agencies. “There are a lot of privacy concerns out there, and nobody really wants to deal with them.”

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Al Jazeera English correspondent in Ramallah says Israeli military censor barred press from showing sites directly impacted by Iran's strikes in response to US-Israeli attacks. Media will face a penalty for publishing videos

Judge fails Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson who had devices seized by the FBI thedissenter.org/judge-fails-... The magistrate judge ordered a court review of seized materials but didn't force the Trump Justice Department to return her property, even though prosecutors deceived him.

ICE didn't know who it was messing with when it locked up gifted storytellers like Sami Hamdi and Rümeysa Öztürk. They're exposing abuses in ICE jails that are also prevalent throughout the rest of the carceral system. Jeremy has more in @truthout.org and @theappeal.org

There apparently were multiple search warrant applications submitted by the DOJ for a raid against Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson—and a US magistrate judge rejected those before finally approving an application www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" is a sentence that should make your stomach drop.