Hey data journalists (including students!), the National Press Club Journalism Institute is launching a new award for Excellence in Visual Storytelling and applications are now open until Oct. 24. 📊

Research-based advice for parents on how to talk to their kids about their online worlds & lives Remember — most of all — “Kids are having these conversations, make sure they are having them with you.”🧪🛟 👊 @milleridriss.bsky.social @perilresearch.bsky.social 👊

Oregon Republicans know they can't use an image of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream and their fake intel, so they had to make one from stock photos of South American "Policia" leaning on riot shields + what looks like Brazilian football fans with flares

It's Nobel Prize week! If you've ever wondered how exactly people decide who wins one...here you go: www.sciencenews.org/article/nobe... Longer more detailed version here: www.snexplores.org/article/nobe... Thing I learned: Even when people try their hardest to avoid bias, the system gets you...

It’s just ONE DAY until our letter to the editor training! We’re hosting an Advocacy Training TOMORROW, Tuesday night, where you can get the skills you need to make your voice heard. Learn more:

I'm here for librarian jokes (and for public libraries)

Judge: Again, I'm handling on emergency basis, limited briefing, but new info has been provided. For all of the reasons stated in this court's previous order, I GRANT plaintiffs' motion for second TRO. The question is the scope of it.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut has called a 10PM (ET) hearing on Trump's effort to circumvent her National Guard order by calling up California troops. @kyledcheney.bsky.social reports

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

The web can be made personal again. blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

This is what freedom of speech sounds like. Also, please consider subscribing to the Philadelphia Inquirer. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Yet another interesting story about crypto's primary use case — to do, and have done to you, crimes [🎁]

Federal officers pushed crowds of protesters hundreds of yards down city streets and fired tear gas, flash-bang grenades and pepper balls without any clear signs of provocation.

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’ I have been forced to move my classes online. If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

National Guard troops for thee, but not for me. www.ipsos.com/en-us/where-...

“…follow the facts and the law, wherever they may lead, free from fear or favor, and unhindered by political interference,” he wrote. But DOJ political leadership violates those principles, the letter says. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Doctors documented 280 pediatric flu deaths – the highest number in the 21 years since monitoring began, with the exception of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The data also reveal a troubling pattern in severe brain complications last year. On the implications of this new data and what we can do about it:

DHS posted their response on X: “To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban." LAPD has kept quiet, following several L.A. TACO requests for comment. By Aisha Wallace-Palomares The full story: lataco.com/masked-law-e...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Quoting the head of recruitment here, I wonder if this comports with Hegseth’s warrior ethos?

For public policy scholars: JPIPE published our article that uses machine learning to code the universe of congressional and state legislative data since 2009 by the Comparative Agenda Project policy codes. That's 1.68 million bills. OPEN-ACCESS here: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/data/dollar-dominance-tracker-2025-10-01/

It's cool how many news reports I'm seeing about impending federal layoffs and safety net cuts that fail to note that all of this is very obviously illegal.

This 2024-25 school year, book bans affected 3,752 unique titles in 87 school districts nationwide. Some types of books are targeted for removal because of their content; but the climate of censorship that has spread in schools has impacted a wide array of titles written for all sorts of audiences.

The White House is engaging in direct extortion of local and state governments, attempting to force them to change their policies by stopping funding projects that already have signed grant agreements with the federal government.

And so it begins! 🎃👻🧛🧟‍♀️

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Your tax dollars at work (you bet I left website feedback) www.hud.gov

JUST IN: American Oversight asks the 11th Circuit to vacate Judge Cannon's blockade of the special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's handling of classified material. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

@drjohnorchard.bsky.social hello there, my name is David Covucci and i'm a journalist covering (American) college football. Would you be willing to follow me for a DM?

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

FOIA records show early in Trump’s term, EPA leaders often met with industry lobbyists — including Bayer, BASF & ExxonMobil. Many were former industry insiders now shaping regulation from within, raising questions over whose interests are being served. investigatemidwest.o... 1/2

Today’s question: TAI vs AGI vs Super AI vs T-3000?

I'm so old, I remember when Tucker Carlson founded the Daily Caller as "the conservative answer to the New York Times," an outlet that was supposed to serve as a mouthpiece for intellectually serious conservatism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

New from me: In May, the United Arab Emirates’ state-backed investment firm MGX deposited $2 billion into the Trump family crypto venture. Now, it's set to get a big chunk of the TikTok U.S. deal negotiated by the Trump White House www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

New: "Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal—Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law" 🏌️🚔 me, for @forbes.com 1/

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

Calling dibs on leftover donuts or sandwiches

JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents." Somewhere, our ancestors wept.

The man appears to be the same officer who was caught last month on NPR audio aggressively arresting a court observer.

In the US, even a “cheap” transit bus costs 2-3x more than in Asia or Europe -- and one agency may pay twice as much as another for nearly identical vehicles. In Bloomberg, I explored a ripe opportunity to improve transportation by applying Abundance-coded, supply-side reforms. 🧵

Trump granddaughter (Don Jr's daughter) uses White House as the backdrop to shill her new clothing line.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Texas is still planning to kill Robert Roberson clayjak.substack.com/p/theres-sti...

Catching up with a deeper dive on this amazing, alarming analysis of county-level vaccination rates by Mustafa Fattah (come to bsky!), Jocelyn Shek (come to bsky!) and @joemurph.bsky.social. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...