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Prism @prismreports.org · 15h

Jennyfer's sister Ame wants local police to fully investigate the sexual assault & for ICE to be held accountable. The ordeal has only strengthened her resolve to secure a viable pathway for Jennyfer to return to the U.S.

A fundraiser has been set up for Jennyfer’s long fight ahead⤵️

Donate to HELP JENNYFER FIGHT DEPORTATION, organized by Brit Shrader

URGENT MUTUAL AID REQUEST FOR CRIMINALIZED SURVIVOR AND ICE ABDUCTEE TW: sexual assault… Brit Shrader needs your support for HELP JENNYFER FIGHT DEPORTATION

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Prism @prismreports.org · 15h

Jennyfer, a restaurant worker in FL, reported to police that her manager sexually assaulted her. Within weeks, she was charged with a DUI & deported to Nicaragua. The criminal legal system, in tandem with immigration enforcement, is built to disappear vulnerable people, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

Deported after reporting sexual assault: A worker’s fight for justice

Jennyfer told police that her manager assaulted her. Within weeks of reporting, she was charged with a DUI and deported to Nicaragua

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Prism @prismreports.org · 18h

St. Louis family services organization helps Black fathers reclaim their stories, Lucy Grimshaw reports. The Fathers & Families Support Center helps Black fathers, who the media too often portray as dangerous or at fault for police brutality.

St. Louis family services organization helps Black fathers reclaim their stories

The Fathers & Families Support Center helps Black fathers, who the media too often portray as dangerous or at fault for police brutality

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Prism @prismreports.org · 20h

The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products. Avik Jain Chatlani’s new op-ed critiques the accelerated end of language.

The end of language

The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products

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Prism @prismreports.org · 21h

Miami’s Wynwood loses its queer heart to gentrification, Kat Grimmett reports. As developers reshape Miami’s art district, LGBTQIA+ venues are vanishing, leaving a community of 190,000 people with few places to gather.

Miami's Wynwood loses its queer heart to gentrification

As developers reshape Miami’s art district, LGBTQIA+ venues are vanishing, leaving a community of 190,000 people with few places to gather

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Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity, writes Hend Salama Abo Helow in an op-ed. Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, & terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other.

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity

Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, and terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other

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Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

Chicago fights back against Trump admin’s sweeping violence, @nberlat.bsky.social reports. ICE raids & attacks against protesters have brutalized Chicago-area communities. But local organizers are committed to coming together to protect their neighbors.

Chicago fights back against Trump administration’s violence

ICE raids and attacks against protesters have brutalized Chicago-area communities. But organizers are committed to protecting their neighbors

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Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

“The market that emerges under siege is not a sign of resilience—it is a system of predation born of deliberate policy.”

As Israel’s blockade drives Palestinians into daily negotiations with their dignity, women have become the front-line managers of scarcity, Mariam Mohammed Al-Khateeb writes.

Israel drives Palestinian women into daily negotiations with dignity

Women have become the front-line managers of scarcity. Yet their suffering is often erased by Western policy and humanitarian discourse

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 2d

I attended this webinar earlier, and wanted to share this infographic if folx need a visual to highlight how Zionism is embedded in how American newsrooms typically operate, for which I am truly grateful for the much-needed work that @prismreports.org does! 🍉 visualizingpalestine.org/visual/edite...

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

“It is Oct. 7 2025, two years of genocide, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been targeted, traumatized. The genocide must stop."
—@laubast.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"Journalism should be conviction. I hear stories of journalists who came to the field who say 'the story of my community has been overshadowed by statements that do not represent the truth.'"

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"If you can do journalism yourself, if you have deep pockets & can fund newsrooms, do it! The more storytellers we have, the better information there can be."
—@abdallahfayyad.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

In 2024, Gallup released a poll showing Americans' trust in media institutions at a record low 31% & people are turning to alternative media. Why? There was no accountability for media's lies covering Iraq. The only accountability was consumers turning to alt news spaces.
—@sanasaeed.bsky.social

Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

Americans' confidence in the media is at its lowest point, as Democrats' confidence is near the record low and Republicans' is almost nonexistent.

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"If you want news, you must be involved. Politics will engage with you, whether you like it or not. The way to combat propaganda is not just to point it out, but to empower the journalists on the ground & those holding onto their values so that we delegitimize the profit motive." –Eman Mohammed

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

What is the way forward for this industry?

"I think it's overdue, people have the tools to be informed. There needs to be a distinction between journalists & for-profit media (mainstream media). They treat their audience as idiots to a point where everyone should be offended." –Eman Mohammed

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"Newsrooms preemptively censor themselves because they *know* they'll get pushback from the audience. There's a tension between what the journalist wants to report on & what their editors are allowing them to report on." –Aline Batarseh

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"The more people on the ground witnessing atrocities in real time, the more documentation we have to hold people accountable long term. It is a pressing issue that this so-called 'only democracy in the Middle East' will not allow foreign press in."—@abdallahfayyad.bsky.social on intl journalist bans

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"There are so many Arabs/Muslims who have left journalism; they've said what they can, & now they have had to ask themselves 'Do I stay in an industry that is directly complicit in the extermination of 2.2 million people, or do I get out now to save what I can of my soul?'" @sanasaeed.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"Palestinians are treated as more suspect than those with direct ties to groups committing genocide. Even journalists who aren't Arab/Muslim/etc, if the Middle East was their beat & they wanted to cover starvation before it was popular... they would be taken off the story." @sanasaeed.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"The press has voluntarily said 'yes, we will put forward those interests of our government and this other state's government as well.' The appointment of Bari Weiss, the Ellison takeover, are part and parcel of that trajectory as well." — @sanasaeed.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"The greatest tragedy is a press that voluntarily enmeshes itself w/ the interests of the state & the state itself without any coercion. Even with their freedom, they are still willing to do that... I don't think there is a greater example than what American media has done." — @sanasaeed.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"You literally have an eyewitness who is also a journalist, who knows everything about how this work is done, and now you are saying they are not credible? Watching our families slaughtered, and then having to prove that they are being slaughtered... it was like being killed twice." — Eman Mohammed

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"Every group subjected to injustice knows that American media never sided with the truth until it became convenient and popular." — Eman Mohammed

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"We joke that if you cover Syria or the Ukraine, that's a career builder; if you cover Palestine, then that can get you blacklisted." — Eman Mohammed

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d

"Unless it is absolutely """balanced""" in the sense that if there is a pro-Palestine protest and no pro-Israel protest, then the pro-Palestine protest doesn't get coverage. You are concealing news on the basis that other "news" hasn't happened. It doesn't get more biased than that." —Eman Mohammed

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