Today is International Democracy Day. City Bureau’s Documenters program puts regular folks right into local public meetings where it happens. We have a generous match going on this week so if you’ve got the means, consider a donation and see it doubled! mailchi.mp/citybureau.o...

FYI for @censusreporter.org users, we're planning on skipping the data load for ACS 1-year because there's some changes that would make it confusing to have the newer 1-year and older 5-year in the same display. Stay tuned for the 5-year release in December!

@tylerjfisher.com waiting for your review of the new deftones

This is such a great moment to be joining the team at @biglocalnews.bsky.social! We have so much important work ahead and I’m thrilled to be a part of it. biglocalnews.org/content/news...

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proud to be a board member for @rangemedia.co because (among so many other reasons) I know they'll never ever publish something that looks like this Support local news, everyone.

Hey! I helped make this and you should check this out. Interested in expanding this to your state? Reach out to @biglocalnews.bsky.social

@wmhartnett.bsky.social unexpected Gerard Manley Hopkins shoutout djunah.bandcamp.com/album/femina...

I am seeking a volunteer to help organize some things for @interruptcrim.bsky.social's journalism fellowship (me!) during the coming 1-2 weeks. Should be a few hours of pretty fun computer work requiring a bit of spreadsheet know-how. Anyone interested?

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things are getting dicey here in spokane. please pay attention.

“the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense is one where media companies/journos go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings & that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work vital to their audiences.” www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Setting the groundwork for a combination of electoral manipulation and the malignant use of US statistical agencies. Very dangerous stuff.

But the media keeps covering it as if it's riots, as if things are burning to the ground instead of shrubbery set on fire by flashbangs. The media keeps acting as if peaceful protests are violent.

There have been instances of property damage. There have been some instances of retaliatory self-defense. But none of those things are violent, not the way that shooting rubber bullets or tear gas is.

Spokane, Washington mayor issues curfew tonight in response to ICE protest. Follow worker-owned @rangemedia.co for updates.

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

“The Minneapolis police department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.”

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The TJA is trying to raise $10,000 for our 5-year anniversary. We have $2,700 in challenge pledges committed for this @transjournalists.org fundraiser, so a $5 donation goes twice as far. Personally, I'm trying to raise $1,000 to support our work. donorbox.org/reclaim-tran...

Don’t sleep on this

I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters." boltsmag.org/a-polic...

A big day for Big Local News - so glad we could be a part of this Pulitzer Prize work with The Balimore Banner and The New York Times Investigative Reporting Fellowship! biglocalnews.org/content/news...

Abolish ICE doesn’t even come close to going far enough.

This has been a loud rumor in Spokane for a while, and there's a lot I love about this version of the future for my family-owned hometown paper. No hedge fund nightmare, no slow death by chain. A community donation with a $2 million matching gift. That's hopeful. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

An AOC/Sanders rally draws twelve thousand in Idaho, folks.

is it advance compliance if you have no legal obligation whatsoever to do literally anything at all but you decide to see if the king likes your little dance anyway

Coulda had a VP who shops at Electric Fetus.

I usually have a data policy take on these things (secondary to a political one), but here I just have horror. Moving immigrants SSNs to the master death file while they’re still alive so they can’t work/receive benefits, so they will “self-deport” is death by data.

Archive what you need, now. NOW.

The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more. theappeal.org/shoplifting-...

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Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

When this administration seeks to criminalize people, they should never be met with belief. When lawless people raise grievances about criminality, they should be mocked.

“You can make horrible things if you want, but I want nothing to do with it.” – Miyazaki same same

We want to document the consequences of executive orders and other federal actions that target trans communities. Know of public records we should FOIA? Let us know: docs.google.com/forms/d/1PWt... Learn more about the project and our partnership with @muckrock.com 👇

When the target is a building where civilians live

“The left tends to think a lot about justice, but less about power. We are adept at figuring out what is just and unjust … [but this] does not accomplish anything if that program is not accompanied by the power to make it a reality.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/theres-no-...

Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI". And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.

Hi !! I am a Senior Fellow @annenberg.usc.edu for the Civic Media Fellowship and I would really love if you would apply especially #blacksky www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-...

You know what stories I would like to read and hear about? People who have been pushed even more to the left/progressive/ Dem socialist side after the last several years-- and after everything happening with the Dem establishment now.

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@pelicansong.bsky.social happy to say you’re no longer my favorite band I’ve never seen live. Only took 20 years for the calendar to finally work out. You all kicked ass at The Fillmore last night, and the new stuff sounds amazing! Love it when my head still feels like this in the morning.