Dave Kaplan
@davekaplan.bsky.social
Journalist, Musician, Anti-Fascist
Scientists scared into silence. Sources who need protection. Missing paper trails. As this extraordinary SEJ panel shows, US environmental reporters must increasingly adopt the tools of investigative journalism under the Trump regime.
The Arizona Republic’s climate reporter Joan Meiners leads a riveting panel discussion at #SEJ2025 about the scientists and conference participants who at the last minute refused to speak or meet publicly. Check out the video: shorturl.at/EmdKp @sejorg @beecycles
#SEJ2025 Lunch Plenary. Reporting Without Access
April 25, 2025 — The Arizona Republic’s climate reporter Joan Meiners will be in conversation with Amy Westervelt, executive editor of Drilled Media…
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April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Scientists scared into silence. Sources who need protection. Missing paper trails. As this extraordinary SEJ panel shows, US environmental reporters must increasingly adopt the tools of investigative journalism under the Trump regime.
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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Political art of the day award:
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Political art of the day award:
The utter incompetence of this administration is hard to fathom. These are B-team players who never should have been appointed to positions of authority. And this is after just two months.
March 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The utter incompetence of this administration is hard to fathom. These are B-team players who never should have been appointed to positions of authority. And this is after just two months.
The US is unilaterally disarming in the global war against disinformation, as Trump orders the closure of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, VOA, and more. The damage being done is incalculable. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | America’s voice, silenced
Trump is dismantling U.S. programs that push back against dictatorship and reach people in closed societies.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The US is unilaterally disarming in the global war against disinformation, as Trump orders the closure of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, VOA, and more. The damage being done is incalculable. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Thanks, Donald. Soon MERS, Marburg, HIV, and other pernicious
viruses will join this deadly bacteria, meaning you or a loved may get sick and die thanks to the antiscience Republicans and the fools they've tricked into voting for them:
viruses will join this deadly bacteria, meaning you or a loved may get sick and die thanks to the antiscience Republicans and the fools they've tricked into voting for them:
March 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thanks, Donald. Soon MERS, Marburg, HIV, and other pernicious
viruses will join this deadly bacteria, meaning you or a loved may get sick and die thanks to the antiscience Republicans and the fools they've tricked into voting for them:
viruses will join this deadly bacteria, meaning you or a loved may get sick and die thanks to the antiscience Republicans and the fools they've tricked into voting for them:
A bit of good news: legal action has forced the State Dept to start releasing NED funding, but still waiting for full restoration of funds. Thank God the US courts are still responsive. mailchi.mp/ned/ned-news...
NED Welcomes Initial Steps Towards Restoring Funding
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March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A bit of good news: legal action has forced the State Dept to start releasing NED funding, but still waiting for full restoration of funds. Thank God the US courts are still responsive. mailchi.mp/ned/ned-news...
Here's a look at the damage from cutting off US funding to int'l media development. The US provided a third of global support ($150-$200m yearly) -- to strengthen independent media, transparency, accountability. Hardest hit: watchdog media focused on autocracies. innovating.news/guest-essay/...
We Just Lost Our Best Chance in a Generation to Expand Media Freedom - Center for News, Technology & Innovation
A US retreat from international media assistance will set back the global movement for media freedom by years. The gap left behind will not be easy to fill. The movement, however, can be sustained by ...
innovating.news
March 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Here's a look at the damage from cutting off US funding to int'l media development. The US provided a third of global support ($150-$200m yearly) -- to strengthen independent media, transparency, accountability. Hardest hit: watchdog media focused on autocracies. innovating.news/guest-essay/...
French Senator Claude Malhuret gives an extraordinary analysis of what's happening to the United States: "The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarians of the 21st Century."
March 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret gives an extraordinary analysis of what's happening to the United States: "The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarians of the 21st Century."
Today the Nat'l Endowment for Democracy filed suit against the Trump Admin. The suit gives a look at the depth of damage being done -- the withholding here of $240m already appropriated funds, mostly for grants to nearly 1,300 projects worldwide. www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
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March 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Today the Nat'l Endowment for Democracy filed suit against the Trump Admin. The suit gives a look at the depth of damage being done -- the withholding here of $240m already appropriated funds, mostly for grants to nearly 1,300 projects worldwide. www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
How did exposing corruption and lack of accountability get on the right-wing's hit list? Let's hope our European friends and others step up to fill America's abandonment of promoting democracy and rule of law around the world.
Cuts at USAID and Elsewhere Strain Global Journalism
Investigative journalists around the world relied on funding from the U.S. Now, those watchdogs are scrambling to survive a sudden cash crunch.
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February 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How did exposing corruption and lack of accountability get on the right-wing's hit list? Let's hope our European friends and others step up to fill America's abandonment of promoting democracy and rule of law around the world.
The Autocrats Playbook, a 2019 GroundTruth Project that outlines seven key steps used to subvert democracy and rule of law: Weaponize Fear, Target Outsiders, Undermine Institutions, Rewrite History, Exploit Religion, Divide and Conquer, Erode Truth.
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Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook - Overview | The GroundTruth Project
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February 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Autocrats Playbook, a 2019 GroundTruth Project that outlines seven key steps used to subvert democracy and rule of law: Weaponize Fear, Target Outsiders, Undermine Institutions, Rewrite History, Exploit Religion, Divide and Conquer, Erode Truth.
thegroundtruthproject.org/the-authorit...
thegroundtruthproject.org/the-authorit...
Americans got fat and stupid. Now it’s left to those willing to stand up and stop the descent into techno-fascism.
In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
February 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Americans got fat and stupid. Now it’s left to those willing to stand up and stop the descent into techno-fascism.
GIJN’s Rowan Philp surveys the damage to watchdog media being done by Trump and his cronies: gijn.org/stories/usai...
The USAID Crisis and Funding the Future of Independent Media
Across the investigative journalism community, GIJN has heard uniform voices of solidarity, and numerous creative strategies for surviving this fundraising crisis.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
GIJN’s Rowan Philp surveys the damage to watchdog media being done by Trump and his cronies: gijn.org/stories/usai...
Thoughts on JD Vance’s moronic comments in Europe, from Kent Harrington, one of the smartest people I know: open.substack.com/pub/kentmhar...
JD Vance and Vél D’Hiv: An Ignominious Ignorance of Evil
Vance berated European leaders last week to be more like MAGA. They tried once and it didn’t end well.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Thoughts on JD Vance’s moronic comments in Europe, from Kent Harrington, one of the smartest people I know: open.substack.com/pub/kentmhar...
Turbocharging calls to Congress about Trump policies www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
This app is turbocharging calls to Congress about Trump’s policies
Can (and should) citizen engagement be as simple as a food delivery app?
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February 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Turbocharging calls to Congress about Trump policies www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...