Before Greenpeace lost its $345m Dakota Access trial, a mysterious paper attacking the group appeared in North Dakota mailboxes.
I traced it to a pink-slime network before it began writing about me
I found this reality check the most interesting:
As the TIME piece describes:
"the “millionaire exodus” panic remains a popular narrative, frequently based on biased or sloppy arguments "
In this particular case, as we see from reporting over time, the billionaires aren't leaving, they are actually putting money into fighting the politicians pushing the polices.
This story is great context to headlines we often see: Stories about billionaires threatening to leave CA, as the state considers taxing people differently in higher brackets
But these are just anecdotes, sometimes fear mongering and often-- they never happen!
Trump's SOTU speech last night was the longest in history --1:47 mins!
And it didn't mention climate change ONCE.
In fact, none of Trump's 3 previous speeches have. But they have danced around the damage caused by it.
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Trump: I've always wanted the Congressional medal of honor, but I've been told I can't give it to myself.
I haven't covered the SOTU address in several years (Once in person), and man this does not make me miss being a Congressional reporter.
There is an international scientific consensus that climate change is primarily caused by burning fossil fuels.
Still, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has decided it should no longer play any part in protecting the public from those emissions.
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How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing #FOIA
@mirandagreen.bsky.social reports for @columjournreview.bsky.social
#news #environment
EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list
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In the past year, Metric Media filed more than 9,000 FOIA requests across all 50 states, according to an investigation for the Tow Center by @mirandagreen.bsky.social
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Thanks for the share!
Some have! But the Q is how to fund it? Do we sell ad revenue (that's a bust)? Do we try to fundraise (that's relying on a Bezos or small donors)? How do we sell this new org and win over paying readers when others have failed? Most reporters aren't business savvy & this is an issue cross industries
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This week's Post layoffs hit a chord for me, so I wrote something personal, timed with the anniversary of my own layoff a year ago.
"What is it that they say, again? Journalism is the thing you love that doesn’t love you back."
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New: we dug into Epstein’s dealmaking in Silicon Valley. He used his connections with tech’s elite to get into hot startup deals, some of which paid off handsomely (coinbase) and others that did not (jawbone).
W/ @rmac.bsky.social + matt Goldstein
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Flynn said she intended to spark a reaction with the letter, but didn’t expect to be personally attacked for standing up for the school’s curriculum.
“I’m just a normal person living my life,” she said. “I’m not trying to be famous.”
One Metric paper filed a FOIA requesting any police reports on Flynn.
One local parent who objected to McCloy’s interventions was Andrea Flynn. She wrote a letter to the editor in a local paper and afterwards said she started seeing her named attacked online in McCloy's Facebook group
Metric papers have given McCloy and her group a large microphone. They published at least twenty-three articles about her and her group.
Her group been represented by Judicial Watch—the very same right-wing activist group Metric quoted in its stories chastising Chicago’s mayor
Metric papers zeroed in on a battle over school curricula waged primarily by Kristina McCloy, a former Trump surrogate.
McCloy started Concerned Parents of Hinsdale in 2024 to voice her objections to a book called Julian Is a Mermaid, which she said pushed “woke gender ideology on our children.”
It’s had impacts locally.
In the past year, two Metric papers—the DuPage Policy Journal and Prairie State News—have waded into a fiery war of words over the town’s school board and parks district, at times attacking local parents by name.
Metric does not disclose its backers, but its affiliated nonprofit, received $10m in donations in 2024. That’s up from $6m the previous year.
Metric’s strategy fits squarely within a growing effort by conservative think tanks and even the DOJ to use public records laws to gain access to voter information and school curricula under the auspices of transparency.
It filed requests to every sheriff’s office in Illinois—84—seeking details about county jail inmates with so-called immigration detainers.
A day later, Metric paper The Chicago City Wire published a story about Chicago’s democratic mayor:
For ex: Between Jan & Dec 2025, Metric requested the number of transgender and nonbinary inmates housed at an Illinois corrections center and arrest records from Chicago’s Pride parade.
Their requests have focused on the kind of hot-button topics that reinforce conservative talking points and turn school board meetings into screaming matches.
Most have also zeroed in on Metric’s home state of Illinois.
In January they asked 573 sheriffs’ departments across 14 states to release records of arrests, including: “name, sex, race, age, date of birth, and citizenship status of each arrestee.” They also asked for booking photos and names of arresting officers.
