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BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486 @pressfreedom.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime #pressfreedom

Please be safe everyone. Critical to have these alerts @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

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Postcards From Home: Photographs From an Unpublished Book As I approach 40 years of photographing D.C., I’m returning to my archive that shows Washington between the monuments.

Photographer @darrow-m.bsky.social is re-editing his unpublished book as he shares it, finding new ways the photos are in dialogue with each other and the project as a whole. See the latest installment:

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Activists Denounce Plans to Reinstall Confederate Statue in DC The monument of Alfred Pike was the only outdoor statue of a Confederate official in the nation's capital when it was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.

The National Park Service plans to reinstall a statue of Confederate general Alfred Pike that was toppled during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, DC. Pike, who was accused of “scalping and defiling the bodies” of Union troops, reportedly later became involved with the KKK.

Should art be ‘patriotic’? Artist pulls her Smithsonian show, citing censorship. Artist Amy Sherald pulled her show from the National Portrait Gallery, citing efforts to censor her work. The decision comes as the Trump administration has railed against “wokeness” in federally fund...

The Christian Science Monitor article below traces some recent Trump Administration attacks on the arts and discusses Art as a form of resistance. Happy to be included in this piece.

www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...

Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank Awdah Hathleen, a Palestinian activist who helped film 'No Other Land', was allegedly shot in the chest by an Israeli settler

MIDDLE EAST EYE: Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti... @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography

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A day of conversation and connection #whereidomytime #productionstill

A black and white image of Ida B Wells, a black woman wearing a high neck dress, looking off into the distance. The text overlay is a quote from Wells that reads: "The way to right wrongs is to shine the light of truth on them."

Ida B. Wells was an investigative journalist who traveled to lynching sites and places few dared to go. Undeterred by white men who destroyed her presses or threatened her life, she was born a slave and went on to co-found the NAACP.

Happy birthday, Ida. Work to shine the light of truth continues.

Shackled For Days and Weeks: A Federal Report Finds Widespread Abuse in Prisons The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and NPR exposed similar abuses.

A new federal report concludes federal prison officials violated their own rules, shackling prisoners to beds and chairs for hours or even days.

The report comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and NPR exposed similar abuses.

Summertime #lortonprison
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"Love Is the Message": Hofstra Celebrates 50 Years of Jamel Shabazz’s Photography | News | Hofstra University, New York The Hofstra University Museum of Art proudly presents Love Is the Message, honoring 50 years of artistic achievement by Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel

“Love Is the Message”: Hofstra Celebrates 50 Years of Jamel Shabazz’s Photography
news.hofstra.edu/2025/07/11/l...

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

Yes. For the past couple of years I've been saying that the pious John Roberts is the Roger Taney of our day.

I realize now that is unfair to the memory of Roger ("Dred Scott") Taney.

www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...

Vivian Brown’s paintings are bold and unforgettable, check out the first major museum retrospective of her work at the Phillips Collection, “My Kind of Protest.”

The Jailhouse Lawyer is On Sale Today! It Started with a Motion for a Law Book

1. Today is publication day of The Jailhouse Lawyer, a book by friend Calvin Duncan who spent 28 years in prison and my colleague Sophie Cull. It tells Calvin’s story, how he learned the law inside Angola Prison and eventually won cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. www.calvinduncan.com/p/the-jailho...

Why the 4th of July Matters In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality. bit.ly/3TZAdcC

Writer @peterbeinart.bsky.social says Zohran Mamdani's win in the Democratic primary for New York mayor, despite sustained attacks over his pro-Palestinian views, shows how dramatically opinion has shifted within the party on Israel. "It's happening in New York and across the country," says Beinart.

Opinion | The Civil War That Never Ended

The Civil War That Never Ended www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...

Opinion | How Harriet Tubman led Civil War spies — and earned her military honors Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is wrong to consider stripping her name from the USNS Harriet Tubman.

"Harriet Tubman was a civil rights leader, but she was also a military hero who risked her life fighting for freedom, our nation and the perfection of our democracy. She earned the honor of having the USNS Harriet Tubman named after her. It should remain part of her legacy — and ours."

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Graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration.

Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump. It's uncanny.

We need to Declare our Independence from Donald Trump . . .
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries to explain this away.

The FCC just delayed implementation of the provisions of the Martha Wright-Reed Act that dramatically reduced the costs of prison & jail calls. 🚨

The move is wrong both morally and legally. 🧵

www.fcc.gov/document/car...

What Could Have Kept Me Out of Prison We asked people behind bars what services and programs could have changed the course of their lives. Therapy, affordable housing and a living wage topped the list.

Ahead of the 2020 election, we asked people in prison what might have helped keep them from committing the crime that led to their incarceration.

Among their responses were:
• affordable housing
• a stable, well-paying job
• mental health support

Thanks Andy. So important for those outside the mainstream to share their stories.

Hopeful with the data suggesting prison population is now starting to decline #criminaljusticereform
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