jasmine mithani
@jazzmyth.bsky.social
gender, tech & domestic violence reporter @19thnews.org • newsletters @ data + feelings • reads a lot • los angeles • she/her 🧿🌈🇵🇰 signal: jsmn.01 jmithani [at] 19thnews.org jmithani.com
I'm going to be talking all about funding issues for domestic violence organizations stemming from Trump's executive orders, grant delays and VOCA cuts TOMORROW. If you attend, you're eligible to apply for a reporting grant of up to $10k. usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2026 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2026 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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Intimate partner violence can be a taboo topic in queer spaces. This zine from the LGBTQ+ IPV Institute was designed with survivors and is full of information to help keep our communities safe. lgbtqipvinstitute.org/understandin...
Understanding Domestic Violence in the LGBTQ+ Community Zine | National LGBTQ Institute on IPV
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And now they are down again for an unspecified "policy violation."
Brooke Migdon@bmigdon.bsky.social · 2w agoGoogle briefly took down the ads after @jazzmyth.bsky.social and I asked whether they violated its mandatory disclosure policy for AI-generated imagery in political ads. They have since been reinstated. 19thnews.org/2026/09/elon...
“They're trying to create a caricature of trans people that, to average person, appears outlandish.” In this new age of AI, it’s increasingly difficult to tell what is real and what isn’t — but experts say it doesn’t matter to voters who see this kind of media. @jazzmyth.bsky.social @19thnews.org
Political ads with made-up trans people are being used to bash Democrats
Elon Musk’s super PAC dropped dozens of ads this week in key Senate races, and the majority of them focus on trans people.
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In less than a week, Elon Musk’s super PAC has pushed out dozens of ads vilifying trans people and accusing Democratic Senate candidates of backing a “radical trans agenda.” In at least two of the ads, the people portrayed as trans women don’t even appear to be real. 19thnews.org/2026/09/elon...
Political ads with made-up trans people are being used to bash Democrats
Elon Musk’s super PAC dropped dozens of ads this week in key Senate races, and the majority of them focus on trans people.
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A new HHS study claims support for transgender rights is linked to political violence. Experts are questioning its methodology and political purpose, warning that the research could be used to portray trans people and their allies as security threats. By @oriion.bsky.social & @jazzmyth.bsky.social:
What Trump’s new study says about support for trans rights — and why experts are worried
Researchers who study authoritarianism and political violence have major concerns about the study and how the administration plans to use it.
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A new study from the Trump administration is sending alarm bells through pro-democracy groups for its potential to fuel a crackdown on Americans who support LGBTQ+ rights — or anyone with left-leaning views. my colleague @jazzmyth.bsky.social and I dived in:
What Trump’s new study says about support for trans rights — and why experts are worried
Researchers who study authoritarianism and political violence have major concerns about the study and how the administration plans to use it.
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well, it appears that since at least 12/8/25 flock's website has been manually excluded from the internet archive so it's more difficult to track changes being made to its webpages wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?ti...
Difference between revisions of "List of websites excluded from the Wayback Machine" - Archiveteam
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This is a good thread (and I’m saying that as someone who has studied 1466A cases and this case specifically)
Denys Beecher@dbeecher.bsky.social · 4w agoThere are people better qualified to comment on this (I know @hipcrimevocab.net specifically has handled 1466A cases before), but a lot of people have very bad takes on this so I'm going to try to clarify. A 🧵 This ruling is only on *possession*. Creation, distribution, etc are still illegal.
“If I’m remembered 100 years from now, I hope it will be not for looks but for books,” Parton once said.
Amanda Becker@amandabecker.bsky.social · 4w agoDolly Parton, country music icon and 'book lady,' dies at 80 19thnews.org/2026/08/doll... via @19thnews.org
Incredibly thrilled to welcome our next class of France Ellen Watkins Harper fellows! Check out this cohort.
Meet The 19th’s fifth cohort of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellows
Four HBCU alumni join The 19th this year, while the fellowship expands with its first development fellow and a pilot senior product fellowship.
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got a few leads but even bigger stab in the dark since this is the freaks app, if you live in texas and started buying more physical smut/ porn / dvds because of age verification laws, i'd love to hear from you. dm me or find me on signal at kissphoria.57
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last mo.stab in the dark, but i'm working on a story about people buying porn DVDs because of age verification laws, would love some recommendations on who to reach out to
BREAKING: Keshia Golden, a Black mother who said she killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense, accepted a plea deal for involuntary manslaughter. She was set to go on trial for first-degree murder today, which could have resulted in 20+ yrs in prison. 19thnews.org/2026/08/kesh...
Keshia Golden, who said she killed boyfriend in self-defense, accepts plea deal
As a Black woman and survivor of domestic violence, she chose not to gamble on a trial that could have seen her imprisoned for at least 20 years.
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Chicago folks, Keshia's trial starts Monday.
jasmine mithani@jazzmyth.bsky.social · last mo.With a felony on her record, Keshia would lose opportunities needed to get back on her feet as a survivor of domestic abuse. Advocates are pushing the state's attorney, who has made domestic violence a signature issue, to drop all charges. My latest for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/kesh...
DDHQ projects Aisha Wahab to win the CA-14 special election to replace Swalwell. She will be the first Afghan American in Congress, championing over millions in AIPAC funding that poured in after she advanced from the primary. 19thnews.org/2026/08/aish...
Aisha Wahab makes history as the first Afghan American elected to Congress
Aisha Wahab, a progressive California state senator, will fulfill the rest of the term of former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
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With a felony on her record, Keshia would lose opportunities needed to get back on her feet as a survivor of domestic abuse. Advocates are pushing the state's attorney, who has made domestic violence a signature issue, to drop all charges. My latest for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/kesh...
Keshia said it was self defense. She goes on trial for murder next week.
In a system stacked against both survivors of domestic violence and Black women, Keshia Golden hopes to be acquitted. Advocates want the case dropped entirely.
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journo request — looking for folks in Maine doing ICE watching/observing/tracking stuff!
Other answers to "why didn't journalists write about X?": -they did already; person did not read or do basic search online -trade pub topic -threat of lawsuit -cost of legal documents and other research -the owner's stance goes against it -no minorities on staff -endless complaints about paywalls
If the criticism is "why don't journalists write about X?" the answers usually are: -a word count limit of 600 or less -a publishing quota deterring longer stories -an editor shot down the pitch or cut that detail or angle -a beat reporter was laid off -freelance rates of $250 to $350
“Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern." - @lucyq.bsky.social
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.Flock, the country’s most prominent seller of automated license-plate readers, said it will require stricter oversight after a Post investigation found dozens of officers had misused its cameras to spy on their exes and romantic interests.
Everyone is talking about Flock but I've been reading the same article for 15 years about different technologies so I rage wrote about it for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/floc...
Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women
The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.
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realized i have tech brain when my editor said she asked someone if they knew what flock was and they said a group of birds
INBOX: @freedom.press has already documented more arrests or detainments of journalists in the United States in the first seven months of this year — 41 — than all of 2025, when they documented 35. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...
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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a database of press freedom incidents in the United States — everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to interrogations at the U.S. b...
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i'm at the danger point where i think starting to use obsidian would really fix me
ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES, my book about grief; who is allowed to mourn and how; and why people want to pathologize the experiences that make us human, is available now in print, ebook, and audiobook formats, wherever fine books are sold (or loaned, shoutout to libraries).
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...
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The future of SF's Asian Women's Shelter -- one of the only domestic violence shelters in the country to offer specific services for LGBTQ+ people — is in jeopardy because of changes by the Trump administration. @19thnews.org bsky.app/profile/jazz... www.sfpublicpress.org/this-domesti...
Trump Administration Told DV Shelter Its Priorities Don't Align
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims.
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