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Freelance journalist covering climate change, biodiversity, and environmental justice | She/her | Formerly at @highcountrynews.org‬ and @ncstate.bsky.social | mayalkapoor.com | Signal: MayaK.09 | Views my own

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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 18/05/2026
Alex was an invaluable resource when I was in Atlanta last summer for the ASG and does a lot of important reporting. please read this thread and help if you're able to.
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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The latest research on the current system in the Atlantic is, for lack of a better word, scary. "The most dramatic and drastic climate changes we see in the last 100,000 years of Earth history have been when the Amoc switched to a different state." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
First, the NAACP challenged xAI's permit to build a giant, nat. gas-burning power plant in Southaven, MS. Then, they sued xAI alleging Clean Air Act violations. Now, Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is investigating the EPA over apparent inattention to xAI's pollution. Bkgd: www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/e...
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NAACP sues Elon Musk's xAI over Memphis data center air pollution
Elon Musk, who is the world's richest person, has been counting on the greater Memphis area to serve as the backbone for xAI's buildout.
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EJ Today News @ejtodaynews.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s #EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know. @lizagross.bsky.social reports for @insideclimatenews.org #news #environment , @sejorg.bsky.social EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list insideclimatenews.org/news/1404202...
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Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know. - Inside Climate News
Climate change is making the risk of disastrous chemical accidents more likely. But the EPA wants to gut recently enhanced safety requirements for hazardous facilities.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 10/04/2026
“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep. Adelita Grijalva said. “It is frightening in there. It is disgusting.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Surprise inspection finds ICE stuffing migrants 'like sardines' into a facility with no bed, showers
Three lawmakers visited a Mesa ICE facility unannounced and found overcrowding, with 250 detainees packed into rooms "like sardines"
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Toastie @btoastie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Apache women seek court intervention as federal land is turned over for copper mining
The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 17/03/2026
NCAR sues itself to to block Trump administration’s “arbitrary and capricious” selloff of Boulder lab
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NCAR sues itself to to block Trump administration’s “arbitrary and capricious” selloff of Boulder lab
Scientific consortium that runs the Boulder federal lab says retribution is only reason for dismantling the climate, weather research agency
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/02/2026
Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state. This gives us a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 13/02/2026
essential reporting from @brandontensley.bsky.social
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Stunning reporting: 'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations @floodlightnews.org floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
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'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @politico.com is hiring an editor to guide coverage of California energy, environment, climate and transportation policy. politico.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/politi...
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California Energy, Environment and Climate Editor
Job Description: POLITICO is seeking a creative, ambitious and enterprising editor to guide our coverage of California energy, environment, climate and transportation policy, with a focus on how the w...
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Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Colliding climate change risks from dirty air and extreme heat compound the disparate burdens many residents of a N. Calif. county already face. A new report from #PSEHealthyEnergy breaks ground by asking community members how to reduce those harms. Read more at @insideclimatenews.org
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Mapping Unequal Climate Risks in a Northern California County - Inside Climate News
Low-cost air pollution sensors reveal stark disparities in exposure to extreme heat and air pollution in Contra Costa County, a major traffic corridor and oil refinery hub near San Francisco.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world." www.theguardian.com/environment/... @dpcarrington.bsky.social @theguardian.com
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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
From me: Navajo Council urges ICE, DHS to recognize tribal ISs, honor status
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Navajo Council urges ICE, DHS to recognize tribal IDs, honor status
Two weeks after a Navajo man was held by ICE agents even after presenting tribal ID, the Navajo Council is calling on the feds to honor those IDs.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Capital B is building an archive of Black oral history, powered by you, with stories told in your voices and words. capitalbnews.org/oralhistoryproject
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Help Preserve Black History by Sharing Your Story
Capital B is building an archive of Black oral history, told in your voices and words.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 28/01/2026
The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can their enforce treaty rights.
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An EPA proposal would make it harder for tribes to protect their water - High Country News
The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can their enforce treaty rights.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
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Maya @mayalkapoor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Here's an Audre Lorde Poem
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Ted Zukoski @tedzukoski.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Kavanaugh stops come to Indian Country. Horrible. Predictable.
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Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hundreds of workers who finish luxury countertops now have #silicosis, a deadly, irreversible but preventable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. But it’s the manufacturers Republicans want to protect. More at @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1701202...
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As Artificial Stone Countertops Kill Workers, House Republicans Discuss Protections—for Manufacturers - Inside Climate News
Sponsors of a new bill want to give the industry immunity from lawsuits brought by injured employees. That will kill even more workers, experts warn.
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The timing matters a lot on this effort to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research. New reporting -- www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
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The Trump admin is closing a critical climate research center. Officials believe it’s really trying to punish a governor | CNN
The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an organization responsible for improved weather models to tools that aid hurricane safety. ...
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National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org · 16/12/2025
DUE FRIDAY: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19. Learn more:
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National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Today, we join unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country as they stand shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality, and accuracy of our journalism.
A graphic logo in the shape of a circle with a blue background. Around the edges of the circle is white text that reads "Caucus of Nonprofit Newsroom Unions." In the middle of the logo is the text of the acronym, CNNU, with each letter inside of a large, stylized quotation mark.
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Maya @mayalkapoor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This reminds me of @petridishes.bsky.social's hilarious and devastating piece in @theatlantic.com on Florida's elimination of vaccine mandates www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/12/2025
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Evidence that the people killed by the U.S. were actually drug traffickers is expected to be released with unredacted records of Epstein Files, Trump’s tax returns, and Bigfoot shooting JFK. #RadioFreeAmerica www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Negotiators for 7 states say they’ve made progress in talks on how to share the shrinking Colorado River, but they’ve missed an initial federal deadline. “Conditions on the river continue to be problematic — more problematic over time as those reservoirs decline.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline
Negotiators for seven states say they're making progress in negotiations aimed at addressing the Colorado River's chronic water shortages. But they missed an initial deadline.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
If any researchers--particularly early career scientists--would like to share their experiences trying to secure a PhD, postdoc, or asst prof position in the current funding/political environment, please let me know. I'm working on a story to run in January. You can be on the record or anonymous.
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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
So thrilled to share the launch of this new project, Vital Signs, with climate desk readers. @who.int says climate change threatens to erode 50 years of public health gains. What does that look like? We’ll be reporting from five continents. First story in the series: grist.org/health/valle...
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This week two of my colleagues and I wrote about the Energy Fuels uranium ore transport. This is my article: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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Doubts persist about deal to allow uranium trucks on the Navajo Nation
People who live along the uranium transport route say they want assurances that they are not at risk.
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Call for Applications: Press On’s Freedomways Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications for its 8-month fellowship from March to Oct 2026, for 6 reporters and storytellers from the South. form.jotform.com/252935798928...
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Call for Applications: 2026 Freedomways Reporting Fellowship // Convocatoria de solicitudes: Beca de Periodismo Freedomways 2026
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Asheboro pours a toxic chemical into the drinking water supply, does not play well with others & seems to have the municipal version of oppositional defiance disorder insideclimatenews.org/news/2710202...
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Asheboro, North Carolina, Is Under Pressure to Control Discharges of a Toxic Chemical Into Drinking Water Supply - Inside Climate News
The EPA wants the city of 28,000 to rein in an industrial solvent, 1,4-Dioxane, from its wastewater discharges. So far, Asheboro has refused.
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
12 months $6,600 stipend Connection to editors and a community of journalism professionals. Deadline to apply to become an early career fellow of the The Open Notebook, supported by @bwfund.bsky.social: October 31. 🧪
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Early-Career Fellowship Program - The Open Notebook
Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. This ten-month program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests ...
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
When I asked why I had been arrested, they answered ⬇️ "We have killed all the journalists. They died once. But we brought you here and you will die hundreds of times." 🙏🏼🇵🇸 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 17/10/2025
📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How to: 🔘 Understand reports on trans youth health care 🔘 Report on EOs targeting trans Americans 🔘 Report on polls about trans issues From TON and @transjournalists.org, here’s a free collection of resources for all journalists. 🧪 www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...
The logo of the Trans Journalists Association, which includes a stylized T in teal, J in purple, and A in yellow, accompanied by the full name of the organization spelled out in black text.
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
‘US Supreme Court turns down Oak Flat copper mine case for a 2nd time’ by @debkrol.bsky.social
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US Supreme Court turns down Oak Flat copper mine case for a 2nd time
The Supreme Court declined to hear Apache Stronghold's case a second time, but more cases are still on lower-court dockets.
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Wyatt Myskow @wyattmyskow.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
On the Colorado River, there is no more water. That's the warning from a coalition of environmental groups urging for action and transparency regarding the river's future. My latest: insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...
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As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn - Inside Climate News
A new report from a coalition of environmental organizations offers recommendations on how to address the declining water supply in the river as negotiations over its future stall.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2025
Oscar Guevara said he and his younger brother will head to El Salvador to bring their father cameras, clothes and other personal belongings. “At least he is not dead, and that’s the only thing giving us hope,” Oscar Guevara said in Spanish.
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Uproot Project stands with the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling for the safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza, Yemen, and beyond.
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Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources @ijnr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Workshop announcement! Join us in November for a hybrid workshop investigating the potential impacts in the Great Lakes Basin of shifting federal policy and spending. Applications due October 15. Learn more about what we have planned and how to apply! www.ijnr.org/2025-great-l...
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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2025
Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."
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400 entertainers co-sign ACLU letter supporting Jimmy Kimmel
Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Here's the deal folks. We haven't yet hit our fundraising goal. We have one more campaign planned for the year, but the long-term existence of this magazine hinges to a decent degree on readers signing up as recurring donors. If you value what we are making, it would mean a lot if you signed up
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/09/2025
A United Nations commission of inquiry has determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concluding in a 72-page report that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, just one of which would legally constitute a genocide.
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UN Inquiry Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide and Calls for Arms Embargo
The findings could be used by the International Court of Justice, which has a pending genocide case against Israel.
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Siri Carpenter @siricarpenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you're an early-career journalist, consider applying for @theopennotebook.bsky.social's paid, mentored fellowship and follow in the footsteps of @katherinejwu.com, @janehu.bsky.social, @sciwriabdul.bsky.social, @1juliarosen.bsky.social, @celiaford.bsky.social and many more! Deadline: 10/31.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Are you a science or environment journalist who has covered (or may cover in the future) ocean conservation stories, including but not limited to stories about sharks? I'm always available for a background briefing to teach you key topics before you pitch or write a story.
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