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RELEASE: STANDING UP TO PROTECT JOURNALISM FROM AI SLOP | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA On the heels of a ground-breaking arbitration win at POLITICO, NewsGuild-CWA members launch national campaign and week of action on AI.

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom.

Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5.

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DHS Terminates Temporary Protections for Immigrants from Myanmar The Department of Homeland Security is pulling temporary immigration protections for several thousand nationals of Myanmar, the agency announced.

Nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar will lose Temporary Protected Status in January, the Department of Homeland Security said today.

KC and the Sunshine Band’s hits #1 with “That’s the Way (I Like It)” — 50 years ago today.

“People always thought [the track] was some kind of crazy accident, like we just stumbled onto a hook,” said Harry Wayne Casey. “But we worked that groove over and over until it felt like a living thing.”

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...

Nearly a 1,000 people have signed the
@condeunion.bsky.social and @newyorkerunion.bsky.social
petition to reinstate the Fired Four and reverse the suspensions. JOIN US in standing up for workers' rights and tell Conde Nast that union-busting is DISGUSTING actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

NYC Mayoral Election Live Updates: Turnout Hits 2 Million Voters A hotly contested race among Zohran Mamdani, Andrew M. Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa inspired voter participation not seen in half a century.

In New York City, two million voters have now cast ballots in the mayor’s race, the most voters since 1969, according to the city’s Board of Elections.

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Two voting stickers; one says Manhattan votes early and the other is the Halloween voter sticker with a pigeon in a witch’s hat on it

Halloween voting is the best voting

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This Halloween, a reminder that a great way to scare those abusing their power is to reach out to us on Signal: 917-512-0201.

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Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play.

(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)

Experts say that some effects of starvation in Gaza can be permanent. And for the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza

Not their first gay rodeo: Celebrating 50 years of queer cowfolks Contestants and line dancers traveled from across the country to the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Reno, Nevada, to celebrate a half-century of gay rodeo.

This past weekend, I went to the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Reno, which celebrated 50 years of gay rodeo.

I grew up doing rodeo as a teen and felt like I'd never be able to go back because I came out as trans. This story felt like a homecoming.

For @nbcnews.com:

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.

Jennifer Gonnerman investigates the unfolding crisis in New York state prisons, speaking to incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated activists, and striking corrections officers.

Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company

Inside a tumultuous summer at xAI, in which Elon Musk's demands to make Grok less "woke" and more viral led to chaos: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.

Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

If New Orleans don’t make a bounce version of it, your song is not a hit.

NYC Immigration Arrests Just Shot Through the Roof, New Data Shows Newly obtained federal records offer the clearest picture yet of how aggressively the Trump administration has pursued its mass deportation agenda — with a sixfold increase in arrests in early June.

Read the full article on #NYC #ICE arrests at @thecity.nyc: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

Thanks to the Deportation Data Project (deportationdata.org) for filing the FOIA requests and doing the work to compile the data for news media.

"We just watched a watershed moment in New York City history."

@michaellangenyc.bsky.social on our livestream just now

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

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“Truth is mighty and will prevail”– Ida B. Wells | Timeless Ida B. Wells, one of the most influential investigative journalists in American history, is remembered in this post as a fearless truth-teller.

on this day in 1892: white Memphians destroyed the printing press and offices of the newspaper owned and operated by Ida B. Wells, a threat meant to stop her from reporting on lynching. They failed.

Hi, I think you should read THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson.

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young men would attract more women if they wore the right type of shorts

Tonight’s Zohran Mamdani rally isn’t a fundraiser, but a way to energize the base and get supporters volunteering, the campaign says. They’re handing out bandanas with a print of NY icons (pigeons, Metrocards, etc.) that are already all over Brooklyn Steel in East Williamsburg.