Cengiz Yar
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Bringing My Photobook Back To Iraq
YouTube video by Cengiz Yar
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In October I brought 500 copies of my photobook back to Iraq and distributed them in Mosul. Filmmaker Savva Svet documented that journey and made this short film.
“Yes, Epstein was a heinous pedophile and convicted sex offender. Also, the internet is awash in fake, traumatizing slop that’s being used to score points in an ongoing information war. Happy holidays” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Epstein Files Only Get Worse
America is in for a confusing, troubling holiday.
www.theatlantic.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Yes, Epstein was a heinous pedophile and convicted sex offender. Also, the internet is awash in fake, traumatizing slop that’s being used to score points in an ongoing information war. Happy holidays” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
always love Booooooom's yearly wrap-up www.booooooom.com/2025/12/22/f...
Fav Photos Found in 2025: 50 Photos by 50 Photographers
A look back at the most memorable images from the past 12 months to celebrate the range of talent we uncovered this year!
www.booooooom.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
always love Booooooom's yearly wrap-up www.booooooom.com/2025/12/22/f...
"The agency’s inventory has ballooned to more than 450 drones, and nearly 400 employees are trained to remotely operate them, according to DPS records obtained by the @texasobserver.org. DPS says the fleet is valued at around $3.7 million." www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-dr...
Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet
The Department of Public Safety has acquired an army of unmanned aerial vehicles—nearly as large as the U.S. Border Patrol's.
www.texasobserver.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"The agency’s inventory has ballooned to more than 450 drones, and nearly 400 employees are trained to remotely operate them, according to DPS records obtained by the @texasobserver.org. DPS says the fleet is valued at around $3.7 million." www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-dr...
5 years ago @gingerthompson.bsky.social went to Albany, Ga. to write about Covid-19 for @propublica.org, but she soon realized there was a bigger story to be told, one about our health care system and those who benefits from its growth. projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...
Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
5 years ago @gingerthompson.bsky.social went to Albany, Ga. to write about Covid-19 for @propublica.org, but she soon realized there was a bigger story to be told, one about our health care system and those who benefits from its growth. projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Powerful report from photojournalist Ivor Prickett in Chad www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...
Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Powerful report from photojournalist Ivor Prickett in Chad www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...
The Northman has such brilliant cinematography
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The Northman has such brilliant cinematography
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy." defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
defector.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy." defector.com/two-nights-p...
"This is a classic case of being able to drink the local paper’s milkshake, partly because your threshold for meaningful revenue is lower than that of a big business or even a full-blown staffed indie news site." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"This is a classic case of being able to drink the local paper’s milkshake, partly because your threshold for meaningful revenue is lower than that of a big business or even a full-blown staffed indie news site." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
WSJ put together a brilliant ad for Anthropic www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
WSJ put together a brilliant ad for Anthropic www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This young soccer squad has never faced a rival like Donald Trump
Winning is substantially more challenging with ICE running interference.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did it anyway.
So @propublica.org's @annamaria.bsky.social Brett Murphy & @peterdicampo.bsky.social traveled to South Sudan to see the results.
They found shuttered health clinics and death.
So @propublica.org's @annamaria.bsky.social Brett Murphy & @peterdicampo.bsky.social traveled to South Sudan to see the results.
They found shuttered health clinics and death.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did it anyway.
So @propublica.org's @annamaria.bsky.social Brett Murphy & @peterdicampo.bsky.social traveled to South Sudan to see the results.
They found shuttered health clinics and death.
So @propublica.org's @annamaria.bsky.social Brett Murphy & @peterdicampo.bsky.social traveled to South Sudan to see the results.
They found shuttered health clinics and death.
ProPublica is hiring a copy editor!
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job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
ProPublica is hiring a copy editor!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Utah's fight over solar is more complicated than you think.
@anjeanette-damon.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org
@anjeanette-damon.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org
Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply
Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the...
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Utah's fight over solar is more complicated than you think.
@anjeanette-damon.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org
@anjeanette-damon.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org
"This generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment. They’re taking advantage of an ecosystem uniquely susceptible to fraud..."
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"This generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment. They’re taking advantage of an ecosystem uniquely susceptible to fraud..."
"All of these companies still dominate their categories. Degrading the user experience isn’t costing them. The motivating belief that these companies had to optimize, or else they would be out-competed, no longer drives Silicon Valley behavior. Optimization was an era. That era has ended."
The end of optimization
Some thoughts on a transition point in recent internet history,
davekarpf.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"All of these companies still dominate their categories. Degrading the user experience isn’t costing them. The motivating belief that these companies had to optimize, or else they would be out-competed, no longer drives Silicon Valley behavior. Optimization was an era. That era has ended."
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has endorsed a book that claims chlorine dioxide—a disinfectant and deodorizer—has therapeutic powers. @megomatz.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ron-...
Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It i...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has endorsed a book that claims chlorine dioxide—a disinfectant and deodorizer—has therapeutic powers. @megomatz.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ron-...
The @tulsaflyer.bsky.social and Oklahoma Eagle are hiring a visual journalist in Tulsa. tulsaflyer.org/visual-journ...
Visual Journalist
The Tulsa Flyer and Oklahoma Eagle are looking for a creative, experienced visual journalist to tell Tulsa’s stories in vibrant, smart ways. You should be a visual storyteller, able to work in both st...
tulsaflyer.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The @tulsaflyer.bsky.social and Oklahoma Eagle are hiring a visual journalist in Tulsa. tulsaflyer.org/visual-journ...
“They’re basically getting away with it and terrorizing the community. What else are they going to do? It makes me very scared about what’s going to come next.”
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“They’re basically getting away with it and terrorizing the community. What else are they going to do? It makes me very scared about what’s going to come next.”
In October I brought 500 copies of my photobook back to Iraq and distributed them in Mosul. Filmmaker Savva Svet documented that journey and made this short film.
Bringing My Photobook Back To Iraq
YouTube video by Cengiz Yar
m.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
In October I brought 500 copies of my photobook back to Iraq and distributed them in Mosul. Filmmaker Savva Svet documented that journey and made this short film.
“I saw this video of a girl eating sand in Gaza, and I was like, ‘I would do anything if I could just wash a little bit of this off of me.’”
Austin Koenigstein to @imleor.bsky.social on pulling their music from Spotify chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
Austin Koenigstein to @imleor.bsky.social on pulling their music from Spotify chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
Time to dump Spotify - Chicago Reader
Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus from the platform.
chicagoreader.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“I saw this video of a girl eating sand in Gaza, and I was like, ‘I would do anything if I could just wash a little bit of this off of me.’”
Austin Koenigstein to @imleor.bsky.social on pulling their music from Spotify chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
Austin Koenigstein to @imleor.bsky.social on pulling their music from Spotify chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
"I found a country that was still coming to grips with the collective nightmare and grief of its civil war."
- photographer Victor Blue
- photographer Victor Blue
Grievous Country, by Victor J. Blue
Photographs from Syria
harpers.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"I found a country that was still coming to grips with the collective nightmare and grief of its civil war."
- photographer Victor Blue
- photographer Victor Blue
Reuters is hiring a photojournalist for their DC desk to cover the White House, Capitol Hill, U.S. politics, and government affairs.
Senior Photographer (Level 1 Journalist) in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America | News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters
Apply for Senior Photographer (Level 1 Journalist) job with Thomson Reuters in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters
careers.thomsonreuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reuters is hiring a photojournalist for their DC desk to cover the White House, Capitol Hill, U.S. politics, and government affairs.
A new congressional investigation prompted by @nicolefoy.bsky.social's @propublica.org reporting finds that immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A new congressional investigation prompted by @nicolefoy.bsky.social's @propublica.org reporting finds that immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
"Trump hung up on a @propublica.org reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 🥲 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Trump hung up on a @propublica.org reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 🥲 www.propublica.org/article/trum...