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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16h

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 18h

Midway through our interview, Bruce Sunpie Barnes pulled out a harmonica and played a tune from his childhood that set the room vibrating. Watch that moment here, and listen to our interview with the New Orleans musician/naturalist at apeaceofmymind.org/2025/10/09/b.... Video: Sawyer Garrison.

Bruce Sunpie Barnes interview: A Peace of My Mind

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 4d

MY LATEST: We've published the final episode of our "Still Here" series. It features Bruce Sunpie Barnes, a New Orleans bandleader and naturalist who tells brilliant stories. “I don't have a separation in me between trying to sustain coastal wetlands [and] trying to sustain culture,” he says.

Bruce Sunpie Barnes

Bruce Sunpie Barnes is a bandleader and naturalist from New Orleans, merging music and conservation. Leading Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he plays Afro-Louisiana music while also promoting we…

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Longreads @longreads.com · 10d

"For generations, wild bears were killed to harvest this gold-colored liquid from their gallbladder."

Ryley Graham for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Bringing Vietnam’s Bile Bear Industry to an End

As wildlife advocates fight to free the last captives of Vietnam’s bile farms, rescued bears find dignity in the country’s sanctuaries.

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 7d

"At least 15 government oversight websites were down—and with them, access to watchdog reports and required hotline and whistleblower links—as of Wednesday evening. That's not due to the federal shutdown that began at midnight; it's a deliberate move by the White House." @almsnatalie.bsky.social

Trump administration knocks out at least 15 oversight websites, saying IGs 'lied to the public'

It's not a shutdown issue: the White House is withholding funds from the umbrella organization for the government's inspectors general.

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 9d

Mario Guevara, a journalist known for livestreaming immigration raids, was deported today by ICE after being held for more than 100 days. Guevara, who had a work permit, was arrested June 14 while livestreaming a “No Kings” protest in Atlanta. Those charges were dropped. @gettingviggy.bsky.social

Journalist Mario Guevara Is Deported After Being Held for Over 100 Days

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 10d

MY LATEST: Caitlin Carney calls herself the Lady Monger. Her business, Porgy’s Seafood Market, has a mission: to reconnect New Orleanians with Gulf seafood. Our interview is Week 7 of "Still Here," a series about the people who are working to preserve Louisiana and its fragile coastline and culture.

Caitlin Carney

Caitlin Carney, co-owner of Porgy’s Seafood Market in New Orleans, promotes Gulf seafood by reintroducing local fishermen’s bycatch to consumers. She emphasizes education and community engage…

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 12d

Sophia Stewart writes about the “character head” busts by sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. "The series depicts faces stretched to their expressive limits—they pucker, gape, scowl. Their extreme countenances have unsettled viewers and stumped scholars. When I see them, I see myself—a stutterer."

What Disturbing Art Can Teach Us About Our Own Shame and Fear

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Esther Kaplan @estherbrooklyn.bsky.social · 12d

A threatening letter from Rep. Sarah Vance demanded "immediate corrective action" after a group of Alaska papers described Charlie Kirk as "a far-right political activist and Christian-Nationalist icon." The newspapers caved.

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Editor, most news staff of Carpenter Media’s Alaska newspapers resign due to censoring of story

Article about a Charlie Kirk vigil referring to controversies involving him was altered after a GOP Alaska lawmaker complained to company management

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15d

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 15d

New from our Still Here series: After Hurricane Katrina, Rashida Ferdinand switched careers from clay sculptor to neighborhood rebuilder. Her organization, Sankofa CDC, converted an illegal dump to a 40-acre wetland park that will help protect the Lower Ninth Ward from future storms.

Rashida Ferdinand

Executive director, Sankofa Community Development Corporation, Lower Ninth Ward After Rashida Ferdinand earned her master’s degree in ceramics, she considered moving to New York for its energy and …

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 15d

"Here is some of what Peggy Williams misses: The sycamore trees that lined the banks of the river, casting shadows across a favorite swimming hole not far from their front door." @bradydennis.bsky.social on a musician who remains missing a year after Hurricane Helene. Photos: Allison Joyce.

A year after Helene, they grieve without closure for a man never found

Peggy Williams, whose partner remains one of few Helene victims whose body has never been recovered, spends her days in a particularly gut-wrenching version of the limbo that remains for so many throu...

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 15d

My friend John Noltner and I sat down and talked honestly about "Still Here," our multimedia series about coastal Louisiana. We covered a lot of ground: our shared creative vision, what it means to let go of control, how I edited my stutter, and the hope we gained from the stories we heard.

Still Here - Barry and John behind the scenes - A Peace of My Mind

Another bonus this week to share a behind the scenes conversation with journalist Barry Yeoman and A Peace of My Mind's John Noltner, who collaborated to produce this multimedia series of interviews a...

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 16d

“When you share an ethic with people and a set of moral values, there’s a synergy to working together... We can have such a bigger impact.”

Darrah Fox Bach of @crcl1988.bsky.social talks about oysters, friendship, and hope. Here's a preview. The whole episode: apeaceofmymind.org/2025/09/25/d....

Darrah Fox Bach: A Peace of My Mind

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J Henry Fair @jhenryfair.com · 18d

My friend @barryyeoman.com is collaborating with photographer John Noltner on a series about people working to preserve wetlands in Louisiana

Darrah Fox Bach

Restoration programs senior manager, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Darrah Fox Bach cultivated her love for the outdoors in her native San Francisco, where environmentalism flourishes and S…

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 17d

Thank you so much, Henry.

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 18d

MY LATEST: One of Darrah Fox Bach’s many skills is turning used oyster shells—buttery discards from Louisiana restaurants —into living shorelines that protect cultural sites and reduce erosion. Her superpower is building deep relationships that aid her conservation efforts. @crcl1988.bsky.social

Darrah Fox Bach

Restoration programs senior manager, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Darrah Fox Bach cultivated her love for the outdoors in her native San Francisco, where environmentalism flourishes and S…

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 20d

I missed this when it first came out. Thanks for reupping it, and for your brave and dogged reporting.

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 21d

"Riefenstahl fascinates because our world is still full of courtiers and opportunists who think they can ride the tiger, and just like her, they lie shamelessly, to promote their careers and defend the Leviathan demagogues in whose shadow they flourish."

Philip Kennicott @philipkennicott.bsky.social · 22d

The eternal present of political narcissism, the way lies don't matter because there is no past to hold you to account and no future to judge the consequences. Riefenstahl tried to outrun her legacy, and she's running still. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Column | More than two decades after her death, Leni Riefenstahl is still lying

A new documentary offers bracing lessons about demagogues and the people who serve them.

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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 22d

Edward Brandon Beckham tried three times to take the federal government's deferred resignation offer while his wife was dying, but the administration kept turning him down. It tested his faith — in God, and in Trump. Terribly sad story, deeply reported, by @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith — in God and Trump.

One federal worker was rejected three times from the administration’s early resignation offer. Would he blame the president he voted for?

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 27d

Could not be more timely: @brendankoerner.bsky.social goes inside the world of the most prolific destroyer of US tech infrastructure, a guy whose vague internet 5G brainrot put him in prison-and he still clings to conspiracy. This is the shape of political violence now www.wired.com/story/22-cel...

One Vigilante, 22 Cell Towers, and a World of Conspiracies

Inside the mind of the most prolific anti-5G arsonist in the world—and the incoherent, very online political violence of our era.

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 22d

“Walmart has evolved into kind of a dumping ground for all the banned Amazon sellers.” By Gabrielle Fonrouge and Paige Tortorelli for @cnbc.com. Hat tip: @thesundaylongread.bsky.social.

Luxury face cream from a pizza parlor: Inside fraud on Walmart.com

Walmart's marketplace is booming, but the strategy poses risks as a CNBC investigation found lax vetting contributed to fraud and fakes on the site.

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 24d

Durham County NC's government will not sponsor Pride this year, writes Kristen Johnson in @newsobserver.com. “We barely survived Trump One, and we...could be hurt and damaged forever by losing the funding that will save people’s lives,” said county commissioners chair Nida Allam. #ncpol (no paywall)

Durham Pride is next weekend. Why Durham County is no longer a sponsor.

“We cannot risk people’s lives that could be hurt and damaged forever by losing the funding that will save people’s lives in Durham County.”

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 25d

MY LATEST: Rosina Philippe's ancestral village, Grand Bayou, has been overtaken by water, and yet she remains. “I say that we’re placemarkers,” says Philippe, an elder in Louisiana's Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe. "The Creator in his infinite wisdom has placed my people where we belong."

Rosina Philippe

Rosina Philippe, an elder from the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe, resides in Grand Bayou Indian Village, an Indigenous community facing environmental challenges. As traditional food sources diminish…

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