there’s a lot going on but this seems uh extremely bad. our duterte era spreading its wings www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

I don't mean to put a happy face on a neighborhood where truly bad things happen and really, deeply affect people. But events like Recovery Day showcase the hard work, care and wisdom of the community. We should give that its proper attention, too. newsrelaynetwork.org/the-tenderlo...

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

Classroom #2. This one needs $530 to finish giving this South Dakota high school a rad collection of diverse and banned books: www.donorschoose.org/project/book...

Here's where you come in. If you can throw a few bucks to the classroom, that's rad. If you can't give money, that's okay, too. *Share* the projects as they come up and share this thread. That makes a difference, even if it doesn't seem like it does.

If the journalists and news companies you rely on did not make clear prior to last year's election that these were the stakes in last year's election, I would urge you to reconsider your media diet.

love the way @nuala.bsky.social explains quoting unnamed city workers in this @coyotemedia.org piece on street health teams. I think it's so important to talk about how opaque cities have become and what it does to accountability when workers can't talk publicly and press statements are vague.

They did it!! They've brought back the alt-weekly!! As a worker-owned collective and for the whole Bay Area no less. AWOOOOO!

Thinking a lot this morning about how the dispersed nature of these kidnappings over such a broad area makes it so easy for them to avoid making bigger waves. The surface can appear totally calm while they're grabbing neighbors, and most people have no idea until/unless something flashy happens

The long, muti-carrier group Navy deployment around the Red Sea to fight the Houthis saw billions spent, one F/A-18 shot down by friendly fire AND the US firing a missile at a UFO. And that was just the 2024 part.

Finally, news we can trust

When we (as in @newsrelaynetwork.bsky.social) say we want to do news "with and for" the community, this is what we mean — and what we still have to figure out. We know it's not gonna all be sunshine and rainbows, but we think it's important to face that. newsrelaynetwork.org/how-communit...

In her latest blog, INMA Newsroom Transformation Initiative Lead Amalie Nash shares insights from @laurawenus.bsky.social about a planned pilot newsroom @newsrelaynetwork.bsky.social will roll out next month in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighbourhood. www.inma.org/blogs/newsro...

🗓️ Today in one sentence for Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Day 1693: "Fully depreciated."

Bay Area friends! I'll be talking about journalism, SF history and the messy business of truth-telling with writer Shelley Blanton-Stroud this Sunday. We'll be at the Ferry Building Book Passage at 2 p.m. Swing by: www.bookpassage.com/event/shelle...

There is so much going on here it is hard to know where to start. Nexar sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. But it also monetizes users' data, uploads blurred images to a publicly available map. Nexar users I spoke to did not know Nexar was posting user data like this www.404media.co/this-company...

genuinely asking: What do you think of this approach? We're open to changing the plan

I think some people become outwardly cynical because of the social insulation it provides. Shock leaves you vulnerable to criticisms that you're naive and should have seen every bad thing coming (never mind that predictable things can still be startling). But cynicism begets a quiet tolerance.

White supremacists are always claiming some sort of unified European culture as if you couldn’t pick any random year in European history and find some inter-ethnic/intra-national conflict awash in war crimes.

Learn how San Franciscans benefit from the @sfmta.bsky.social Board and how we can work with the board to make government more accountable at this online event with SFMTA Board Chair Janet Tarlov & Zhe Wu, @sfpublicpress.bsky.social journalist. 🚍 RSVP at bit.ly/2025-SFMTA-B... #TransitMonth2025

Everything is so fucking hard, for so many people. It's even harder when you feel like nothing you do or say matters. This week, a reflection on Joe Wilson's remarks to a group of Tenderloin residents and organizers on why they should keep going: "It is possible. It *is* possible. Believe that."

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

This, plus the Flock cameras invading every other block and being used to track down common citizens doing common, legal things. IDK. I've been deeply depressed lately about the future, and I know I'm not alone. The present is shitty enough.

Our latest newsletter! Joe ‪Wilson, of ‪@hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social‬, gave a rousing speech at a recent community meeting in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The message: "You matter." We hope our local newsroom will also help people feel that way, in part to encourage civic engagement.

It's nice to feel like you're not alone when you take a leap of faith. With this audience-directed newsroom experiment, we actually have it better than that — others have laid a foundation we can build on. Latest dispatch from @newsrelaynetwork.bsky.social by me this week:

My kickass @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social is moving camp from the Bad Newsletter Place and migrating to Ghost! Highly recommend subscribing: Chrissy is an especially sharp and insightful voice on Christianity and atheism, and is also VERY knowledgable about Russia.

“One of California’s largest agricultural employers [owned by billionaires] plans to close a Central Valley grape nursery…after laying off hundreds of employees, including many supportive of a United Farm Workers effort to unionize the workforce.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

late last year I got really into talking about Project 2025, hoping it could be held at bay. Now we're living it. The stuff I've been doing since has felt, idk, not worth posting about. I struggle with that. But now I do want to start talking about a thing I'm doing: @newsrelaynetwork.bsky.social

Google has long been a key source of traffic for news and all manner of sites across the web. This week @mattdpearce.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Google’s pursuit of AI is causing fewer people to click through, causing traffic to plummet. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/288_...

New polling shows that 1 in 7 Americans report using Buy Now, Pay Later service like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay to get groceries. www.axios.com/2025/08/04/g...

The Trump administration has reversed a rule that allowed undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as kids to buy health insurance on Affordable Care Act marketplaces. calmatters.org/health/2025/...

me and Noah used to work for the Chronicle on a project exploring solutions to SF's big problems. In that time, the Atlantic declared SF a "failed city," using some truly bizarro vignettes that strained credulity. Betcha these "not easy" fixes they propose will be some form of austerity.

The journalism industry is facing economic breakdown. What promises and pitfalls does the nonprofit news model offer? Hear from Mazin Sidahmed of @documentedny.bsky.social, Alicia Bell of @borealisphil.bsky.social, & Lara Witt of @prismreports.org on August 5. Register: bit.ly/FundingUnderFascism

2,123 people have been arrested by ICE in the S.F. area since January 20, 2025. By cross-referencing three datasets released this month, on ICE arrests, detentions and deportations, Mission Local was able to follow the journeys of those arrested: missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-...

I think it’s important for Americans to understand that the current famine in Gaza is a joint US-Israeli production. We are not “failing to stop this”. We did this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

apropos of nothing, if an unknown contact messages out of nowhere with no intro, no context, etc... do NOT reply. no retort is witty enough to justify communicating to scammers that you are one of the ~1% of people credulous enough to reply to scam messages.

So many people I know in the US are emotionally dysregulated (politically, how could you not be?) and their relationships are paying the price. It’s tough to watch so many of us take it out on each other, whether with friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, public figures, comment sections.

As a result of the FCC blocking new regulations, incarcerated people in North Carolina will continue to pay 10 cents per minute for phone calls. The new rules would have dropped the price to 6 cents per minute. boltsmag.org/north-c...

An immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on Thursday led to an hourslong standoff between protesters and border agents, who blocked the roads with military-style vehicles and tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect dozens of farmworkers from arrest.

🍎 NEW, FOOD INSECURITY: At the Heart of the City Farmers Market, SNAP dollars go extra far for farmers and shoppers. But changes to benefits in Trump’s big bill could upend a statewide program that’s served the city’s low income residents for 10 years. Tina Li reports: thefrisc.com/trump-snap-c...

Minneapolis metro to the airport: half hour ride from downtown, cost $2. I didn't need an advanced degree to read the transit map or figure out how to pay on the app. No stairs from platform to train. Working on a German word for "the shame you feel visiting a city with better transit than yours"

good to see a local community paper going strong (Southside Pride, vol. 35, issue 7)

v excited to be at @opennews.bsky.social 's SRCCON, the conference that acknowledges the serious problems in journalism and builds community to fix them, and I intend not to shut up about it for the next few days let's goooo

Come work with me, supporting in-house technology and security to help a vital non-profit investigative newsroom work more safely and effectively using technology. This is one of those roles where you can truly make a difference. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

For more than a week now, my dad has told me about "news" on Facebook asserting that ICE is now working with bounty hunters to detain immigrants in L.A. This claim has only picked up steam on social media. Currently, there is no evidence of this being true.

Rikers Island officials say they no longer use solitary confinement practices in the jail. But mayoral candidate Brad Lander visited Rikers twice and disagrees. “What it is, is solitary,” Landers told Bolts. “It looks like torture—it is torture.” boltsmag.org/new-yor...