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Trigger warning for violence. Read this headline, and then the article. Then read the headline again. And people ask what we mean when we say reporters or editors blame victims? abc13.com/story/cyclis...

Cyclists gestured, yelled at driver before he reversed into them, killing boxer Hannah Rapp, court documents allegeCourt documents allege that the severity of the damage to the vehicle that killed boxer Hannah Rapp contradicted the driver's claim that he reversed at a low speed.abc13.com

If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.

I think it’s awesome that Mo’ne Davis, who as a 13yo became the first girl to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series, just made her debut in the new Women’s Pro Baseball League. www.inquirer.com/sports/mone-...

Over a decade removed from her Little League World Series moment, Mo’ne Davis is poised to make history againDavis, once a teen star with the Taney Dragons, now is a center fielder for the WPBL's Los Angeles Queens. She's ready to pave the way for what she hopes is years of pro women’s baseball to come.www.inquirer.com

Fetterman is telling us exactly what he plans to do Telling us to expect him to switch parties in the 120th Congress Take this seriously Get out there Elect Dems in all 35 Senate races We need a Dem Senate majority large enough to make his inevitable party switch immaterial

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...therealnews.com

Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...

This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will BunchPolice in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.www.inquirer.com

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

putting on my $3,000 tuxedo to go get called a piece of shit on worldwide tv by a 100 year old rapist

Rooftop solar panels saved New England residents $130 million in electricity during a recent heat wave.

New England invested in solar. It saved residents millions in electricity costs during a heat wave this monthA new report found that solar arrays saved $39 million to $54 million in a single day of a recent heat wave.www.goodgoodgood.co

I hope every journalist attending that dinner is embarrassed. Because they should be.

I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...

here is my framework for trans rights

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.

For 17 years, Washington has failed to raise the federal minimum wage while the cost of housing, groceries, childcare and healthcare has soared. Today, $7.25 an hour is officially a poverty wage. No full-time workers should be left in poverty. fortune.com/2026/07/20/m...

The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds | Fortune“We are currently in the longest period of inaction on the federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938,” economist Sylvia Allegretto wrote in a recent report.fortune.com

this shot is so bleak lmao

“First of all, how is it that we have sitting, elected members of Congress going missing for months at a time?” “And how is everyone pretending this is normal?” Rep. @ocasio-cortez.house.gov continued. “This is not normal.” people.com/aoc-calls-mi...

AOC Says Mitch McConnell’s Prolonged Absence at 84 Is ‘Not Normal at All,’ and Maybe Shouldn’t Be ‘Legal at This Point’AOC told reporters that there should be rules put in place to manage lengthy absences and missed votes by Capitol Hill lawmakers like Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean Jr.people.com

South Korea built solar panels over highway medians and turned the space underneath into protected bike lanes. Clean energy + safe cycling, using infrastructure that already exists.

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Not everything valuable has a price. Clean air is an economic asset—even if nobody sends you a bill for it. Its benefits show up in healthier lives, better communities, and more freedom to move.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-reeses-cups-and-canadian-wildfires

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Virtually every country in the world *except* for the US is responding to the Iran War in a rational way -- ie, trying to reduce their reliance in imported fossil fuels.

How the Iran War Is Driving Demand for Clean EnergyFor decades, the case for clean energy was rooted primarily in climate policy. Today, it is just as much about geopolitics.www.bloomberg.com