What is Wes Streeting up to? Making the best of a bad situation. Positioning himself as Labour’s Michael Heseltine. New writing from me. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/wes-street...

This is a clear violation of the First Amendment. While I'm glad that FIRE is standing up for student journalists and their right to publish stories on LGBTQ topics, it's worth mentioning that much of the current crisis in free speech on America's campuses is a direct result of FIRE's own actions

Commentary: "I love my home state fiercely, but years of witnessing discrimination and a lack of willingness by lawmakers focus on basic necessities like healthcare and education has broken my heart," writes @jhollymc.bsky.social. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/11/e...

I am not one of them. Prioritising sleep is one of the best decisions I've made. I get at least seven hours a night, but I try to get nine. That seems to be my optimal number of hours. Getting enough sleep has made a world of difference to my productivity, mental healthy, and quality of life

Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' congressional gerrymander:

"72% of the white population is put into one district. 75% of the Black population is carved into two,” Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said. “We are being asked to believe that it’s just the luck of the draw, just happenstance.” Within hours of a new congressional map passing, the NAACP filed suit.

I swear 99% of men look better in their "before" pictures than they do in their "after" pictures - and no, you are not the 1%

A proposed merger between NorthWestern Energy and Black Hills, Inc., is about efficiency according to NWE. Opponents - and NWE's own CEO - suggest it is really about creating a multi-state monopoly that will profit off an explosion of data centers My latest: www.glasgowcourier.com/story/2026/0...

WATCH: Tennessee Republicans (Rudd & Littleton) laugh about stripping majority Black Memphis of power as Warner walks in wearing a TRUMP FLAG CAPE— Cepicky tries to laugh about it with Torrey Harris who isn’t having it Warner had to remove it (From allie4tn )

One way is subscribe to your local newspaper, especially if it is independently owned. And if you're feeling really generous - or curious about life in a small Montana town literally in the "middle of nowhere" - subscribe to the Glasgow Courier and keep me employed www.glasgowcourier.com/subscribe

I think our journalism problem is a cultural and political problem. If you believe that journalists are fundamentally here to question power, those that are truly brave and curious will not last long inside corporate structures. Or will be eliminated. (Case in point: Me!)

While I know people on here say they want “real” news, the tech oligarchs have spent 20 years engineering people’s brains (literally) to be addicted to emotion driven, edutainment. People will pay for personalities who can reflect their worldviews back to them. But in-depth reporting? No.

As America regresses culturally and politically, so too will journalism. For much of America’s journalism history since coming out under British rule, newspapers were full of gossip, propaganda, and outright lies to fit the owners agenda. “Objective”, professional journalism is somewhat new.

I'm fighting like hell to keep my small-town newspaper here in Montana relevant and open. Hired a young man from rural Michigan who will be joining me soon, making us a newsroom of two. He told me after I hired him he couldn't get a single interview anywhere else. I believe it, and it pisses me off

Inevitably, as with all areas this tendency affects, like the arts, it will just make it so that its statistically impossible to become a journalist from a working class background. A further contraction from when they thinned out the newsrooms post-2008.

She wrote a political Hallmark movie. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Fraser Nelson, it must be remembered, is part of the problem. His Spectator provided platforms for all those people who pushed Brexit and all the other racist, xenophobic and worse ideas that made Farage.

Someone give Aziz Ansari the Guest Actor in a Comedy Emmy now #snl

Nick also broke the news that the brothers were returned home today. A few hours later, the New York Times and Washington Post reported the same thing, once again, neither credited him. I don't understand why it's so hard for big national papers to credit smaller local pubs. Nick's latest:

So why has the @nytimes.com now published two stories following @nickjudin.bsky.social original reporting on Makoka boys without linking to or crediting him or the @mississippifreepress.org as most others have done?? Why can’t “big” media grow the hell up?

Someone stopped me on the street today to tell me they've been enjoying my letters from the editor. That made my day!

Did your favourite make the list? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Senegal's anti-gay law is a smokescreen for the country's powerless government

“Everyone was happier with Biden,” Trump says on 60 Minutes

Trump: I knew you would read that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. O'Donnell: Oh, you think he was referring to you? Trump: I was totally exonerated. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 Minutes O'Donnell: Mr. President, these are the gunman's words.

Fox's Aishah Hasnie’s call oddly gets cut right as she says Karoline Leavitt's husband leaned over right as the dinner was starting and told her: "You need to be very safe…”

The Secret Service, oddly enough, made JD Vance the security priority during the initial evacuation. A visibly terrified Vance was ushered away to safety. Trump tripped while trying to tell the Secret Service about his Ball Room.

Symone Sanders giving a pretty damning account of the lack of security outside and inside hotel before the incident, which she says was far more lax than she has previously experienced at this same event.

Maybe. The difference may be in the coverage. I can see journalists in that room not letting this go the way the media let Butler go, because this time someone took shots at (or at least near) them

The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.

Everyone involved in this "discourse" is stupid; the panicked response to it and the soapboxing is pointless, the original interview was just boring, sophomoric philosophizing, the people pretending to not understand that are pretending to be idiots, and we're all stupider for being exposed to it.

In this week's letter from the editor, I wrote about Montana's independent spirit and the relevance of the frontier in 21st century American life. My latest: www.glasgowcourier.com/story/2026/0...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

The Falklands are British for as long as the Falkland Islanders want to be 🇫🇰🇬🇧

The Falkland Islands are British. Self-determination demands Falklanders are the only ones who decide their future, and they have made their position clear: The people who live there are and wish to remain British www.reuters.com/world/uk/sov...

Surviving my first blizzard and power outage here in northern Montana! (The second pic is my back yard this morning)

The Louvre is a public institution. Admission is free for EU residents under 26, children from anywhere, unemployed people, and on certain days everyone. There is no sense in which robbing it is “stealing from the rich.”

Winter Weather Advisory issued April 22 at 12:47PM MDT until April 23 at 2:00PM MDT by NWS Glasgow MT Additional Details Here.

I didn’t hear these people complaining in the 2000s when gay marriage was being banned via amendment-by-referendum

This isn’t a rant against James Carville so much as it is a rant against the independence of the Supreme Court

While Bart complains about this "high concept" ad, this is one reason I miss the old TV Guide. They were compact and cozy as well as a great outlet for creativity from networks, graphic designers, and artists alike. I miss that.

This is so beside the point, but 15 years? I swear it feels like Cook took over yesterday. Time flies when you're having... whatever the hell we've been having over the last decade plus

This is the third Trump administration cabinet secretary to resign or be fired in less than two months Frequent turnover was characteristic of Trump's first term but is unusual in modern American presidential administrations

When I went to sleep Vance was not going to Pakistan because security concerns. Now he's going again. What changed?

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Using AI to write is plagiarism — intellectual theft. Like plagiarism, it should be treated as a moral and legal taboo.

It's efficient and economical to have AI write drafts of of a news story or, god forbid, something longer. After all, people just want the info, right? Wrong. If this is the wave of the future, I'd rather drown. www.wired.com/story/backch...

“A Texas mother whose son, a Navy sailor, is also aboard the Tripoli, said she panicked after hearing he was hungry on the ship. Her family has now spent at least $2,000 on care packages, but none have reached her son. The mother asked to remain anonymous out of fear her son would face retaliation.”

Local journalism matters. That's why I left national media to run a small-town newspaper My latest: dailyyonder.com/commentary-w...

We found more than a half-dozen instances in which Dan Abrams' Mediaite appeared to invent stories out of thin air, fabricate quotes, or misattribute reporting to the wrong person or outlet. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mediaite-c...