We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.
Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.
History teaches us that a free press cannot exist under mass surveillance. Nor can free speech survive in a chokehold.
As @josephtorr.bsky.social says: Surveillance was never about safety. It's about maintaining social control in the service of white supremacy.
We've been here before. 🧵 >
What kind of surveillance tech is your dating app using? www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...
Their only issue with “media bias” was always that it wasn’t biased enough bsky.app/profile/junl...
"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded.
www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...
"Inside CNN, alarm bells went off as staffers began to panic over the suddenly very real prospect that they could be working for Bari Weiss before the end of the year," reports @oliverdarcy.bsky.social.
"'We are doomed,' one staffer candidly said. 'We are f**ked,' said another."
Paramount controlling CBS and CNN should be unthinkable, especially given how it turned the Tiffany Network into a trash heap. The Ellisons have promised to make "sweeping changes" to CNN. We know what the means: firing journalists, spiking stories, and replacing the news with empty propaganda.
BREAKING: WBD decided to abandon plans to sell to Netflix in favor of a Paramount Skydance bid.
"The Ellisons have promised Trump that they'll make sweeping changes to CNN, and we know what the means: firing journalists and replacing news with authoritarian propaganda." - @notaaroncraig.bsky.social
My take on Willie Colón’s musical legacy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/a...
From NYT: "In Cuba, people are struggling with frequent blackouts, shortages of gasoline and cooking gas and dwindling supplies of diesel that power the nation’s water pumps. Trash is piling up, food prices are soaring, schools are canceling classes and hospitals are suspending surgeries."
Big News: Free Press’ Courtney Morrison broke up with TikTok. 💔
Here are their 3 reasons for deleting the app (and why you should too):
1. New ownership
2. New privacy policy
3. The algorithm just won't be the same
Read more here: www.freepress.net/blog/why-to-...
So sad to read…
Now Warner Bros. is censoring wrestling to appease Trump.
Welcome Brody King fans to the fight against media consolidation!
(Hope those F-ICE chants get louder and louder!)
cultaholic.com/posts/report...
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
NBC is not courageous enough to show U.S. audiences what the world thinks of the Trump White House.
Wouldn't want DJT to rant about it on Truth Social.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And here are examples of the racist capitulations so many of our nation's most powerful media companies have made to please Trump and advance their own political, business and ideological projects. This report was authored by my colleague @rlivier.bsky.social.
If you can see how racist this video is, then you can also see how racist it is to sacrifice your (weak) commitments to diversity to get a deal done. You are supporting the same blatantly racist agenda.
Let's be clear: Trump's gutter racism has been elevated and excused by these same media companies. These same companies have abandoned their own employees and erased diversity and equity policies to curry favor with the Trump regime and his henchmen.
www.freepress.net/policy-libra...
I'm pleased to see the NYT not mince words and call this what it is: "blatantly racist."
Even CBS and The Washington Post put "racist" in their headlines.
Apparently White House just took the video down and blamed a "staffer." Yeah, right. Which staffer. Did they get fired?
One of the many reasons for our nation's current crisis & constitutional collapse are due to the role powerful media and tech companies have played in capitulating to Trump and his racism. We have to reckon & redress the role these companies have played in ushering in this racist & fascist regime.
Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C
If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.
Heads up.
Levitsky said “the early abdication of this country's elite,” including Bezos, leaders at Disney and Columbia, “sent a powerful signal to both the Trump administration and US society that Trump was going to be able to get away with a lot. And we paid a price for it”
www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...
Capital B stands in solidarity with journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were arrested today in connection to their coverage of an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest earlier this month at a Minneapolis church.
https://capitalbnews.org/capital-b-condems-journalists-arrests/
We signed on @freepress.bsky.social in solidarity and support of this strong statement by the National Association of Black Journalists in response to the outrageous arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.
nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been arrested for reporting the news.
This is a brazen, unconstitutional overreach. We demand that Congress act immediately to check the executive branch’s unhinged abuse of power.
