Deeply moving to see this first family.

"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney. Any discussion of his works must begin with the 2021 assessment of Brown University’s Costs of War Project that found, conservatively, that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields."

Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm.

we ended up where we are now for a number of reasons, but one was that Dick Cheney realized he could go on camera, lie about saying things he’d previously said on camera, and TV interviewers would just sputter

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Journalist must be safely allowed into Gaza as this transition is occurring. A free press is the only guarantee that every day people will be protected. A free press is central to knowing the rules are being followed. A free press is essential to peace.

BREAKING: The post-10/7 wars have killed or injured at least 236,505 people in Gaza alone. The U.S. has spent over $31 billion and counting in the wider region since Oct. 7, 2023, where millions have been displaced, according to new Costs of War research. [THREAD] Photo Credit: Heidi Levine, 2025

📢Join us for Killing the Story, a virtual event on Oct. 7, 1pm PT/4pm ET! Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists give firsthand accounts about how media manufactures consent & silences dissent as we approach 2 years of the Israeli-imposed & U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. tinyurl.com/killingthest...

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wishing everyone a good week ahead. Take care of yourselves and don't give in to the fascists.

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If you're interested in Paramount, CBS News, the Free Press, or the right-wing takeover of the media, please help spread this around and let's see if we can find out anything interesting :-)

I’m so incredibly proud of my colleagues at other indie and nonprofit media orgs across the city, when I say this city is extraordinary these are the folks I’m talking about

Media criticism, 1969: "The Chicago Tribune told its readers how to eat well on a welfare budget in a March 7 article that could have been ghost-written by Marie Antoinette. Marie told the bread-starved peasants of France to eat cake. The Tribune told Chicago's welfare poor to try cake mix."

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

A UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and has such called on governments worldwide to stop sending weapons to Israel. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/un-i... #Palestine #Israel

Have been trying to formulate some of this for a while and I'm glad I got to write it down, including an interview with Dr. Erin Steuter, for @prismreports.org.

Today at #datajconf: we talked about what we've learned about pedagogy in the process of running datajournalismteachers.club. Focused on grounding data journalism in tools *and* humanities, teaching with a learner-centered rather than a "banking" model, and how we learn in community. Join the club!

I'm speaking today at @datajconf.com to data journalists, and trying to convince them it's a good idea to collaborate with civic sector and advocacy organizations on data-driven news stories! Very excited, a little nervous!

I’ve heard from a lot of parents who are NOT introducing their kids to generative AI but fewer who are. If you are using generative AI with your young children and are open to chatting about it, please get in touch!

By far, the most needed AI tool I learned about at #datajconf was introduced by Bette Dam asking: "Can we use an AI tool to investigate ourselves [journalists] rather than someone else?" Bette has reported on Afghanistan for decades and knows intimately how deeply flawed elite news coverage is.

I'm at #datajconf in Athens this week and one very cool thing we've done is take a tour of the library of Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, where they've kept a history of Greek news outlets. This is one of the oldest prints they have of, I believe, a paper called Neos Aristophanes.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Join us on September 7 and bring your friends!

Great list here for independent news outlets ⏬️

once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, reader supported, and/or independent local news when and how you're able

Join us on September 7 for a Craft Fair Fundraiser for Gaza. Proceeds will support mutual aid projects in Gaza. If you would like to table at the fair, you can fill out this application by 8/22: forms.gle/s7A5yZ21UpJx...

Imagine if NYTimes journalists were being routinely massacred by a foreign state and competing media outlets responded by explaining that the Times is a mouthpiece for imperialism and propaganda arm of the US and Israeli governments such that murdering its workers was defensible.

Anas Al Sharif spent 17 of his 28 years living under a brutal blockade supported by your tax $. In 2008-09 and 2014, he survived bombings paid for by your tax $. In 2023-2025 he documented a genocide funded by your tax $. He was assassinated today with your tax $.

Yesterday, my research team and I had the privilege to host a walking tour and oral history workshop with @asadfromnyc.bsky.social. It was exactly the mix of history, journalism, community and critique I've been wanting to put together through my work with @lendercenter.bsky.social.

“They’re sacrificing the moral center of Harvard Divinity School,” #Gaza #Palestine #Harvard www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Votes are not done, and more than half the Senate Democratic caucus has voted to block weapons sales to Israel. Such an idea was nearly unimaginable before. The politics of Israel-Palestine are changing in the US.

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

what resembles the grave but isn’t. anne boyer

This was twenty months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 14,186 kids since.

Even setting aside substance, “a freelance healthcare journalist reporting in the NYT on a mayoral candidate’s old college application obtained in a hack and flagged by a prominent racist who is granted anonymity even though everyone knows who he is” is one of the strangest stories I’ve ever read

ATTN IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS/ADVOCATES: I'm working on a piece about ICE continuing to detain people AFTER they have won relief from an immigration judge. Pls reach out on Signal - tanvim.05 - if you have represented someone who has had that experience or been tracking this? TY.

See if you can spot the difference between New York Times propaganda and the Israeli press. I know it’s subtle, let me know if you can’t figure it out.

A pogrom.

Specifically for rapping "Free the Holy Land Five/My guys" The Holy Land Five "were prosecuted under US 'material support' legislation on the notion that the social programs they financed help win the 'hearts and minds' of Palestinian people for Hamas": www.hrw.org/news/2022/03...

Inshallah af

Two big results for liberal, Working Families Party-championed mayoral candidates in New York. No, not Mamdani. Here are the results in the Buffalo and Syracuse races: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Truly just so proud for his parents, who are themselves South Asian royalty!!! #MayorMamdani

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