CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Not clear what the FBI did other than rush in with their jackets on for the final raid.

Investor ownership (as documented by some good journalism) and greed / profit seeking on the part of developers and owners (aiming for the top end of the market in construction and remodel) also play a role. Building more will also tilt higher end.

Journalism, this should be routine with Trump orders and announcements: Does he have the authority?

1. Wow 2. Shocked not shocked

I spent five years working at a (different) research center at UNC. This is worth reading - and once again, the Daily Tar Heel is doing excellent reporting.

Ever since they got kicked out of the press pool over that Gulf of Mexico lunacy, the AP has been one of the clearest chroniclers of Trump’s absurd lies and offenses

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.” He was brilliant from Day One.

All these hours after the videos surfaced, NYT, WAPo verified — but have not given the name of the hero, though it’s public

like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.

i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It would be helpful to revisit the Hunter Biden scandal: What he did, why it broke rules, and why those who pushed to prosecute Biden are silent on the many open conflicts of interest/ profiteering by Trump and family/friends

Corruption in the open.

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Terrific reporting, and incredibly troubling. Who looks out for people when immigration agents have unchecked power?

The New York Times is doing some of the best journalism and some of the most misguided: This weak tea illustrates the need for an independent public editor or real media criticism — including voices from the many kinds of stakeholders for the NYT doing things right www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

It would be great if the story were framed and reported in light of the stakes @ddiamond.bsky.social mentions in this post and not in terms of what it means for political parties, per headline and story emphasis

Professional sports leagues and gambling ops have taken over what used to be universities. News outlets should recast coverage as such: this has nothing to do with college.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

This CBS story is just remarkable. It states that Trump insulted their reporter, and also notes the same thing happened to reporters from Bloomberg and NYT. Both of those organizations are quoted defending their journalists. But Bari Weiss and CBS don't lift a finger to defend their own reporter.

Kudos to @wsj.com: to understand Trump's strategy and why Russia is getting so much attention, it helps to know what's really afoot. (gift) www.wsj.com/world/russia...

I appreciate local reporting on these decisions, bringing more people into the loop. It'd be a great service to explain what is behind big numbers — $16B, $6.2B — What costs? (not land, or construction, even equipment?) Who gets the money. The numbers imply benefit and spend, but whose? #NCPol

“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.”

This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...

very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here

If you're trying to give people accurate, reliable information on the #NationalGuard shootings, you don't quote Laura Loomer. Shame on the Washington Post. What happened to verification?

DHS claimed immigration authorities arrested “the worst of the worst” during recent NC detention operations. Evidence shows that wasn’t always the case and federal officials arrested people with no criminal records. my latest for @newsobserver.com www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

The student-run Daily Tar Heel is doing stellar reporting on deep struggles over #UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership, created by the legislature, here's the latest from reporter Aidan Lockhart: www.dailytarheel.com/article/inve...

The @nytimes could be a great source of civic education but it never takes the opportunity --

Ezra Klein's NYT take today on housing overlooks a reality Patti Smith pointed out to him last week: building more units won't bring down costs jacked up by greed: investors snapping up bigger share of homes, for instance www.mpamag.com/us/mortgage-... @nytopinion.nytimes.com @ezraklein.bsky.social

This was the scene at "Chapel Thrill" on the UNC campus early afternoon when I strolled through with a visiting relative. Stadium a stone's throw away and game against Duke a few just a few hours away, band playing but no one around.

The English-language internet is flooded with material from a pro-Kremlin network publishing up to 23,000 articles a day. A firehose of propaganda flooding search sites enabled by AI www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

Love the “at stake” focus —

Terrific reporting, though soft pedaled: The president is using his office to help his family business make high-dollar business deals of all kinds. Missing: Why this is possible (lack of law or oversight), and context re past presidents who avoided conflicts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

What constitutes bribery today? www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

There is really not much here, either in subject or reporting. But by playing it so prominently, and in the way the piece and headline are written, the NYT embarrasses itself

Asheboro has discharged a likely carcinogen 1,4-dioxane at levels of 651 ppb into the drinking water supply. That's 18,000+ times the EPA's health advisory goal. Yet NC's Enviro Mgmt Commission refuses to regulate it in surface water

The @washingtonpost.com "Editorial Board" opinions anymore are just rants. They don't reflect original research or reporting, and definitely don't point to solutions or provide insight. Instead, they read like a cranky conservative relative's outbursts of frustration. What a waste.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

I was focused on one specific, provable fact, and how it got warped. In terms of Trump's viral photo — it's evocative. It speaks for itself. But it appears to be a split-second shot. You can see from the video — Trump immediately stood up and turned to look. (RFK Jr, meanwhile, did go to get help)

Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.

This conversation is as bad and ridiculous as the headline itself: wealthy, privileged people removed from the reality of actual workplaces — an insult not just to women but to working people everywhere. Ruin -- in what way? For whom? How? Sloppy.

News outlets that cover the election mainly through the prism of which party / politician gained politically are missing the message from voters — and a market opportunity to be relevant to people's real-life struggles, worries and hopes.