Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

Every newspaper has a business section and none have a labor section despite the fact that most readers will not be corporate CEOs but almost all readers are workers.
hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-distance…

So, Ground Game LA has basically refused to allow Knock LA to separate. Now, they’ve taken away access to administrative tools from Cerise Castle and camacho .

Knock LA had been dealing with a litany of issues which brought the request for separation. 🧵:

My story about Hep C in San Quentin, co-written by an incarcerated writer, no longer has an editor or a home. Grants for training I was set to participate in or currently participating in are no longer available to me, nor other writers.

I’ve been on Knock LA’s admin team since 2022. I’ve coordinated skills building workshops w/ journalism orgs, overseen award winning reporting & secured major funders. Last night Ground Game LA maliciously deleted all of my @knockdotLA accounts. Pls read our newsroom’s open letter

Glad I asked!

This entire framing is a bait & switch—few artists feel threatened by generative AI due to its ability to create quality work. They're threatened because too many clients don't care about the quality of the output, and AI will erode rates for creative work across the board.

.@gannett is trying to hire temporary workers to fill the jobs of striking Austin American-Statesman employees. Please stand in solidarity with Austin Statesman journalists and don’t take these jobs.
You can support us by not clicking on Austin Statesman sites or donating to our strike…

World’s largest genetic study of ME offers hope to sufferers
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White House national security spokesperson John Kirby urged journalists during a press conference to let Israel 'get it done' and 'see what they find,' emphasising that there's an ongoing investigation, following a report by Haaretz stating that an Israeli drone fired three…

#Vancouver Please EMAIL [email protected] if you are interested in these FREE #masks or tests. Someone will donate #N95 duckbill-style masks and rapid tests that'll otherwise go to a landfill - over 100k masks. 👀 We can only store and distribute so many ourselves!

It’s obvious that the people administering this money on behalf of the federal government have no understanding of what it’s like to live with financial precarity. This is what happens when the privileged classes administer financial aid programs for marginalized groups.

I'm pretty upset. A *week* before #LJI funding ends, we're told newsrooms need to decide whether to keep reporters on with no guarantee of funding in April. For small newsrooms like IndigiNews, this means 🧵

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

Third, this is a reminder that all disasters are workplace disasters for someone. I keep thinking of the six highway workers--apparently all or mostly immigrant workers with families--who are still missing.

I really did not expect the level of interest in this Google Doc and couldn't figure out how to get into my personal Wordpress blog to publish it. Here's a modified version of the doc (link fixed): docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

A side-by-side comparison of the original NDP motion and the one with Liberal party amendments (that the NDP accepted).
1/19🧵

#cdnpoli #OppositionMotion

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza Writers Against the War on Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com