Divide funded? Fully funded.
Re: PTO, we used to not have separate sick, but I think the union negotiated that recently.
Divide funded? Fully funded.
Re: PTO, we used to not have separate sick, but I think the union negotiated that recently.
I don’t go to anything I don’t get divide funded for, but my company doesn’t usually pay.
I don’t have to use PTO, though.
NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.
openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
07.03.2026 21:00 — 👍 7763 🔁 5115 💬 527 📌 1369
🚨Are you at #NICAR26 today? Don't miss the Data Journalism Podcast live recording at 5pm with @propublica.org plus @kleinmatic.bsky.social, @albertocairo.com and me!
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#...
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
me: I don’t have anything on my calendar and idk what to do
my wife, from her job: thats rough im sorry
NEW: A Mississippi bill criminalizing mail-order abortion pills as "drug trafficking" is headed to the Missisisppi governor's desk after passing both the House and Senate.
@heatherharrison.bsky.social reports: www.mississippifreepress.org/bill-crimina...
A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
07.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 731 🔁 405 💬 25 📌 43
Estefany Rodríguez, a Nashville journalist for a Spanish-language outlet, was covering immigration raids. The next day, agents arrested her without a warrant. www.cjr.org/analysis/est...
07.03.2026 16:02 — 👍 19 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0is pillion just a dianese ad
07.03.2026 03:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average
US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way
Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵
news moratorium. dog photos only
07.03.2026 02:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0necessary psa
07.03.2026 01:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
"omg did you see Rotta the Hutt? He's Jabba's son and he is going to fight the Mandalorian and Gr-"
You bolt awake in the hills of Burbank. It is 1976 AD. You are Marcia Lucas, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Star Wars must match George's original vision
Late last year I covered the case of QueerDoc, a small, telehealth gender-affirming care practice that received a subpoena from Trump's DOJ. The subpoena was blocked by a federal judge, but the DOJ appealed, and the 9th Circuit is hearing oral arguments today.
06.03.2026 17:02 — 👍 154 🔁 72 💬 1 📌 7hello, support, i would like to return this item? i do not think i ordered it
06.03.2026 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is pretty interesting, a workshop on how to request banned books by @themarshallproject.org and @muckrock.com's Data Liberation Project
06.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
wh
06.03.2026 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NEW @npr.org: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
But 37 pages of records are still not public.
More:
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
05.03.2026 20:41 — 👍 2841 🔁 1545 💬 89 📌 382
Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive
06.03.2026 01:09 — 👍 1598 🔁 366 💬 27 📌 28
Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
05.03.2026 14:35 — 👍 268 🔁 108 💬 2 📌 3
A reminder that we are adding a new course to the Open Visualization Academy per month. We'll release 'The Craft of Building Stories with Data' by @chartwaali.bsky.social TOMORROW.
(We have 12+ courses at different stages of production!)
#dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
* taps the sign *
As I wrote a few days ago for @votebeat.org (link in next post), restrictions on mail-in ballots are not currently in the SAVE America Act.
(as far as I know, numbers four and five aren't, either, but I didn't write about that)
