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spjindprochapter.bsky.social @spjindprochapter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Two fantastic learning events coming up, register for both at Indianaprospj.org.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/10/2026

Reporters and media witnesses who were present during the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tenessee describe what they saw.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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HG @hgnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everything is the worst.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After we posted an item on Sen. Ted Cruz's effort to push the Protect College Sports Act during a one-sided appearance on ESPN, I got a phone call from Yankees president and Saving College Sports Roundtable co-chair Randy Levine. Details are here:

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Our opposition to the Protect College Sports Act prompted a phone call from Randy Levine

Earlier today, we posted an item about ESPN's advocacy for the Protect College Sports Act.

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ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🏳️‍🌈 PrideFest is going back where it belongs: the heart of Loogootee. After years of legal battles, a federal court struck down the city's event restrictions and ordered PrideFest back to Public Square. Read more: bit.ly/3SGUuqk 📸 by Rich Janzaruk, Herald-Times

BREAKING: After years of legal battles, Loogootee's PrideFest is Permanently Back in the Public Square

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HG @hgnews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You can support Girls on the Run Indiana Crossroads through an upcoming event! Join us and Makers Studio on Thursday, September 10 at 6 p.m. at Agape Christian Church. Buy your ticket now to reserve your spot! Invite others, too! www.hisawyer.com/makers-studi...

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Makers Studio at 12 Points - Girls on the Run Indiana Crossroads

"Paint for a Purpose! 🎨💗 Join Girls on the Run Indiana Crossroads and Makers Studio for a fun evening of creativity, connection, and giving back! Receive a 12" fall themed...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/08/2026

You have the right to be yourself at school, no matter what politicians say. Visit our Know Your Rights hub to learn more at aclu.org/kyr-students-bsky

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Joseph S. Pete @nwi-jsp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Free training for journalists Wednesday, courtesy of the Indiana SPJ Pro Chapter

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Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com @mikestrawmedia.com · 28/07/2026

With the layoffs at Double Fine today, we are up to 106 studios impacted by layoffs in 2026. 8,914 employees are known to have been let go by my confirmed numbers. The real number is likely around 9,500, counting data I'm working to confirm. gaminglayoffs.com

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Joseph S. Pete @nwi-jsp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Journalists, the Indiana SPJ is offering a free financial literacy workshop tomorrow.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/07/2026

Megan's calling it like it is: These are regressive, oppressive attacks on women and girls.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/07/2026

NEW: I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users. By @justinelliott.bsky.social

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How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unrel...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026

We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am always on the side of trans kids. Forever & ever & always, Amen.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/06/2026

Two months after the end of the Civil War, Union troops went to Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to free over 250,000 enslaved people and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.

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HG @hgnews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“Ultimately, the net loss attributable to OpenAI in 2025 was $38.5 billion.”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/06/2026

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There are four key TV archives in the US: ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. This is the footage filmmakers use to tell our history. If Paramount buys Warner Brothers, two of those archives - including 45 years of CNN footage- will be controlled by one company and likely one person, Bari Weiss.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The flagrants are flagrants and the ticky tack fouls shouldn’t be called in a Finals game like this. But the refs could be dogs with whistles and it wouldn’t change that the Spurs are straight up whooping they ass tonight.

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HG @hgnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Goaltending seems… stupid?

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today Senegal’s football team was searched on the tarmac on arrival. Iran’s team can’t stay in the US or have their manager. A Somalian referee is denied entry. An Iraqi striker was questioned for 7 hours. If you can’t do the job of “hosting”, the World Cup should not be awarded to you. Shameful 🤦🏻‍♂️

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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/06/2026

NEW: The Right to Record Act was just introduced in Congress, which would allow people to sue federal agents who violate our First Amendment right to record their actions in public. This bill is essential to protecting our ability to hold our government accountable.

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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 08/06/2026

We asked Crazy Taxi: World Tour director Kenji Kanno about the game’s use of generative AI:

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

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Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/06/2026

Trans youth deserve the freedom to show up as their full selves: on the court, the field, the pitch, the rink, the track, and beyond.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A discomforting number of people in LA voted for Spencer Pratt, whose claim to fame is publicly demeaning women. He’s notably not the first reality TV villain to reach voters with vile, reactionary rhetoric. And he has the help of platforms like X. spitfirenews.com/p/spencer-pr...

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Why people keep voting for reality TV villains

Spencer Pratt, vice signaling, and using influencers to undermine the left.

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