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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · 6d

Baltimore, it's @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social time!!! Here are five movies that @bsoderberg.bsky.social recs. I saw OBEX last night and everyone should see it when it's in theaters in January! Thank you @ericallenhatch.bsky.social for programming so many great movies. bmoreart.com/2025/10/new-...

New/Next Film Festival Returns to The Charles Theater this Week - BmoreArt

This year’s New/Next Film Festival packs more than 30 feature-length movies, and over three times that many short films across … Continued

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 8d

For @bmoreart.bsky.social: A preview of the New/Next Film Festival @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social which begins tomorrow night and reviewed some must-see movies, including @albertbirney.bsky.social's touching/disturbing "Obex" and crypto caper comedy "$POSITIONS" bmoreart.com/2025/10/new-...

New/Next Film Festival Returns to The Charles Theater this Week - BmoreArt

This year’s New/Next Film Festival packs more than 30 feature-length movies, and over three times that many short films across … Continued

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 15d

POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.

Cover of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 15d

My new book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour in SF, LA, Baltimore, DC, NYC, and ATL!

10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse
10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton
10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson
10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson

Police Against the Movement Book Tour

October 7, 2025

City Lights Bookstore

In conversation with Daphne Muse

San Francisco, CA

October 9, 2025

Skylight Books

In conversation with Elizabeth Hinton

Los Angeles, CA

October 16, 2025, 7PM

Red Emma’s

In conversation with Judy Richardson

Baltimore, MD

October 18, 2025

Politics & Prose

In conversation with Judy Richardson

Washington, DC

Police Against the Movement Book Tour

November 6, 2025, 7PM

The Word is Change Bookstore

In conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika

Brooklyn, NY

November 10, 2025, 7PM

Zinn Education Project—Teach the Black Freedom Struggle

Online conversation with Jesse Hagopian

Zinn Education Program

December 2, 2025

Enoch Pratt Central Library, Wheeler Auditorium

In conversation with Jill Carter

Baltimore, MD

December 4, 2025

Acapella Books at the Auburn Avenue Research Library

Atlanta, GA

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 17d

The Friends of Wyman Park Dell get some goats to come through and chew up the overgrowth each year, so I donated to support the cause because that’s fun. If I’d known the “thank you” gift would be such a Black Phillip-inspired shirt, I’d have donated twice to live even more deliciously.

Rad illustration of a goat on an orange shirt. Text says GOATS ON THE SLOPE 2025

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 20d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · 20d

If you're a journalism organization looking to connect with your audiences, lots of ideas here on how to host meaningful events! A big thank you to @niemanlab.org and @speppered.bsky.social for writing about the talk Christiaan and I gave at @lionpubs.bsky.social recent conference.

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 22d

“If there’s an idea here that you like, you are welcome to it, just take it — do it in your town." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

The Current wants other local publishers to steal its event ideas

“We started as an agency thinking of ourselves as feisty investigative journalists, and now we’re just feisty investigative journalists who also produce two events.”

www.niemanlab.org

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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · Aug 14

*gasps in Vandermaniac*

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?

Text from Publishers Marketplace, above: Area X by Jeff VanderMeer Imprint: Abrams. Jeff VanderMeer's Area X: The Southern Reach Files, an expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents, purporting to be the last report of a Central agent; a full-color book spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, pitched for Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sands at Abrams in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

Text submitted to Publishers Marketplace: An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Made this video for my friends in MOWDER OYAL who have a new record out, "Prefigurative Musics." The single is "Imaginary." Happy Bandcamp Friday

mowderoyal.bandcamp.com

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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social · Jul 24

if you have a Canva account, you can turn off the AI use of your material here:
- Allow your general usage to improve AI: toggle off
- Allow your content to improve AI: toggle off
- Allow your sessions to be recorded: toggle off
etc
www.canva.com/settings/pri...

#Canva #AI

www.canva.com

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · Jul 20

The WNBA All-Stars came out wearing warmup shirts that said, "Pay Us What You Owe Us."

The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league.

🔗
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you're LGBTQ+ and you rely on Medicaid for your health care, I'd like to talk with you! I'm grateful for the conversations I've had so far.

I'm writing about how LGBTQ+ Americans are among those who will be disproportionately impacted by the passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill."

Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · Jul 1

If you're trans and you rely on Medicaid for your health care coverage, I'd like to talk to you! I'm on Signal at @orionr.80 — always glad to talk through what it means to do an interview with a reporter and any safety concerns you may have.

Also glad to talk with LGBTQ+ folks in general here

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · Jul 9

Freelancing writers, this is gold:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

FWT Publication Freelance Rates Database

docs.google.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 28

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Jun 28

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s

www.theguardian.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Jun 22

You should honestly acquire a copy of @greenwell.bsky.social's. new book on how private equity is rotting us from the inside out but if you need an incentive, here's a little taste.

How Private Equity Helped Destroy Local News

An excerpt from Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell

www.rollingstone.com

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · Jun 18

Well-known Baltimore arabber shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers
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Well-known Baltimore arabber shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers

Well-known Baltimore arabber Bilal Abdullah was shot by members of the Baltimore Police Department near Penn North around 7:30 yesterday evening and pronounced dead at Shock Trauma at 11:14 p.m. BPD ...

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Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social · Jun 11

Homicides are way down and the clearance rate is rising, but what does it mean that arrests for murder in Baltimore remain stubbornly flat? They've largely stayed the same for two decades. tinyurl.com/4kptm9bz [ By @notrivia
for us and thegarrisonproject.org ]

Baltimore’s homicide clearance rate is rising, but arrests for murder remain stubbornly flat | Baltimore Brew

Murders have steeply declined and the mayor calls Baltimore “the model for violence reduction.” But what does it mean that arrests for murder have largely stayed the same for two decades?

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Jun 5

This year, in the absence of any media outlet or corporation asking me to write about Pride, I challenged myself to write a Pride essay I’d actually want to read. This is what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

Shelter

An autobiography in Pride Months

open.substack.com

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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · May 27

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runningbyrd.bsky.social @runningbyrd.bsky.social · May 27

Looks like it's the H st location, for anyone reading this and wondering.

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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · May 27

DC pals, come see @greenwell.bsky.social at Solid State Books on June 11! Hear her talk about how private equity has ruined great journalism, and many other things. I'll be there!

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · May 27

Two weeks ’til BAD COMPANY publishes! Preorder please? Make plans to come to an event please? bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

MEET MEGAN GREENWELL ON TOUR
BAD
COMPANY
PRIVATE EQUITY AND THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
MEGAN GREENWELL
EAST COAST
TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH - BROOKLYN
POWERHOUSE ARENA - 7PM
with Nicholas Thompson
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11TH - D.C.
SOLID STATE BOOKS - 7PM
with Joel Anderson
WEST COAST
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18TH - LA VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE - 7PM
with Ann Friedman
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH - BERKELEY
MRS. DALLOWAY'S - 7PM
with Mike Isaac
SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH - SEATTLE
TOWN HALL - 7:30PM
with Jay Willis
MONDAY, JUNE 30TH - PORTLAND POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS - 7PM
with Charley Locke

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Rachel Lobdell @rlobdell.bsky.social · May 12

I'm working on a new project about chronic health conditions, and I'd love to hear your perspective if you have received a medical diagnosis, live with a chronic illness, or provide care for someone who does. Just a few questions: forms.gle/yXKUraKbV6z5...

Chronic Illness / Diagnosis Survey

I'm working on a new project about how living with chronic illness or a medical diagnosis impacts your life. I'd appreciate your feedback! —Rachel Lobdell, [email protected]

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · May 7

I have an absurdly specific question and am hoping my savior is here somewhere.

If you
a) have written a book
b) are left-handed

Can you please tell me what kind of pen you used to sign books? I have to sign a bunch soon and am terrified of smearing but want something bolder than ballpoint. :(

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