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Kathleen Massara

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NY Times Culture desk, NewsGuild steward, queer Nebraskan 🌈

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
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‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices
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Graham Readfearn @readfearn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What’s more informative? That a fossil fuel project will emit 809 million tonnes of CO2? Or that it will cause almost half a million people to be exposed to unprecedented heat? A new tool tells that story, and fossil fuel corporations are unlikely to like it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Corporations claim their fossil fuel emissions are a drop in the ocean. But what if we could count the real cost?
A new tool called Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight metrics, including lost food production
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/09/2026
Ice from Greenland and Antarctica is flowing faster into the ocean, a new study shows, causing sea levels to rise. Meltwater has caused global sea levels to rise by more than 3 centimeters in the past 47 years, researchers said. wapo.st/4yeXWrG
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.
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Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)
Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026
The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.
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Bottom 90% of New Yorkers’ Incomes Stagnate As Very Richest See 58% Gain Since COVID
The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 03/09/2026
when you claim to be working on yourself but actually you've been back on some bullshit
spirit halloween sign getting covered up with a spirit halloween sign
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Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Was going to do a cleanse but decided to keep my toxins
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
responding to a diss track with a song called Genuinely Thought We Were On Good Terms
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/08/2026
The international repercussions of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing by ICE. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?
A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14/08/2026
Each year, hundreds of Aboriginal people from across Australia contact the South Australian Museum in search of missing parts of their family story. The museum's family history unit searches its extensive archives for records that can help uncover long-lost connections and provide answers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/08/2026
The complaints cite a ProPublica report detailing how CBS and Paramount have for years given FCC commissioners luxury gala tickets, which the commissioners accepted even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions.
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about…
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Navy commands that issue shaving waivers are now required to produce monthly facial hair accountability reports. Commanding officers are instructed to maintain a log of personnel requiring medical facial hair treatment plans. Learn more:
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Navy commands commence monthly facial hair accountability reports in August
Commanding officers are instructed to maintain a log of personnel requiring medical facial hair treatment plans.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A full week (a full WEEK) after OpenAI revealed that its AI model escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face, the company now says whoops, by the way, it also broke into accounts on four other platforms in the process. from @mzeff.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 05/07/2026
A Arles, les images jazzy de la photographe Ming Smith
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A Arles, les images jazzy de la photographe Ming Smith
Cette figure de la photo afro-américaine, méconnue en France, présente ses images pleines de nuit à l’église Sainte-Anne, dans le cadre de la 57ᵉ édition des Rencontres d’Arles.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/06/2026
As America’s auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country’s affordability crisis. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Repo Man Coming for Your Ride
As America’s auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country’s affordability crisis.
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"he was bitten by an animal, then he became that animal" the animal:
chris fleming picking up bridget the... tegu? i think?
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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026
bisexual final boss
Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock
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Politico @politico.com · 31/05/2026
‘To call it a ceasefire is a joke': Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza with AP
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‘To call it a ceasefire is a joke': Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza with AP
The soldiers said they were speaking out because they were angered and saddened by what they saw in the Israeli-controlled part of Gaza since the deal went into effect seven months ago.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/05/2026
A new reading room in Tribeca shelves printed and bound copies of 3.5 million files pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein. Visitors are welcome, but they may not read or handle the books. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Trump-Epstein Files: Look but Don’t Touch
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, in Tribeca, housed three and a half million bound files, along with a handy time line charting the ickiness.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pope Leo XIV issues encyclical denouncing the "culture of power" driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/ne...
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Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power - Vatican News
Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human ...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/05/2026
UN human-rights experts urge Starbucks and US to address union-busting claims reut.rs/49Rllp1
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UN human-rights experts urge Starbucks and US to address union-busting claims
A group of United Nations human-rights experts has ‌asked Starbucks and the U.S. government to respond to allegations that Starbucks has carried out a years-long campaign against workers seeking to unionize, according to a March 10 letter made public this week by the U.N.’s human-rights office.
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
playbill.com/article/a-we... A 'Weird Al' Yankovic Jukebox Musical Is in the Works
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A 'Weird Al' Yankovic Jukebox Musical Is in the Works
The Grammy-winning satirist is working with Beetlejuice and Gutenberg! writers Scott Brown and Anthony King on the project.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 12/05/2026
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there are zero American studio movies in the official lineup, but Demi Moore still showed up to talk about AI.
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A Hollywood-less Cannes Begins
This year’s French film festival features zero American studio movies in the official lineup. But Demi Moore still showed up to discuss AI.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/04/2026
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/04/2026
"The complaint, initially brought by the Department of Justice and the dozens of state attorneys general in 2024, claimed that Live Nation monopolized the industry by controlling ticketing, concert booking, venues, and promotions."
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Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury in antitrust trial finds
Live Nation has vehemently denied acting as a monopoly.
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haidee chu @haidee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
ICYMI: I made an interactive map for yall to explore all the cherry blossom, magnolia and crabapple hotspots across NYC! 🌸 with @lillysabs.bsky.social! bonus: there's also a tool in here to search how your neighborhood ranks in terms of flowering tree density www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026
A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 31/03/2026
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
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Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Less than a year after Lockheed's Precision Strike Missile entered low-rate production, CENTCOM used the weapon to hit a rec center and school, killing 21 civilians including young girls playing volleyball. Story w/ my friend and colleague @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Ryan Coogler reached out to Karlos Hill (Regents' Professor of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American History at OU) to learn more about the history of music in the Mississippi Delta. Parts of their conversations showed up in the film. www.oklahoman.com/story/lifest...
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Why a local professor's name is included in the end credits of the hit movie 'Sinners'
An OU professor and historian weighed in on the historical backdrop of the hit film 'Sinners' currently streaming on MAX
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Kathleen Massara @kmascara.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This was a fun one to work on www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...
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On the Hunt for 24 Hours of Drag in N.Y.C.
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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We came to the bargaining table yesterday ready to make serious progress. Management instead continued to ignore our priorities, including funding healthcare, A.I. protections, and hybrid work. ......
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
“Last month, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Revenue told The Star that the agency had processed 159 gender changes on IDs since a district court injunction was lifted in October. Officials say they expect around 1,800 people to have their identity documents revoked.“
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Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday
Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/02/2026
Willie Colón, a trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer who became a luminary of salsa music in a career that spanned nearly six decades, died on Saturday. He was 75. nyti.ms/3MCFkzC
Willie Colón, with his eyes closed, plays a trombone. A headline reads: "1950-2026: Willie Colón, Luminary of Salsa Music, Dies at 75." Photo by Chad Batka for The New York Times.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/02/2026
‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom
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‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom
Opening the Berlin film festival, No Good Men blends romance and rebellion, capturing love, humour and female agency in Kabul on the eve of the Taliban’s return
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New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Saturday's Weather Rating: 1/10 The arctic has arrived - again. We have an Extreme Cold Warning and a Wind Advisory in effect starting at 10:00am. Wind chills fall to nearly 20 below zero tonight. I've got nothing. The vibes have frozen over.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/02/2026
imagine having one of the best tech reporters of all time on your staff and then choosing to lay them off
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/02/2026
US farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments reut.rs/3ZmIHNP
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US farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments
In a sign of growing stress for U.S. farmers, the Agriculture Department forecast on Thursday that U.S. net farm income would fall 0.7% this year, despite near-record government payments that are expected to account for nearly 29% of producers’ bottom line.
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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We stand with you, @postguild.bsky.social
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If I was old enough to catch the bus by myself (and had more than $5 ever), I would have loved to go to Rick James first tour, Fire It Up. It had little known Teena Marie whose album he was producing for Motown and Prince as his opening act. We need "All about Eve" type biopic about that tour.🎶🎸
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Fire It Up Tour promo - Rick James with Prince (1980)
YouTube video by Uptown
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔
Polaroids of Catherine O'Hara in various costumesPolaroids of Catherine O'Hara in various costumes
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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‘Terrorist! Terrorist! Terrorist!’
From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism: “I lost touch with reality”

Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage - the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn't properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-l diagnosis.
Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you're losing your grip entirely.
Once people label you as 'crazy', you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type-1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer-all lethal and fatal if left untreated.
The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, and unstoppable.
I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.
In that fractured state. I gra…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.
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Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/01/2026
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...
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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
THE TIMES IS UNION-MADE: Today we began bargaining our new contract, and in our first session, we not only told management we were united, we showed them. Our bargaining committee presented a pledge signed by 80% of our union, supporting five core priorities…..
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