I’ve been thinking about this and how the internet, for all its flaws, does allow women content creators to break through the noise and actually make a difference.

"They said that the problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences."

Momma and four baby foxes spotted on Montclair State campus!

Holyyy shit they got these Supreme Court memos?! Wow www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u... "In public, Roberts has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer"

“When publishers align business goals with disciplined execution and measurement, growth accelerates and sustains. That compounding effect is what ultimately builds resilience.” www.lenfestinstitute.org/solutions-re... Well there's some encouraging news

I really want these people to explain EXACTLY, with precision, what they think "viewpoint diversity" means. Universities are simply not in the business of peddling fictions about vaccines or lies about the 2020 election, for example. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

"scrambling the lives of American citizens who were raised by undocumented parents who chose to raise their family in the United States despite the risks." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

"Another agent fired pepper balls into the crowd, hitting [@propublica.org reporter AC Thompson] three times. One shot struck him above the right eye...One of them shot pepper spray from a car window, hitting FRONTLINE’s director Gabrielle Schonder and Tim Grucza, who was sprayed in the face."

Siccing TMZ on these people is indeed brilliant

"In a recent Politico poll of American voters, 48 percent of respondents said they support or strongly support the MAHA movement, but only 34 percent of respondents in the same poll said they could actually explain what MAHA is." That's an interesting data point. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

"other people being held at the detention center have been taking care of her, offering her covers at night and calling her “Unsinkable Molly” after Margaret Brown, a survivor of the Titanic. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u... that kicker. whew.

lol the best part about this is it’s not just ignorant about bodegas in cities like NYC. In the then-rural, very red little WI town I grew up in, there was a corner store. Ask some diner guys! Ha.

Tump calling someone a little tacky is like Aquaman calling someone a little damp

#ThePitt I’m not ready for the season to be over yet

On our Parsippany, NJ community listening adventure with my community engagement class!

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Hm. When I do my "journalism professor with a beer tells you the news series" maybe I should really let my Wisconsin accent out. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...

I will just say, scaling social networks is hard, even with infinite resources. Literally no social media site has ever gotten through the tens-of-millions of users point of scaling without having a period where they struggled with uptime. The more novel the architecture, the harder the challenge.

"Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father. Some of the young women were instructed by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and the former deputy chief of staff to “pay attention” to the men" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

I...don't know much about the stock market to begin with, but I just don't really understand record highs right now at all based on all publicly available information. like, really? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

"Prediction markets have been positioning themselves as something akin to the news, and while that might help them build legitimacy it could also open them up to the same political attacks the news has faced since Donald Trump’s first run for the presidency." www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/pred...

“That was it,” Judge Reyes wrote in evident disgust. She added: “Congress did not vest the secretary with Humpty Dumpty-like power to make the word ‘consultation’ mean ‘just what [she] chooses it to mean — neither more nor less.’”

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Many of the criticisms in this report are true or partially true, but the biggest problem that's brought down U.S. colleges is indeed the 50-year crusade by the right to wipe away any notion that higher ed is a public good, massively cut funding for publics, and create the student debt crisis

Field of Dandelions✨🌼💛

"If we don’t respond carefully and decisively, then the millions of people who stand to gain the most from A.I.’s progress as a programming tool will also be the ones most exposed to attack." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

I cannot stand Fetterman rn but I’m sorry that man is symbolic of nothing and a n of one. He is *profoundly* mentally altered. That is simply beyond obvious from every reported fact about him and people who knew him before. Extrapolating from his behavior to the Democratic Party is foolish.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Spring came in hot in NJ

I think about this constantly. It is true. But the answer is somewhere in this piece…which doesnt negate the thread. But yet this is the only way out, or through. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/two-visions

The retailer I get the most questions about from friends and readers is Quince, and it's not close. It carries everything from cashmere sweaters to American-made sofas to Dom Perignon champagne, most of it super cheap. I finally wrote about what Quince is up to. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force was supposed to target violent crime. A @propublica.org + @mlk50.com analysis shows that just over a quarter of the more than 5,200 arrests made by the task force in its first 4 months have been for violent crimes.

"The fact that people have bad qualities does not have to mean that our entire orientation towards life must be guided by those qualities. It can mean instead that we adopt the opposite qualities, and watch the force of the good unravel the bad." Everything kinda comes down to this.

There was one report of softball size (4" diameter) #hail near Maple Bluff, WI Tuesday. (NE Madison metro) Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960. One of most damaging hail events in Madison history? (📸: Kyle Obremski)

Do Gannet papers have literally everyone on a real VPN blocked? Because that seems...dumb.

Lead story this morning at the campus paper at UGA

The bees are emerging

I swear, she was so peppy yesterday after her birthday celebration with special food, a bone and a soft toy and some extra lovin. Extra wagging and smiling (they smile if you know what to look for). Love it.

In my experience, especially as a Black woman journalist, the opinion page is all too often the only forum where the "real journalism" (or lack thereof) of white journalists gets challenged. Let's take the *ahem* Washington Post and Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech.

Huge storms and tornado warnings and hail sweeping through Wisconsin, Madison and now Milwaukee area tonight. Yikes!

I was tempted to take this approach today

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Personal impact of the state takeover of Fort Worth public schools: The school board was supposed to recognize FWISD all-state musicians (inc. my kid) in February. Meeting cancelled day of, rescheduled for March, that meeting also cancelled day of b/c they’d just fired the school board. Maybe today?

I've made a starter pack to try to reinvest Bluesky properly, in my new (additional) field. Suggest more historians please! Academic, public, popular, I don't discriminate (neither should you) go.bsky.app/DUzx7sk

Everything about this story of this wealthy suburban NJ school district just absolutely making a complete mess of its finances continues to fascinate me. montclairlocal.news/2026/04/mont...

“indie info providers” increasingly see themselves as mission-driven small business owners, only five of the 43 respondents said they could “fully fund their lifestyle” with content creation income www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/inde...

Oh my god lmao

One thing I’ve learned with some experimentation is that Claude is now highly superior to Google simply as a search engine. I’m not talking about summarizing stuff but find me links and websites.