This white man who stirred up shit at NPR is lucky the entire American media power structure caters to him, because if he’d critiqued NPR as a person who was trans, nonwhite, and/or LGBTQ, he’d have been fired the day his complaint was published & never let back into the bldg

Don't I know it! Not that I think he *should* be fired. But it's not lost on me that almost all of my colleagues in public radio were silent when I was fired over a blog post about transphobia and white supremacy, and the people who did speak publicly were not white men.

The late, great Voice editor Ward Harkavy—'a Jew from Oklahoma and son of a country veterinarian' who taught me most of what I know about covering Israel—drilled this into me: every reporter must ride the flack again and again until they answer the questions or end the presser

The body of Orkida Qandeel, 6, daughter of poet Alaa Al-Qatrawi, was pulled out from under the rubble today.
Israeli army bombed her with an F16 missile after besieging her with siblings in mid-December, preventing them from leaving the house. Rescue teams were barred from…

Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners? Alex Tretbar & Natalye ask in a new op-ed. Recent winners of PEN America’s Prison Writing Awards are missing a total of $925 in payments—a small fortune in prison.
prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…

50 years from now Columbia will lead tours bragging about how their students stood up to admin to do what was morally right. It boggles the mind that the admin can’t or won’t see the writing on the wall.

Students at Columbia University began an occupation on campus where the Gaza Solidarity Encampment is going strong 12+ hrs later, with hundreds picketing the university’s complicity in genocide to demand divesting from weapons manufacturers and ending repression against student organizers.

The extra infuriating thing about this is the asker is not some random with a blog. Indy Star does Pulitzer-winning sports journalism, and still.

If outlets aren’t sending diverse reporters with experience/expertise in women’s sports, they’re not equipped to cover the WNBA.

🇵🇸✊🚨 Hundreds of New Yorkers are on their way to Columbia University to support the Gaza Solidarity Encampment! MEET US THERE! #ShutItDown4Palestine

Bernie Sanders goes from being promoted by AIPAC to promoting Genocide Joe.

To think people spoke about him in the same breath as Jeremy Corbyn.

They are from different political and moral universes. And there is no way back for Bernie. It’s over.