Wow, a large sandwich from city bites is the size of Travis kelce’s hog

[returning videotapes voice] I have to work on some spreadsheets

Oh man, this is Reggie’s new thing

Daily Memphian writer Dan Conaway quit yesterday, allegedly bc his bosses wouldn't run a column critical of Trump sending in National Guard to Memphis. (Editor Eric Barnes says in comments it's not what happened, fwiw.) www.facebook.com/bruce.vanwyn...

Sometimes I think about the Texas monthly taco writer who eats a taco every day and I wish I was that man

With sadness, I can confirm. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/got-an-opi...

Ex-colleagues and others whose sourcing I trust say the opinions department of the Washington Post has laid off all of its copy editors and its only local columnist. At the end of the week Lally (Graham) Weymouth died.

Catherine Cortez Masto, who voted with Republicans to keep the government open, criticizes Russ Vought for canceling projects in blue states. “It shows you how punitive the administration is they're not willing to get in a room and help us, and work with us to negotiate.”

I just got so much parsley in my hair

I think about this *a lot.* almost no one hires anyone who has more than 0 to 2 years of reporting experience, and I constantly see the results of that in the way stories are framed, written and the context added (or often omitted) to things.

Hmm. This is actually Vought’s platonic ideal of a good time streetlightnews.org/appropriatio...

MORE GOVERNOR POWER? Gov. Stitt is using the Ryan Walters debacle and his appointment of interim state supe Lindel Fields as evidence OK law needs to change-allowing governors to appoint more statewide positions, instead of letting voters decide. But wait... 🧵

This announcement claims, essentially, that they have infused a book with mayonnaise. I just want people to understand that if you purchase paper books, you can infuse them with mayonnaise yourself. You will need a turkey baster and a squeegee. And mayonnaise.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said he was notified Wednesday that more than $8 million in state funds would be cut from local mental health treatment services. www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-region...

I have to have a breakfast burrito in the next five minutes. idk what will happen if I don't

this is interesting - the site seems to deemphasize some of the partisan issues Walters was championing, including being pro charter schools and bringing religion into schools

we won't know what caused this collapse for a bit, but always important to note that both politica parties have essentially defunded public housing maintenance for *decades* creating a repair backlog of $80 billion in just NYC gothamist.com/news/nycha-b...

Hey, I wrote a big thing about The Cars, a great American band, in conjunction with a new biography. www.theringer.com/2025/10/01/m...

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

Via @politico.com: "The Trump administration is expected to dramatically cut funding for a permanent housing program — a move that could potentially reexpose tens of thousands of people to homelessness."

HUD's website right now

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal agents arrested Southwest Side organizers as they filmed ICE activity, officials said. blockclubchi.co/3KNoJYg

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

23 governors have stated that they may end their SNAP programs because of the MAGA murder bill. "Oklahoma, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia are four of the 15 states that are estimated to have SNAP expenditures rise by more than 300 percent." Florida's budget will need to increase 7.7x.

I'm sad to learn about these layoffs at the Tulsa World. I didn't realize they'd already had one round of layoffs this year before this one.

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.” JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

i've been ready for lunch since 10:18 a.m.

The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas camera in the strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device belonged to the news agency. 5 journalists died in the attack. Their deaths are among ~ 200 journalist killings by Israel that it has yet to fully explain. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Per an email I recieved from a source at Angelo State University, faculty have been told they will no longer be required to refer to students by their name at birth. Pride Flags are allowed in "personal offices." LGB topics are allowed, but textbooks must "omit any chapters on transgenderism"

Just in: Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with book authors gets judge's preliminary blessing, per plaintiffs' lawyers.

I participated in a @nytopinion.nytimes.com @nytimes.com roundtable and they asked me what a better world for #ActuallyAutistic people would look like if Trump and RFK Jr. didn't focus so much on Tylenol or vaccines. This was my honest-to-God response. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Ok, I grew up in Amarillo and when I saw this I was like who tf would do this there (the history of Stanley marsh & Cadillac ranch doesn’t exactly lend itself to conservative politics) but this makes more sense

Solidarity with all of those @cascadepbsunion.bsky.social. You should support them however you can and, if you're in a hiring position, bring them aboard so that their essential journalism can continue.

"None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns." wapo.st/4nidndf

Ryan Walters bolts after announcing on cable news (in our studio) he will be stepping down as Superintendent to become CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance to “destroy the teacher unions”.

I identify with this but almost everyone I know doesn’t want to talk about any of this stuff and has stopped following the news. It does make me feel alone bc ppl act like everything’s normal and they’re fine even if they’re not so I feel weak af in comparison

What…..is this? www.teacherfreedomalliance.com/tfa-announce...

Ended up with a front row seat, as Walters officially announced he’s resigning as OK state superintendent on FOX News. I’ll show you what happened afterward….

Reached a really cool point in my life where if I drink too much coffee in the morning I feel like I’m dying in the afternoon

I’ll be talking about my reporting on government AI use on MuckRock’s FOIA Friday podcast this week, and on a panel at @ire.org AccessFest conference next month. This investigation wouldn’t have been possible without support from the editors + news team who Cascade PBS decided to lay off this week

BREAKING: Judge overseeing DOJ's prosecution of Luigi Mangione orders DOJ to explain by Oct. 3, via sworn declaration, why prejudicial statements continued to be made about him by DOJ officials, contrary to rule/order. Judge Garnett warns that sanctions could follow if there are future violations.

"Those who accept must report for duty on October 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers ..." www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

plz, I don't want an AI companion - I don't even want a human companion