RCFP expands free legal support to local newsrooms in Gulf states and upper Midwest Expansion nearly doubles the Local Legal Initiative, building on six years of success supporting local journalism

The @rcfp.org is expanding its Local Legal Initiative to Louisiana, Mississippi, Minnesota, and Michigan, nearly doubling the size of the program.

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

The most amazing story you will read this week, and maybe this year. And a testament to why the prediction market needs to be heavily regulated, if not eliminated: www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Meet the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin:

Today's Pentagon “press conference” was a shameful insult to the founders who established freedom of the press. The questions coming from right-wing lackeys might as well have been drafted by Hegseth himself. Perhaps they were.

The Trouble Covering Tehran As U.S. and Israeli forces launch deadly strikes on Iran, the inherent challenges of covering the country are exacerbated by recent newsroom cuts, social media distortion, and a White House prone to t...

“In January, WashPost reporter Yeganeh Torbati, who had been covering Iran, appealed to Jeff Bezos on social media, noting she had spent months covering developments inside the country and wanted to continue the work.

“The appeals to Bezos went unheeded.”

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This guy, @senmullin.bsky.social, is competing with Tommy Tuberville for the bottom of the congressional IQ test. That Ayatollah is long dead.

Do you mean Harris or Bartiromo?

Because, in my opinion, the greatest dilemma public colleges across the country face is that they NEVER receive enough state or federal funding. So they are forced to submit grant applications to the country’s philanthropic organizations to fit an ever-growing gap. THIS IS THE ENTIRE PROBLEM.

Philadelphia Grammy winners this year are Will Yip, Christian McBride, and Andre Harris The rock producer, jazz bassist, and R&B songwriter were winners in an early awards ceremony. Bucks County pop singer pulled in major nominations but didn't take home any golden gramophones.

Congratulations to our @tukleincollege.bsky.social alum @willyip.bsky.social on winning a Grammy!
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In his episode on “How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu”, he describes why he doesn’t typically get the annual shot while stating “the flu shot is completely ineffective at combatting any other forms of the flu virus”—that’s false as even in cases of mismatch, the vax protects against hosp/death.

Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

Outstanding work by @danabash.bsky.social.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

And yet more evidence that @dokoupil.bsky.social, @bariweiss.skystack.xyz and @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy care about more about their personal interests than the public's.

‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo

Yet another threat to the media's -- and by extension, the public's -- First Amendment rights by this administration.
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As Trump Talked About Taking Greenland, Former Employees Gained a Foothold in the Arctic Island Two men who worked with the Trump Organization hold shares in GreenMet, which signed a deal with a company ready to mine critical minerals in Greenland.

This may explain his obsession with Greenland. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/as-...

Mother Jones sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell records Why was Jeffrey Epstein's procurer transferred to a cushy prison?

NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).

Hey, Bari Weiss, we still have room in our first-year journalism classes, where you can learn what true journalism really should be. What it should not be is this:

RCFP statement on FBI search of Washington Post reporter’s home “[T]his is a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press,” said RCFP President Bruce D. Brown.

This morning, the FBI executed a search warrant at a @washingtonpost.com reporter’s home.

@rcfp.org President Bruce D. Brown called it “a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press.”

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FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I see Cillizza is auditioning for CBS News.

Let’s be clear: if people sworn to enforce the law can tell you to get out of your car and then kill you if you just try to drive away, none of us are safe. None of us.

Tony Dokoupil lavishes praise on Marco Rubio in lauding CBS segment “Whatever you think of his politics,” Dokoupil said, “you got to admit, it’s an impressive resume.”

For those (like I) who were waiting to judge @dokoupil.bsky.social's fitness to anchor the @cbseveningnews.bsky.social, you can stop waiting: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:

"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

This is absolutely on point

In the early hours of this test, @cnn.com is showing poorly. Its focus on the logistics of the military operation is sorely misplaced. In the decades to come, few will care about how the U.S. invaded Venezuela, but rather why it did, under what authorization it did, and what was to follow.

The next 48 hours will be a powerful litmus test of the health, vitality and courage of the American news media. Please, as the citizens those journalists and their outlets purport to serve, watch carefully.

I wonder what kind of heads up Exxon et al got

Hey, @CNN.com, just because the White House uses the made-up term “narcoterrorist” doesn’t mean you have to.

Pathetic.