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RealT: Crypto landlord’s real estate model in Detroit is collapsing Crypto landlord RealT stopped paying its investors and owes millions of dollars to the City of Detroit.

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Proud.

From “Something Else” to Something Specific: Journalist As Circulator Dispatches from my JSK Fellowship

From ‘Something Else’ to Something Specific: Journalist As Circulator by @JenniferBrandel jskfellows.stanford.edu/from-somethi...

Failure to Launch: Why Journalism Is Stuck — and How Centering Impact Can Fix It This is an abridged version of a keynote talk I gave in Lausanne, Switzerland in late 2025 the launch of OurFrame, a nonprofit impact media…

Failure to Launch: Why Journalism Is Stuck — and How Centering Impact Can Fix It by Lindsay Green-Barber medium.com/p/failure-to...

Two women, standing in front of a billboard for Outlier Media, an independent non-profit newsroom in Detroit.

If you love where you live, find the people who cover it. Find your local newsroom, subscribe, share their work, tell someone why it matters. Our communities are only as informed as the information infrastructure we support. 💛 #LocalNewsDay #Detroit localnewsday.org

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How politics and PR took over the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Current and former staffers spill on what brought Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's personal philanthropy to abandon its progressive values

How politics and image control destroyed the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/c...

a man in a plaid shirt is looking at a woman in a red dress ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is looking at a woman in a red dress

Journalism in 2026 and the line "a historic first for a sitting president."

Special Envoy for the WHAT of the WHO?

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

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Questions swirl over possible ICE detention site near Romulus Local officials say they lack details on a reported 500-bed ICE detention proposal.

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Map: Third Places Index in Detroit In the urban planning realm, third places or informal gathering places, are often discussed in relation to creating great places to live and reknitting the urban fabric of communities that have see…

Map: Third Places Index in Detroit detroitography.com/2026/02/18/m...

The Rise of Migra Watch Whistles From Chicago to Minneapolis and beyond, residents are using whistles to warn neighbors of ICE activity

The Rise of Migra Watch Whistles
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‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power.

‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess... via @19thnews.org

NPR’s Tonya Mosley on Growing Up in Detroit, Working with Terry Gross Tonya Mosley, the Detroit-born and-raised journalist, shares west side memories and what it’s like working with Terry Gross

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I will say that because of the walkability of European cities, it does make building out infrastructure like this more feasible and in more places. There is also, of course, government financial support for journalism, which makes it possible on a larger scale.

I certainly wasn’t saying this as if it were a one-off experience; I hope we are doing some of this at Outlier because of the lessons of people who came before us; however, this was, for me, a uniquely beautiful experience. I was not taking away from what exists here in the States.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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“A fresh new hell, daily!”

Why You Can’t Understand American Authoritarianism Without Understanding Race Or: How the War on Black Freedom Became the Infrastructure for War on All of Us

Why You Can’t Understand American Authoritarianism Without Understanding Race
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Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

Detroit council member proposes ban on masked law enforcement officers - Detroit Metro Times Detroit City Councilwoman Mary Waters on Wednesday announced she is pushing an ordinance that would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks or other facial cover...

Detroit council member proposes ban on masked law enforcement officers www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...

Our Responsibility: ICE Violence & "The American Dream" Every Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our Responsibility: ICE Violence & "The American Dream"
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One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

An unfinished mandate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy An FBI agent poses for a photograph in front of the wreath marking the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis. Photography by Dylan

An unfinished mandate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy mlk50.com/2026/01/19/a...

0 to 100 real quick -Curt Cignatti

My partner for the rest of the night every so often: “they should’ve went for 2…”