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CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws.
Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...
#FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.
Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
A plan is afoot to buy Golden Gate Fields, the sprawling former horse racing track on the Berkeley-Albany border, and turn it into a park. Officials announced the effort Tuesday, calling it a "dream come true" and a "once-in-a-generation opportunity."
"But Reddit commenters had already started a thread Wednesday to suggest possible replacements, including the Dolores Huerta Student Center and, archly, the Men in Power are Dangerous Student Center."
www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/18/c...
Journalists, here's another call for pitches for religion reporting: Open City covers Asian immigrant and Muslim communities with an emphasis on social, racial, and gender justice issues.
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Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, an Afghan wartime ally evacuated to the United States in August 2021, died less than 24 hours after ICE took him into custody in the Dallas area. He was taking his children to school.
@afghanevac.bsky.social
@shawnjvandiver.bsky.social
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A PJP contributor spoke to Melvin Ray in what appears to be Ray's first interview since his release from solitary confinement and the documentary "The Alabama Solution’s" Oscar nomination.
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
Oh it’s a banger!
A stamp unveiling and car show at the U.S. Postal Service office in the Bayview next weekend will celebrate lowriders as a vital American art form.
Student art at the Dublin Unified School District building
Empty Dublin high school campus after school
Teachers bring boxes of material home from classes in preparation for Monday’s strike.
Teacher Catie Tombs is bringing home their chair as well as bags full of items from the classroom.
Dublin Teachers are set to strike Monday:
www.kqed.org/news/1207559...
Foreground: a pink book with the title “the beginning comes after the end. Background: Rebecca Solnit and Annie Leonard sit on a wooden stage.
Two people sit on a wooden stage with a cross on the left and two people on the foreground.
So nice to worship at the church of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the evening… as part of her book launch for “The Beginning Comes After the End”
“I want to give people back this map of how we got here.”
“I think the simplest answer is stories, stories make us strong.”
“It’s dystopian. It’s like Black Mirror stuff.”
This is Mobile Fortify, an app used by DHS that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query databases for matches against passport records, visa files, and border entry photos.
Our latest with @france24.com:
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
RENT STRIKE!
Tired of dilapidated floors and damaged walls, tenants at a Valencia Street building owned by Mosser are withholding rent payments.
missionlocal.org/2026/03/moss...
High pressure and light offshore breezes pushed the mercury to 79° in Half Moon Bay this afternoon. This is the hottest February reading recorded in HMB; where offical NWS records go all the way back to 1939.
so awesome that we found a way to make podcasts even more annoying by filming them as they're being recorded
The Beginning Comes After the End Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.
Robin Kazmier is senior digital editor for Science Friday, and she wants pitches that demonstrate how science helps us better understand the world we live in. On the Freelance Journalism Podcast, she shares key insights for freelancers looking to pitch: youtu.be/nupktV_EK5M
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
MN Unions Vow Largest Rent Strike in 100 Years Amid ICE-Fueled Eviction Crisis | Truthout truthout.org/articles/mn-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
This is a very important and under discussed story surrounding Newsom and his priorities -- especially because of this part:
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.
