Lawyers for Boulder and Yellow Scene Magazine clashed in the Court of Appeals over whether Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act lets agencies charge hundreds or thousands of dollars to provide body-worn camera footage showing possible misconduct by police officers.
NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) strongly condemns the reported decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to exclude press photographers from Pentagon briefings after photographs of Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth were published that officials reportedly considered “unflattering.”
BREAKING: Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who disclosed the Watergate tapes, dies at 99.
ICE continues to retaliate against non-US journalists who cover their operations by detaining them for deportation.
Last year, it was Mario Guevara, who was removed to El Salvador.
Now, Estefany Rodriguez could be deported to Colombia.
Both fled their countries and sought safety in the US.
The government’s official story would unravel in court — refuted by video surveillance, crime scene photos and witness statements.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
for the @chicagoreader.com's 2025 best of chicago issue, i wrote about cops!
for the best conglomeration of local police to protect a murderous army of federal agents, look no further than the unified command of broadview, illinois.
The Pentagon's media policy is “unconstitutional, but ... what they say after the fact makes their arguments even worse,” @freedom.press's Trevor Timm told @columjournreview.bsky.social.
They "admitted that they don’t care if people break this as long as they agree with them."
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one intelligence official said of plans to share criminal case information with intelligence agencies. “There are a lot of privacy concerns out there, and nobody really wants to deal with them.”
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
In October 2024, even though outlets like CNN, PBS, & the Telegraph (UK) reported on impact of Iranian strikes, they faced no repercussions. However, the Israeli government singled out journalist Jeremy Loffredo & threatened to charge him with "aiding the enemy." thedissenter.org/israel-charg...
The Israeli military censorship imposed restrictions on media coverage of where Iranian missiles or rockets landed after Iran responded to June 2025 and October 2025 attacks by the U.S. and Israel.
Al Jazeera English correspondent in Ramallah says Israeli military censor barred press from showing sites directly impacted by Iran's strikes in response to US-Israeli attacks. Media will face a penalty for publishing videos
Judge fails Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson who had devices seized by the FBI thedissenter.org/judge-fails-...
The magistrate judge ordered a court review of seized materials but didn't force the Trump Justice Department to return her property, even though prosecutors deceived him.
ICE didn't know who it was messing with when it locked up gifted storytellers like Sami Hamdi and Rümeysa Öztürk. They're exposing abuses in ICE jails that are also prevalent throughout the rest of the carceral system.
Jeremy has more in @truthout.org and @theappeal.org
Not yet. I would like it too.
There apparently were multiple search warrant applications submitted by the DOJ for a raid against Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson—and a US magistrate judge rejected those before finally approving an application www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
If ever there was an indicator of how the future of journalism is extraordinarily bleak, it's Polymarket worming gambling into a massive news and writing platform.
"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" is a sentence that should make your stomach drop.
The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza, sprawling more than 350 acres, according to Board of Peace contracting records reviewed by the Guardian.
Of course, obeying in advance and obeying and advancing probably produce the same horrific results—leading us down a path further and further away from media democracy and freedom of the press.
(Thanks to @freepress.bsky.social and you for your continued advocacy.)
The U.S. military killed more civilians in a boat strike on Friday -- the first in the Caribbean since mid-November.
Our @theintercept.com tracker has the full civilian toll of these extrajudicial killings.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
Yes, but Bari Weiss and David Ellison are fully rebranding CBS and Paramount so that it serves President Trump. Is it "obeying in advance" if the network identifies with the person in power and wants to be part of the team?
New research on #FOI and journalism from the Transparency Alliance, an initiative led by @muckrock.com in partnership with @rcfp.org and other collaborators ⤵️
The reclassification of federal government employees not only allows Trump to strip them of whistleblower protections and fire them at will, but it also moves the government closer to establishing a Trump state that could pursue his agenda long after his presidency.
Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal says his family was attacked despite an Israeli court ruling in their favour.
FOIA’s systemic problems meet partisan robo-requests. “Every year it gets harder to get the government to give information, and it’s only going to get worse." Read C.J. Robinson. www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
Leakers Helped Destroy the Deportation Case Against Tufts Student
theintercept.com/2026/02/13/r...
