Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.
70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.
30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.
7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
There is a complete discord between US news and the rest of the world. 3 different international news agencies report that Iran will not entertain any negotiations until the blockade of Iranian ports is lifted.
Do not believe anything the regime in the US is telling you.
To put in the "every accusation is an admission" file...
Pope is reading Lippman: When simulation becomes the norm... we come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to dialogue...risking not just error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth
NIH grantmaking plummeting under Trump
How many people will die from diseases that would otherwise have been preventable
These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.
Hunter is not completely right, but he's not completely wrong either!
This is a longer essay, but having spent my entire career at WaPo as an opinion editor and then a columnist -- I have quick thoughts! 1/n
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
Editor’s Pick:
In southern Lebanon, first responders are also targets. Jahan de Bellaigue follows a volunteer paramedic unit in Nabatieh risking everything — even as colleagues and loved ones are killed and the next call is never far away.
https://shorturl.at/I9L2A
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸
We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.
The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
Nature article about the inequities of open science with an opening line that reads "nothing says 'you are an outsider' more than a paywall asking US$38 for one article." Below is a note barrier to reading further that notes access to Nature is $32.99 for 30 days.
The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.
🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇
1/10
The @apnews.com continues to approach this story head-on, rather than with euphemisms and sanewashing. apnews.com/article/trum...
🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The opposition party is currently being led by People Magazine’s headline writers.
people.com/trump-ramble...
This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.
Not so long ago, when Russia was targeting hospitals in Syria, that it was widely denounced as a war crime.
A+ headline.
And like clockwork, the press is really underselling the post.
Will the NYT headline be “Increasingly erratic Trump threatens war crimes” or “President deliberates over war strategy”
Israel is pounding Beirut on Easter Sunday. The last airstrike, in the Jnah neighborhood, full of refugees from other areas, is being reported as a massacre—20 casualties & counting. It was so loud in Ras Beirut my left ear is still throbbing something awful
Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz:
• paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee”
• diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees
• failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families
He also received a Trump pardon.
800,000 people who died because of the lack of lifesaving food and medical aid were unavailable for comment.
Bild Ist Donald Trump ein Sexmonster? Wahl 2016
Spiegel »Die Republikaner haben ein Naziproblem« US-Präsident Trump verwandelt Rassismus, Sexismus, Korruption und Demokratieverachtung in Tugenden, sagt der Journalist Tom Nichols. Die Republikaner hält er für politisch und moralisch ausgehöhlt. Ein Interview von Martin Pfaffenzeller 04.04.2026, 09.39 Uhr
New York Times: How Trump-Kennedy alliance is pushing thr boundaries of public health
New York Times: Legally creative, democratically dangerous: Trump's plan to twist the news Feb. 24, 2026
Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English
I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
