The federal government shutdown is now the longest in history with no clear end in sight, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that typically assists over 600,000 Coloradans per month has not distributed benefits this month. pikespeakbulletin.org/featurednews...

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

80% off!! Some really great stuff here.

A fantastic read that's well worth your time.

In this week’s ‘My Two Cents,’ personal finance columnist Charlotte Cowles talks to three women about what it’s like to be the sole breadwinner — not by choice — when your partner is long-term unemployed.

BREAKING: Book banning extremist group “Moms For Liberty” LOST ALL 31 of their races. Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023. This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!

Listen tomorrow at 11 a.m. CST to @21st.show from Illinois Public Media - I talk about my reporting on Baker & Taylor for @404media.co but it's really worth your time to get the POV from Sarah Stumpf, an adult collection management librarian w Rockford Public Library will.illinois.edu/am/willplayer

MAMDANI

Fake authors. Fake books. Fake remedies. Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... Study finds "AI 'slop' has come for herbalism." "...damning revelation of the sheer scope of unlabelled, unverified, unchecked..."

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If six people nonviolently protesting outside an ICE facility constitutes a criminal conspiracy, all First Amendment-protected activity is at risk... latest, on egregious fed charges facing @katmabu.bsky.social, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/29/k...

I can tell when you send me an email written by generative A.I. by the way. This slop goes directly in the trash.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Good Boy (2025) starring the director's dog DESTROYED me in a way I didn't think possible 😪 we don't deserve dogs.

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, reversing a policy that allowed detainees to obtain fantasy and romance novels, Sudoku puzzles, and English textbooks, New York Focus has learned. nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

In some way… The Bitch is back!

Lol I've never agreed with a headline so much

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

A new study shows what we know: Journalism is failing on trans rights coverage. 70% of stories about Trump’s executive orders affecting trans people didn’t quote trans people. They’re talking ABOUT trans people not with them. Story / study here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-bmsg-exe...

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state. it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

FBI Director Kash Patel scheduled to be in Denver this weekend to address the International Association of Chiefs of Police's annual conference. His speech is not open to the press.

ED has already been failing to fulfill its legal obligations. Losing 500 more employees will not help.

Not the other Claire Woodcock forwarding me an email about turkeys, being like "I think this was meant for you" :')

Proud to be playing a small part in this!! #BannedBooksWeek

Picking up on a bunch of new things being ~engaged~, like how "fiance" autocorrects to "finance" on our messaging app, so now it's all "hey finance!" whenever either of us need anything.

Multiple outlets working on similar topics is actually a good thing for oversight and diversity of thought.

We need and want your help: If you know of specific book bans/orgs/local groups pushing for book bans and trying to get teachers fired etc, please let me know so I can request docs about what's going on / investigate further

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital." Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth. Some experience dangerous complications as a result. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

Fascinating story here.

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools. Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in. Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right. Subscribe to support our journalism.

When another outlet does the story I did a year ago

1. Vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ Oklahoma education superintendent is finally out as of yesterday. He appointed Libs of TikTok to the library board, and constantly worked against LGBTQ+ students. Now, local businesses are literally throwing parties that he is gone. Subscribe to support our journalism.

i just wanna put it out there that if you hear people using terms like "transgenderism" or "trans ideology" it is your responsibility to shut that shit down, especially if you are cis. these are literal dehumanizing terms invented to describe the fact of trans people existing as nefarious. stop it.

This is it.

Back from our southern CO road trip, where we got engaged!!! @jasonics.bsky.social 💙

A good scammer knows when the weather has changed. Activism is over, we’ve gone back to Christianity.

love cannot be stopped it is the inertia of existence itself

White House executive orders and legislation in many states have targeted the rights and protections of trans people. For some, that has meant increased financial worry.

Civil rights attorneys say that people listed on the “Charlie’s Murderers” website—who were subject to death threats and in some cases lost their jobs—may have a case for defamation

Honestly, you can't watch that clip and not think, "Wow, Kimmel made Trump look really stupid."

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Icymi new from me 🫠 s/o @giantlibrarian.bsky.social for putting this on my radar like two years ago. Sorry to report it's much worse now. Ty @404media.co & @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for picking this up!

Oklahoma has a persistent teacher shortage, but that's not going to stop its GOP government from persecuting teachers who didn't sufficiently mourn a hatemongering podcaster with no connection to Oklahoma.

I spent the summer looking into the politics of inclusive classroom signage for @edsurge.com and how it's affecting teachers. www.edsurge.com/news/2025-09...

An army of smaller social media accounts has taken up the cause of identifying—and in some cases doxxing—people they accuse of mocking Charlie Kirk’s death or simply speaking ill about his career, for example, by accusing him of promoting racist or anti LGBTQ sentiments.

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...