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Screenshot of text: ““Journalists who embrace and experiment with this tool are going to win,” Nelson told the group, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting. “Journalists who are defiant will fall behind. Bottom line: We need more stories and we need more inventory.”” The sentence “Journalists who are defiant will fall behind” is underlined in blue

TheWrap reports today on how a McClatchy corporate executive spoke about reporters with practical and ethical concerns about the company’s new AI article-generating tool. At the Sacramento Bee, unionized journalists are proudly “defiant” because we believe this tool compromises our integrity.

Even for trans adults, care is hard to find: ‘I could not do it on my own’ State restrictions, Trump administration policies, and waning public support are further limiting adults' access to transgender care

A phenomenal story from @theresagaff.bsky.social about how access to gender-affirming care for adults, like with kids, is shrinking.

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‘Keep digging’: What happened in months and days leading up to the Chronicle’s Eric Swalwell story The woman who answered a reporter’s call last month was hesitant, at first. She withheld the painful account she would later reveal. The next morning, she asked to keep talking.

We've been asked a lot how we got our story about the sexual assault allegations against Eric Swalwell. @demianbulwa.bsky.social wrote about the fundamental acts of journalism, not opposition research, that unearthed this scandal: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

please don’t give Tiger ideas

Reporters (and editors) know so many more things than they can actually report publicly. Most of it second- or third-hand, through the rumor mill.

Many California Democrats now calling for Swalwell to drop out of the governor's race, including one of his campaign co-chairs: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

PODCAST: @sacbee.com reporter @liaoffleash.bsky.social was part of the team that broke the news of former Newsom COS Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol - and about all those tattoos
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In a story on ProPublica reporters’ fight for AI protections, WaPo highlights Bee journalists who stand against McClatchy’s AI “articles” initiative. I wonder why McClatchy has now twice declined to comment on this AI tool. Internally we have heard corporate executives say they’re very proud of it 🤔

Screenshot of the following headline and subhed: McClatchy Journalists Revolt Against AI: ‘It’s a Betrayal’ | Exclusive Sacramento Bee staffers refuse bylines over a new AI tool as colleagues at the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer harbor concerns

Unionized journalists at the Sacramento Bee stand united against McClatchy’s latest AI “articles” initiative. We have withheld our bylines from these stories because we do not want the public to think this is being done in our name — it’s not. We think it’s disgusting.

“right wing billionaires sell off chunks of longstanding American institutions to Arab oil billionaires” is a plot point in the 1979 Kurt Vonnegut novel JAILBIRD and it probably read a little heavy handed at the time

OpenAI asks AG to investigate Elon Musk’s ‘anti-competitive’ behavior ahead of trial The AI startup accused Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg of working together to smear OpenAI founder Sam Altman.

And now OpenAI is asking CA AG Rob Bonta to investigate, accusing Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg of working together to dig up dirt on Sam Altman as Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI goes to trial later this month

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CA lawmaker files federal civil rights suit after 2025 Sacramento DUI allegation Attorneys for State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, sued in Sacramento federal court alleging police falsely arrested the lawmaker

Former Senate Majority Leader Sabrina Cervantes sued Sacramento after police arrested and accused her of being under the influence after a car hit hers in a collision last year www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Trump rescinds trans student’s civil rights settlement with Sacramento schools Sacramento City Unified District is one of the six schools nationwide affected by Trump’s most recent attack on transgender rights.

@jennahpendleton.bsky.social also reported that the Trump administration has rescinded a civil rights agreement w/ Sacramento City United School District that came about after the Biden admin found it had discriminated against a trans student www.sacbee.com/news/local/e...

California to award brand campaign to company that advised Saudi Arabia after journalist’s killing Edelman is one of the world’s largest communication firms with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Busy day in Sac today:

First: California intends to reward a $19M contract burnishing its image nationwide to a company that helped Saudi Arabia rehab its image after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Lia is a real one! Check out this interview!

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Covering the Capitol, with Lia Russell of the Sacramento Bee - Capitol Weekly CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Today's guest is Sacramento Bee reporter Lia Russell. Russell covers the governor for The Bee’s Capitol Bureau, and was part of the team that broke the story of Dana Williamson...

PODCAST: @sacbee.com reporter @liaoffleash.bsky.social. Russell covers the governor, and helped break the story of Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in Maine and Baltimore
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uh hey idk what's going on with this post (modest tiddy reveal really hitting i guess) but since you're here it would be dope if you went and listened to my album! linktr.ee/chapslovesyo...

C.S. Lewis’s advice on how to become a better writer to a young school girl (per Athenaeum Book Club on Substack)

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

Just updating this here with a New York Times investigation published today, documenting years of Chavez's sexual violence against underage girls and even Dolores Huerta:

New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues

@vox.com gift link:
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Any movie that makes sf general and the Embarcadero pre 1989 look good 💯

Sometimes other friends carp about poly and I tell them I know 3 people in Oakland doing it right

Kat.

I wrote about Kat.

Ex-Newsom aide received $62,000 after leaving amid federal corruption probe Dana Williamson, whom authorities accused of bank and wire fraud, received $62,598.14 in 2025 after leaving Newsom’s office.

Ex-Newsom aide received $62,500 after leaving his office while under investigation by the FBI www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

@lauralippman.bsky.social I’m about to go to a wedding in Nola, any bookstores you recommend? I’m also a former sun reporter 👋

Polyamory seems most appealing when one looks at the state of childcare in this country