What happens when AI and surveillance tech is used? Bosses monitor workers, landlords exploit tenants and SEPTA polices riders. Philly needs oversight and transparency! 📅 Mark your calendar for October 15 at 10am and turn out to demand accountability at the hearing on AI and surveillance.

Along with the amazing Brechner Center, MuckRock is co-organizing the 2nd annual Sunshine Fest (March 16-17, 2026 in DC) and we’re looking for some great topics, panels and speakers. Deadline to submit ideas is today! ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Good morning! It's Flytrap Tuesday and we have an amazing photoessay on rural feminists in Argentina--and their struggles with the current right-wing, libertarian government: the-flytrap.ghost.io/rural-femini...

additional OJA congrats to @losowsky.com! so grateful to you and @blackamazon.bsky.social for your research and leadership on what commenting can (and should!) mean in news. have loved following the ways you link communities throughout your work and life! awards.journalists.org/entries/andr...

sorry to be missing celebrating in person this week but MAJOR CONGRATULATIONS to @webjournalist.bsky.social. you've shaped my experience of journalism from ONA to #wjchat. thank you for your leadership and tireless work for journalism to live up to its values. journalists.org/profiles/rob...

updated COVID boosters are available now in the UK, privately. (NHS vaccines for vulnerable groups begin October 1) source: called local pharmacy and the person who answered said they aren't even allowed to use the old boosters anymore

Tips for getting the most out of a self directed residency? I am starting one tomorrow and want to use the opportunity as best I can, but I have never done one of these before.

a vital opportunity for journalists coming up in philly next month!

if you're in sheffield, on friday all day people will be reading names of children killed in gaza. www.instagram.com/sheffieldpsc... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this shouldn't have taken me so long, but in case anyone else is as stuck in their fizzy drink habits as i am... erikaowens.com/blog/a-guide...

thanks (and congrats), @ryanpitts.bsky.social opennews.org/blog/thanks-...

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

A Chicago woman went to immigration court. Her case was dismissed; she and her infant were taken by federal agents who turned her over to contractor MVM. They spent five days confined at the Sonesta O'Hare hotel without communication to the outside world. My first byline at @injusticewatch.org:

So... how do we try to make sure our 401k funds aren't put into private equity, real estate, cryptocurrency and other alternative assets. Any personal finance folks out there who can comment?

Starting this week with an impression I can't shake no matter how much I try to reason around it: Nothing — *nothing* — will improve in British politics without first enacting serious, sweeping reforms to the British press.

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

"The control of major communications platforms like Meta and Twitter by right-wing figures was a five-alarm fire that we didn’t treat as one. The parallel destruction of local news outlets and of third spaces was a crisis that we did not treat as a crisis." !!!

we just republished months of our ICE coverage, free of paywalls, in professionally-translated spanish. check it out: www.404media.co/were-publish...

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver. 1 million children are waiting.

oh my gosh, i appreciate this study so much. all of the handwringing about polarization frustrates me but it is usually hard to put into words. this is such helpful data!

Re: Prime Week, I want to repost a couple of things, including a story I worked on in 2019, on Amazon injury rates. I analyzed 2018 data and found major spikes on Cyber Monday and Prime Day, but I kept being afraid of overstating the finding. Screenshot is from revealnews.org/article/behi...

If @muckrock.com were to throw a live FOIA-a-thon, would you tune in? Filing requests, crafting appeals, workshopping suggestions, bringing transparency to the people.

you can have your pick of books i need to donate that i will add to fill the box, also!

anyone want an assortment of old lefty magazines like jacobin, boston review, dissent, current affairs, the baffler? pickup in philly or i will happily ship the whole thing media mail to anyone!

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Who wants to do a #NICAR26 immigration data panel with me?

People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them. Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has sent shockwaves across the country and shown what’s possible when candidates have the courage to stay true to their values and speak authentically to working people.

In collaboration with our friends at @eff.org as well as the University of Texas at El Paso Multimedia Journalism Program and Borderzine, we're rolling out a new module for our U.S. J-school digital security curriculum to support journalists on the Southern border. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

My MP is on this list, as are other Sheffield MPs. Good. It’s about time this government was held to account.

grateful to my MP olivia blake for seeking additional constituent feedback about the impact of the UK's own transphobic court guidance. hope her response ends up being appropriately outraged and part of rallying her fellow labour MPs to take legislative action.

A joint project of @freedom.press and @eff.org: Journalists have been asking us about how to prepare devices for travel. We put together a checklist of things you can do: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Does anyone know of a good place to rent in Palo Alto starting in September?

Lots of excellent events happening for #IndieNewsWeek in the UK & in #London (which also needs good, diverse local and independent news, thank you very much) - see for example this: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-walk-and... #journalism #localmedia

what stupid things do you do that make your life harder, but you keep doing them anyway cause they're important to you (for some reason)?

"There are many lies told by politicians when it comes to immigration in the UK, but none is bigger than the claim that it’s all too easy." too true! (and same issue with politicians in the US) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

jfc, anyone who knows hugo and/or linux that can help me setup my stupid file structure/config to be able to sftp it to my webhost?

A Bronx high school student showed up at a routine immigration court date in Manhattan last week. ICE was waiting. Please read this one. Immigration enforcement is an education story: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

FREE POST ALERT! This month's tasty treat is @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's review of Ryan Coogler's Sinners, a film that delves into Black southern intimacies via a tale of vampires & momentary freedom: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/sinners-ce...

you know what would help a place not be full of strangers? LETTING PEOPLE MIGRATE WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS

NEORSD doing the true work of evangelizing for infrastructure. Support what supports you! By which I mean pipes and bridges and whatnot.

HUGE congrats to my @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @tinavasquez.bsky.social, a James Beard Finalist! Her work on connections between immigrant communities and food is so good; this piece on the garbage food farmworkers are being forced to eat while picking our produce is amazing.

congrats to this amazing group!

A big day for Big Local News - so glad we could be a part of this Pulitzer Prize work with The Balimore Banner and The New York Times Investigative Reporting Fellowship! biglocalnews.org/content/news...

subhead: "Following Farage on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster" how could they have thought those moves would be anything other than a disaster?!

Like if you are looking for a way to make a difference in the hellscape and you're already donating to mutual aid, stocking your free fridge, curating your lil free library, speaking up at your city council and school board and library board meetings, the next thing to do is fund indie journalists

hard to comprehend how much worse an already dire situation is becoming. on purpose. consider joining me in making a donation to an organization working to end this siege, or directly donate to a family bsky.app/profile/momm...

Please spread the word about these openings at Education Law Center-PA, which I can highly recommend as a place to work and make a difference. I'm especially interested in generating more candidates for this Communication Director position because I'm retiring in May! www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/u...

I am dead serious about this. I'm a member of @transjournalists.org, I know hundreds of trans journalists. That not a single trans voice is represented in mainstream UK media about policy directly impacting our community is sheer and utter cowardice, not a lack of articulate writers. DO BETTER.