Full text of the articles of impeachment.

Two weeks ago I reported that Key Bridge survivors and victims' families were shut out of the Baltimore Community Foundation's $16M relief fund. This afternoon the foundation announced a $1.2M donation for the families. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

I’m in the U.S., heading to the grocery store and tempted to start turning everything upside down

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Still going. No fooling.

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Some of us had a hard time not falling for April Fool’s Day even before 2025

Our journalism alumni give me hope: These four, from New York Times, Chattanooga Times, Fayetteville Business Journal and WNEM TV5, spoke to Appalachian State students during a recent Zoom panel. Thank you, Makaelah Walters, Ben Sessoms, Faith Hatton and Anna Kathman!

Seizure by executive command, without due process and without judicial review, undermines the whole rest of a constitutional system. Preventing it is the core purpose of the separation of powers and the key distinction between constitutional and unconstitutional systems. tinyurl.com/JTLSepPow

"Local newsrooms that are able to activate the 'local psyche' rather than the national, partisan psyche have a better shot at supporting a substantive exchange of ideas." www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/how-...

It’s not the biggest EO, and unlike some it won’t kill or imprison people, and yet in its explicit appeal to white supremacy, and noting thr unease I feel now writing that publicly, I find this one of the most chilling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The National Trust for Local News, as its own leaders have said, has multiple contradictions built into its core mission. It’s a national org championing local news; it’s pursuing conservation AND transformation of local newspapers; it’s a nonprofit, and it’s a $50 million media business. (1/3)

One thing I haven't seen said about the Signal security breach -- maybe because there's soooo much else to say ... This is why you don't rely on a team of inexperienced strangers, all too busy pretending they know what they're doing to dare ask who else is in the room and why

Perhaps the idea is to streamline the agency and to make it more efficient by focusing it on people Trump doesn’t like. Maybe it will be renamed the Internal Retribution Service.

Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding. bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

1973: "Divided in three like a circus. Ring one, Executive, Two is Legislative, that's Congress. Ring three, Judiciary ... Each controls the other, you see, and that's what we call checks and balances" 2025: "Gonna have a three-ring circus" youtu.be/-EISWIY9bG8?...

New from me —> Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/wire...

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.

“At a time when many media outlets are cutting back on state government coverage, public media is increasing its journalism about how North Carolina state government is serving its citizens.”

WUNC is partnering with public media stations across the state to launch the North Carolina Newsroom, Capitol Bureau, a journalism collaboration expanding North Carolina state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences throughout the year. www.wunc.org/wunc-updates...

"There’s been a lot written about the crisis in the humanities. There’s been far less written about the humanities during a crisis." For @insidehighered.com I wrote about how we've forgotten how the humanities kept us sane during an existential crisis. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Looking forward to this important event. Among the excellent speakers are reporters and editors from NYT, N&O -- and one of Boone's very own, Watauga Democrat editor & App State alumnus Moss Brennan

I spoke with Chimamanda about America, which is starting to seem no different to her than Nigeria.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

"Critics contend that coverage is sometimes so broadly focused that it doesn’t connect with local readers. Many express concerns about who’s paying the bills and with what motives. And there’s constant fear about the funding drying up.”

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

They say reporters write the first draft of history, but historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social is out there writing it with the kind of crucial detail and context we all need now — the kind we aren’t getting from nearly enough journalists.

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

Even in its weekly news quiz, NYT is amplifying DT’s lies, relying on quotation marks as though they absolve writers of responsibility. At a minimum the quiz should contain an explainer after you answer, as it often does. But no, here NYT just lets the lie stand. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NC’s Sen. Thom Tillis: Putin is ‘the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime’ #ncpol Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Journalism is the enemy of disinformation. We all need journalists to become, once again, the most powerful enemy of disinformation the U.S. has ever seen.

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

TFW when you accidentally fire some of your top warhead experts Tame headline from NYT. Still nothing in WSJ about this yet, that I’ve seen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

"the lasting, structural damage that’s deliberately being done to this economy and everyone in it… has to be pointed out." Important reminder, at end of @marketplace.org by @kairyssdal.bsky.social, that media focus on short-term chaos obscures long-term ramifications of the destruction of trust.

We need to make #CourageIsContagious a trending hashtag and amplify these acts of integrity, bravery, and fidelity to the rule of law. Thank you, SDNY attorneys, for leading by example

Has a U.S. president ever weighed in on -- never mind threatening retaliation -- the AP Stylebook, or for that matter any publication style guide? Next thing we know he'll rename the Oxford comma and force AP to use it.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

The Situation, February 12, 2025

My interview of Mo Amer for @salonnewsroom.bsky.social about the critically acclaimed second season of "Mo" on Netflix. If you haven't seen series, go right now and watch it. There has never been a show the depicted the humanity of Palestinians and immigrants like this: www.salon.com/2025/02/11/s...

It should not be radical for the American Bar Association to say that it supports the rule of law. But right now, it is. Let's see some other orgs taking a similar stance.

Is a newsroom’s only goal with a paywall to turn visitors into subscribers? Or do news orgs want visitors who hit a paywall and don’t subscribe to still leave with a little more context than a headline alone can offer? That’s a question that is more about mission than data.

Two Charlotte groups organized a protest against deportation on Sunday in First Ward Park, followed by a march through uptown that drew over 250 people. “My parents struggled to get here and now it’s my turn to fight for them,” a protester said. Read more: bit.ly/3Ezu0Qs 📸: Khadejeh Nikouyeh

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.