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We're prob not gonna hit our goal before we end the GoFundMe later today... but we are close to hitting $10K! If you could help us get the rest of the $450 or so toward that amount, it'd be rad.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Marianne Dhenin Journalist, historian, writer.

This is your intermittent reminder that I have a newsletter, and my Bluesky followers can get an annual subscription at a discounted rate. Your support helps me keep my footing in this unstable media landscape, and it means so much!

Here's that discount link: newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/bluesky.

it's perfect.

Independent Journalism Atlas A comprehensive directory of independent journalists and creators, mapping the new landscape of independent journalism worldwide.

Saw this project posted on LinkedIn, feel like a lot of folks here would find this useful. A database of independent journalists, searchable by topic/platform, and looks like there’s also a form to submit nominations. Cool stuff journalismatlas.com

Go birds

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows "We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.

50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

SOURCE REQUEST: I'm looking to talk to independent journalists on Substack who are based outside of the United States! This is for a @niemanlab.org story.

Send me your favorites and recs, and RT for reach! 🙏🏼

From the FigureSkating community on Reddit: Posting the CBC video here because everyone deserves to see this and hear Carol, Kurt, and Brenda’s heartwarming commentary. Explore this post and more from the FigureSkating community

The NBC version is on YouTube, but if you want to cry even more, I'd recommend watching the CBC version where one of their coaches, Carol Lane, is commentating. www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkat...

What a stunning program. I began to cry halfway through it. They should have won the free dance with this.

"We're able to do this work, finding and bringing you stories that aren’t reported elsewhere, because of our stellar team of journalists across the country who are energized to unearth them. Thanks to their work, we’ve published critical reporting from all over since 2022: I’m proud to say Bolts has produced meaningful stories devoted to all 50 states. Just over the last year, we’ve covered the prosecution of an American Samoan community in Alaska, threats to voting rights in North Dakota, jail deaths in Texas, a state supreme court in Hawaii pushing back against the erosion of civil rights, immigration enforcement in California’s East Bay, the construction of a mega prison in Arkansas, an embattled sheriff’s office in downstate Illinois—plus much, much more."

The email we sent out today celebrating our 4th birthday at @boltsmag.org ! 🎂🎂🎂🎂

mailchi.mp/boltsmag/fou...

As I wrote later on: "Thank you for trusting us and reading us. It blows my mind every day that there are so many of you—and today your support feels very special indeed."

RSVP: How to Protect Your Devices From Government Raids Join us for a live training on how to protect your devices from government raids, brought to you by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund. Digital security specialist Robert Flummerfelt will…

Journalists: On Monday, digital security specialist Robert Flummerfelt will discuss critical countermeasures that ensure sensitive data is encrypted, hidden, and inaccessible in the event that your devices are seized.

If god wanted me to go outside he would have made outside habitable

having identical reactions to people when they say they use chatgpt for something as when they say that they ate at jersey mike's or a subway... i'm not religious but you're aware you only have the one human soul, right. why are you feeding it into a paper shredder

The closest example I have is that I had mutual LinkedIn connections with Luigi Mangione.

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What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector Today is Dan McQuade’s funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Dan’s widow Jan,...

Dan McQuade, a legend: defector.com/what-we-love...

This is how I learned she went to Penn.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The ProPublica Guild is Ready to Strike for a Fair Contract — ProPublica Guild The ProPublica Guild is prepared to strike. We have shown up and compromised at the bargaining table for more than two years, but our newsroom’s management has slow-walked negotiations , offering w...

1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @propublica.org agrees to a fair contract.
www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...

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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

The Washington Post Guild just set up a GoFundMe.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need A new season of what haters have called a "capitalist-hating, Trump-hating, NFL protest-loving group of far-Left women."

Some **PERSONAL NEWS** as the go-getters say.

@burnitalldownpod.com has been on a hiatus for a couple of years. We are SO READY to return, but need your help because we don't have backing by a corporation, and need this to be sustainable.

Enter Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

tcij.org Climate Investigations Training Scholarship 2026

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These @tcij.org scholarships aim to upskill investigative techniques for in-depth climate investigations.

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this tracks with the immediate flashback I got to monster lines for The Met McQueen exhibit like a decade and change ago

MONA Fellowship Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy (MONA) A Partnership between Ocean Nexus and Metcalf Institute Program Overview: The Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy (MONA) is a fellowship program for journalists created by O...

You can still apply to the 2026 Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy Fellowship, which explores how our relationship with the ocean is intertwined with systemic inequities. The new deadline for applications is 02/08 at 11:59 PM. uprootproject.org/mona-fellows...

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.