Since reading the @dailydetroit.bsky.social newsletter yesterday, I can't stop thinking about the implications of the perception-reality gap identified by this study for so many issues

Another reason to be skeptical about the rush to develop more data centers: AI infrastructure needs may not be as significant in the near future because of the potential shift from tools that are cloud-based to those that are device-based: open.substack.com/pub/theaugme...

Judge Ruins Trump Admin's Plans For Orwellian Removal Of Slavery Exhibit www.wonkette.com/p/judge-ruin... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

Alright everyone u ready for today? Please enjoy any of the following u celebrate: -Paczki Day! -Ramadan! -Lunar New Year! -Mardi Gras! -Other Fat Tuesday option not mentioned above GO TEAM!!!!

"Local journalism often begins before a camera is rolling, before a live shot is framed, before a headline is written. It begins with proximity. With awareness. With someone deciding that what’s happening matters enough to go see it firsthand." Minnesota journalists are meeting the moment.

About OpenAI: “Years ago it developed a technology that was 99.9 percent accurate in detecting work generated by the company’s ChatGPT. Senior executives had internal debates about whether to let educators have access to the tool. They opted not to.” Yeah.

Universe, take the worries we carried today, quiet the overthinking, hold what feels heavy so we can rest; we release what didn’t go right, forgive what we didn’t finish, and wake up tomorrow to a clean page. Goodnight 🌙

If an increasing unpopular leader, known for shaping reality w/ lies, wanted to subvert democracy, would they: A) complain that the polls are “fake news”, B) threaten polling organizations into silence, C) sow distrust in election results, or D) find ways to disenfranchise voters of the other party?

A must read that underscores 1) all politics are local, 2) the importance of having access to reputable local news & information, 3) the necessity of paying attention to what gets approved in local public meetings, and 4) the role that local planners might play in resistance

Fantastic fact-checking by Jer at @dailydetroit.bsky.social!

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The heat in this apartment is cycling between 52 and 61 degrees even though I’ve got the thermostat set at 65

Enten: "Failure, failure, failure going into the midterm elections, because Donald Trump was elected to fix the economy, and people still believe lowering prices should be the top priority, and at this point 55% of people say the economy is getting worse."

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

The @aejmc.bsky.social Standing Committee on Teaching Best Practices in Teaching Competition offers faculty and grad students a conference presentation outlet to share their innovative assignments, projects, and activities. Submit by Feb. 15! higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AEJMC/680a77...

More great data center reporting from @planetdetroit.org @brianallnutt.bsky.social planetdetroit.org/2026/01/univ...

Meet the current PJIG officers and check out our call for papers for the 2026 conference! www.aejmc.org/participator... @aejmc.bsky.social

January 31, 2026

Hugely important case. h/t @freedom.press @trevortimm.bsky.social

I hope the city finds ways to highlight and acknowledge accurate American history in places not controlled by the federal govt during all the 250th celebrations happening this year www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

Check out pp. 54-55 of @aejmc.bsky.social 's January 2026 newsletter for info on our paper competition: www.yumpu.com/en/document/... #aejmc2026

Reason no. 379 that moving to a new academic institution after graduation is not the same as moving to a new non-academic job: you still have access to your old email. Between that and the security measures I'm trying to adopt in my personal life, the number of email addresses I have now is bonkers

The 2026 AEJMC Conference submission site is now live! We can't wait to read your proposals: www.aejmc.org/aejmc-events...

It's not too early to start planning for the 2026 @aejmc.bsky.social conference! The submission site opens tomorrow (January 15) - check out our call for papers here: www.aejmc.org/participator...

ah, Wednesday, when what should have been a 5-minute task turns into an hourlong investigation

The salsa shelf at TJ’s is quickly emptying and my non-scientific estimation is that 65% of people I observed on the street today are wearing some sort of Eagles gear #gobirdsiguess

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

The Trump admin has tried to chill dissent, weaken the media, & muzzle universities, law firms, corporations. Its attacks on free speech are incessant & chilling. Read my @freepress.bsky.social report documenting Trump & his year of targeting speech that isn't his: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

I ran across enough of these nonexistent articles in student references lists this semester that I was compelled to spend extra time double checking sources for each paper @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Hello Bluesky! I am now serving as the Communication Chair for @aejmcpjig.bsky.social, and as the year is coming to a close I encourage you to give us a follow here and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/aejm... !

I feel this in my bones… THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype. We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing. I have a lot to say open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

This: “I’m offended that he finds the affordability crisis a hoax. He’s probably never paid an electricity bill or shopped for groceries in his life” @nytimes.com Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

At #NCA2025 to present in both a session and short course on my first book chapter, which apparently arrived to my home shortly after I left for the airport today! 🙃

I voted for Slotkin even though I’m not always a fan of her policies or approach. But I’m not mad at this at all

Same. Maybe because it’s so familiar to us? So “schoolyard bully?“ We’ve all known this guy/boy but in those cases there have been some -albeit modest- norms, systems, & structures that constrain and punish this behavior. But here: there are none because we’ve decided that for him there are none.

A resident who met with the mayor prior to the passage of Proposal N was quoted by the @freep.com back in July in celebration of the 8,000th demo, “My grandson was in my lap when we had that meeting at my house. He's 6 now. He plays in the lots that I now own.” All of those lots need to be tested.

It’s a scream-constantly kind of week.

Found this heartbreaking note on the snack board outside my office at Penn State. @johnfetterman.com, I hope you feel like crap for selling Pennsylvanians like this person out for absolutely nothing. Because that's what Democrats got: nothing but a meaningless promise about healthcare.

what’s happening at my alma mater open.substack.com/pub/collegew...

DTE looks to fast-track OpenAI facility, while environmental advocates raise alarms over utilities’ plans to build more gas plants to meet massive energy needs of data centers: planetdetroit.org/2025/11/dte-...

Fewer people participate in local elections, so every vote really does matter! I was voter #3 in my precinct this morning #electionday

"Spending on data centers, which are filled with the company’s chips, accounted for 92 percent of the country’s gross domestic product growth in the first half of the year" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/t...

Good, clear messaging from @danpfeiffer.bsky.social this morning “To Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, forcing poor children to go hungry is preferable to negotiating with Democrats over lowering health care costs for millions of Americans.” open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

"No matter how deep our political differences, the Constitution must be followed. Skirting the law is bad enough, but it’s so much worse that they did it in the name of stopping bills that would have helped thousands of their constituents make ends meet.” www.freep.com/story/news/p...

One of the primary goals of university is teaching critical thinking skills. Nowhere is critical thinking more needed than "in the age of AI." So it doesn't matter what your kids study as long as they're developing their critical thinking skills.

Macomb County, MI #NoKings

A thread worth reading. Protests have meaning. They have a purpose. They are contagious.

Let’s do this today, Michigan! Over 100 events across the state! I’m headed over to Macomb County, where I grew up, to join a #nokings protest in McClain’s district ❌👑

More great data center reporting by @brianallnutt.bsky.social and @planetdetroit.org that I'm not really seeing elsewhere in metro Detroit. I especially love the "Civic next steps: How you can get involved" section (end of the article)