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co-director at @objectivejournos.bsky.social, prev podcastbian @thesicktimes.org • (they/them) https://objectivejournalism.org/

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Filipino American Health Care Workers Are Taking Their Legacy of Fighting for Freedom to Trump Caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. to the modern-day fight against Trump.

Education and health care are some of the largest sources of overseas Filipina workers, and they wield power differently. “When those women workers strike, the facilities can't work without them,” said organizer Jollene Levid. “Filipino women have been instrumental in these types of labor fights.”

16.02.2026 13:40 👍 97 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 2
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Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows "We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.

50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

13.02.2026 22:48 👍 407 🔁 260 💬 10 📌 22
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Sustain The Xylom! Support The Xylom's independent reporting by making a monthly recurring donation!

Every month, we have a goal of gaining 15 new members, which covers the costs of commissioning five new stories!

Support the only Asian American-run news outlet covering health, climate, and the environment, starting at $2/month:

04.02.2026 14:38 👍 67 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 8

Anyways, today is a good day to become @thexylom.com's member. As WaPo abandons its international coverage, the responsibility of reporting from Sudan to Ukraine will fall to indie outlets like ours.

I just want to keep my job and not have to self-deport by the end of 2026:
bsky.app/profile/thex...

04.02.2026 18:14 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2

What do we want? TRANS NEWS!

When do we want it? 2026!!

We're down to the last few days of our 2026 fundraiser, and we've got less than $5000 left to raise, but we still need your help to raise it.

28.01.2026 12:09 👍 268 🔁 114 💬 1 📌 5

Help us reach the goal and fill up this extremely not phallic shape with the colors of the trans pride flag!

Here'swhere to become a member of Assigned (and get a weekly members' newsletter): www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter

And here's a link to donate in any amount: www.assignedmedia.org/support

19.01.2026 18:17 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is closing After a historic three-year strike, staffers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette returned to work in late November. Now, the 239-year-old paper is shuttering.

less than six months after striking workers at @pghguild.com ended their historic strike with a labor victory, their paper — the pittsburgh post-gazette — is closing. story for @objectivejournos.bsky.social here: objectivejournalism.org/2026/01/the-...

07.01.2026 21:14 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

01.01.2026 18:32 👍 7204 🔁 3397 💬 58 📌 348

While working on this piece, I couldn't forget the wave of harassment trans journalists got here mid-2024 when we spoke up about the NYT's transphobia and the complicity of major figures there.

We need a lot less reverence for institutions, and a lot more listening to folks on the front lines.

03.01.2026 13:33 👍 273 🔁 97 💬 1 📌 1

@thexylom.com is the only outlet covering science through an asian american, internationalist lens. founder @alexip718.com wrote more about the outlet’s work for @objectivejournos.bsky.social last year: objectivejournalism.org/2024/09/what...

24.12.2025 20:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sustain The Xylom! Support The Xylom's independent reporting by making a monthly recurring donation!

after a year full of attacks on science, give the gift of support independent newsrooms doing the work to cover it! i want to shout out the folks at @thexylom.com, who are just 20 members short of their end-of-year goal: fundrazr.com/sustain-the-...

24.12.2025 20:32 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

and #movementmediamonday participant @prismreports.org published an investigation on how u.s. newsrooms treat palestine: prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

"Do we want the landing point of our careers to be in newsrooms that ultimately supported the extermination of 2.2 million people?”

01.12.2025 22:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why writers must boycott the New York Times The New York Times is the paper of record and has played a key role in enabling the Gaza genocide. To hold the newspaper accountable, we must sever our ties —not only as subscribers or advertisers, bu...

#movementmediamonday participant @mondoweiss.net
published an op-ed from @wawog.bsky.social
about why writers should boycott, divest, and unsubscribe from the new york times:

mondoweiss.net/2025/11/why-...

01.12.2025 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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From the Atlanta Race Massacre to Cop City: The AJC Incites Harm – Scalawag The AJC wielded its editorial power to pave the path for Cop City and the 1906 race massacre, directly harming Black Atlantans.

in the vein of support — here’s some of the stellar media criticism other #movementmediamonday participant orgs have published!

@scalawagmagazine.bsky.social published @ajajeanarnold.bsky.social's work on the atlanta journal-constitution's long-standing harm: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/06/from...

01.12.2025 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#movementmediamonday is for supporting independent, non-corporate journalism that reimagines what news media can be.

if you appreciate the work @objectivejournos.bsky.social does, like publishing lewis’s column, we need your help to keep that work going! chip in here: givebutter.com/objective25

01.12.2025 22:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Movement journalism can transform narratives When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.

happy #movementmediamonday! movement media has helped me stay hopeful in the face of mainstream news' flaws, so editing @lewispants.bsky.social’s series on movement journalism for @objectivejournos.bsky.social has been a joy.

their latest column is out today:
objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

01.12.2025 22:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Movement Media Monday is a day to resist corporate media and the spread of propaganda by supporting independent media like Mondoweiss. #MovementMediaMonday act.mondoweiss.net/a/donate?sou...

01.12.2025 16:03 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Today, on #MovementMediaMonday we join partners across the country in amplifying media that moves us toward justice. Truth-telling is an act of resistance. For the people who write from inside prisons, it’s also an act of courage.

01.12.2025 13:00 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Protect Trans Futures and ACT UP Disrupt Charity Gala at Fenway Health — Assigned The LGBTQ+ community health center recently announced they would no longer offer gender-affirming care to trans young people under the age of 19.

ONLY ON ASSIGNED MEDIA:

Fenway Health's annual gala Friday drew protests and cries of "Shame!" after the LGBTQ community health center ended care for trans people under 19.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social was there.

(repost with updated thumbnail)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

15.11.2025 11:09 👍 310 🔁 96 💬 3 📌 14

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

15.11.2025 12:34 👍 880 🔁 655 💬 20 📌 10

new via @objectivejournos.bsky.social -- @jewishcurrents.bsky.social reporter emily wilder & 15 other journalists with the freedom flotilla to gaza intending to cover its efforts to break israel's siege were detained by israeli military forces this morning: objectivejournalism.org/2025/10/jewi...

09.10.2025 03:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

17.09.2025 14:31 👍 7387 🔁 3224 💬 32 📌 86
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The troubling framework of the “Neo-Nazi’s girlfriend” How we outline women’s active participation in far-right extremism matters.

apropos of nothing sharing this @objectivejournos.bsky.social from 2023 objectivejournalism.org/2023/05/the-...

17.09.2025 20:51 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Micro Division winner of the Breaking Barriers Award is Alexis Allison’s article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social s.bsky.social, “The Editor of a New York City Newspaper Bullied Reporters for Years. Then, He Was Promoted.”

11.09.2025 01:37 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Proud to have worked on this story. Journalism spends so much time focusing on other industries — it’s worth turning that focus onto ourselves and asking the same questions.

11.09.2025 01:41 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

So anyway, these guys are all still employed in journalism. I'm not. Journalism didn't break my heart. White supremacy, prejudice, callousness, fascism broke my fucking heart.

22.08.2025 12:09 👍 1196 🔁 94 💬 19 📌 6

shoutout #aaja25 😌

05.08.2025 17:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our large grant that has allowed @thesicktimes.bsky.social to expand runs out in the fall. We’re trying to get ahead and raise $30k this month in our summer fundraiser.

If you have the means: can you help us reach our goal?

03.07.2025 17:47 👍 21 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0

"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.

04.07.2025 02:04 👍 5324 🔁 1294 💬 50 📌 62

imagining a world where one of the only outlets able to hire journalists without relying on contractors, sub-$45k wages or both focused on the material conditions of the fascist state its readers live in as it ruins its safety net, instead of reporting someone's rejection from an Ivy as "news"

04.07.2025 05:07 👍 74 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0