the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election. one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters. when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

New British anti-protest bill just dropped www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

This is awful to hear.

A North Dakota judge just reduced the $666 million in damages a jury demanded Greenpeace pay Energy Transfer to $345 million. Somehow there's still not a final judgement tho, 7 months after the trial wrapped up. northdakotamonitor.com/2025/10/29/j...

Trump keeps turning to the right-wing Capital Research Center for nonprofits to attack. These are the environmental organizations in its crosshairs. Their alleged violation? Supporting civil disobedience. 1/ alleenbrown.ghost.io/a-trump-targ... for my newsletter Eco Files. Subscribe!

Incarcerated wildfire-fighters in California will now get the federal minimum wage, $7.25 up from $1/hour -- bill just signed by Newsom www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

170 US citizens grabbed by ICE agents

Devastating piece by the inimitable @ninalakhani.bsky.social about the rising climate crisis death toll www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Far right leaders in the Netherlands, Hungary, and the European Parliament have followed Trump's lead in moving to name antifa a terrorist group. Reminder: Antifa is not actually an organization www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

Remember COINTELPRO? Or the FBI infiltration of AIM? The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

40 faculty fired since the Charlie Kirk assassination. So much for free speech I guess! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An anti-protest law in Australia that was first used to go after climate activists is being used to go after pro-Palestine protesters 7news.com.au/news/south-a...

The attorney general of Texas is publicly announcing that he's launching undercover investigations to "infiltrate and uproot" leftist groups. The criminalization of trans people that this press release promotes is terrifying. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

My latest Eco Files post features work by @whitneybauck.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social @katiesurma.bsky.social @josephvlee.bsky.social @sumauma.com @ninalakhani.bsky.social @globalwitness.org & Jia Zhang-ke alleenbrown.ghost.io/eco-roundup-5/ consider supporting my journalism w/ a paid subscription

🧠 The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well? The latest episode from @drilledmedia.bsky.social explores how misinformation spreads, why our brains fall for repeated falsehoods, and what makes people so vulnerable to manipulation online. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

A judge says he’s throwing out COP City rico charges against 61 defendants on a technicality. He’s still deciding about domestic terror charges against 5 but says he thinks they still stand. (Money laundering for bail fund organizers is already dead.) apnews.com/article/atla...

Fall has begun & the entire season of SLAPP’d, the podcast I worked on for the past year, is out. Before I start sorting through what’s next, I wanted to shout out all the baddies that worked on the project + some of the cool stuff they have their hands in (THREAD) drilled.media/investigatio...

When I started reporting out a podcast on the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial, accusing GP of fueling the Standing Rock movement, I had no idea the twists & turns the reporting would take. Here are some key documents I uncovered as I worked on SLAPP'd (THREAD) drilled.media/investigatio...

"One Israeli officer who led mass arrest operations in Khan Younis said soldiers saw no difference 'between a terrorist who entered Israel on 7 October and someone working for the water authority in Khan Younis.'" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Only two reporters were in the courtroom every day of this trial, and @alleenbrown.bsky.social was one of them. The judge denied requests to stream, film, or record, so her notes and meticulous coverage are now an important part of the public record. 👇

A tremendous package of stories, podcast, and documents from @alleenbrown.bsky.social on the story of Energy Transfer punishing Greenpeace for the #StandingRock protests is up @drilledmedia.bsky.social. drilled.media/investigatio...

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

Genocide news: Israel has assassinated four more journalists, targeting them at Nasser hospital. Meanwhile famine has been declared in Gaza - caused by Israel's denial of humanitarian aid AND destruction of food/water sources. This is the first time famine confirmed outside Africa

The season finale of SLAPP'd is live now. Listen to hear how Dakota Access Pipeline boss Kelcy Warren admitted to offering the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe a ranch and a new school in exchange for shutting down the water protector movement. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

I’ve been mixer for much of this series, which is gripping, infuriating and hilarious by turns. e.g. there are a lot of sadboi songwriters on the side of fossil fuel, bringing us sadboi songwriters a bad name

Ep 5 of SLAPP'd is live. It's the climax of the podcast series I reported + hosted. Featuring new details about what really happened the day Dakota Access Pipeline builders bulldozed an area where the Standing Rock tribe had just identified sacred sites. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

One of the key "defamation" claims Energy Transfer filed against Greenpeace over its involvement with Standing Rock centered on the destruction of sacred sites. In today's @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode we hear the whole story from @alleenbrown.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

“Journalists are being deliberately targeted to erase evidence and prevent accountability for war crimes. This is not just an attack on press freedom it is an assault on the public’s right to know and to seek justice” @nwu.org & News Guild on journalist killings in Gaza newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

The Arab & Middle Eastern Journalists Association @amejaglobal.bsky.social is calling on journalistic associations to condemn Israel's deliberate starvation & killing of reporters. As a member, I would love to see @ire.org and @sejorg.bsky.social heed this call. www.ameja.org/GazaStarving...

Really important story. "Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza." Remarkable to see @microsoft.com's attempts to play dumb here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Omg they found him! Injured but ok! Red Cross volunteer said, “I can’t remember us finding someone alive after so many days." www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/e...

I interned with Alec at @thenation.com and we both ended up as freelancers on the climate beat. He's a kind person and a good journalist -- I really hope he's found safe. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

I strongly encourage freelancers to join @fspnwu.bsky.social, to share rates and information about publishers, to advocate for themselves in an increasingly hostile media climate. And I urge other indie pubs to work with @nwu.org on policies of their own.

Proud of my union for speaking out against Israel's systematic starvation of people in Gaza, including journalists -- and for pushing our colleagues at mainstream outlets to cover it better. Freelancers, please consider joining @fspnwu.bsky.social nwu.org/starvation-o...

[email protected] put together a really valuable tool on how reporters can cover extreme heat in prisons. People should use this! HOWEVER I wish there was more context in the air conditioning section, where they tout AC as the solution. 1/ www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/04/p...

Canada is saying build baby build in response to Trump tariff pressure -- legislators are considering a bill that would railroad environmental regulations if a pipeline or mine project were deemed in the "national interest" thenarwhal.ca/bill-c-5-can... by ‪@drewanderson.bsky.social‬

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants. Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

New from @michaelfakhri.bsky.social ‘Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it’s always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Starvation in Gaza is not accidental or sudden. "There has been little or no action to stop Israel starving Palestinians by systematically destroying local food production (greenhouses, orchards, farmland) & blocking aid" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... by @ninalakhani.bsky.social

When @yesmedia.bsky.social announced that it would be shutting down, I stopped waffling about launching a newsletter and started setting it up. Read about that decision and subscribe with an early supporter discount here: newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/thanks-for-b...

New from me: Illinois prisons are already crumbling, advocates are worried climate change & extreme heat could make it so much worse, “It’s not like heat makes prison unbearable, it’s that prison is unbearable and the heat makes it even worse,” insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...

"Data compiled & published by Israel’s own government makes clear that it has been starving Gaza. Between March & June Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory Cogat records show less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The lawfare & bad-deal politics used by Trump & allies to destroy media outlets like ‪‪@mmfa.bsky.social are also used by the fossil fuel industry to destroy critics. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u... More on that that here for @grist.org + @drilledmedia.bsky.social grist.org/project/indi...

This piece explains what the term "divide and conquer" looks like in practice. I hope you'll read it! (And listen to the podcast.)

In March, a jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $666 million to the companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline. But Indigenous leaders, water protectors, activists, and court records agree: Greenpeace played a bit part in the Standing Rock movement, at best. grist.org/project/indi...

The @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast season + this multi-part @grist.org story (both reported and written by the great @alleenbrown.bsky.social) is such a cool package all together, and delves into some critical never-before reported details: grist.org/project/indi...