Nine Guild-represented journalists and their editors have also lost their livelihoods as a consequence of this decision. We are crowdfunding to support our affected colleagues, and you can help by donating to our layoff fund. tinyurl.com/LayoffFund

A terrible time for Seattle to lose another independent news source that has spent the last two decades holding the powerful accountable. Absolutely devastating.

NEW: Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson is boycotting KOMO until Sinclair reinstates Jimmy Kimmel. Instead of joining her, Harrell's calling her advocacy for free speech opportunistic and hypocritical. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayoral...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It's been a bad day! For now I'll just say I can't think of a worse time to have fewer reporters and editors on the job and that I'm very glad to have a union on our side.

Uuuugh. You can pitch "AI for nose hair removal" and have a billion dollars dumped on your head overnight, but perhaps the most important civic function in democratic politics is starving to death.

Any rich folks in Seattle have an extra $3.5 mil lying around and want to be a hero? This is your moment! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Devastating news for local journalism.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I talked with @poynterinstitute.bsky.social about how to get copies of government officials' ChatGPT histories. FOIA around and find out: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Former GU professor Andrea Brower was subjected to an investigation for her Palestine solidarity activism, but the charges were found to be unsubstantiated. Still, Brower felt the university was attempting to silence her. Read her resignation letter.

Come for the chat with the anonymous artist behind @theseattlechannel.bsky.social puppet show on his motivations, goals, and process for the episodes. Stay for @photogenna.bsky.social's amazing behind-the-scenes photos. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Reading these two stories back to back is a trip. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t... gizmodo.com/openai-makes...

When a senior citizen in Bellingham emailed about not being able to afford utilities, a city official fed his email into ChatGPT and said “write a sympathetic response.” “Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns so clearly and thoughtfully,” their reply read. “I hear your frustration.”

Excellent reporting from @sanfordnate.bsky.social

Join Cascade PBS Tuesday, Sept. 16 for a free screening of the "Priced Out: Fear & resistance in WA mobile home parks" documentary at the University Place Pierce County Library. Check out more information and RSVP here:

Great reporting by @laureldemkovich.bsky.social and photos by @davidmryder.bsky.social on further effects of the state budget cuts.

come for @sanfordnate.bsky.social's reporting. stay for the Candidate Survivor pics 🙊

Some *phenomenal* data journalism by Rebecca Ellis here:

Comments on this post are limited so I’m going to speak here (where I’m sure nobody will see it). I’m a photojournalist, member of WHCA and I’ve covered Trump and his rallies for 3.5 yrs his first term and half of this year of second term. I can explain what you’re seeing here:

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

We all bow down to the great Lindsey Wasson

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no stop making this the global hub for news communication

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's executive order on passport gender markers, and some trans Seattleites are trying to use the opportunity to get updated IDs. But they're leaving the passport office unsuccessful, because the State Department hasn't issued formal guidance on how to proceed.

“When you have a document that’s inaccurate, that outs you every time you present it, that is a weapon.” Despite a recent court ruling, transgender Seattleites still can't update their passports. New from @jcohenwrites.bsky.social & @photogenna.bsky.social www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...

In an age of increasing public surveillance, the authorities are locking down access to their own behavior.

No Kings protest coverage, plus local context on days leading up to it. @sanfordnate.bsky.social reports, w/incredible photos from @photogenna.bsky.social. Crowd estimate was 70k+, "an unbroken line of protesters stretched from Capitol Hill to the Space Needle." www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/06...

Right now there are more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are to Syria and Iraq combined.

ICE wanted the San Francisco Standard to blur the faces of agents who were taking immigrants into custody. The Standard told them "no." "...we believe that censoring images from this news event would set a harmful precedent for the media’s right to report and the public’s right to know."

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ @karenmg.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe, life-altering mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT. Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions + conspiracies. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

Adam Tailor is a Seattle institution. What a good idea for a deep dive bit of reporting.

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

When Trump called for a travel ban in 2017, thousands turned out to protest at airports around the country including SeaTac and the policy was quickly reversed.

“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”

"You just never have a chance to breathe. And now we do.” A new cap on rent increases marks a victory for mobile homeowners — and some landlords have already steeply hiked rates in anticipation. By @farahe.bsky.social: www.cascadepbs.org/investigatio...

Brenda Valdez feels like she can exhale. The Elma mother said she no longer holds her breath waiting for rent hikes. Gov. Ferguson signed a bill in May introducing 5% annual caps on rent raises for mobile owners, but some residents said landlords announced steep hikes before the law went into effect

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.