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Ida Mojadad

@idamoj.bsky.social
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🔹public policy grad student @ UCLA 🔹lightly editing @ SF Public Press + SPJ NorCal board. priors: SFGATE, The Frisc, SF Chronicle, SF Standard, SF Examiner, SF Weekly. more @ idamoj.com 🇮🇷💖🇺🇸

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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
idk who needs to hear this but the fog is rolling in from the westside and it feels gooood
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
veryyyy curious to find out why all of them are
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
time for my annual notice that it's time to submit your awards to @spj-norcal.bsky.social 🫡 deadline is wed sept 9! and we have a new category! details here --> spjnorcal.org/2026/08/17/s...
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SPJ NorCal 2026 Excellence in Journalism Awards Contest - SPJ NorCal
Contact: spjnorcal@gmail.com / Ida Mojadad 415-735-6965 Know a journalist who has done brilliant work over the past year? Someone who does whatever it takes to get the story, photo or […]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
More from me... and WHY UNIONS ARE AMAZING! karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.
Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
friends! do you like a discount? who doesn't like a discount?! @coyotemedia.org is offering annual subscriptions rn at 25% off, which means a full year for just $60 the code to use is HOTDOG, which is reason #458 i love working at this fever dream of an outlet www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
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COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just nuts - in my experience, students need these resources now more than ever
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social
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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Huh I thought frontier labs wanted to protect the sanctity of trade secrets is why we have can’t have data center transparency
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Harry Mok @harrymok.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bruce Lee’s file is part of the immigration records at the National Archives in San Bruno, which could soon close. I explain why these artifacts are important for the Bay Area’s Chinese American community in my new @sfchronicle.com column/newsletter. Read it at www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
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Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
if you want to fight back against these forces in your personal media diet, try as much as you can to visit, share and support your favorite and beloved publishers DIRECTLY (sign up for a newsletter, visit their homepage, etc.) and financially support them if you can
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
grim, unfollowed. murtaza who retweeted this post, unfollowed. klippenstein for being a childish asshole about it too, unfollowed. the intercept men 🗑️
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
i will say that although this is the beginning of the right’s assault on birthright citizenship, one difference with roe v. wade is that the latter was fueled by a mass movement with a broad, institutionalized base in the nation’s evangelical and catholic churches. the question, i think…
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.
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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 15/06/2026
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California Admits Using High-Risk AI — Including Systems It Failed to Report Last Year
State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems. One year ago, they reported using zero.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
throwback to my cute lemonade stands vs the neighbor boy who just stopped at selling lemons
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
I know it’s considered cool not to learn about people and systems and situations you don’t like but actually studying them equips you better to fight them
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
kinda surprised (not really) to see little attention paid to what the LOCAL pro Palestinian advocates that endorsed both Chan & Chakrabarti have to say about the whole thing
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 29/05/2026
NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 22/05/2026
Activists in Memphis are facing retaliation for trying to document an ongoing occupation by federal agents:
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
hell yea
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I would not be alive today without this ER department. the state that is described here, now led by people with business backgrounds who seem to be more concerned with having a surplus, is absolutely atrocious missionlocal.org/2026/05/ucsf...
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‘We can no longer pretend:’ Patients suffer at understaffed UCSF ER, providers say
Providers at UCSF's Parnassus ER say understaffing has reached a crisis point. One described seeing patients dead on a gurney.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Press Robinson was the first member of his family to vote and the first Black person to win a seat on the Baton Rouge school board. He thinks a Supreme Court ruling will erase political gains African Americans have made across the South. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming.
Press Robinson, who years ago mounted a legal fight to become the first Black person elected to a Louisiana school board, was on the losing side of the Supreme Court case weakening the Voting Rights A...
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
one of the few things I can say with agreement from my fellow Iranians is that it is a deeply terrible time to be Iranian. thanks to @suhauna.bsky.social for capturing the dark divisions beyond that sentiment that's consumed us www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Behind the Trump administration's detentions of L.A. Iranians
In L.A., home to the largest Iranian diaspora, a vocal segment has joined forces with Trump-aligned far-right activists to wage campaigns against other Iranians.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 02/05/2026
This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.
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Matthew Kupfer @matthewkupfer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In just over 24 hours we've gone from SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act to Louisiana suspending an active election to do a high-speed gerrymander. Just an absolute travesty of justice.
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Louisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymander
Early voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Partisan gerrymanders require partisan control of state governments to begin with...One reason Callais is so immediately terrifying is that Republicans currently enjoy trifectas in most of the former Confederacy, where VRA was an important constraint on them until now" nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Many Serious Implications of the Supreme Court’s Callais Ruling
From partisan gerrymandering to upcoming elections to reversing racial justice, here’s collected commentary and analysis about the likely impact.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
took a slightly different path home today, noticed a billboard for company i've never heard of before (or don't remember), then immediately get like 4 ads on youtube for it within a couple hours and now it's hard to feel like advertisers don't somehow have access to my eyeballs, too
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
once you're done digesting the gutting of the voting rights act, and the house advancing the renewal of FISA's warrantless spy powers i have something else for you here sorry
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
which will also cost $55 million?? pending Legislature approval
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
What exactly are they arguing over? It's ... complicated. My full breakdown here. 🧵⚖️ www.kqed.org/news/1208129...
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How to Unscramble an Omelet in Silicon Valley: The Musk v. Altman Trial That Will Try | KQED
Two Silicon Valley titans, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, face off in court starting Monday in a case that claims Altman and others enriched themselves by allegedly betraying OpenAI’s founding mission.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
*ongoing* ceasefire
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Israeli strikes kill 14 in Lebanon amid ongoing ceasefire
The US announced three days ago that the ceasefire was extended by three weeks after talks.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
this is money workers earned, and may not even be aware is theirs. if you've ever worked in SF and didn't get healthcare from your employer, which may not have even bothered to inform you about your Healthy SF benefits, this may be you sfstandard.com/2026/04/24/s...
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SF workers have weeks to claim $240 million in health funds — or the city will pocket it
The city may owe you thousands. It’s a use-it-or-lose-it situation, and the clock is ticking.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
The federal government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant. This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.
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Ida Mojadad @idamoj.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
at this point SFUSD employees may have the skills to become very niche personal finance influencers. via @thefrisc.bsky.social thefrisc.com/sfusd-employ...
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SFUSD Employee Retirement Accounts Are Likely Missing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
School employees discovered the problem months ago. The district and pension system say don’t worry, the money’s in a trust fund.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/04/2026
Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say reut.rs/4tHekP6
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Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say
Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country's food crisis deepens and threatens to spread, according to ​a report published on Monday by a group of non-governmental organisations.
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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wrote a tribute to the Church of Total SF 🌁 🍿 ❤️ Home of soooo many epic San Francisco movie nights with @heatherknightsf.bsky.social Happy 100th birthday Balboa Theater! Gift link 🎁 ⬇️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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Prism @prismreports.org · 11/04/2026
Health care workers in Lebanon face Israel’s illegal attacks, Neha Madhira reports. As Israel’s illegal invasion & ground siege continues in Lebanon, 500,000+ residents fled at once in March. Pregnant women were forced to give birth on the side of the road & 55+ clinics were shut down or attacked.
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Health care workers in Lebanon face Israel's illegal attacks
Health care workers warn the attacks put a strain on Lebanon’s medical infrastructure, similar to how Israel targets Gaza’s health care system
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/04/2026
Nothing speaks to the fact that sexual abuse is so often about power that people who have, allegedly, done sexual abuse seek political power.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/04/2026
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
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