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...

Incident Database

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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Today, through our partnership with The 19th: The SF Asian Women's Shelter, which provides housing and help to survivors of DV and fields 1,100 calls a year, has lost nearly $500K in federal grants thanks to Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

This Domestic Violence Shelter Was Told It No Longer Aligns With the Trump Administration’s Priorities

Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...

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Last year the Trump administration revoked nearly $500k from San Francisco Asian Women's Shelter. That was just the start. The politicization of federal funding is hurting domestic violence organizations across the country — and maybe soon, everyone else. 19thnews.org/2026/07/san-...

This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities

Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...

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India’s young protesters are mocking their government. And the jokes are landing. As thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in the Indian capital, they are waging a parallel campaign online, flooding social media with memes, parody videos and self-deprecating jokes.

India's 'Cockroach' protests take on Modi with unlikely weapons: Sharp, irreverent humor and memes

India’s young protesters are taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with humor as much as street demonstrations, flooding social media with memes, parody videos and jokes while thousands rally across the country.

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lmao this post got labeled for "non-sexual nudity"...even the bots know...

jasmine mithani@jazzmyth.bsky.social · 2w ago

if the admin calls these images sexually explicit, you don't have to repeat that! describe things truthfully! "clips of drag queens, which the admin characterizes as 'sexually explicit'" — it's more words but it is accurate!!

spiraled out because i read an article that said the smithsonian included sexually explicit material in one of its exhibits but when i went to look it was mostly referring to videos of drag queens and a magazine cover of the chicks???

Great feature on Alaska Native communities bracing for an influx of man camps and the sexual violence that comes with them. CN for discussions of sexual and physical assault.

Alaska Native communities prepare for man camps driven by new mining boom - High Country News

Alaska Native villages rally to protect their communities from the administration’s ramped up resource development agenda.

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I haven’t been able to find one single entrepreneur from Canada, the UK or the EU who wants to share their approach to retirement saving. Help me find them! So far this story is 100% US but my audience is bigger than that

Lex Roman@lexroman.com · 2w ago

For my story on entrepreneurs and retirement, I'm looking for people in Canada, the UK, or the EU who want to weigh in on how you're saving for retirement or how you advise your clients too. I have enough US experts now. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/be-a-source-...

Amid cuts under the Trump admin, tribal organizations reported being unable to fulfill 690 safe housing-related requests and 466 requests related to other services. Almost a quarter of those were for children, according to the survey, which collected responses between May + June 28 of last year.

Indigenous survivors of violence see fewer services after federal cuts

A U.S. House committee hearing raised questions about public safety resources in Indian Country.

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For a story: Did you participate in Pizza Hut's BOOK-IT! program? I'd love to talk to you about it for a story on the program being back this summer. If your child is participating in BOOK IT! this year, I'd love to speak with you, too. DMs open, rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

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my holy trinity, if you will

jasmine mithani@jazzmyth.bsky.social · 3w ago

This linked misogyny, online extremism and domestic violence 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

I'm going to be at #TrustCon! I'd love to connect with researchers and industry practitioners focused on NCII, gender-based violence, LGBTQ+ communities, election mis/disinfo and extremist networks. I'm interested in new initiatives and success stories — not just reporting on threats (that too tho).

Dani Bensky — a dance teacher, mother and survivor of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — testified on Thursday during the second day of a confirmation process to consider Todd Blanche's nomination to lead the Department of Justice. https://bit.ly/4puzvTU

i guess i shouldn't be surprised, but i still am. was researching a bill and found an article that included the polymarket odds of it being signed into law this year very early on in the article, as a random clause.

Are you a developer who has put a fishing minigame inside your non-fishing video game? Or are you considered a connoisseur of fishing minigames? OR do you have knowledge of how real-life fishing works and how it might translate to games? I would love to speak to you for a story please!

These two sections stood out to me the most. This was a great article!

Today @thesicktimes.org: "Stop telling women their Long COVID is menopause," writes London-based journalist Kelly Rose Bradford. thesicktimes.org/2026/07/10/s...

Stop telling women their Long COVID is menopause - The Sick Times

From friends to medics, women are used to having their health issues dismissed, minimized, or blamed on their hormones.

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like this if you talked about graham platner in therapy this week

Reminder: White men have been losing American elections for at least 234 years. Great piece on electability, masculinity and what voters actually want by @gracepanetta.bsky.social. 19thnews.org/2026/07/grah...

Graham Platner was ‘electable’ — until he wasn’t

Democrats say they want a fighter. Does it have to be a White man?

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once again looking for sources for a story in which i hope that it turns out to not be a story because What Does It Say About Society.... but i am looking to talk to people who have had the experience of talking to a friend/family/colleague via text only to realize you're actually talking to an AI

if you see somebody using "cancel" unironically to talk about people facing consequences in 2026... you CLOSE THAT TAB! You don't pause, you don't start to typity-type. You CLOSE THAT TAB!

yes, stealthing is sexual violence 19thnews.org/2026/04/stea...

There’s a name for secretly removing a condom during sex without consent: stealthing

Nonconsensual condom removal and other forms of reproductive coercion can have grave consequences, but few states offer recourse for survivors.

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“‘One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,’ she said. ‘I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.’”

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. The decision means the president now has the legal duty to pay the $5 million jury verdict in Carroll’s favor.

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to overturn $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

The justices declined to hear the president’s appeal in the case, in which he was found liable for sexual abuse.

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‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios