Inkstick Media

How and what to pitch Inkstick:

In Iraqi Kurdistan, partisan, party-aligned organizations are seizing the opportunity to crowd out civil society hit hard by foreign cuts. By: @wrodgers2.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/foreign-aid-...

"Indeed, even before Washington’s latest disastrous war of choice, its reckless trade salvos had placed farmers under the gun." inkstickmedia.com/trumps-iran-...

"After all, any time the far right speaks of their desires to inflict harm on an immigrant, a person of color, or other people they deem an enemy, they are also hinting at their plans for anyone else who doesn’t fall in line with their vision of society." inkstickmedia.com/why-anti-fas...

"The recent Trump-Xi summits and expanding public attention on US military operations in the Middle East have raised questions about the future of US-China competition and how Washington should approach Taiwan’s security." inkstickmedia.com/what-is-the-...

"Palestinians in Hebron's Old City recalled routine harassment and violence. Settlers lived in buildings directly overlooking the market, and a canopy of wire netting had been strung up over the market to stop rocks hurled from windows. What the netting didn’t stop was feces and cups of urine."

“In Trump’s second administration, he’s doing all this 51st state talk [about Canada], and he’s called the border between the US and Canada an imaginary line that only exists on a map,” says @reecejones.bsky.social. “And it’s like, ‘Yeah, you’re so close.’” inkstickmedia.com/in-smuggler-...

Washington's war on Iran has left US farmers facing rising costs, disrupted export markets, and mounting financial pressure. inkstickmedia.com/trumps-iran-...

"Iran has remained in the treaty despite the war, unprecedented economic pressure, and the return of UN sanctions. But is continued NPT membership still an asset for Iran?"

"Most of the people interviewed had already won withholding of removal, a finding by a US immigration judge that they would likely face persecution or torture at home, but were shut out of asylum on technical grounds such as crossing the border irregularly or missing a one-year filing deadline."

"The agency announced that its money could no longer fund research involving any organization on US restricted party lists, a category that sweeps in many of China’s largest civilian universities." inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-tr...

"This is a significant development in Pakistan’s constitutional history, but it is far from unprecedented in the province’s troubled relationship with the central government." inkstickmedia.com/pakistans-do...

"Rainwater can enter cracked concrete and damaged roofs, while wind and storms add strain to buildings already weakened by explosions." inkstickmedia.com/families-in-...

“We have heard from judges who have been fired for granting too many bond requests, letting people get out of detention to fight their cases from outside of being detained." inkstickmedia.com/new-data-rev...

Israel's war on Lebanon has deepened Lebanon's longstanding economic crisis, driving up rent, utilities, and food costs. inkstickmedia.com/how-years-of...

”That six-year-old could have been me.” For @inkstickmedia.com, I talked to @ameliafv.bsky.social and @laurenheidbrink.bsky.social about their important new project. inkstickmedia.com/new-data-rev...

"President Donald Trump, seeing the success of the US Navy’s operation in the Strait of Hormuz in blocking most of Iran’s imports and oil exports while restoring some of the non-Iranian oil trade through the strait, evidently does not regard the conflict with Iran as stalemated."

Many asylum seekers have their court dates moved without realizing it, and the number of in-absentia removal orders has nearly tripled since the beginning of 2025. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/new-data-rev...

Smuggler is "a story that is at once informative, entertaining, and timely" @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/in-smuggler-...

A fight between a smuggler and a Border Patrol agent explains some of the ICE violence we see today. See my new @inkstickmedia.com story about @reecejones.bsky.social and his new book: inkstickmedia.com/in-smuggler-...

A new breakdown of the Trump administration's increasingly strict approach to scientific cooperation with China is a step in the wrong direction.

"The current situation regarding the flow of oil and distribution of economic pain is actually more complicated and does not constitute a one-sided US advantage, but Trump clearly believes that continuing to squeeze Iran ... will increase US leverage and yield a better result."

A timely and important new book by @reecejones.bsky.social and Greg Boos shows how an altercation at a bed and breakfast in the far north US led to immigration officers’ impunity. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/in-smuggler-...

The president is looking for any offramp he can pass off as a 'win,' even as the war reaches a stalemate. inkstickmedia.com/trumps-searc...

"At the same time, wealthier Americans are experiencing the war quite differently than people who rely on every dollar they earn. A recent study ... found that households earning under $40,000 have cut their gas consumption by 7%, yet are still spending 12% more on gasoline."

"A variety of legal pathways in Jerusalem’s municipality and courts lay the groundwork to vacate Palestinian residents. The cleared ground makes way to dig for historical artifacts, establish archaeological sites, and expand Jewish settlement."

A new breakdown of the Trump administration's increasingly strict approach to scientific cooperation with China is a step in the wrong direction. inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-tr...

"But is continued NPT membership still an asset for Iran?" inkstickmedia.com/will-iran-di...

Long Read: Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.

As France and the UK intensify their crackdown on small-boat crossings, people are taking greater risks to evade police — while a lack of transparency makes the human and financial costs of the border regime difficult to track. inkstickmedia.com/uk-border-po...

How Israeli settler groups are instrumentalizing legal tools to take over Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem. inkstickmedia.com/in-east-jeru...

"More than 4,000 unsafe buildings across Gaza require full or partial demolition, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. More than 2,300 of these buildings remain inhabited, sheltering nearly 44,000 people."

How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio.

With most of Gaza’s housing damaged or destroyed and reconstruction barely underway, thousands of families are being forced to choose between life in a tent and a concrete roof that may not stay standing. inkstickmedia.com/families-in-...

Amid war, sanctions, and growing pressure, opposition to the non-proliferation agreement is growing increasingly popular in Iran. inkstickmedia.com/will-iran-di...

A new study looks at the impact of cheaper mental health care in the US military. inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-st...

"Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, an Iranian and a professor of economics at Virginia Tech University, explains that US bombs in Iran have destroyed businesses and led to layoffs, with some estimates claiming that as many as two million people had lost their jobs by April."

"On a sunny day in April 1981, the Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan strolled along outside of a United States federal courthouse with the confidence of someone who had no plans to see the inside of a prison cell."

After the death of Lebanese sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil, killed following an Israeli airstrike on her home in Mansouri in southern Lebanon, people carry on her work along Lebanon coasts and beyond. inkstickmedia.com/lebanons-con...

In Ohio, a needy public school’s board quietly greenlit a multimillion-dollar tax cut for the AI-powered weapons company Anduril – all while asking cash-strapped locals to pay more. Inkstick Media obtained key documents that shine light on the deal: inkstickmedia.com/an-ohio-scho...

"The United States cannot, in good faith, claim to care about religious freedom while it privileges and promotes a certain theology from the Pentagon podium."

Born in Gaza in October 2023, these children are approaching their third birthdays. Their mothers still dream of a life without displacement, hunger, and fear. inkstickmedia.com/they-were-bo...

With midterms looming, Trump may ditch Hegseth to distance himself from the failures of the Iran war. inkstickmedia.com/how-long-can...

The Iran war "has rippled through supply chains worldwide. Disrupted shipping through the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz makes transporting fuel, food, and manufactured goods more expensive, which, in turn, leads to higher costs for necessities." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

"Even as settler attacks stack up, pro-Israel outlets in the US and right-wing Israeli media have attacked criticism and press coverage of settler violence."

"In Trump’s first term, the US conducted 219 airstrikes in Somalia — quadruple that of the two previous administrations combined. This military escalation, of course, did not translate into lasting security."

"If the US is going to rejoin the international community after Trump — not remain some rogue aggressor — it needs to re-commit to respect for basic sovereignty. American progressives should be out in front defending this principle of the international legal order."

"While Musk has been opposed to the Ukrainian military using Starlink for deep strikes into Russia — a position he affirmed in August — Ukraine’s use of Starlink for mid-strike drones has clearly transformed the war in Ukraine." inkstickmedia.com/the-us-compa...

"Assailants are now using a disturbing new intimidation tactic known as pizza doxing, in which unsolicited deliveries arrived at judges’ homes, often placed in the name of Daniel Anderl, the son of Judge Esther Salas who was murdered in a 2020 attack targeting her."

Activists across the US are increasingly targeting private contractors involved in ICE detention.

"Palantir initially offered its services to Ukraine for free. Meanwhile it has used the Ukraine War as a proving ground for its emerging technology, has worked with Ukraine to develop AI to sift and analyze battlefield intelligence and plan and coordinate deep strike operations."