From @niemanreports.org Fox News attacks the media roughly every 15 minutes, our study finds. (CNN? Every 140 minutes.) Full story: www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/fox-...

Great story about the worker-coop model in journalism. Touches on the good and the bad — but focuses on the opportunity of collaboration.

Media Workers of the World Unite - Dissent Magazine

Media cooperatives have flourished in the last decade. But they can’t face the structural crisis of journalism alone.

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Happy Friday and thank you to all who dutifully screenshot every hateful utterance on X and post it here. What would we do without you.

Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

Really important story, and will not be surprised when we get the same statistics for newsrooms as well.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 4d ago

Like I said: Hays Code White!

Melissa Bell is an underrated journalism-world treasure

Chicago Public Media CEO Melissa Bell is Leading the Nation’s Most Watched Local News Experiment

YouTube video by Medill Local News Initiative

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Building product with good people is the most rewarding thing on earth.

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Sludge@sludge.bsky.social · 6d ago

Check it out! We're offering a special bundle pass with @levernews.com that gives you subscriptions to both sites for the price of one. If you've been thinking about subscribing to Sludge or The Lever, now is a great time to do it! trustfnd.com/collaboratio...

Timely on the day CNN changes corporate ownership. New episode of Brian Morrissey's pod with @davidsirota.com of The Lever

The Lever's David Sirota on challenging corporate media

Plus: The mother of all interface shifts

therebooting.com

"It has to be a collective choice" "Let's move!"

Rudy Fraser@rude1.blacksky.team · 6d ago

The billionaires (and trillionaire) and their platforms Gotta Go. Don’t even care how they Go now, but they gotta Go.

What? No way!

For the 1 person who asked

Trustfnd@trustfnd.com · last wk.

Nichest of updates: You can now pay with Wero on Trustfnd.

Small local paper. Corrupt sheriff. Fearless journalists. Or, as it's also known: catnip for me, personally.

Kill. Bury. Print. | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

YouTube video by Peacock

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Imagine how bad it has to be

mcc@dryad.technology · last wk.

Cisgender people, particularly in the UK, please read this growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

Kat Tenbarge is one of the best at deconstructing online narratives, like the "ongoing, conservative-driven obsession with mocking trans and gender non-conforming people." The recent Boston Globe story is a great example. A non-story that drives conversions while harming the community it's about.

Where the viral lesbian bar story really came from

Finding vulnerable people who are easy to hate is the anti-trans movement’s not-so-secret weapon.

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Grateful for the Flipboard / @surf.social teams for their support of indie journalism.

Surf Recommends@surfrecommends.bsky.social · 2w ago

Forever Wars and The Racket are partnering to share a limited-time offer for new subscribers — $48 for a year's worth of BOTH newsletters, via @trustfnd.com! trustfnd.com/collaboratio... #promoted

If the sharp decrease in tolerance for gay rights among Dutch youth would be mainly because of "the manosphere" and "far-right parties" than why don't we see a similar development in the U.S., where both are (much) worse... Is there something specifically Dutch? 🧵

Interview with WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich who was thrown into prison in Russia for more than a year.

The Russian Prison That Evan Gershkovich Carried Home (Gift Article)

In an interview, Mr. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was imprisoned in Russia for 16 months, described his ordeal and the moment that nearly broke him.

nytimes.com

Tiktok, Meta, and Youtube are using their "political ads" policies to block ads for "MUSK," a work of journalism.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

Andy Vitek@avitek.bsky.social · 3w ago

So Nancy Mace is now hosting a podcast called 'Get Maced' in a leather catsuit. And no you did not hallucinate that sentence.

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

Extremely justified use of all caps

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 3w ago

🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨

With the midterms coming up, a lot of indie journalists are setting up Bundle Passes. It's the best way for anyone on Ghost or Beehiiv to get their paywalled journalism in front of all-new people. So let me re-introduce what a Bundle Pass is — and how you can create one of your own 🧵

you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you

UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls

The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.

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I see this at work, too. You can use AI to inform your conversations in a cross-functional team. But a PM can also use AI to not talk to engineers, designers, or researchers and have AI do their work (PMs who code or design 🙄). Bad idea and toxic for collaboration.

404 Media@404media.co · 3w ago

When chatbots become our closest “friends,” what happens to our capacity to care? @samleecole.bsky.social speaks to Professor Sherry Turkle, a licensed clinical psychologist and the founding director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqD...

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We have the nerdiest [complimentary] users @trustfnd.com Just discussed our Terms of service with one of them in depth and made some changes to them. That's why it's fun to work with journalists. The Terms are now actually better.

Just shipped a tiny new label that shows which other journalists use a platform that supports Bundle Passes, Ghost, Beehiiv, or Steady.

Trustfnd@trustfnd.com · last mo.

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In den Leitartikeln/Talkshows der nächsten Tage werdet ihr viel von „Populismus“ hören – als Versuch der Mitte, Rechtsaußen und Linke quasi gleichzusetzen. Lasst euch den Blick nicht vernebeln: Erkenntnisgewinn dieser Rhetorik geht gegen null. Menschenfeindliche Politik lässt sich konkret benennen.