NEW: Data broker sites were allegedly used by the Minnesota shooting suspect, authorities claim, highlighting the danger of an industry that freely sells your personal information. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/minnes...

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the way I would've jumped on a "You've been added to 'Houthi PC Small Group' on Signal" subject line soooo fast if I did audience engagement or email marketing for a news outlet

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

I get that the war plans on Signal are a security/safety issue, but I’m not seeing much discussion of how this raises the question of how much the Trump admin is using it for the disappearing feature to skirt FOIA

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Statement from AP Executive Editor Julie Pace on a reporter being blocked from a White House event due to our editorial standards on place names: www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Easiest way to understand this is that he wiped out the origin of affirmative action. In their minds, they're ripping the "woke" out by the roots, which apparently includes any instruction that people consider whether they're only hiring white people

Republicans' crusade against the Inflation Reduction Act could mean cutting off several streams of federal aid for K-12 schools:
-Clean School Bus grants/rebates
-IRS tax credits reimbursing clean-energy projects
-Technical assistance for school infrastructure projects www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Nrew from @propublica: State maternal mortality boards are supposed to find out why pregnant patients die and how to prevent their deaths. But they’re not asking whether state abortion bans are to blame, our survey of 15 states found.
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Curious about the training on the language of disabilities @mx-joyner.bsky.social helped provide education reporters at @edwriters.bsky.social national seminar? They and their co-panelists were fantastic.

VERY grateful they pushed reporters to include sources with lived experience. Game changing

I need an academic to study how EWA can get our journalist members to and through the awards portal... before the eleventh hour of the early deadline. 🤨🤣

News coverage this week has been rife with mischaracterizations of the Cass Report and other trans health information. This is a great, clarifying resource.

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