Large datacenters, some the size of small towns, can require up to 5m gallons of water a day, equivalent to the water use of up to 50,000 people, in order to provide cooling to arrays of humming networked computers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A CBC investigation into Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous identity claims uncovered a birth certificate showing Sainte-Marie was born in Massachusetts to Italian-American parents, contradicting decades of biographies & press describing her as Algonquin, Mi’kmaw and later Cree. pagesix.com/2026/05/15/c...

Breaking: U.S. health officials are monitoring 16 additional people across the country for symptoms of hantavirus whom the CDC has not previously mentioned. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...

In May's Show & Tell, @craigsilverman.bsky.social and I are joined by Amnesty International's Barbara Marcolini. Barbara spoke about her role as a journalist in a human rights org. and walked us through how she documented the Israeli military's destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.

"Irresponsible use [of AI in journalism] needs to be treated as seriously as any other act of fabrication. If it isn’t, it’s a tacit admission that these professional ethics are meaningless." - @michellecyca.com on 🔥 about the NYT's not-small AI hallucination whoopsie thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...

Trump Says Americans’ Economic Pain Is Not a Consideration for the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

In 2025, @hannarosin.bsky.social spoke with Stacey Abrams and Vann Newkirk to examine what an era without the Voting Rights Act could mean for Black voters, democracy, and control of Congress. Revisit this episode of "Radio Atlantic":

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late. Connie Walker to get help from law and journalism students to gather and preserve records. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... via @cbcnews.ca @conniewalker.bsky.social #reconciliation #journalism

I have questions regarding Rogers's dismissal of Tina Yazdani

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

The James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan wants answers from the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations after the recent forensic audit was completed by the federal government and the KPMG Accounting Firm.

Ford gov't in Ont moves to shield politicians from scrutiny. Here are secrets the new law would have kept under wraps. (From TorStar) thestar.com/news/ontario... #cdnfoi #ontfoi #ontpoli

Jesse Brown insists he’s done nothing wrong Banned from Reddit and accused of phishing critics, Canadaland’s founder is leading a chaotic 'investigation' into an army of sockpuppet accounts

NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay.bsky.social

An Edmonton-born man has spent the last four months in a U.S. ICE detention centre. He now faces deportation edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto...

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Her lawyer believes that her case should be studied as a “playbook” for D.H.S. violence. “She’s one of the few people who has survived the bullets and can speak out,” he said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j0manC

Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed - Petition has over 11,000 signatures asking government to save residential school files www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

In January, we went inside the Dilley detention center. Children shared letters describing the anguish of being ripped from their lives: propub.li/4cUHm8L After publishing that story, we learned about Edison, a 13-year-old from Chicago detained for 2+ months. Listen to Edison in his own words 👇

It appears a hospital in Teheran has now been hit. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Breaking news: Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of this academic year because of his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read more:

“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

We found the Trump administration kept about 300 kids at the Dilley detention center for more than a month, despite a long-standing legal settlement that generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days.

Mother says son, 11, bullied, beaten for being Indigenous www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Ranking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

💔https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

List of suspected Nazi war criminals welcomed in Canada should stay secret, information watchdog rules By Marie Woolf theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar, accepted the best música urbána album at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday with a direct response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Follow our live coverage here. nyti.ms/4a7BQgd

Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

Liam’s mother, Erika Ramos, spoke to MPR News about what she witnessed that day. She also discussed her phone conversations with her son and her husband and the pain she has experienced. @mprnews.org www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“What message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced? A free press, not a penalized one, is essential to democracy; especially, when coverage intersects with contentious public issues.” nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Read a Witness Statement on the Pretti Shooting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Doctor who attended to shot protester says agents were counting bullet holes

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Data suggests separations are now happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop. (Published Nov. 2025)

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old man killed by federal immigration agents Saturday, worked as a nurse treating sick veterans, according to family, friends and colleagues – a reflection of his deep desire to help others, they said. https://cnn.it/4bcuwlz

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE has detained several Native Americans despite orders to look for undocumented immigrants. Amelia Schafer, a reporter with ICT, formerly Indian Country Today talks about that and more.

[1/3] The JHR team is saddened by the passing of Kanienke:haka (Mohawk) journalist Thaioronióhte Dan David. Over a 45-year career, Dan reshaped Indigenous journalism in Canada, most notably as the founding force behind APTN News.

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

She’s five years old. She’s a citizen. She’s just been deported. www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/...

Next up on this list: Pulitzer- (and every other kind of award-) winner @conniewalker.bsky.social on how she pitched, reported, and produced "Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's": podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

In Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater, conniewalker.bsky.social investigates the cases of two missing women within the vast and challenging landscapes of the Navajo Nation, uncovering stories of violence and justice in a place where the truth often remains elusive.