Ida Mojadad
@idamoj.bsky.social
🔹meandering journalist + SPJ NorCal veep. 🇮🇷💖🇺🇸
🔹priors: SFGATE, The Frisc, SF Chronicle, SF Standard, SF Examiner, SF Weekly. more @ idamoj.com
🔹priors: SFGATE, The Frisc, SF Chronicle, SF Standard, SF Examiner, SF Weekly. more @ idamoj.com
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Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens reut.rs/49OaSLN
Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens
On Tehran's bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafés where Western music hums softly, and couples stroll hand-in-hand — subtle acts that chip away at the rigid social codes that have long defined the Islamic Republic.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens reut.rs/49OaSLN
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
it is so crazy making to be in a room full of people coughing and you’re the only one masking, not even the people coughing, and it’s treated as completely normal again to just blatantly get each other sick all the time without a care in the world
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
it is so crazy making to be in a room full of people coughing and you’re the only one masking, not even the people coughing, and it’s treated as completely normal again to just blatantly get each other sick all the time without a care in the world
rich for someone who spent their journalism career, in which they did no real reporting, complaining about journalism practices
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
rich for someone who spent their journalism career, in which they did no real reporting, complaining about journalism practices
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November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We are proud to announce we have hired @thefreeradical.org and @davidforbes.bsky.social as our first staff journalists! As a worker-run newsroom, we set wages collectively based on our funds.
Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!
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reminder to editors that if you want to link to a piece of analysis written by a longtime resident of the street where this happened, that is available on @coyotemedia.org right here www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...
In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots
I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?
www.coyotemedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
reminder to editors that if you want to link to a piece of analysis written by a longtime resident of the street where this happened, that is available on @coyotemedia.org right here www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...
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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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It’s ok to be inspired—even, or especially, when shit’s this crazy out there. Let me be clear: I’m not obsessed with optimism, nor do I think it always works out.
But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope.
The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.
But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope.
The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It’s ok to be inspired—even, or especially, when shit’s this crazy out there. Let me be clear: I’m not obsessed with optimism, nor do I think it always works out.
But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope.
The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.
But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope.
The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.
the PBS livestream is showing zohran supporters singing unwritten while they wait for him to talk, amazing
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
the PBS livestream is showing zohran supporters singing unwritten while they wait for him to talk, amazing
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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
all I hear is joyful screaming so yes im in LA and I can say without fact checking the dodgers won
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
all I hear is joyful screaming so yes im in LA and I can say without fact checking the dodgers won
Proud to share that I've notched SPJ NorCal's award for education reporting (print/online) two years in a row, this time for my work with @thefrisc.bsky.social! Congrats to all the winners and hope to see you all at the ceremony in a couple weeks spjnorcal.org/2025/10/30/s...
SPJ NorCal Honors 2025 Excellence in Journalism Award Winners « SPJ NorCal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Proud to share that I've notched SPJ NorCal's award for education reporting (print/online) two years in a row, this time for my work with @thefrisc.bsky.social! Congrats to all the winners and hope to see you all at the ceremony in a couple weeks spjnorcal.org/2025/10/30/s...
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Trump says "surge" operation of federal agents in San Francisco is paused following phone call with SF Mayor Lurie and some tech titans.
Unclear what this means for Oakland and other Bay Area communities. Little is known about the DHS operation Trump ordered.
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
Unclear what this means for Oakland and other Bay Area communities. Little is known about the DHS operation Trump ordered.
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
Trump says federal agents 'will not surge San Francisco'
In a Truth Social post, the president said calls with San Francisco’s mayor and some tech titans convinced him to wait, for now.
oaklandside.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump says "surge" operation of federal agents in San Francisco is paused following phone call with SF Mayor Lurie and some tech titans.
Unclear what this means for Oakland and other Bay Area communities. Little is known about the DHS operation Trump ordered.
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
Unclear what this means for Oakland and other Bay Area communities. Little is known about the DHS operation Trump ordered.
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
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My @sfchronicle.com are already at Coast Guard Island, where feds are already clashing with protesters, per @sarahravani.bsky.social, and where law enforcement already shot off flashbangs at protesters blocking the roads to the island
🚨🚨🚨 If you have tips, get at me in the DMs.
🚨🚨🚨 If you have tips, get at me in the DMs.
🧵Good morning. Yesterday, we confirmed that the Trump administration was sending 100+ agents to the Bay Area in yet another immigration crackdown.
Here's what we know: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Here's what we know: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Immigration crackdown in the S.F. Bay Area: Here’s everything we know right now
When will federal immigration agents arrive and where will they go? Will ICE play a role? As the impending operation jolts the Bay Area to action, here’s what we know — and what's not yet clear.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My @sfchronicle.com are already at Coast Guard Island, where feds are already clashing with protesters, per @sarahravani.bsky.social, and where law enforcement already shot off flashbangs at protesters blocking the roads to the island
🚨🚨🚨 If you have tips, get at me in the DMs.
🚨🚨🚨 If you have tips, get at me in the DMs.
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If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
SFILEN
San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
sfilen.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
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They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
kinda shocked at the unity from news organizations here. newsmax and the washington times are also not signing off on the new, brazenly illegal rules placed on reporters by the Pentagon www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
US news outlets say they will not agree to Pentagon reporting restrictions
Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.
www.aljazeera.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
kinda shocked at the unity from news organizations here. newsmax and the washington times are also not signing off on the new, brazenly illegal rules placed on reporters by the Pentagon www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
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in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
October 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
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Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.
I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.
I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.
I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.
I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.
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Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
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We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
October 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
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🧑🏽🏫 NEW, TEACHER MATH: SFUSD said nearly 95% of classes were staffed the 1st day of school. It meant schools could finally hire *extra* staff, like teachers who support kids 1-on-1 with reading & math. But principals say there’s a snag. @idamoj.bsky.social reports ✏️
SFUSD Has Teachers In Nearly Every Classroom. There’s An Extra Benefit Too
After years of staff shortages, the milestone unlocks more money during a budget crisis. It’s good news, but there are big caveats.
thefrisc.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🧑🏽🏫 NEW, TEACHER MATH: SFUSD said nearly 95% of classes were staffed the 1st day of school. It meant schools could finally hire *extra* staff, like teachers who support kids 1-on-1 with reading & math. But principals say there’s a snag. @idamoj.bsky.social reports ✏️
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COMING SOON: Did you know there's now a searchable database of California police misconduct records? Join us and the California Reporting Project's for a special training on how to harness this tool
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How To Report With The Police Records Access Project Database
Training on searchable database of California police use-of-force and misconduct records
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September 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
COMING SOON: Did you know there's now a searchable database of California police misconduct records? Join us and the California Reporting Project's for a special training on how to harness this tool
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