The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

Every month, we have a goal of gaining 15 new members, which covers the costs of commissioning five new stories! Support the only Asian American-run news outlet covering health, climate, and the environment, starting at $2/month:

Anyways, today is a good day to become @thexylom.com's member. As WaPo abandons its international coverage, the responsibility of reporting from Sudan to Ukraine will fall to indie outlets like ours. I just want to keep my job and not have to self-deport by the end of 2026: bsky.app/profile/thex...

What do we want? TRANS NEWS! When do we want it? 2026!! We're down to the last few days of our 2026 fundraiser, and we've got less than $5000 left to raise, but we still need your help to raise it.

Help us reach the goal and fill up this extremely not phallic shape with the colors of the trans pride flag! Here'swhere to become a member of Assigned (and get a weekly members' newsletter): www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter And here's a link to donate in any amount: www.assignedmedia.org/support

less than six months after striking workers at @pghguild.com ended their historic strike with a labor victory, their paper — the pittsburgh post-gazette — is closing. story for @objectivejournos.bsky.social here: objectivejournalism.org/2026/01/the-...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

While working on this piece, I couldn't forget the wave of harassment trans journalists got here mid-2024 when we spoke up about the NYT's transphobia and the complicity of major figures there. We need a lot less reverence for institutions, and a lot more listening to folks on the front lines.

after a year full of attacks on science, give the gift of support independent newsrooms doing the work to cover it! i want to shout out the folks at @thexylom.com, who are just 20 members short of their end-of-year goal: fundrazr.com/sustain-the-...

happy #movementmediamonday! movement media has helped me stay hopeful in the face of mainstream news' flaws, so editing @lewispants.bsky.social’s series on movement journalism for @objectivejournos.bsky.social has been a joy. their latest column is out today: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

Movement Media Monday is a day to resist corporate media and the spread of propaganda by supporting independent media like Mondoweiss. #MovementMediaMonday act.mondoweiss.net/a/donate?sou...

Today, on #MovementMediaMonday we join partners across the country in amplifying media that moves us toward justice. Truth-telling is an act of resistance. For the people who write from inside prisons, it’s also an act of courage.

ONLY ON ASSIGNED MEDIA: Fenway Health's annual gala Friday drew protests and cries of "Shame!" after the LGBTQ community health center ended care for trans people under 19. @evanurquhart.bsky.social was there. (repost with updated thumbnail) www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

new via @objectivejournos.bsky.social -- @jewishcurrents.bsky.social reporter emily wilder & 15 other journalists with the freedom flotilla to gaza intending to cover its efforts to break israel's siege were detained by israeli military forces this morning: objectivejournalism.org/2025/10/jewi...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

apropos of nothing sharing this @objectivejournos.bsky.social from 2023 objectivejournalism.org/2023/05/the-...

The Micro Division winner of the Breaking Barriers Award is Alexis Allison’s article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social s.bsky.social, “The Editor of a New York City Newspaper Bullied Reporters for Years. Then, He Was Promoted.”

Proud to have worked on this story. Journalism spends so much time focusing on other industries — it’s worth turning that focus onto ourselves and asking the same questions.

So anyway, these guys are all still employed in journalism. I'm not. Journalism didn't break my heart. White supremacy, prejudice, callousness, fascism broke my fucking heart.

shoutout #aaja25 😌

Our large grant that has allowed @thesicktimes.bsky.social to expand runs out in the fall. We’re trying to get ahead and raise $30k this month in our summer fundraiser. If you have the means: can you help us reach our goal?

"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.

imagining a world where one of the only outlets able to hire journalists without relying on contractors, sub-$45k wages or both focused on the material conditions of the fascist state its readers live in as it ruins its safety net, instead of reporting someone's rejection from an Ivy as "news"

Did not think this skeet would age so well in just six hours Stop reading that paper. Stop expecting them to be better. Unsubscribe. Read wired or rollingstone or the ap instead and tell people in your circle you dont read the nyt or click on nyt links and why

yeah i stopped playing nyt games, i dont even touch a nyt cooking link, when i include nyt articles in the objective’s newsletter i link to an archive.ph free link

i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up. preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.

We, the staff of @citybureau.bsky.social, are forming a union! A strong media system needs strong workers. We’re asking our leadership to formally recognize the City Bureau Workers Guild so we can shape the future of local media together. You can join our movement by:

new podcast out with @hashtagjames.bsky.social for @ascmediarisk.org + @asc.upenn.edu !! in this pod, james expertly spoke to the intersections between journalism and resistance in queer, disability, and anti-colonial movements. listen here: www.ascmediarisk.org/media/disabi...

i'll be at this! come talk about better diaspora reporting!!

If you are pissed about the complete gutting of Polygon like I am, please consider donating to our fundraiser for all the great people who lost their jobs. www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

alsooooo this is the last week @thesicktimes.bsky.social will be collecting audio reflections on 5 years+ of COVID-19 for a special podcast episode! we have some prompts here: tinyurl.com/TST5yearspod you can also email me a voice memo at [email protected] + text/call us at 209-627-0726!

trying to be better at sharing the @objectivejournos.bsky.social stories we publish each week so here's a short digest of last week's!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

It's time for this month's Clippings! This month is a special one though, telling some of the history of gender on passports!

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Hey folks! We all know that trans people have a pesky habit of becoming invisible, which of course is why Trans Day of Visibility exists. If you want to ensure that trans people don't slip from your view on the rest of the days, might I suggest Assigned Media's weekly newsletter?

#birdbot

every time i log onto bluesky i think maybe this is the time i start getting into posting But then i don’t

thank god for butch lesbians (also this is such an incredible piece of writing featuring the lovely four-word phrase “i’m sick! i’m gay!” and 1000% worth a read!!)

Our podcast producer @hashtagjames.bsky.social is looking for folks living with Long COVID (& other COVID-realist folks) to submit voice memos reflecting on LC, the pandemic, and their experiences for a 5-year-anniversary (of the public health emergency declaration) episode tinyurl.com/TST5yearspod

wrote something @objectivejournos.bsky.social making the case against advance compliance and for caring about other journalists/our communities not just because we see ourselves in them, but because their struggles deserve attention and resistance objectivejournalism.org/2025/03/dont...

Repping @thesicktimes.bsky.social today at CUNY Newmark J-school's summer internship fair! We are excited to host an intern from the J-school this summer through their program 😷

Tonight I’d like to share a beautiful story of trans resilience through suicidal ideation This story has gotten me and others through rough times, and I think some people out there could use it Written by @oriion.bsky.social of @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2022/05/lgbt...

Wrote something for @objectivejournos.bsky.social today: objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/lega...

Been trying to write a caption, but honestly there are few words. From @msjpauly.bsky.social and I. More reporting in the pipeline.

wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us

"Even as it is terrifying, it can be freeing to let go of the fantasy that some top-down solution will come save us. It opens us up to feel the enormous grief and rage these conditions provoke, rather than peddling in false hope..." if you are also feeling unmoored right now:

popping in again just to say: if you can become a sustaining member for @objectivejournos.bsky.social at $10/month before jan. 1, your donation will go 2x as far + help us become a workplace with HEALTH BENEFITS (i am closeish to turning 26... please) objectivejournalism.org/support-us