The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
All right. It’s been over a year of slogging through these grocery price checks here in Chicago, and this is what I found:
(No paywall at the Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Public Media, thanks to our wonderful members)
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chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Agents with Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino shouted at a SE Asian woman walking outside Costco in Mt. Prospect, IL today.
The woman said in a flawless Midwestern accent, “They just asked me if I’m American. What the fuck?” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
it really blows.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
$1.1 billion in public media funding has been cut in the White House’s spending clawback. WBEZ’s federal support disappears October 1st.
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"The White House issued a memorandum today asking Congress to 'claw back' funds that have already been appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 and 2027."
www.npr.org/2025/06/03/g...
my guess is that it is a snake-themed game where you score points for riding as far along a train line as possible but opponents can cut you off, shortening your streak.
Kari Lake says Voice of America to rely on coverage from pro-Trump network OAN
She previously laid off almost the entire workforce and cut contracts with AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse
My story for NPR:
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...
Rivian’s manufacturing plant is in Normal, Illinois
Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff meaning it is effectively shutting down. It says it can no longer pay people after its funding was cut off by the Trump administration.
By @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
Straight out of the authoritarian playbook: the attack on the free press continues. Trump has ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to defund NPR and PBS.
www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
This is an unelected oil executive now calling the shots for America’s public lands. No Senate vote. No accountability. Just a signature and the quiet handoff of power to Musk’s inner circle. This is what authoritarianism looks like, buried in bureaucracy.
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
the political theater now has puppets.
MTG just described Wikipedia as a platform that doesn't tell the truth, which shows us just how much she and the Heritage foundation feel about facts.
Gonzalez's argument against public media is that people have access to the internet and cell phones now. Obviously many Americans do. But we still need people to REPORT LOCAL NEWS and put it on the internet. Local stations are often the only outlet in what are otherwise news deserts
Now MTG is going on a rant about how Wikipedia is a platform that doesn't tell the truth and threatening jail time. Due to the bogus FCC investigation, insinuating that bringing lawyers with you is a sign of guilt.
MTG just called Wikipedia a "platform that doesn't tell the truth." Before going on a anti-woke rant.
Mike Gonzalez says that Americans have phones so they have no issue accessing the news, ignoring the fact that defunding the journalists would mean that news would no longer be accessible on said phone.
Today Rs will say public media is a huge burden on taxpayers. This 2022 study found that “despite having the world’s largest gross domestic product (GDP), America spends a comparatively miniscule fraction – less than half of a percent – on public media funding.” www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Public media orgs are now testifying before Congress.
This is being overshadowed by the signal leaks, but nonetheless this is an important moment for the free press in the U.S.
It's crazy how much things have changed since I left the cult, but also it was the seeds of this movement that woke me up in the first place back in 2016.
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Cutaway schematic diagram of a spherical radiolarian shell
The fact that these guys be floatin in the ocean will never stop being cool
I'm hearted by the ways Chicago is showing up for public media this drive. The public media community is strong.
Us freeing ourselves from kings only to bring them back several hundred years later would be the appropriate conclusion given our founders' obsession with ancient Rome
