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It was supposed to be a calm day in Gaza, with the ceasefire in effect. Then, a thunderous sound shattered the silence. The targeted homes belonged to the Abu Shawish family—my family, writes Ahmad Abushawish.
“What meaning does a ceasefire hold when one side continues to violate it?”
“What meaning does a ceasefire hold when one side continues to violate it?”
Israel is still killing Palestinians, including 14 of my relatives
Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members
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December 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It was supposed to be a calm day in Gaza, with the ceasefire in effect. Then, a thunderous sound shattered the silence. The targeted homes belonged to the Abu Shawish family—my family, writes Ahmad Abushawish.
“What meaning does a ceasefire hold when one side continues to violate it?”
“What meaning does a ceasefire hold when one side continues to violate it?”
At Prism, our staff, journalists, freelancers, and partners come from the communities that we’re reporting on. This means that as fascism violently attacks our communities at home, we show up to work. As we prepare for the year ahead, donate now to support movement journalism:
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December 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
At Prism, our staff, journalists, freelancers, and partners come from the communities that we’re reporting on. This means that as fascism violently attacks our communities at home, we show up to work. As we prepare for the year ahead, donate now to support movement journalism:
We are so proud of the work we’ve done this year, & that includes you & the work we’ve done together—there is no movement without you. We’d like to take a moment to wish you a gentle holiday season. We hope you have a soft place to land, whether in community or in your home, wherever that may be. 🖤
December 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We are so proud of the work we’ve done this year, & that includes you & the work we’ve done together—there is no movement without you. We’d like to take a moment to wish you a gentle holiday season. We hope you have a soft place to land, whether in community or in your home, wherever that may be. 🖤
Venezuelan migrants attempting to seek asylum in the U.S. return home to conditions worse than what they fled, Liliana Frankel & Cecilia Rangel López report. Mexico has become a reluctant receiving country for asylum-seekers to the U.S., including thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
Venezuelan migrants return home to conditions worse than what they fled
Mexico has become a reluctant receiving country for asylum-seekers to the U.S., including thousands of Venezuelan migrants
prismreports.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Venezuelan migrants attempting to seek asylum in the U.S. return home to conditions worse than what they fled, Liliana Frankel & Cecilia Rangel López report. Mexico has become a reluctant receiving country for asylum-seekers to the U.S., including thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
From today until Jan. 4, Prism will be closed for Winter Break. This rest will fortify us for the year ahead; our experiences as people of color & other marginalized identities are inextricably linked to our ability to produce rigorous, accurate journalism in service of collective liberation.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From today until Jan. 4, Prism will be closed for Winter Break. This rest will fortify us for the year ahead; our experiences as people of color & other marginalized identities are inextricably linked to our ability to produce rigorous, accurate journalism in service of collective liberation.
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“Our working conditions at PushBlack are a devastating predicament to confront. This is why we must say to our donors, partners, and community members in no uncertain terms: The PushBlack you support is being hollowed out.” prismreports.org/2025/12/15/p...
PushBlack is abandoning its workers—and its values
Union workers at PushBlack, one of the nation’s few Black-led nonprofit media organizations, laid off six of its workers on Dec. 15
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December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“Our working conditions at PushBlack are a devastating predicament to confront. This is why we must say to our donors, partners, and community members in no uncertain terms: The PushBlack you support is being hollowed out.” prismreports.org/2025/12/15/p...
“We just want to put food on the table,” said A-Long, a vendor. “We sell things that regular people need at affordable prices. We aren’t hurting anyone. It’s a social good.”
Flushing’s migrant workers find themselves in the crosshairs of Mayor Eric Adams & President Donald Trump, Demi Guo reports.
Flushing’s migrant workers find themselves in the crosshairs of Mayor Eric Adams & President Donald Trump, Demi Guo reports.
Flushing's migrant workers find themselves in the crosshairs of NYC Mayor Eric Adams and President Donald Trump
A recent ICE raid revealed the rock and the hard place that New York City's Chinese laborers are stuck between
prismreports.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“We just want to put food on the table,” said A-Long, a vendor. “We sell things that regular people need at affordable prices. We aren’t hurting anyone. It’s a social good.”
Flushing’s migrant workers find themselves in the crosshairs of Mayor Eric Adams & President Donald Trump, Demi Guo reports.
Flushing’s migrant workers find themselves in the crosshairs of Mayor Eric Adams & President Donald Trump, Demi Guo reports.
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In all of these decisions, journalistic ethics explicitly prioritize the needs and comfort of the vulnerable over the powerful. The United States government has a whole team of people who are paid to promote its agenda. A guy who was sent to a torture prison has, at best, a lawyer and a translator.
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In all of these decisions, journalistic ethics explicitly prioritize the needs and comfort of the vulnerable over the powerful. The United States government has a whole team of people who are paid to promote its agenda. A guy who was sent to a torture prison has, at best, a lawyer and a translator.
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Newsroom leaders' top-down control over what gets published is nothing new. @laubast.bsky.social prev. investigated how newsrooms killed stories on Israel's genocide in Gaza. “The way they killed my material was violent to me … emotionally triggering & unethical," said photojournalist Eman Mohammed.
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Newsroom leaders' top-down control over what gets published is nothing new. @laubast.bsky.social prev. investigated how newsrooms killed stories on Israel's genocide in Gaza. “The way they killed my material was violent to me … emotionally triggering & unethical," said photojournalist Eman Mohammed.
“At midnight, we woke up to my mother telling my sister, ‘Wake up, your mattress is filled with water.’”
More than a dozen people were killed after Storm Byron swept through, flooding tents & collapsing walls of homes already damaged by Israeli bombs, Nadera Mushtha reports.
More than a dozen people were killed after Storm Byron swept through, flooding tents & collapsing walls of homes already damaged by Israeli bombs, Nadera Mushtha reports.
Deadly storm creates yet another bitter struggle in Gaza
More than a dozen people were killed after Storm Byron swept through, flooding tents and collapsing walls of homes already damaged by Israeli bombs
prismreports.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“At midnight, we woke up to my mother telling my sister, ‘Wake up, your mattress is filled with water.’”
More than a dozen people were killed after Storm Byron swept through, flooding tents & collapsing walls of homes already damaged by Israeli bombs, Nadera Mushtha reports.
More than a dozen people were killed after Storm Byron swept through, flooding tents & collapsing walls of homes already damaged by Israeli bombs, Nadera Mushtha reports.
Thanks to reader support, we’ve gotten to partner w/ @zinnedproject.bsky.social, Visualizing Palestine, @debtcollective.bsky.social, & Futuro Media/Latino USA, pooling resources & expertise for long-term investigations. This is the magic of coalition—together, we’re greater than the sum of our parts
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December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thanks to reader support, we’ve gotten to partner w/ @zinnedproject.bsky.social, Visualizing Palestine, @debtcollective.bsky.social, & Futuro Media/Latino USA, pooling resources & expertise for long-term investigations. This is the magic of coalition—together, we’re greater than the sum of our parts
Xinachtli’s treatment highlights the core of prisons’ treatment of political activists, organizers said: Ensure the cause they fought for dies with them.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
Protest calls for better treatment of Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli
Xinachtli, an activist imprisoned for over two decades, did not receive proper health care after a bad fall in the shower, activists say
prismreports.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Xinachtli’s treatment highlights the core of prisons’ treatment of political activists, organizers said: Ensure the cause they fought for dies with them.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
In the midst of an economic downturn & wide-ranging, McCarthyist political attacks on Black history, union-busting at a leading Black media org threatens workers’ ability to fight for Black liberation.
“We ask that you stand with us,” write members of the PushBlack Workers United in an op-ed.
“We ask that you stand with us,” write members of the PushBlack Workers United in an op-ed.
PushBlack is abandoning its workers—and its values
Union workers at PushBlack, one of the nation’s few Black-led nonprofit media organizations, laid off six of its workers on Dec. 15
prismreports.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In the midst of an economic downturn & wide-ranging, McCarthyist political attacks on Black history, union-busting at a leading Black media org threatens workers’ ability to fight for Black liberation.
“We ask that you stand with us,” write members of the PushBlack Workers United in an op-ed.
“We ask that you stand with us,” write members of the PushBlack Workers United in an op-ed.
When a youth is killed, the league goes out to the home of the mother, where the women sit and get to know each other. “They were my source of strength, and I still go out with them,” Darwish said of the league, where her role has now changed from needing consoling to doing to the consoling.
Mothers in the West Bank risk their lives to meet and grieve their children together
The Mothers of Martyrs and Prisoners League helps women find the strength to continue their lives after Israel’s targeting of young Palestinians
prismreports.org
December 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When a youth is killed, the league goes out to the home of the mother, where the women sit and get to know each other. “They were my source of strength, and I still go out with them,” Darwish said of the league, where her role has now changed from needing consoling to doing to the consoling.
Since the Canal Street raid, rumors and unease over potential ICE sightings and enforcement operations have become common in Flushing. “These street vendors don’t earn much money to begin with, and with all this happening every few days, they’re constantly on edge,” A-Long told Prism.
Flushing’s migrant workers find themselves in the crosshairs of NYC Mayor Eric Adams and President Donald Trump
A recent ICE raid revealed the rock and the hard place that New York City’s Chinese laborers are stuck between
prismreports.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Since the Canal Street raid, rumors and unease over potential ICE sightings and enforcement operations have become common in Flushing. “These street vendors don’t earn much money to begin with, and with all this happening every few days, they’re constantly on edge,” A-Long told Prism.
According to Human Rights Watch, refugee applications and migrant apprehensions in Mexico rose dramatically during the Biden administration. And—like Trump before him—Biden severely restricted access to asylum at the southern border.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/venezuelan-migrants-mexico/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/venezuelan-migrants-mexico/
Venezuelan migrants return home to conditions worse than what they fled
Mexico has become a reluctant receiving country for asylum-seekers to the U.S., including thousands of Venezuelan migrants
prismreports.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
According to Human Rights Watch, refugee applications and migrant apprehensions in Mexico rose dramatically during the Biden administration. And—like Trump before him—Biden severely restricted access to asylum at the southern border.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/venezuelan-migrants-mexico/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/venezuelan-migrants-mexico/
Eviction can lead to a host of broader problems, including mental/physical health challenges, less access to education & employment opportunities, & higher probability of remaining in cycles of poverty. Tonya Abari reports on the organizers helping SC residents facing economic hardship:
“The system is unstable, not us”: How South Carolina evictions harm Black mothers
The state has one of the highest eviction rates in the U.S., and Black women and children are disproportionately the target
prismreports.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Eviction can lead to a host of broader problems, including mental/physical health challenges, less access to education & employment opportunities, & higher probability of remaining in cycles of poverty. Tonya Abari reports on the organizers helping SC residents facing economic hardship:
The stakes aren’t getting any lower; the education system is being deliberately targeted by those who view empowered and informed youth as an existential threat to the status quo. Our readers, donors, & monthly members enable us to report on what is happing to and in our classrooms:
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December 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The stakes aren’t getting any lower; the education system is being deliberately targeted by those who view empowered and informed youth as an existential threat to the status quo. Our readers, donors, & monthly members enable us to report on what is happing to and in our classrooms:
For mothers bearing unfathomable pain, the league has given comfort in the most difficult of times, a space to find hope and strength to continue living. Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand reports on the Mothers of Martyrs and Prisoners League helping bereaved Palestinian women after unimaginable loss:
Mothers in the West Bank risk their lives to meet and grieve their children together
The Mothers of Martyrs and Prisoners League helps women find the strength to continue their lives after Israel’s targeting of young Palestinians
prismreports.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
For mothers bearing unfathomable pain, the league has given comfort in the most difficult of times, a space to find hope and strength to continue living. Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand reports on the Mothers of Martyrs and Prisoners League helping bereaved Palestinian women after unimaginable loss:
“The employers control the entire system. These programs are supposed to have these safeguards in place for workers, but we’re seeing a pretty significant erosion.”
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
Trump's H-2 visa overhaul legislates indentured servitude, critics say
Low-wage migrant workers in agriculture and other dangerous industries are more vulnerable than ever as lawmakers push to further erode workers' rights
prismreports.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“The employers control the entire system. These programs are supposed to have these safeguards in place for workers, but we’re seeing a pretty significant erosion.”
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Without educators & reporters sharing what is happening to, and in, our schools, bad actors are left free to rob our students’ future to pay for an unequal & inhospitable present. Your donations and support make partnerships with groups like last year's with @zinnedproject.bsky.social possible!
Support independent, nonprofit news led by journalists of color.
Join Prism's community of justice seekers and truth-tellers, building collective power through journalism. Understanding the full story has never mattered more.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Without educators & reporters sharing what is happening to, and in, our schools, bad actors are left free to rob our students’ future to pay for an unequal & inhospitable present. Your donations and support make partnerships with groups like last year's with @zinnedproject.bsky.social possible!
Ceasefires are fragile political phrases, and only exist on paper. In reality, Palestinian families continue to be erased in moments justified by vague and unverified “security concerns.”
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
Israel is still killing Palestinians, including 14 of my relatives
Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members
prismreports.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ceasefires are fragile political phrases, and only exist on paper. In reality, Palestinian families continue to be erased in moments justified by vague and unverified “security concerns.”
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
Protesters gathered outside of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s mansion on Dec. 13, calling for better access to health care for incarcerated Chicano activist Xinachtli and other political prisoners.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
Protest calls for better treatment of Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli
Xinachtli, an activist imprisoned for over two decades, did not receive proper health care after a bad fall in the shower, activists say
prismreports.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Protesters gathered outside of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s mansion on Dec. 13, calling for better access to health care for incarcerated Chicano activist Xinachtli and other political prisoners.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/