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@kaatefishman.bsky.social
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writer & journalist 🤠 ecology, culture, climate, poetry, belonging 🍃

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SCOTUS has issued its decision on TPS, ending protections for Haitians and Syrians in the U.S. To better understand what this means for people now facing deportation, please read this recent reporting by @jessobert.bsky.social that details the deadly conditions 350K Haitians will be returned to.
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SCOTUS holds the fates of 20,000 Haitian TPS recipients on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
SCOTUS will decide if the Trump administration can deport Haitian TPS recipients, many of whom have built lives in Maryland and fear being returned to deadly conditions in Haiti
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"The current acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, made a chilling and explicit comparison last year at a Border Security Expo in Phoenix: 'We need to get better at treating this like a business,' he said. 'Like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.'" placesjournal.org/article/the-...
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The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
stumbled on this wonderful piece this morning--- www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/12/02/i...
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In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Great Lakes Now
For years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing. Now, it aims to bill itself as an antidote to online misinfor...
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"It’s a myth that time is scarce; it is a convenient lie to prop up racial capitalism. ... The world didn’t end when we spent an entire day on the couch with a pile of thrifted DVDs and medical cannabis. The work would still be there tomorrow or next week." thesicktimes.org/2026/04/07/i...
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I moved into a tiny home in the woods after getting Long COVID. - The Sick Times
I’m writing at my kitchen counter in a 160-square-foot tiny house overlooking a stand of tall, regal pines laden with snow. The wood stove is going. A whiteboard is on the wall, listing daily chores l...
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 03/04/2026
Critics say the state’s attempt to boost ungulate populations lacks scientific grounding and transparency.
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Utah’s new study aims to kill ‘as many cougars as possible’ - High Country News
Critics say the state's attempt to boost ungulate populations lacks scientific grounding and transparency.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"I’ve been working for a very long time. I have never, ever been treated as badly as this." nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
hmmm, love :) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week Here's our interview:
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NBC's top climate reporter quits
In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Money doesn’t grow on trees. Money grows trees in the places where the people were once left impoverished and nature-poor." --Danez Smith atmos.earth/art-and-cult...
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My End of the World | Atmos
Nature can be a solace from climate change. But, poet Danez Smith muses, who is afforded access to beauty during times of apocalypse?
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community" A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation "We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“History is rhyming, not repeating.” Michael Kleber-Diggs on the echoes of 2020 in Minnesota: lithub.com/letter-from-...
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Letter From Minnesota: “Normalcy is Impossible Here. Normalcy is Violence.”
One mile south of my street, there is a street where neighbors do laundry for an entire apartment building whose tenants cannot safely do their laundry. I’m told most of the clothes they gather are…
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"I like to give them low stakes opportunities to start cultivating what they want to say and how they want to say it." www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
oh!!! i love this www.popsci.com/technology/a...
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Why does AI suck at making clocks?
'Telling time is a very human thing.'
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
wrote about an intriguing endeavor in acoustic interspecies translation—and tricky marriages of tech and nature—for @atmosmag.bsky.social to kick off 2026! 🐋 atmos.earth/science-and-...
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We Are One Step Closer to Understanding Whales. What Now? | Atmos
An AI model originally trained to make music can turn any sound—including human speech—into sperm whale clicks.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
it’s the most wonderful time of the year (when defector watches christmas movies) 🎊
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
the usual useful list: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2025
I have been thinking A LOT lately about the flowering of art and culture under the New Deal, when the government decided it actively wanted to invest in job creation and creativity, so it's both sad and typical of the Trump admin to destroy that legacy.
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There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.
A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put...
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Rachel Zamzow @rachelzamzow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
And now for some backstory -- Bringing the Science Reporting Navigator into the world (out TODAY at @theopennotebook.bsky.social) was a true journey. www.theopennotebook.com/science-repo...
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
it’s Science Reporting Navigator day! 🎉 this incredible toolkit from @theopennotebook.bsky.social & @rjionline.bsky.social will help journalists fold science into all kinds of reporting. as a former local reporter, it was a joy to play a small part in bringing this resource to life. check it out!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2025
The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
yesterday i watched jaws in a theater with my partner, his mom (who was seeing it for the first time since it came out 50 years ago!), and my dear friend who’d never seen it at all 🦈
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
out this week with high country news: a feature on the importance of studying "dead things" on LA's beaches. www.hcn.org/articles/mee...
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Meet LA’s detective for dead marine mammals - High Country News
A day in the life of a scientist studying the aftermath of the city’s deadly algal blooms.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23/06/2025
Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
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Urgent! Every Dollar Counts!
We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest. capitalbnews.org/black-migran...
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5% of Undocumented Migrants Are Black. They're 20% of Potential Deportations.
Research exposes how racial disparities in policing have created a pathway from routine life to permanent family separation for Black migrants.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The appointment of Tama as station master of Kishi Station in 2007 saved the station and added an estimated ¥1.1 billion to the local economy.
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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The act of writing can serve many purposes. It can be used to inform. It can be used to resist. It can be used to heal. Jasmin Graham & I wrote an essay about our terminated NSF grant, and hopefully, it accomplishes some of those goals. www.advancejournal.org/post/3147-gr...
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Grief | Published by ADVANCE Journal
This blog post is part of ADVANCE Journal's blog series on the impacts of NSF Grants and their terminations.
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Rachel Zamzow @rachelzamzow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Come hang out with me, @siricarpenter.bsky.social & @kaatefishman.bsky.social + the RJI team next week! We’re sharing a sneak peak of our interactive toolkit for local journalists, the Science Reporting Navigator 🧭
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones
'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC
By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDTStates chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream
Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development.
Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 08/05/2025
Games can be sense-making tools, allowing players to vicariously experience the risks of contracting COVID-19, recognize #LongCOVID’s most challenging symptoms, and connect with others amid an ongoing public health crisis. Read more from @kaatefishman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iQhmuE
A graphic titled: “Long COVID Mode, Real-world Long COVID symptoms translated into in-game effects.” Below the text, a video game character is shown hunched over, as though struggling to manage a symptom. Energy bars above his head indicate that he is facing reduced vitality, cognitive dysfunction, and reduced stamina. At the bottom of the image, the graphic shows that this mode was created for Elden Ring, The Witcher, and Minecraft, through collaboration with Long COVID Europe. The text reads, “The Sick Times. “Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games. By Kate Fishman.” TTHE SICK TIMES: "If a bad outcome will only happen if you roll a one, that doesn’t mean it’s not gonna happen." -  Zoyander Street, Artist and designer based in the United Kingdom
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
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NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
delved into the world of games and Long COVID for one of my favorite pieces i've gotten to report! for @thesicktimes.bsky.social: some truly thoughtful perspectives and very cool games from @stevewilcox.bsky.social, @zoyander.cc, and @chantalbritt.bsky.social. thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
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“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times
Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats o...
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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 07/05/2025
This @thesicktimes.bsky.social features some clever and creative ways video games are being used to help others understand more about COVID and masking (via a short game), as well as the impacts Long Covid can have on you (via mods for Witcher 3, Dark Souls, Minecraft). Definitely worth the read.
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“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times
Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats o...
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is such a brilliant, creative approach and such a delightful intersection of so many of my personal and professional interests that I am overwhelmed with… what is this feeling? Am I immediately in love with every person who was involved in any capacity??
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
👾 Millions of us have been experiencing the hell of "Long COVID Mode" for years. Now, video games & other games are illustrating how the disease can affect your abilities & what your risk of of developing it are. New feature by @kaatefishman.bsky.social ! thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
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“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times
Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats o...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/05/2025
Well, @theflytrapmedia.com has been bringing 🔥 feminist cultural criticism to the internet for six months now! We are celebrating with 15% off all subscriptions for a limited time only. If you've been thinking about taking the plunge, today is the day; help us get 1,000 new subscribers this month!
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Bringing Back the Feminist Blog
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
so loved working on this piece about games as a communication tool around Long COVID with @thesicktimes.bsky.social !
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In response to numerous media inquiries about an octopus seen riding on a shark, marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman has released the following statement for attribution: “Neat!” www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
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Watch an Octopus Hitch a Ride on a Shark—an Unusual Duo Dubbed the 'Sharktopus'
Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
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kate fishman @kaatefishman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
it was such a pleasure to consider the reported essay with insights from some truly talented journalists, in my final piece as a fellow for @theopennotebook.bsky.social !! www.theopennotebook.com/2025/02/11/l...
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Loving the Questions: Reporting for Essays - The Open Notebook
In a reported essay, journalists can think through a question in writing—and take a roaming, potentially unexpected path in their reporting. Nailing the reported essay requires a well-thought-out idea...
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Emma Gometz (they) @emmalgometz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
From the moment I had the idea to write this piece, this section was something I knew I was going to say. Using AI is.... Not for everyone (read: me) but learning about it can help you make that case when people try to tell you it's part of your workflow now!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/02/2025
"Mere weeks ago, media outlets were still publishing pieces asking where the 'resistance' was. It seems we are now well past that."
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Where Do You Protest Elon Musk? Everywhere, It Turns Out.
From Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesn't necessarily center on Washington, D.C..
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 18/02/2025
For our free February post, we have @nicolefroio.bsky.social's analysis of Bad Bunny's latest album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS”, a meditation on loss and paradise that is bringing decolonial politics to the mainstream global stage during a time of fascism.
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“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text
Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action. I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments. Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission. Start with SIFT method:
The SIFT method - STOP, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims, quotes & media
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Chuffed to be a source in this great article on the reported essay. I talked with @kaatefishman.bsky.social about my Confetti Westerns column at @highcountrynews.bsky.social and how I reported my essay "Learning how to Live and Die with Long COVID". www.theopennotebook.com/2025/02/11/l...
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Loving the Questions: Reporting for Essays - The Open Notebook
In a reported essay, journalists can think through a question in writing—and take a roaming, potentially unexpected path in their reporting. Nailing the reported essay requires a well-thought-out idea...
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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I make a teeny tiny appearance in this excellent article by @kaatefishman.bsky.social. TON is a non-profit that does some really excellent work. If you're a science journalist, or want to become one, check them out
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