FPF and @404media.co got access through a FOIA lawsuit to the agreement giving ICE access to Medicaid patients’ data. On Tuesday, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases. Read the agreement here:

Journalists who experience press freedom abuses should speak out and document the incidents on social media, in their publications, and via the @pressfreedomtracker.us, @adamrose.bsky.social told @joelsimonsays.bsky.social.

Journalists are being targeted, press access to the White House is restricted, and the president is going after news outlets he doesn't like. We're standing up for press freedom. Join the national town hall tonight — a conversation at a moment of crisis. freedom.press/townhall2026

Tonight on CBS, Bari Weiss won’t run anything about Venezuelan regime change until she can get Pam Bondi’s side of the story.

"If Carr believes the FCC is subservient to the president, then he is the last person who should be claiming the power to regulate journalists’ editorial decisions...he has every incentive to define the “public interest” in whatever manner pleases his boss," writes FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social.

“If anything, it begs another Freedom of Information Act request to figure out how the township reached that level of incompetence, and what officials are spending money on instead of basic software.”

So when Bari Weiss told 60 Minutes producers to call Miller and Homan's cell phones was she encouraging stalking? Should reporters leave no stone unturned to seek comment, or is that harassment? What's the official position of Trump's journalism police? www.axios.com/2025/12/22/6...

Realistically, no agency is reducing its FOIA backlog by 99.96% by acting in good faith. In the USCIS case, it is intentionally mis-administering FOIA to make it nearly impossible for immigrants to get the records they need for their immigration hearings. Good for this whistleblower.

Trump’s decimation of FOIA offices across the federal government is unacceptable. Americans deserve access to the records of the government they fund. Use our new action center tool to tell Congress to keep FOIA offices open.

I always ask myself, who is this crap for? Not even MAGA is interested enough to read the WH propaganda.

The White House "Media Bias Tracker" was launched November 28 and appears to have lasted 6 days. Even Anthony Scaramucci lasted 11 days.

We may have overestimated this lame stunt's lifespan at a month. The current "offender of the week" is a report from Dec. 4, and we haven't come across anything else much newer on the site

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I guess I overestimated this lame stunt's lifespan when I said a month. It looks like the White House stopped updating its bias tracker. I can't say I've conducted a comprehensive review, but I don't see anything past early December, and the current "offender of the week" is a report from Dec. 4.

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

Contrary to arguments from editorial boards and prosecutors, the R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein cases are "Exhibits A and B in how secrecy protects predators, not their victims," @seth-stern.bsky.social and @jimderogatis.bsky.social write in @columjournreview.bsky.social.

The copyright stamp says “Copyright Town of Hamburg. Video may not be shared or reproduced in anymanner” [sic]. But it might as well read “keep digging, you’re on to something.” Read our op-ed in the @buffalonews.com buffalonews.com/opinion/arti...

Without journalists and the information they pried loose from the government, Epstein and R. Kelly “would likely still be preying on young girls from Chicago to the US Virgin Islands,” @freedom.press’ @seth-stern.bsky.social and Jim DeRogatis write in @columjournreview.bsky.social.

Read @seth-stern.bsky.social and @jimderogatis.bsky.social on Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly, and the secrecy playbook www.cjr.org/analysis/tra...

Well put. Thanks, @seth-stern.bsky.social and Clayton Weimars. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Brendan Carr "believes the FCC is subservient to the president, then he is the last person who should be claiming the power to regulate journalists' editorial decisions under the FCC’s 'public interest' standard," @seth-stern.bsky.social and Clayton Weimers write.

Matthew's arrest feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago. It's been weird seeing these photos pop up repeatedly on my feed as the surrounding circumstances degraded. He was the first journo arrested in the US this year, covering a protest against deportation flights days before the inauguration.

yet again, border patrol appears to have media and propagandists tagging along with them for instagram sizzle reels of their racist violence

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com

Scenes from a Chicago area gas station: Gregory Bovino playing rock paper scissors with an agent over who gets what piece of beef jerky while a community member shouts “you’re a piece of shit, you’re a fucking loser!”

Use our action center to tell lawmakers to stop the Trump administration from deporting Heng Guan, who helped journalists expose the horrors of Uyghur prison camps in Xinjiang, China. His life could be at risk.

“You don’t get to call out any alleged journalistic blunder and demand $10bn,” @seth-stern.bsky.social tells @us.theguardian.com. It’s “outrageous that his claims are based on supposedly damaging implications of his using the word ‘fight’. He sells T-shirts with that word on them.”

A town in Western NY claims its police bodycam footage is copyrighted despite being a public record. It's apparently telling people who request footage under NY's FOIL law that they can't share the footage with others. Here's our letter telling them how ridiculous that is.

Under the First Amendment, Diddy “can't stop, won't stop” a Netflix documentary he says aired stolen footage. But his threats are just the latest attempt to hold the media responsible for sources’ alleged crimes. FPF’s @seth-stern.bsky.social has more in @rollingstone.com.

Sean "Diddy" Combs has hinted at suing Netflix over what he claims is "stolen footage" in 50 Cent's new documentary. The move could threaten journalists nationwide and undermine decades of protection for the media, writes one expert.

ICE told us it had no body camera footage from Chicago in response to our FOIA — even though a federal judge ordered them to wear cameras and turn them on. So who is ICE lying to? Us, or the judge?

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A new bill in Puerto Rico could severely limit its transparency law. That’s a move in the wrong direction, especially as the territory is playing an increasing role in U.S. military plans.

We cannot just accept that “every so often the administration is going to abduct some lawful resident who said something it doesn’t like about Israel or Palestine,” @seth-stern.bsky.social told @wabe.org. “The only way this will stop is if the public won’t tolerate it.”

ICYMI: Sentient's Solutions Correspondent @gracehussain.bsky.social joined @freedom.press, @healthjournalism.org and @sejorg.bsky.social to discuss what happens when sources go silent. Watch the recording: buff.ly/WNpmCU5

Can some brave soul with a Truth Social account DM this to Kristi Noem pls?

They sure do love lying.

ICE(ERO) just told me it has no body camera footage from operation midway blitz in Chicago in response to my FOIA request.

"You can’t discredit community media the way you can discredit CNN," @seth-stern.bsky.social told @blockclubchi.bsky.social. "People know their local reporters. They see them on the street. They rely on them. That makes it harder for the administration to control the narrative."

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this is gonna be a good one!

🔔 We’re all less informed when journalists’ sources fear retaliation. Tomorrow, join our live webinar with @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @gracehussain.bsky.social, @fastlerner.bsky.social, Emily Spatz, @harloholm.es and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social. 🕒 2 p.m. EST RSVP: freedom.press/silenced-sou...

The public deserves to scrutinize the legal rationale behind the deadly attacks on alleged drug boats, but the administration is keeping the memo secret. Congress can change that today. Use our action center tool to tell Congress to read the memo into the Congressional Record.

The feds want to make it illegal to even possess an anarchist zine "Being guilty of possessing literature is a concept fundamentally incompatible with a free society," @seth-stern.bsky.social wrote in @theintercept.com. 🔗 theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...

Tell Kelly and other lawmakers to back up their words with action and read the memo into the record here: freedom.press/the-classifi...

54 years ago, Sen. Mike Gravel had the courage to read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, ensuring the public could read the classified findings. Today, someone in Congress today needs to find the same courage to read the boat strike memo. Tell them to with @freedom.press's tool.

Thanks to our panelists, @maritzafelix.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, and to everyone who tuned in to our event on immigration reporting. 🔁 Missed it? Watch the replay here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPPo... @conectaarizona.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social

A lot of our work is about incarcerated journalists' rights and the retaliation they endure to get the truth out. That struggle is very real, but it's not the only story they have to tell. Read about how fatherhood in prison gave Jeremy renewed purpose despite devastating obstacles.

🔔 Tomorrow: Join our discussion with immigration journalists about reporting truth and protecting communities, ft. @maritzafelix.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, @joseiswriting.bsky.social, and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social. 🕒 2 p.m. EST RSVP: freedom.press/immigration-...