Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

“An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

We dove into Grok's continued creation of deepfakes, and found that some users have found new methods to bypass Grok's guardrails, allowing them to generate sexual AI images of celebrities and real people.

from @davidingram.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

The 10 Things the Bezoses Are Almost Certainly Grateful for Each Morning Never mind. We said “money” yesterday.

the detail in the NYT Lauren Sanchez Bezos piece about the daily 6 am 10-item gratitude lists with NO REPEATS felt like a challenge

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Anti-Muslim Comments by G.O.P. Congressman Reflect a Rising Trend

But we’re supposed to think that the real threat is coming from so-called Sharia law?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

The Women Who Believe Women Should Lose the Right to Vote

“Many”??? Gah.

“While many Americans would see this as an unthinkable regression to a time when women were treated as second-class Americans, proponents of the concept believe deeply that this arrangement is what God envisioned in a marriage.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

A US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and a search is underway Iraqi officials say an American journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are pursuing her captors.

An American journalist identified as freelancer Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, officials said.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court!

2025 Republicans: We run things now so

Technology Researchers Ask Court to Block Trump Policy Threatening Deportation for Work on Social Media Platforms

@knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org last night filed a PI motion in our lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social to block a U.S. #immigration policy that targets noncitizen social media researchers, fact-checkers, and trust and safety workers.

knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

Not sure how reliable this is, but: tsa.fromthetraytable.com

Same

youtu.be/OQvDRe79F8k?...
@chuckdpe.bsky.social

The official Russian state news channel last week reported on all the winners of the Oscars but just left out the winner of the documentary category: Mr. Nobody Against Putin.

Lawmakers respond after reported ICE agents detain woman at SFO in front of daughter Mayor Daniel Lurie and local lawmakers are sounding off after video circulating on social media shows reported ICE agents in plain clothes detaining a woman at SFO on Sunday night in front of her cryi...

It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter.

Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

Qualified immunity is a conservative judge-manufactured doctrine designed to curb civil rights.

Your data will be used against you (and be wrong).

Oh, BTW, turns out that colleges are practicing Affirmative Action for men and have been for a while and STILL struggle to find qualified male applicants.

hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes:

My new novel “Gary’s New Novel Was This Result Helpful to You?” is in big trouble.

US downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow | CNN Business “The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.

"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...

Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of tr...

NEW: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin.

His father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

‘Americans at heart’: ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.

www.ms.now/news/ice-det...

N.Y.C. High School Student Freed After 10 Months in ICE Detention

NEW: Dylan Lopez Contreras, an NYC high school student whose arrest foreshadowed a stark escalation of President Trump’s deportation tactics, has been released from federal custody. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/n...

"I represent Arrakis, he was raised out in Caladan"

A journalist reported a missile strike. Then came the death threats. An Israeli war reporter says online gamblers demanded he change a published story so they could win a payout on prediction market Polymarket.

A journalist filed a brief live blog entry on an apparent Iranian missile strike that hit no one and caused no serious damage.

Next thing he knew, angry Polymarket users were demanding he change the story—and threatening his life and family if he refused.

My story: wapo.st/4lI6Pon (gift link)

Knight Institute Condemns Trump Attacks on Press Over Iran War Coverage.

President Trump and senior administration officials escalated their attacks on the #press over the weekend, criticizing news orgs for their coverage of the war with Iran. Our statement: knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez issued the following statement in response to the FCC’s most recent threat that broadcast licenses could be revoked over coverage of the war with Iran.

We cannot give this FCC more power than it has.

Broadcasters, journalists, and the public should recognize these empty threats for what they are and fight to defend the First Amendment against any attempt to control or intimidate the press. 🧵