OMG this kicker in the Harvard Crimson article!! College journalism kicks ass, again

"We don't need to show you no stinkin' badges!"

If you've read stories I've written about unemployment insurance issues, you'll know about multiple attempts by GOP lawmakers & business lobbies to penalize alleged "ghosting" of job interviews. But they've never been confronted about ghost job listings. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/g...

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

Kansas pays full November food assistance benefits; December payouts uncertain | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

"No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs" www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/n... Sounds about right. It's has echos of all of the empty 'I am moving to Canada’ wishcasting laments that often shows up after a U.S. presidential election.

Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

What I love most about this story is the NYT’s obliviousness to the fact that in other anglophone cultures the slang for tight male underwear or swimwear is ‘budgie smugglers’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

“In the past six months, 28% of the surveyed firms said they were affected by immigration actions — 5% said ICE agents had visited a jobsite, 10% said they had lost workers due to actual or rumored ICE raids, and 20% reported those concerns caused subcontractors to lose staff.”

Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:

Commentary: Why families in my Ohio district still choose public schools in an era of choice. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/07/w...

This is such a delightful twist.

Commentary: Why families in my Ohio district still choose public schools in an era of choice. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/07/w...

in any case, if you want some real, non-tiktok stunt information about how churches are dealing with the SNAP gap, we at @sojo.net did some actual reporting on it last week.

i know actual journalism is not going to go as viral as a fake tiktok baby but i submit it’s a better way to form your opinions about what churches are and are not doing well!

A tale of two almanacs.

To put the Mamdani story in context, Peters did the exactly opposite work for Glenn Youngkin four years ago — in that case laundering right-wing operatives into his story under the guise of being regular voters (a thing he has done repeatedly) theracket.news/p/the-far-ri...

I’m no statistician, but if you buy your first house in your 30s on a 50-year mortgage, and life expectancy is low 80s, isn’t this just called — rent?

Dozens of corrections! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

Econ 101 midterm question: Based on what you know about risk pools and adverse selection in healthcare markets, will giving people money instead of giving them money to buy health insurance lead these markets to function more effectively, or will it just lead more people to be uninsured?

I just want to remind everyone that Alliance Defending Freedom litigated a protester’s right to speak and pray — although outside an abortion clinic adflegal.org/case/mcculle...

Innocuous in itself, this stupid sentence is a reminder that thanks to AI it'll be harder and harder to know what's true, and some of us might get seriously misrepresented.

Behind Every “smile more” is a person preparing to emotionally manipulate you

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Didn't the administration try to claim that this woman didn't even work at the daycare -- that she just happen to run into the building after fleeing an immigration stop? Seems pretty clear that was a lie.

My report from October - Trump’s National Guard deployments raise worries about state sovereignty stateline.org/2025/10/22/t...

As part of the ruling, Immergut finds that the deployment of California and Texas Guard to Oregon violated Oregon’s sovereignty This is an issue I recently explored in-depth for @stateline.org stateline.org/2025/10/22/t...

First of all, there are at least eight good ways to say this, and this is none of them. Second, I try to cover what I can, and most of it is triage these days. How do I decide? I consider importance, where I can add to the conversion (new info or unique insight), and if others are already on it.

NEW: Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tells agents in LA, "It’s our f–king city" in newly released video. blockclubchi.co/4oU0lTF

The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

It's annoying on the Google page to see various news stories attributed to "generated with AI which can make mistakes." Why don't you just link to actual news organizations' reports, instead of using AI to plagiarize them? We sometimes make mistakes too but we usually own up to and correct them.

Who could have predicted this other than everyone?

A friend flagged for me: The last time Democrats won the governorship by a margin as big as Spanberger’s, the party was still a Dixiecrat one

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

Folk wisdom is that women are the swing voters but tonight provides even more evidence that it’s men #Election2025

The Associated Press has called the Virginia governor’s race in Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s favor. She will be Virginia’s first woman governor. From the @virginiamercury.com

Damn, even the cat voting?

It's nice that your candidate won, but you need to freaking calm down about what that portends for the future of mankind. (This is an evergreen post).

Terrible night for Milwaukeeans who can no longer point to our history of electing socialist mayors as a unique point of civic pride.

This is going to get spun as a "thermostatic shift" chart, but it should be properly interpreted as a "information environment is broken" chart. In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.

As I've been saying all along, as someone who's written peer-reviewed research on realignments: don't count your realignments before they're hatched, reporters.

Yup. It turns out massively destabilizing trade in and out of the country is bad for people importing to build factories in order to export stuff. Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.

So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways. econbrowser.com/archives/202...

I know we're all watching election returns but don't let this get lost in the mix: the Heritage Foundation is calling on the HHS to conduct a 'safety' review of oral contraception jessica.substack.com/p/the-group-...

Obviously you want to read @juliaazari.bsky.social on Dick Cheney open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...