A growing number of Americans believe that gender-affirming care will become less accessible in their lifetime, a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds — reflecting a political landscape that has become increasingly hostile toward transgender people and their health care.

NEW! A Senate report claims that DOGE has put *every* American’s social security number at risk; that staff at GSA, OPM, and SSA wouldn’t or couldn’t say what DOGE was doing; and that agencies claimed that DOGE actually doesn’t exist at all. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting. He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job. We demand his immediate release. freedomformario.com

Very cool interactive playoff scenario simulator by the great @daigofuji.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/s...

The NYT’s digital investigations are invaluable and unparalleled by any other news org. This one proves ICE murdered a man, and lied about what led up to that murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

“It should also be noted that ‘transgender ideology’ is a term coined for and used in anti-trans political messaging. Reporters should be careful about using this term.” www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

A monthslong @prismreports.org investigation by @laubast.bsky.social reveals pro-Israel bias at the highest levels in U.S. newsrooms. Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim journalists said they felt dehumanized and were questioned over stories even mentioning Palestine. With Visualizing Palestine:

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

For many, summer camp is an annual escape. But camaraderie takes on a special meaning at Camp Jabberwocky, the oldest operating sleep-away camp for people with special needs in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/m...

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Always happy for a chance to say: I read every real study on the impact of bike lanes on street-level retail. They never hurt. They often help. Sometimes they help a lot: www.businessinsider.com/bike-lanes-g...

In Gaza, children eat frozen antibiotic syrups for the lie of something sweet, writes Logain Hamdan. Though the new antibiotic “ice cream” is dangerous, few adults can deny children this small indulgence that makes life during a genocide feel worth living.

“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.” -Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use”

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I find myself growing grim about the mouth

Video shows the aftermath of the Israeli strike on a tent for media workers that assassinated five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City.

#ICYMI: We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew at least 197 of the men it sent to CECOT had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.

Midland ISD rebranded Robert E. Lee High as Legacy High in 2020 as part of a nationwide trend to distance public places from the Confederacy. Five years later, a new configuration of the county's school board is set to consider reverting the school’s name to Midland Lee.

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

"Even the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last year felt like an anachronism, a vestige of a time when a world without nuclear weapons could be imagined." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...

“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

Living in Massachusetts may have just gotten a little more affordable. As of Aug. 1, landlords can no longer require apartment tenants to pay broker fees.

How the information ecosystem works on X today: A random account aggregates my reporting, recounting scoops from our Media Matters story, and uses it to drive subscriptions to their Substack. Elon Musk sees it and endorses it, with apparently no idea he's reading the NYT, a publication he hates.

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney jeans discourse and broken informations systems that make talking to each other impossible (in fact it's not even the goal). Context collapse is just how people (and brands!) communicate now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News & Reuters issued this joint statement about journalists in Gaza today with alt text:

Al Jazeera Media Network urgently calls upon the journalistic community, press freedom organisations, and relevant legal bodies to take decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals in Gaza.

Is Market Basket really the cheapest grocery store in the Boston area? The Boston Globe compared prices at four other stores to find out.

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

No journalist should fear government retaliation for reporting or using their voice. The fact that foreign journalists in the US -- including some of whom fled repressive regimes -- are self-censoring shows just how far our First Amendment freedoms have fallen. (Via @poynterinstitute.bsky.social)

Michael Bell, set to be executed Tuesday, is among at least 34 boys from the Dozier School later sentenced to death. Did abuse make them more violent?

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

NEW: Trump administration relied heavily on shadowy Canary Mission website to identify pro-Palestinian activists for deportation, per new court testimony. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also deeply involved in project, records show. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Exclusive: A new analysis from the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates that the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade—issued 3 years ago tomorrow—is costing the nation more than $133 billion annually. First reported by me for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here's how a mild-mannered scientist named Roxie Laybourne created the field of forensic ornithology.

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

Five players, and thirteen staff members from the Senegalese basketball team have been denied visas to the US. The team is here to prepare for the upcoming Afrobasket tournament.

Resources for covering today's 6-3 SCOTUS decision on Tennessee's ban on medical care for transgender youth: www.transjournalists.org/2025-skrmett...

Sports was one of America's most accessible forms of entertainment. Now it's paywalled, splintered and sold to the highest bidder. Fandom isn't being nurtured. It's being mined. For @nytopinion.nytimes.com on on the state of sports, and what it says about America: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...