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Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and divid

UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.

Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.

This is why we need Medicare for All.

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The average price of a pound of ground beef rose to $6.12 in June, up nearly 12% from a year ago, according to U.S. government data. The average price of all uncooked beef steaks rose 8% to $11.49 per pound. https://tinyurl.com/muauynzs

These pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news Experts from India, Belarus, Nigeria, Mali, Paraguay and the Philippines explain how they are building tools to bridge these language gaps.

Experts from India, Belarus, Nigeria, Mali, Paraguay and the Philippines explain how they are building tools to bridge gaps between newsrooms and audiences to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news.

Read more from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social ⤵️

Letter: Law enforcement officials aren't masked. Why are ICE agents? Letter: No matter what one thinks of the immigration issue, masked or hooded law enforcement officers is not what our country is about.

Former U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, Richard Callahan, "masked or hooded law enforcement officers is not what our country is about." www.stltoday.com/opinion/lett...

LOOKING FOR VIDEO/PHOTO EVIDENCE:
- No Kings protest in Downtown LA/City Hall
- June 14 from 5:43pm-5:49pm (probably on earlier side)
- Spring St near Temple St

There's a line of police at intersection who shoot LLMs, lots of press around. DM me or email pressrights [at] lapressclub [dot] org.

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The death toll in Texas rose to 79 on Sunday afternoon and forecasters warned that downpours would continue in areas already reeling from the deadly floods. Dozens of people remained unaccounted for, including 10 girls from a summer camp on the Guadalupe River. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4knBZ1S

Happy Fourth of July.

Fireworks light up the St. Louis skyline and the Gateway Arch on Thursday, July 3, 2025. #STL More pix here www.stltoday.com/news/multime...

Federal budget megabill would shift billions in cost to Missouri taxpayers Already facing a difficult financial future, the state would have to choose whether to continue services or reduce spending for Medicaid, food aid and other programs.

Federal budget megabill would shift billions in cost to Missouri taxpayers www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social

When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.

I wrote a similar response to a similar argument in a libertarian law pub —just came out!

The arguments are well-trod by this point; my essay responds to a specific provocation.

Look: the structures for discourse are different now. Sensemaking changed. So: we adapt.

lawliberty.org/content-mode...

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home.

We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

Big news! Bravo to the all who stood up for the rights of photographer Anthony Orendorff, arrested Thursday by LAPD.

Still haven't seen video. But prosecutors rejecting charges suggests LAPD held him in jail for 4 days just to punish him for taking photos in public.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Flier for Protest Safety Training, directing people to same URL in post.

For journalists covering protests in Los Angeles, join us for this online safety training on Monday. Colin Pereira, chief strategist on journalist safety for @pressfreedom.bsky.social (CPJ) will lead this session. All welcome, but will have some CA local focus.

tinyurl.com/cpjsafety

12 harmful practices to avoid when covering gun violence Journalists covering gun violence should be aware of these harmful practices and actively avoid engaging in them.

News stories that include graphic content, use episodic framing of individual incidents with little or no context, leave out potential solutions, and rely only or mostly on law enforcement sources instead of impacted community members can cause harm on all three levels, the study determined.

Cover sheet of lawsuit

Here's the lawsuit filed by @lapressclub.bsky.social and @statuscoupnews.bsky.social against LAPD*.

Thank you attorneys who powered through weekend.

This is a first step.

More when there's more...

Full complaint: drive.google.com/file/d/1kOFl...

*Technically City of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief.

Firm buys 700 homes in St. Louis area with unusual offer of ‘easy’ cash “Join the thousands of people who have unlocked their home equity with Truehold,” said one letter sent to homeowners.

Me & @kirkman.bsky.social spent months looking into a new firm called Truehold, now one of the largest real estate investors in #STL.

Its biz model: Buys houses & offers to lease them back to sellers. It's a strategy that's faced scrutiny when used by other firms

www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

Heads up. Please read. The Marines and National Guard shouldn’t be deployed to protests in LA, Texas or anywhere else. But since they are…

Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Legislators targeted by suspect impersonating police

“Authorities are also telling people in the area not to answer their door for a police officer unless it's two officers together, or call 911 to confirm the identity of the officer at your door. FOX 9 confirmed two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight.” www.fox9.com/news/brookly...

"If C2PA is deployed in its current state, it can lead to incredibly serious problems. It would become the start of something with a massive domino effect"

An essential read for those interested in the authenticity and integrity of‬ digital media

LAPD appears to break several laws here (mainly one I helped write) in treatment of CNN. Their discipline process usually goes nowhere, but there's already an internal affairs case open. LAPD officer headshots and info are on this site, helping ID likely suspect: watchthewatchers.net/lapd/cop/312...

The Rapper Silentó Gets 30 Years in Prison for Fatal Shooting of His Cousin The songwriter, whose real name is Ricky Hawk, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and three other charges in relation to the killing.

Silentó, the rapper known for his viral hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges related to the fatal shooting of his cousin.

If an LAPD officer responds this way they are unfit for duty. Maybe they're tired, untrained, incompetent, or their mom died today. Doesn't matter, they need to be removed from field. If I wore a badge, I wouldn't feel safe serving with them. Why tolerate it in their ranks? (I only have theories.)

Deploying troops creates a shit magnet, and now everyone looking to start some shit has a place to focus their energy.

3 years in, Sandy Hook families still wait to collect what Alex Jones owes them The Infowars founder declared bankruptcy after families sued him for defamation and won more than a billion dollars in damages, but Jones has yet to pay them a dime.

The Infowars founder declared bankruptcy after families sued him for defamation and won more than a billion dollars in damages, but Jones has yet to pay them a dime.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist tested AI. What he found troubled him St. Louis Post-Dispatch photojournalist David Carson says some AI images are “clearly a copyright violation.”

STLPR: A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist tested AI. What he found troubled him www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...? @stlpublicradio.bsky.social‬ ‪ ‪@dtowski.bsky.social‬ @pdpj.bsky.social‬ #photojournalism #journalism #photography

New constuction blow out.

How We’re Using AI The rapid development of AI is already changing how journalists operate. Reporters, editors, executives, and others across the news industry share their advice on how to engage—and where to draw the l...

Happy to have contributed to this collection of essays on Artificial Intelligence & journalism published today in the @columjournreview.bsky.social . As a @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow, I studied the impact of AI on photojournalism & building public trust in news photos www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...

What do these 16 journalists working on some of the biggest issues in media have in common? They’re all part of the 2026 JSK Journalism Fellowship. 👏👏 Please help us welcome them to Stanford! buff.ly/8efUD6V