BREAKING: One of the main methods of obtaining abortion pills, through telemedicine, was just blocked by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. I'm working on a story. This has huge implications for people in states with abortion bans.

Work Friend Accidentally Becomes Real Friend https://theonion.com/work-friend-accidentally-becomes-real-friend-1819571545/

There is no such movie, he’s making this up (shocking).

article should state that Brin would be left with more $250 billion after this one-time tax, and tell us a figure that may be harder for anyone to figure out: how much he does pay in taxes as an annual percentage of his wealth and income and as compared to, say, what his hairdresser pays

Students from abroad used to come to here because we respected the freedoms of speech, association, and inquiry. Now they’re not coming here because we don’t. It’s really as simple as that. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

In impressive reporting, students at Redwood High found more than 5,000 references to local residents in the Epstein files. When one complained, the district ordered the journalists to remove their reporting. SPLC's Mike Hiestand says that violates California law: https://loom.ly/9Ys0kOs

By nature, I am skeptical of claims that social media is ruining the youth, bc the claims were made against video games, comics, etc. But as the parent of a teenager, I am surprised that most of the ire has been directed at TikTok, when in my experience kids spend the most time on YouTube.

Lol

What a sham. Counterman v. Colorado (2023): "the State must prove in true-threats cases that the defendant had some understanding of his statements’ threatening character." No evidence of that here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

Trump's minister of propaganda and censorship announces that ridiculing the Leader, his concubine or any member of the Imperial Family is now forbidden and any broadcaster that publishes it will lose their license. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"The State Department is excluding tech researchers from the United States because of their constitutionally protected work, and this newly disclosed memo only underscores the unbounded scope and unconstitutionality of the policy" -- @carriedecell.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

Eric Trump went on FOX to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump administration. I've been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers. Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now? This looks like corruption in plain sight.

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

These new social-media-disclosure requirements are amped up, digital-age versions of thought-control policies that embarrassed the United States and obstructed the free exchange of ideas during the Cold War. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. n.pr/4vFxjvp

“An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

We dove into Grok's continued creation of deepfakes, and found that some users have found new methods to bypass Grok's guardrails, allowing them to generate sexual AI images of celebrities and real people. from @davidingram.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

the detail in the NYT Lauren Sanchez Bezos piece about the daily 6 am 10-item gratitude lists with NO REPEATS felt like a challenge

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

“Many”??? Gah. “While many Americans would see this as an unthinkable regression to a time when women were treated as second-class Americans, proponents of the concept believe deeply that this arrangement is what God envisioned in a marriage.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

An American journalist identified as freelancer Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, officials said.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

@knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org last night filed a PI motion in our lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social to block a U.S. #immigration policy that targets noncitizen social media researchers, fact-checkers, and trust and safety workers. knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

youtu.be/OQvDRe79F8k?... @chuckdpe.bsky.social

The official Russian state news channel last week reported on all the winners of the Oscars but just left out the winner of the documentary category: Mr. Nobody Against Putin.

It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter. Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

Qualified immunity is a conservative judge-manufactured doctrine designed to curb civil rights.

Your data will be used against you (and be wrong).

Oh, BTW, turns out that colleges are practicing Affirmative Action for men and have been for a while and STILL struggle to find qualified male applicants. hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes:

My new novel “Gary’s New Novel Was This Result Helpful to You?” is in big trouble.

"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...

NEW: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. His father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

NEW: Dylan Lopez Contreras, an NYC high school student whose arrest foreshadowed a stark escalation of President Trump’s deportation tactics, has been released from federal custody. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/n...

A journalist filed a brief live blog entry on an apparent Iranian missile strike that hit no one and caused no serious damage. Next thing he knew, angry Polymarket users were demanding he change the story—and threatening his life and family if he refused. My story: wapo.st/4lI6Pon (gift link)

Knight Institute Condemns Trump Attacks on Press Over Iran War Coverage. President Trump and senior administration officials escalated their attacks on the #press over the weekend, criticizing news orgs for their coverage of the war with Iran. Our statement: knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

We cannot give this FCC more power than it has. Broadcasters, journalists, and the public should recognize these empty threats for what they are and fight to defend the First Amendment against any attempt to control or intimidate the press. 🧵

An Afghan man who served alongside US special forces and fled his native country after its takeover by the Taliban died over the weekend shortly after being detained by immigration authorities, according to his family and an advocacy group. https://cnn.it/4uxaXvs

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

I mean, who could have possibly predicted...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

In a trial with deeply troubling implications for the First Amendment, jurors convict defendants for material support of terrorism, based on actions like wearing black clothes and using Signal. theintercept.com/2026/03/13/i...

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

ICYMI: This week, @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org filed a major lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's new #immigration policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers. More in @reuters.com by @nateraymond.bsky.social. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...