me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Here's a hidden secret of doorbell cameras, as revealed by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping. They're recording even when you don't know it, and sending video to company servers even when you don't pay

where is this?

7 selected for 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards | UNC-Chapel Hill This year’s honorees include a Navy admiral, a comedian, business leaders and philanthropists.

Congratulations to these winners.

#UNC faculty should know that we had no involvement in the selection of any of these individuals except Lewis Black.

Historically we have, but the Bd of Trustees recently ended the involvement of the faculty's elected Awards Committee.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...

Strengthen the Freedom of Information Act Defending press freedom for the next generation

Join me in encouraging Congress to stop the administration’s attacks on FOIA and our right to access government documents: freedom.press/the-classifi...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Who was Awdah Hathaleen, Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler? The family man, activist, and football fiend also helped make an Oscar-winning documentary.

"Who was Awdah Hathaleen, Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler?"

“His love for Real Madrid ran in his veins,” Alaa added. “Maybe if they knew how much he loved them, Real Madrid would speak about Masafer Yatta.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Home - PBS Foundation

I think they recognize it precisely BECAUSE 60 Minutes was not slop. Dan Rather and Edward R. Murrow did not make slop.

So, go ahead, Ellison. Go offer these people Temu News, gaslight them about it, and see if they stay.

PSA: support your local PBS Station for MOAR FRONTLINE! We need it!

"The humans who made these things and gave them meaning don't actually matter at all," says man who is about to lose money making said things shitty and worthless, all because he is too arrogant to appreciate the priceless value of humanity.

NC lawmakers enact law letting private schools arm teachers after defeating veto Another bill, to remove the permit requirement for carrying concealed handguns, needs one more vote before it can be enacted as well.

Today in North Carolina: A new law from Republicans now lets teachers and volunteers in private schools carry concealed guns on campus.

What could go wrong?!

Co-bylined by my former student Kyle Ingram: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy U.S. marshal in Tucson, feds confirm A deputy U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court, U.S. Marshals Service officials confirmed on Thursday.

SCOOP: A deputy U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court, U.S. Marshals Service officials confirmed on Thursday. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...

Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador | "Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

'Spineless capitulation.' Paramount faces backlash over its $16-million Trump settlement Journalists and others said the payment will embolden attacks by Trump and his allies on news outlets. Some called the settlement a stain on the proud legacy of CBS News.

“This is a shameful decision by Paramount,” Reporters Without Borders USA said. “Shari Redstone & Paramount’s board should have stood by CBS journalists & the integrity of press freedom. Instead, they chose to reward Trump for his petty legal assault.”

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Advocates say they helped prevent 3 ICE detainees from being flown out of Vermont - VTDigger A spokesperson at American Airlines denied it was the company’s decision to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from boarding a flight with three women in their custody.

"In what could be the 1st case in which activists have successfully intervened to stop immigrants in the custody of ICE from being flown out of Vermont, 3 women escorted by agency officials turned around, left the airport & were returned to jail..."

vtdigger.org/2025/07/16/a...

Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.

Removal of agency sites: Documents obtained by the Federal News Network show agencies plan to eliminate 332 agency websites, including the CDC's vaccine page and FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program pages.

federalnewsnetwork.com/it-moderniza...

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

And we wouldn’t have known, except for the work of hackers and journalists.

US foreign aid cuts could cause 14 million deaths by 2030, Lancet study finds The Trump administration's cuts to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides 40 percent of humanitarian funding worldwide, could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030, a study in...

US aid cuts could cause 14 million deaths by 2030, Lancet study finds

The Trump cuts to USAID, which provides 40% of humanitarian funding worldwide, could lead to 14 mil deaths by 2030, potentially "halting – and even reversing – 2 decades of progress"

www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Canadian Citizen Dies at ICE Detention Center in Florida

"[Canadian] Mr. Noviello is the 10th person to die in ICE custody this year and the fourth person to die in custody in Florida, according to the agency’s website."

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

Module: Digital security 101 — Crossing the US-Mexico border This module focuses on how to prepare and what to expect for those traversing the U.S. southern border, centering journalists serving border communities.Unlike most modules in the J-school digital sec...

Module from the EFF: Digital security 101 — Crossing the US-Mexico border
Published June 23, 2025

freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Commentary: Rep. Judy Chu wants to go inside immigration detention facilities. ICE wants to stop her As tens of thousands of immigrants are detained and held inside federal detention centers, the power of federal lawmakers such as Judy Chu to provide oversight and answers is even more critical — and threatened.

Chabria: Rep. Judy Chu wants to go inside immigration detention facilities. ICE wants to stop her

US economy faces reckoning as some immigrants avoid workplaces www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

A Senator’s Fall From Grace Ends in a Grim Federal Lockup

"After a nine-week trial in Manhattan, Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, became the only U.S. senator ever to be convicted of acting as an agent of a foreign government..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

Toxic plume from Tijuana River can be seen from outer space, NASA report shows The latest report from NASA shows a satellite image of the toxic plume from the Tijuana River spreading into the Pacific Ocean.

Toxic plume from Tijuana River can be seen from outer space, NASA report shows

An image from NASA shows the plume flowing off south of Imperial Beach and spreading into the Pacific Ocean.

www.cbs8.com/article/news...

"In a Mexico Border Town Famed for Crossings, ‘There Are No Migrants’
Tijuana long served as a gateway for legal and illegal crossings between Mexico and Southern California. But its shelters have now thinned out and migrants have left its streets." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/w...

How an Italian Mayor Who Turned His Town into a Haven for Migrants Wound Up Facing 13 Years in Jail 'This is how the state pays me back'

I often think of Mayor Lucano, ever since reading about him. Mayor of a dying southern Italian town of 500 people, who rescued it by giving migrants a home in the many empty homes and abandoned buildings, which the right wing Italian government treated as a crime. time.com/6104836/dome...

Labor Leaders & Policymakers Release Worker-Led Agenda for Systemic Policy Change YouTube video by Higher Ed Labor United

Tune in TODAY 5/22 at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT to hear labor leaders and elected allies from around the country unveil HELU’s policy agenda for the future of higher education in Washington, D.C. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ja0...

Local 6741 Visit the post for more.

Local 6741 is in the BlueSky house!

We are an @aaup.bsky.social & @aft.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter & at-large members of AAUP.

Follow us for news on & organizing resources for faculty in pre-majority union contexts.

Check out our website too! local6741.org

Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

"The Justice Dept drastically scaled back support for anti-crime initiatives across the country, leaving law enforcement scrambling to try to replace money. The cuts were announced in April... totaling about $500 million."

www.npr.org/2025/05/24/n...