Essay on Wilco's "Via Chicago" shipped... Found time to sing, play guitar and drums for this cover version... soundcloud.com/cooler-by-th...

Uhoh AI dot com.

Wait what this is crazy. Will Lewis is out the same week that WaPo laid off 300+ people??

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Finishing my @marchxness.bsky.social essay all like... www.instagram.com/reels/DCsCZh...

The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict

Alyssa is both a serious data journalist with immense technical chops and a super-talented visualization guru, figuring out all sorts of solutions to create the best storytelling approach. Plus she's a great collaborative partner :) Someone needs to hire her ASAP.

None of this was necessary. None of it _had to happen_. Every single bit is a choice made by people who don't have to suffer the consequences. Up to us to help the people paying the price so that others can prosper, and to never ever ever forget who's making the choices.

Thinking of all my friends at the @washingtonpost today. Also thinking about how "finding a way to legally bar billionaires from owning great newspapers" might be rocketing up my "Best Use Of Time Machine" power rankings.

IRE is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Philip Meyer Journalism Award! This annual contest recognizes the best use of social science research methods in journalism.

"A forum for the world's most brilliant minds."

I have 1,024,152 files released yesterday by the DOJ on my machine... Do I have them all? Have they removed some? Is that the denominator? Nobody knows.

I'm doing journalism today. That's what I can contribute.

AP reporting that the FBI last week moved to replace its top agent in Atlanta, Paul W. Brown. It is not immediately clear why the move, which was not publicized by the FBI, was made. apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Summer of 1998. In the back of a Honda Civic. Leaving "The Trackside" bar. Windows down. She was next to me in the back seat. ... The way you looked at me when you said, "Alanis kicks ass right now," I had to find out. But I shoulda known... You didn't think me unworthy. But, I was uninvited.

This was an option today on at least one prediction market... Someone made a little coin ... but who...

So my first round matchup in a bracket of sad song essays is against Tori Freakin Amos? Gulp. But seriously, this region has some heavyweights.

Holding out for a November Rain v Neon Moon regional final.

That Sade v 3EB matchup... OG high school sad meets college pop grunk sad.

Apropos of everything anymore... #JustForOneDay

Associated Press has confirmed Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino and some agents are expected to leave Minneapolis as early as Tuesday. CNN was the first to report. apnews.com/live/minneap...

CNN reporter saying Bovino leaving the Twin Cities.

Doesn’t appear in this year’s @marchxness.bsky.social bracket but here’s Edwin McCain talking about his journey to creating one of my favorite sad 90s tunes, “I’ll Be.” That line “I’ll be, better when I’m older” sure hits different 30 years later. youtu.be/SqoeVht-qw8?...

Somewhere lovely, Mitch Hedberg is smiling.

From our friends at @sourcenm.com ‘I’m stuck here’: Dozens of Minneapolis ICE detainees shipped to NM detention facility minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/22/r...

Thus begins my final undergraduate semester…

Anyone know what the green smoke is! Any chance it’s www.defense-technology.com/product/tact...

Did I just figure out how to apply a tag to a file in DocumentCloud by changing a dropdown value in a Google Spreadsheet? Yes, yes, I did. Does it scale? I have no idea.

Words matter. We have them to describe circumstances and feelings so others can comprehend and empathize. Time to roll out stronger words.

Start the clock… www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerqu...

"The code is never the point. The execution is the point. The realised intent is the point. The code is just the unfortunate middle step we haven’t figured out how to eliminate yet." generativeai.pub/the-eternal-...

Shouldn't be surprised, and yet...

Signed up for a Kalshi API account this week. Excited to see what it provides in terms of tracking "prediction markets."

If someone considering entering journalism were to ask me for advice, I’d tell them to skip it and focus on building a community around a topic and doing all you can to inform that community in a fair but honest way so that some will help you lay the bills that modern society sends your way.

I’m all for children reading, but, sorry, what are we selling through the book club now?

AP has confirmed the shooting occurred after the officer was attacked with a shovel. apnews.com/article/immi...

Seeing this I'm compelled to acknowledge what this season of football has meant to the residents of Chicago and Chicagoland, and how hope and the power of "being there in the end with a chance" has over the psyche. But any chance it comes in green and gold?

The daily breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico can be found online. fletcartesia.southernfoodservice.com/Menu/Weekly?...

Time to begin today...

Generally... Tennessee v. Garner limits police when it comes to using deadly force to stop suspects and requires an officer to have probable cause that the fleeing individual posed a significant threat to themselves or others, and that deadly force was necessary to prevent escape.

New webpage up on Whitehouse.gov. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Started this game on Tuesday… couldn’t finish it off tonight but it’s looking good.

No. 1 - Jan. 1, 2026 #365Songs

Xfinity didn’t like me visiting the .gov Santa Tracker and blocked aspects as a security threat…

Just ran a script and counted just over 40,000 pages across ~14,700 PDFs…

Did the DOJ change its document numbering sometime yesterday which left different numbers for the same file? It appears so. At first it was off one digit and then it grew.

Briefly this afternoon there was an accessible link to Data Set No. 8 of files related to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than 10,000 pdfs and another 400 video, audio and csv files. Then the link went 404. Stay tuned.