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Attention early career journalists! The Local is a fantastic digital magazine that does great reporting on local Toronto issues, staffed by a really great team of journalists. Fellowships include one for an early career Two-Spirit, trans, or non-binary reporter and one for photography.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

China’s biotech sector has surpassed the EU to become the world’s second-largest new drug maker.

For global firms, opportunity lies in treating China as a co-innovation hub while maintaining safeguards.

From Lizzi Lee and Huiyan Li in our newsletter
nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/chinas-bio...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

WaPo journalists deserve our support and recognition: the climate piece is by @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @shannonosaka.bsky.social.

Here's the @nytimes.com piece by Lisa Friedman & @maxinejoselow.bsky.social. Imagine spending decades attacking climate science.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

A screen grab of a graphic from a Feb 11, 2026 Washington Post climate article that shows rising global temperatures and a steep curve in recent years. Image also shows The Washington Post masthead and slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" underneath.

Reading this after reading the @nytimes.com piece on Trump Allies nearing "total victory" in wiping out U.S. climate regulation....

(Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?)

wapo.st/4abXa5w

If you missed this must-read from a few months ago, @nickhunebrown.bsky.social dug into another prolific AI freelancer who had bylines with major international publications.

Meanwhile, all of this is happening as journalism trust hits a low point and when the industry is being decimated by layoffs.

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.

"'We become their mother, their grandmother, their sister, their brother. We feed them, we clean them, we put them in the chair, we put them in bed. That’s awesome.'"

How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.

The latest AI freelancer scam, caught by @soleilho.com. As the real Scott Nover says in this piece, credibility is everything for journalists: "When our credibility is undermined or eroded, our jobs — which require us to convey factual information — become much, much harder.”

Great summary of one person's obscene wealth and the things they prioritize. Thinking about how much Melania made from this deal vs the WaPo reporter who was just fired in the middle of a warzone.

Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

It's unbelievable how many things still leave me speechless with anger and sadness during these unfathomable times.

Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.

"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."

Devastating.

This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

This piece by @jonrauch.bsky.social is very much worth reading. (Yes, I know, even if your reaction to the title is, "Gee, you don't say!") He lays out the case more carefully, clearly, and systematically than I have seen elsewhere.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I'd rather not quote him, but moderates and the right need to hear his message and fury. "They are unprofessional pathetic COWARDS. Because if...an 18-year-old Marine did that in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court martialed, because it would be MURDER...You guys are criminal thugs."

I can not even begin to overstate how gobsmackingly shocked I continue to be (despite everything that's happened over the past decade and especially this past year) at the complete and absolute depravity, corruption, and unequivocal lack of moral decency, integrity, and humanity we are witnessing.

Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem.

(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)

The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.

I actually find these figures incredibly depressing and deeply unsettling that it still has this much support.

I love this much-needed thread so much.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

Wind energy for AI is devastating Taiwan’s coastal farming communities
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts