Emma BOOllegos
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Reporter at EdSource, sewer of clothes, vice chair of @edsourceguild.bsky.social I share serious journalism and unserious opinions on here She/her
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Journalism, much like Wikipedia and literally every human institution in all of history, will always have a bias problem. That’s not what attacks on it by Elon Musk or his ilk are about.
Wikipedia is truly a wonder of the modern internet. Jimmy has sage words about the existential threat posed by how dwindling local news.

But I’m Lulu called him on trotting out the line that bias is why trust in journalism is failing — while Wikipedia is subject to the very same baseless attacks.
Before the attack at a Wikipedia conference, I interviewed its co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site faces, among them from @elonmusk who calls it ‘wokepedia’. Wales’s response ‘ We’ll be here in a hundred years and he won’t. “ read more for free 👇🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
www.nytimes.com
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The nation’s military and defense journalists exited the Pentagon in unison Wednesday, having had their accreditation revoked after refusing to agree to the Defense Department’s new restrictions on their newsgathering activities.
Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules
After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
I’ll note that this is not a new concept to show just how quickly the land is sinking.

Here’s a story about the man behind the latest photo op, as only SJV Water can tell it:

sjvwater.org/eric-r-quinl...
Farmers, dairy owners and water districts in the Tulare Basin, where the land is sinking due to overpumping, are losing their shit over this photo op. One grower even called in the sheriff.

“This was sabotage. This was a hit.”

sjvwater.org/subsidence-p...
I was too much of a wimp to try. They looked disgusting!
What in the hell is going on with the tacos in Paris?
There’s always the sad moment before I go on a trip without my dog where I realize she knows what I’m doing.

She paws at my suitcase and gives me this look like, How DARE you!!!
Obligatory King of the Hill post
Happy #FOIAFriday to all who celebrate. I’d love to know how federal record requests are going in the community.
“Gone from the article was a line stating that Mr. Kirk had perpetuated “conspiracy theories, including Covid-19 and climate misinformation, as well as replacement theory,” which posits that Jews are trying to replace white Americans with nonwhite immigrants.”
Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.
Journalists at 3 Alaska Newspapers Quit Over Charlie Kirk Story
The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker.
nyti.ms
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Behind every confident woman there is a small dog wondering when he’s gonna get a treat
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Since his killing last month, at least two dozen people who work in California’s public colleges, universities and TK-12 schools have faced calls to be fired for statements made either on social media during their free time or in classrooms with students.
California educators’ First Amendment rights face test in wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing
Since his killing last month, at least two dozen people who work in California’s public colleges, universities and TK-12 schools have faced calls to be fired for statements made either on social media...
edsource.org
My cat ate a hair tie and ribbon, an almost fatal combination for his intestines. He just finished recovering from surgery and promptly ate part of my purse handle.

Yesterday my vet gave him a heartfelt speech about how his actions are giving his owners a heart attack but I’m not sure it sunk in.
Me: bud can you stop eating grass please

My dog, who has no concept of “eating,” only the constant exchange of sustenance and energy among all living things, not least of which, the unassuming blade of grass, which in its humility, communes directly with the sun: 🙂 ?
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A quick reminder that this thread is turning into the best overall place collating Kaleb's longer-form work; Jake's been steadily adding to it, with the latest entries just today. (And the tweets and the photography and the podcast and etc. are all out there too.)
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Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."
🎉 Big news: we’re starting an SPJ Chapter in the Central Valley 🎉

If you are a working/retired/aspiring journalist in Bakersfield, Tulare or Kings counties, you should have received an email about it from me just now.

Please let me know if you didn’t.

(The rest of the Valley: stay tuned!)
This one goes out to Kaleb and his family who, from his writing, seemed to take a lot of pride in who they were, like a lot of the Okies and Arkies I know and love here: youtu.be/mf02TGOLo7U?...
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
YouTube video by Merle Haggard - Topic
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Kaleb’s untimely death means I’m feeling all the feelings about the state of media and Bakersfield/the Other California but mostly I’m kicking myself for not actually meeting up with him.

We always said we would and didn’t. How stupid is it we never met up even once at a local dive?!!
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if you didn't want me to open 74 tabs... why did you give me that ability???
The deep purple, chocolate and the sage are the only sources of dopamine for my brain today TYSM 🙏
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Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago.

If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
Americans rallied for Kimmel. It’s time to do the same for Mario Guevara
Atlanta journalist faces imminent deportation for reporting the news
freedom.press
I'm thrilled to share a profile of Saran Tugsjargal, who has been an advocate on behalf of the 850,000 TK-12 students with disabilities in California.

It has meant a lot for her to stand up for students like her who felt stigmatized.

“My heart was beaming,” she said.

edsource.org/2025/student...
How this teen pushed California to change special education policy
Saran Tugsjargal said the advocacy work she did — first for herself, then on behalf of the 850,000 students in California — has turned into what she hopes will be her life mission.
edsource.org