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Annie Sciacca

@anniesciacca.bsky.social
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California-based journalist | Professor at Contra Costa College | President, Pacific Media Workers Guild Get in touch: anniesciacca.com

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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Historic development for local news! 🚨 @governor.ca.gov has signed the Community NEWS Act (AB 2222) into law, creating the nation’s largest state investment in local news by total dollars. Learn more: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/gov-newsom-s...
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Gov. Newsom Signs Nation's Most Ambitious Law to Strengthen Community News
The Community NEWS Act (AB 2222), sponsored by Rebuild Local News, creates refundable tax credits to help California news outlets retain and hire local journalists
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First Amendment Coalition @facoalition.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
BREAKING: Today the California Senate passed SB 423! This important transparency bill is now on to the governor's desk. See the news from @senatorgonzalez.bsky.social: sd33.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 01/09/2026
Yes… ha ha ha… yes!! www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/cali...
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California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money”
The state of California has passed a bill that could generate as much as $40 million for California newsrooms each year. Assembly Bill 2222, known as the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce S...
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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The California Legislature is on the cusp of passing the Community NEWS Act (AB 2222), which would create refundable employment credits to support newsroom employment and local reporting across California. Learn more: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/community-ne...
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First Amendment Coalition @facoalition.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"No private contract or detention center wall should be used to hide dangerous conditions or silence people who have been mistreated inside these facilities.” — @SenatorGonzalez.bsky.social We agree. Read the latest on SB423, a bill we support to increase transparency. www.kqed.org/news/1209633...
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As ICE Custody Deaths Rise, State Bill Would Force Release of 911 Call Data | KQED
The bill comes as watchdog organizations and state officials point to documented cases of medical neglect and inhumane treatment within the state’s ICE facilities.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 28/05/2026
One of California’s most conservative counties stopped a measles outbreak from spreading. County officials enlisted teachers, church leaders, and other trusted community members to get the public on board with health guidelines. @anniesciacca.bsky.social reports ⤵️
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In a Vaccine-Skeptical California County, a Potential Playbook To Contain Measles - KFF Health News
Conservative Shasta County stopped a measles outbreak from spreading, enlisting teachers, church leaders, and other trusted community members to get the public on board with health guidelines. Infecti...
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Annie Sciacca @anniesciacca.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My latest on the issues plaguing military families' health care. The Defense Health Agency and its contractors say the challenges in processing medical claims was a glitch that's been fixed, but many people I talked to showed that's not the case at all.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
She was not alone. Immigration agents have shot at least 14 people over the past year. That includes: -3 people who were observing ICE. -5 people who were driving away. -4 people who’ve been killed. -5 people injured. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
crackdown. We've ir'entified 28 such incidents, including 14 shootings, as of January 7. They include the shootings of three people observing or documenting ICE raids; the shootings of five people driving away from traffic stops or evading an enforcement action; and the September 30 raid on a Chicago apartment building, during which half-asleep tenants and their children were held at gunpoint. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
use your eyes www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Annie Sciacca @anniesciacca.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Oakland police say city is too unsafe to conduct its news conferences the way every other agency in the city does. Instead, it picks and chooses who passes an application for a police-issued credential just to be present at routine news conferences.
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Oakland cops toss student journalist from news conference about John Beam’s death
First Amendment advocates are now calling for an end to a policy requiring journalists to have police-issued credentials.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/11/2025
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...
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Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/11/2025
Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory. www.wired.com/story/maga-r...
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‘New York City Has Fallen’: MAGA Responds To Zohran Mamdani’s Victory With a Racist Freak Out
Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It’s 1.5 miles in 14 minutes
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Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This morning, protesters gathered at the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Oakland/Alameda, to rally against Customs & Border Protection agents who are part of a reported immigration operation targeting the SF Bay Area, ordered by the Trump admin. Here's what happened....
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/08/2025
Global protests target Israel and media outlets who have ‘made excuses’ after killing of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza.
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Hundreds protest Gaza media coverage, murder of Al Jazeera journalists
Global protests target Israel and media outlets who have ‘made excuses’ after killing of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The future of journalism is one million Bari Weisses writing soothing Billionaire Appreciation Month essays while all the laid-off reporters work gig economy jobs at food delivery companies owned by those billionaires. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/first-kill...
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First, Kill The News
Then, do whatever you want.
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First Amendment Coalition @facoalition.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
FAC, @spj-norcal.bsky.social, Pacific Workers Media Guild oppose a Modesto law that prohibits possession of safety gear like gas masks or helmets at protests. Reporters should not have to choose between their personal safety and doing their jobs. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/07/21/c...
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Coalition Urges Modesto to Roll Back Local Law that Criminalizes Use of Safety Gear Used by Journalists
Journalists should not have to risk their health and safety to do their jobs and cover the news.
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
They did this to detainees in Abu Ghraib, they’re doing it to migrants now, they’re gonna do it to American inmates next www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
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EdSource Guild @edsourceguild.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's been 178 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.
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RSF @handle.invalid · 09/06/2025
#USA: RSF condemns the wave of violence – at least 27 separate attacks – that swept across journalists covering protests in Los Angeles this weekend. Violence against journalists trying to do their jobs is unacceptable. #JournalismIsNotACrime rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...
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USA: RSF condemns wave of violence against journalists covering Los Angeles protests
At least 27 attacks on journalists covering protests in Los Angeles took place between June 6 and June 8. The assaults have been carried out by both law enforcement and protesters. Violence against jo...
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Annie Sciacca @anniesciacca.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m back on the nursing home beat for this one; tracking some proposals in the gov’s May budget revise that would roll back some standards for the nursing home industry.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/05/2025
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/03/2025
"why does the American public not understand what's happening in their own country" I shout over the hedge fund dessicated corpse of local journalism
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/02/2025
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 01/02/2025
Oakland schools prepare for escalation of immigration enforcement
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Oakland schools prepare for escalation of immigration enforcement
For one Fruitvale principal, the hard part is telling families to keep sending their students to school despite their real fears about interactions with
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/01/2025
Tech oligarchs were a notable presence at the inauguration ceremony. Thanks to Citizens United, we have a political system dominated by ultra-wealthy individuals to a degree never before seen in American politics — a cash-for-access economy. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Fifteen Years Later, Citizens United Defined the 2024 Election
The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
After becoming increasingly enmeshed in the wildfire world, you start to notice things about the way we've systematically altered our relationship with the natural environment in a way that has increased the risk of destructive fires. And then you stop being able to unsee them.
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East Bay Times @eastbaytimes.com · 16/01/2025
Oakland FBI investigation: Ex-Mayor Sheng Thao indicted amid sprawling public corruption inquiry
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Oakland FBI investigation: Ex-Mayor Sheng Thao indicted amid sprawling public corruption inquiry
The development comes just a day after FBI agents raided the home of another East Bay politician who, along with Thao, was among several officials who visited Vietnam as part of a trade delegation …
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EdSource Guild @edsourceguild.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The reporters of @edsource.org are excited to announce the formation of the #EdSourceGuild.
The work of EdSource journalists has never been more crucial, given the continuous threats to democracy and the unprecedented challenges facing the public education system. Since its founding, EdSource has grown from an authoritative source of school financial data and analysis to California’s leading education news source.
By unionizing, EdSource Guild members hope to maintain our organization's relentless drive for critical and ethical journalism, while building an inclusive and equitable newsroom. At a critical time for press freedoms and with the rights of journalists under constant threat, we also want to stand with our fellow organized workers in this age-old craft to protect the cherished common duty to inform the public without fear or favor. Our job is to hold the powerful accountable and be advocates for students, parents, educators and taxpayers. Now, this union must balance the scales of power and decision-making within our organization.
Our award-winning stories, investigations, data analysis, podcasts, roundtables and documentaries illuminate the toughest education issues and inform students, families and education decision-makers about California schools. EdSource journalists are often called upon by television and radio shows to discuss our stories and provide meaningful context to education issues.
To preserve and protect quality journalism, to have a say in decisions that affect coverage and to be fairly compensated for this work, EdSource reporters must unionize.
We want to create a culture that embraces a healthy work-life balance, and we want to be a destination where talented journalists can spend their careers. That requires adequate compensation that keeps up with the skyrocketing cost of living in California. Unionizing will help us create the best version of EdSource, protect our work and mission, and preserve this organization’s legacy for the future.
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