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When news organizations decide to engage in advocacy, they’re actually very good at it, said @trevortimm.bsky.social at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social, urging media outlets to speak out on 200+ journalists killed in Gaza.

“The mass killing of journalists … seems like a great place to start.”

Quote card from FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

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A US journalist is on board. The State Dept. should be all over this and it should be headline news.

Neither is likely, because the government considers critics of Israel terrorists and the media often shuns reporters who oppose slaughtering their Palestinian colleagues.

My travel reading companions..

Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days.

His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.

If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.

It’s time to #FreeMario now!

The Trump administration’s relationship with the First Amendment "They’ll take a great story and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally."

Journalist Mario Guevara has been in ICE custody for over 100 days "for doing nothing other than doing his job," @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @npr.org's 1A.

"The administration is using not just the FCC, but other agencies to really go after speech they don't like.”

Your kitchen cabinets are a national security threat The dumbest things the government has done, or hidden, in the name of national security

Your kitchen cabinets? A national security threat.

Your favorite movie? Also a national security threat.

Your favorite cocktail? Possibly a national security threat.

Here’s our current top five list of the dumbest things officials have done, or hidden, ostensibly to protect national security.

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital.

“Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

Excellent, persistent line of questioning.

The answers, on the other hand, spiral from worse to downright absurd.

Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza YouTube video by Columbia Journalism School

🔴 HAPPENING NOW: Join us for a conversation exploring new ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza, co-sponsored by @freedom.press, @columjournreview.bsky.social, and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social’s Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.

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If you are a news outlet and don’t have a reporter on one of the boats that are sailing to break the siege on Gaza, “this is a political decision, not a news decision,” @dropsitenews.com’s Sharif Abdel Koddous says.

(DSN does have a reporter with the flotilla)

Live: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...

Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza YouTube video by Columbia Journalism School

One small thing newsrooms can do is to make it crystal clear in every single story they write that there have been >200 journalists killed in this war and that Israeli authorities are not letting journalists into Gaza, @freedom.press’ @trevortimm.bsky.social says.

Watch live:

Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza YouTube video by Columbia Journalism School

I wish this event happened two years ago, when it started, @lailaalarian.bsky.social says at an event exploring ideas to defend journalists and press freedom in Gaza at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social (co-hosted by @freedom.press and @columjournreview.bsky.social).

Watch live:

Watch this important event live in 3 hours: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...

I will be posting live over at @freedom.press if you wanna follow along.

BREAKING: Last night, an immigration board wrongly issued a final removal order for Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara. ICE has detained Mario for over 100 days for his reporting, despite a previous order that he be released on bond.

This means he could be deported at any moment.

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Trump slams Kimmel's return: "We're going to test ABC out on this" Trump claimed ABC told White House officials that Jimmy Kimmel's show had been canceled.

We hate to say we told you so.

When the Disneys and Paramounts of the world cave to Trump, they open themselves and others up to more ridiculous demands from the government.

Media companies should stand up for the First Amendment to end this vicious cycle.

Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

"If your last name isn’t Murdoch or Sulzberger, the days of family control of publicly traded newspaper companies is over. But as the old model breathes its last, it was able to serve the public interest one final time," @joshuabenton.com writes in @niemanlab.org about DMN shareholders' vote today.

No tariffs on you.

@zeteo.com is really saying it as it is. In its IG compilation of remarks from Trump's catastrophic speech today, the outlet titled it: "Lowlights from Trump's batsh*t crazy UN speech," with sarcastic music in the background.

How more embarrassing can this country get on the international stage?!

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i just laughed so hard help

Alaa is PHYSICALLY FREE!!

His sister Sanaa and his mom were still waiting outside of the prison for him when they got a call from Alaa letting them know that he was already home!

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

On @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver says that FCC Chair Carr's claim that Nexstar and Sinclair are "local broadcasters" responding to their community "values" by not airing Kimmel, is like "describing Coca-Cola as a neighborhood soda shop or Boeing as mom-and-pop plane-crash business." 🤣 🤣 🤣

In a letter to the @bittersouth.bsky.social, journalist Mario Guevara—a legal resident of the U.S. who’s been jailed for 100 days without any pending criminal charges and who’s currently fighting an ICE deportation order—recounts the harrowing details of his detention in an Atlanta federal prison.

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!!

Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

Some news: For the first time ever, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which represents nearly half of the Democratic caucus in the House, has voted to endorse blocking weapons shipments to Israel, multiple sources tell me

Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access

“This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations,” we told @kenbensinger.bsky.social “The government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it’s a secret or even a national security threat.”

After backlash from the FCC, ABC suspended @jimmykimmel.com's show over his comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Listen to @freedom.press Advocacy Director @seth-stern.bsky.social explain on DW News why Trump's censorship of rhetoric he doesn’t like is “un-American and unconstitutional.”