omg I’ve been waiting for this

The Trump administration is trying to force Reddit to reveal the identity of an online ICE critic The defense lawyer denounces the violation of her client’s freedom of speech, and warns anyone else who expresses criticism of the government could become a target

“It’s not simply an immigration enforcement measure; it’s something different,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @elpais.com. “They are conducting an investigation—or trying to obtain authorization—to bring federal criminal charges against someone, someone whose identity we don’t know.”

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

Full article from @nytimes.com about Cesar Chavez is out today. This should be free access to the article. Out history books always narrow this movement to one hero, but the movement was groups of people coming together to fight for vulnerable workers.

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

i was thinking about how i grew up with so many people who were first generation kids from lebanon and palestine and iran and how terrible it must be to know your parents left a place and at the end if their lives to see their new country destroy their old country and i just sit with the sadness

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Where Have All the Long COVID Clinics Gone? A nationwide survey reveals the uncertain state of specialized care for Americans living with the chronic condition

In 2022, I counted more than 400 healthcare centers in the U.S. offering Long COVID care. @delfimarchese.bsky.social followed up three years later, and found many of them have closed... or at least failed to respond to our inquiries.

Her investigation for @thesicktimes.org: clinics.thesicktimes.org

CPJ, Free Press lead call for journalist Estefany Rodríguez’s release from ICE detention - Committee to Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press led a coalition of more than 40 press freedom, human rights, and media organizations in a joint statement Tuesday calling for the release of journal...

It is outrageous that Nashville Notacias reporter Estefany Rodriguez was detained and taken out of state because of ICE reporting.

We are proud to join 40 other press freedom, civic and media orgs to call for her immediate release.
cpj.org/2026/03/cpj-...

#PressFreedom
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The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic Stranded Gulf supplies are choking off the region’s economies

“It is up by 42% since hostilities began. American motorists are already paying over $3.40 for a gallon of petrol on average, around 50 cents more than on February 27th. In Europe prices of natural gas, of which the Gulf normally ships lots in liquefied form, are 92% higher than before the war.”

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar…

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Today marks the anniversary of the Selma march that helped deliver the Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court decision that upheld the law. Sixty years later, the Court has largely reversed this civil rights victory.
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Judge Rules Columbia's Expulsions of Pro-Palestine Protesters Were Illegal The judge tossed out Columbia’s disciplinary actions against 22 students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024.

A New York judge has tossed out Columbia University's unprecedentedly harsh discipline against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall during the 2024 Gaza protests, calling it arbitrary and capricious:

The record-setting pace of retirements from Congress continues, led by Republicans NPR is tracking the record number of congressional lawmakers — now more than one in eight current members — who have announced plans to retire or run for a different office in 2026.

NPR is tracking the record number of congressional lawmakers — now more than one in eight current members — who have announced plans to retire or run for a different office in 2026.

It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows Organic search traffic to some of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped by 58% since 2024, according to a new analysis from the SEO and GEO marketing firm Growtika. The report pulled…

Organic search traffic to ten of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped 58% since 2024, according to a new report. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.

Insiders Fear Steep Civilian Toll In Iran After Trump Slashed Pentagon Personnel The U.S. has "no stupid rules of engagement," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday.

Before the war on Iran, Trump dismantled teams at the Pentagon that focused on limiting civilian casualties in conflict

Upon entering the war, the admin says: “no stupid rules of engagement”

Big fear of war crimes among sources familiar with military discussions

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NC Congresswoman Valerie Foushee holds off primary challenger Nida Allam, but recount is possible Congresswoman Valerie Foushee appeared to narrowly fend off a strong challenge from Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam in Tuesday’s primary, but the race could be eligible for a recount.

NC Congresswoman Valerie Foushee holds off primary challenger Nida Allam, but recount is possible:
www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol

UNC-Chapel Hill nixes secret recording policy after faculty concern The policy had only been in effect for two weeks when Chancellor Lee Roberts announced he was reversing it.

The classroom recordings policy had only been in effect for two weeks when Chancellor Lee Roberts announced he was reversing it.

www.wunc.org/education/20...

they always have to do it to us in ramadan. and every year it’s some freshly terrible violence, carried out with gleeful and malicious abandon

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

But hey Claude promises to never run ads.

remember, one of the purported reasons the Ellison/Weiss CBS News kept pushing for U.S. ops in Iran, despite public opposition to any such offensive, was that someone needed to stop the regime from killing civilians: slate.com/business/202...

gives me flashbacks to march 2003

At least 50 children have been killed & <60 injured in an Israeli air strike on a girls’ school in Minab in #Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, per state media. Unlike overnight attacks last year, Israel’s strikes this morning apparently timed to inflict maximum damage, casualties & disruption.

Sure would be a good time to have not laid off your entire Middle East bureau.

once again the us has started an illegal and unnecessary war justified by lies about regime change and terrorism…I would say I didn’t expect to see this multiple times in my short-ish life but at this point that would be a lie

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.