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Ryan Singel
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All into Indie publishing. Cofounder of Outpost Publishers Cooperative, (outpost.pub), not yet recovered former journalist, Contextly.
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If you are anywhere near Palm Springs next weekend, I'll be at the notoriously fantastic Palm Springs Readers' Festival, hosted by @bestbookstore.bsky.social, on Sunday 2/1. There will be a ton of other amazing authors there too. Hope to see you! Get some books and say hi! bestbookstore.com/festival
The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs
Family-owned bookstore with branches in Palm Springs and San Francisco.
bestbookstore.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
January 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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story in usa today from jan 12 that featured this photo & other great ones- www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...
Federal agents continue surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota
The Trump administration has sent an estimated 2,000 federal agents into the Minneapolis area in a push to arrest undocumented immigrants.
www.usatoday.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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The findings, based on internal ICE material obtained by 404 Media, public records, and testimony from an ICE official, shows what kind of technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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jesus christ, man, trump’s face is drooping and he’s barely conscious, RFK, jr’s hands are so shaky he can barely read his own remarks, whole cabinet’s falling apart
Trump face is drooping and he's fighting wokeness again today
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Changing my Signal handle to Self. Wanna catch those strays
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Bay Area celebrity Andy Peng, who single-handedly picks up tons of trash in Oakland, gets robbed while doing a cleanup.

"I do feel defeated in a way again. As a result, I am planning to hold off on cleanups in Oakland until further notice at this time."

www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/co...
From the bayarea community on Reddit: I got a total of 80 bags of trash from 16th St in Oakland. I also got robbed for the first time - more in the post body.
Explore this post and more from the bayarea community
www.reddit.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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support mothership! ive got a couple pieces on the works and hopefully more in-depth, investigative pieces to come!
January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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HELL YEAH. Bring on the next wave of creator-owned journalism.
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
It's time to board the Mothership.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
January 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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A benefit of having a gazillion little indie news outlets is that we're much more difficult for the administration to suppress. Titans can be felled. A swarm has no weakpoint to target.

Thanks to @mallorycarra.com for telling the story of independent journalism as a tool of resistance in the US.
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Editorial independence requires a publishing technology sovereignty strategy.

What are the links between your writing your story and someone being able to read it, and what are the magnitudes of risk and likelihood of interference?
What's that, Substack say they don't exercise editorial control?

Maybe so. But the product is designed so that they *can*. Media orgs fell for Facebook's lies as a platform, please don't do it again as individuals for Substack.
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency. This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with,” Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director of @aclu.org's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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🍊 What does an orange emoji have to do with a fraud allegation?

According to Dr. Kirk Moore, patients who wanted a fake COVID-19 vaccine card were told to bring an orange to his office and include the emoji on a Venmo donation to an advocacy group.

(Published Dec. 2025 w/ @sltrib.com)
Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that prot...
www.propublica.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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subscribe to 404 Media if you want to see a few people do the news half a year before corporate media reports it
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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ICYMI: Bottom of the Hill, “the first place in SF your favorite band played,” will close at the end of 2026.

Read our exclusive interview with the famed music venue’s owners … and then get to a show. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
Beloved SF Club Bottom of the Hill to Close at the End of 2026
One of the city’s last independent music venues, Bottom of the Hill has survived waves of gentrification, COVID closures, and more throughout its 35 years. Now, owners say it’s last call — on their ow...
www.coyotemedia.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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We've lost funding because of our principled opposition to KOSA and other censorship bills.

We've lost funding because of our solidarity with Palestine and opposition to tech-enabled genocide.

We've lost funding because foundations are scared of Trump.

We need you❤️ www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
December 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org

calmatters.org/investigatio...
December 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Tony Scott: I made the political action thriller Enemy of the State as a cautionary tale...
And unlike other cameras, Flock's Condor PTZ cameras track people. 404 Media saw:

- A woman walking her dog on a bike path
- A man walking through a Macy’s parking lot
- Children at a playground
- A man rollerblading, and a zoom into exactly what he was looking at on his phone
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Creator of athletic director simulator supremely chill about ESPN copying his idea: defector.com/creator-of-a...
Creator Of Athletic Director Simulator Supremely Chill About ESPN Copying His Idea | Defector
Say at least this much for Matt Brown, writer of the college sports-focused Extra Points newsletter: He is a fair-minded guy. You can safely bestow unto him the Ceremonial Scepter of Good Duderdom.…
defector.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.

Here’s how to use it.
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM