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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See Opening open.substack.com/pub/confront...
open.substack.com
As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"The Press Freedom Watch does not include verbal attacks or threats against journalists — comments that have fomented hatred toward and distrust of the media. The project also does not include examples of media companies and journalists choosing to 'obey in advance' or self-censor."
poynter.org
What 100-plus federal actions reveal about the Trump administration’s campaign against the press - Poynter
For 18 months, Poynter has tracked federal actions affecting journalists and news access, revealing a rapid, sweeping change in the media landscape
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This piece was originally published for Democracy Docket members only. We’re sharing it more widely because it was too timely to keep behind the paywall. Become a member to get my exclusive notes first. bit.ly/4qmEiFz www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...
democracydocket.com
Mail-in voting is under attack. Here's what you can do
The USPS is proposing a rule that would require states to share information about voters who request mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Dustin Nolan, Emmy winning anchor at KWQC TV6 in the Quad Cities, quit live on air Friday. "We have to be more than sanitized news because it makes people feel uncomfortable. The facts matter." He did not name his reasons. He did not have to.
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Iowa news anchor quits live on-air in emotional plea for facts over 'sanitized news'
Local news anchor Dustin Nolan tearfully announced he was leaving KWQC TV6 during a live broadcast on Friday after spending about four years on the station.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is gross. www.richmonder.org/city-hall-is...
richmonder.org
City Hall is making its own news, and paying the RTD to distribute it
The city is paying the RTD for the opportunity to reach the paper’s audience directly, without being filtered through news reporters.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fantastic!
bloomberg.com
Orban’s Media Empire Implodes After Hungary Election Defeat
Viktor Orban’s vast media empire, which played a key role in sustaining the Hungarian nationalist leader in power for the past 16 years, collapsed two months after a historic election defeat.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'm not OK.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I would love to live in the Terminal Tower or The May Company building! I love my hometown. <3
wsj.com
Empty Department Stores Are Housing Cleveland’s Booming Population
Historic buildings are being reimagined as modern apartments, attracting young renters, empty nesters and reverse commuters.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"“Hungary, when it comes to Russia, is a frog being slowly boiled alive.” I hope the people of my family's homeland chasten Orbán and his ilk.
novayagazeta.eu
Moscow’s man on the inside. Viktor Orbán is facing his biggest electoral challenge in years. Russia is doing everything it can to ensure his victory. — Novaya Gazeta Europe
On April 12, Hungarians will go to the polls to decide the fate of one of the E.U.'s most Russia-friendly leaders. The vote comes amid a wave of bombshell reports detailing secret communications between Russian and Hungarian officials, leaving little doubt that Budapest's efforts to impede E.U. sanctions in recent years were made at Moscow's direct behest. The Kremlin has a lot to lose if the prime minister is voted out, and according to Hungarian media, it’s going to great lengths to secure his victory. But Orbán wasn't always the Putin-praising right-wing populist he is today; in fact, he began his career as just the opposite. Novaya Gazeta Europe traces Orbán’s transformation and details the Kremlin's bid to keep him in power.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
THIS: "One of the injustices of life is that sometimes when a person is fired from their job, it’s assumed that it’s their fault. "It couldn’t be that the employer or manager mishandled the situation, that they misjudged an employee, or that they were unfair or incompetent."
newsobserver.com
UNC leaders should have stood by Hubert Davis. Instead, they quit on him. | Opinion
Our Take: There are several reasons Davis deserved more grace and respect than he got from UNC leadership.
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
NEW: NC state board of elections refuses to give students an early voting location at North Carolina A&T State University, the largest HBCU in the country
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
reuters.com
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri ...
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jenduende @jenduende.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
theatlantic.com
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
No lies detected here.
thehandbasket.co
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#Fact
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Excellent.
phillymag.com
How a Philly Mag Journalist Sued an Angry Facebook Commenter — and Won
Allow me, the journalist, to explain.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This Post Should Have Been Shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
talkingpointsmemo.com
This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“Kids”
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
As a journalist who began her career at UNC's The Daily Tar Heel, this story sets off all my alarm bells.
ipm.org
Update: IU fires adviser of student media, stops printing Daily Student
Editors at the Indiana Daily Student said Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush refused to tell students to remove news from an upcoming special print edition.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
vaticannews.va
Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News
Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2025
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It was the honor of a lifetime to have met this icon of courage.
ncat.edu
Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil of Legendary A&T Four Passes Away at 83
The civil rights icon, who at the age of 17 devised the plan for a sit-in that captivated America, was a beloved A&T alumnus and an inspiration to generations of Aggies.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
apnews.com
Trump's rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white popul...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
They’re rewriting history.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Let them eat cake.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Giving this speech while adjourning the house to cover-up the Epstein files belongs on the Mount Rushmore of hypocrisy. Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
latenighter.com
Late Night Sends a Defiant Message to Trump—and CBS - LateNighter
As Bill Carter writes, Colbert, Stewart, Fallon, and more united in a raucous—and righteous—rebuttal to 'The Late Show’s cancellation Monday night.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
If the man you continue to support fears the release of a list of pedophiles, you are *not* against pedophilia.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately. He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Countless studies have shown that outcomes for citizens improve when members of the media ask probing questions of politicians. Press freedom correlates with less corruption in many countries."
theatlantic.com
We Should, in Fact, Politicize the Tragedy
Holding people and policies accountable for disasters is essential.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Plato the Cat's back in his Greensboro home after being missing for 11 years greensboro.com/news/local/a...
greensboro.com
Plato the Cat's back in his Greensboro home after being missing for 11 years
Seeing Plato as an elder cat "was like I'd gone through a time tunnel,'' Forest Skilbred said. "His eyes had a little more age, and the pink spot on his
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"They heard 'kindness' and interpreted it as an attack. They heard 'immigrant' and reached for gang references. What does it say about your worldview when someone suggesting we should be nice to each other feels like a personal assault?"
readtpa.com
They're Literally Angry at Superman for Being Nice
How James Gunn's comments about "basic human kindness" triggered a predictable right-wing media meltdown.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Tax the churches, then.
nytimes.com
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.
It's uncanny.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
'Born on The Farce of July' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/born-on-th...
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
As an American whose grandparents/great-grandparents all immigrated from Hungary, this gives me so much hope for an end to the disgraceful Orban regime.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
thenation.com
My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note
Fifty-four years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
savevoa.com
Lake’s unsubstantiated attack on Voice of America
Read an annotated fact check of Kari Lake's prepared remarks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"... he was saying that his own community was too stupid to understand their own material interests. A demographic notorious for voting according to the price of gasoline or eggs would gladly further impoverish itself for the sake of Trump’s vision, or so the mayor claimed."
salon.com
America slides into totalitarianism — and it won't be easy to reverse
"Authoritarianism" is so 2018 — Donald Trump and his minions want to conquer all of civil society
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Gross. On every level.
military.com
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"DeSantis tweeted the DCF letter with a comment, 'Bottom feeders gonna bottom feed,' drawing a retort from Schweers. "'Why not respond to my numerous public records requests?' he wrote."
mediaite.com
Orlando Sentinel Defiantly Responds to DeSantis Admin’s ‘Attempt to Bully Our Newsroom’: ‘Happy to Report That It Has Failed’
The Orlando Sentinel's editorial board dug in their heels in response to a cease and desist letter sent by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration about their reporting on the Hope Florida scandal.
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Jackie @jackiesock.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"In 2009, David Simon, creator The Wire and a onetime crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun, said, 'The next 10 to 15 years in this country are going to be a halcyon era for state and local political corruption,' he said. 'It is going to be one of the great times to be a corrupt politician.'”
cjr.org
When Local Newspapers Die, Corruption Festers
Our study also found that digital media sites didn’t make much of a difference.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Shots fired, Neil.
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