Never has a president used the federal government in his own personal and financial interests to this degree. I hope major national media can do better than calling it "remarkable." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Could "constitutional right to farm" amendment in North Carolina mean that the state could not regulate farming that causes water or air pollution, or encroaches on neighbors' property — ie would constitution trump law? NCGOP is stacking up proposed amendments ncnewsline.com/2026/05/19/a... #NCPol

Terrific and I'd love to see more news orgs doing this — turning their deep dives into many kinds of formats, not just long text pieces.

The problem with Sulzberger/Baron et al "we are not the opposition." The US press has an opponent, as do US citizens who either cherish or take for granted their 1st Amendment rights. These times are not the past. Claiming neutrality when you, and democratic freedoms, are under attack, is myopic.

The 'offramp' is broken -- not just the metaphor, but the idea. Kudos to Carlos Lozada for this NYT column, which highlights how mainstream US national journalism continues to buy instant narratives and adopt the framing of political actors, almost routinely www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

This is a longtime complaint about the NYT, apparent rewriting of local media reporting w/o credit, that improved a good bit for awhile (Dean Baquet era). Paper's leadership says it cares about local/independent news outlets: First step is crediting (even boosting) good work even as you advance it

What happens when a corporation gets all the information it needs, but the public is in the dark? A data center announcement that comes as a surprise: Tenacious reporting by @curiousscout.bsky.social for @theassemblync.bsky.social

A must-read thread 🧵

As a journalist, I'm embarrassed by the determination of the White House Correspondents Association to reschedule its fancy dinner at a time when journalists are being killed and jailed in some countries and vilified in ours. There are better ways to show courage and resilience and oppose violence

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

The problem in a nutshell

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

I think we have reached quite a moment when something happens at an event with hundreds of journalists present and no one has a clue as to what actually occurred.

Every time you see a journalist say, “Gosh, I don’t much like the White House Correspondents Dinner, but it really helps me with my sources” … just remember…. The NY Times has been boycotting that dinner for years, and has likely been beating that reporter on one scoop after another.

There are people posing for photos at the White House correspondents dinner. Take down their names. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

Shredding and shedding the First Amendment.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

In Opinion “The town is making a comeback,” Bob Davis writes of Hickory, North Carolina, which had been devastated after Chinese factory imports surged in the U.S. “The jobs are returning, and incomes are rising. But the reasons have nothing to do with Mr. Trump and his signature policies.”

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Given these realities, continually smh over US news headlines reporting what Trump says as what happened. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed. 'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Reading some local media sites, feeling irritated by explosion in teaser headlines (no doubt aiming to force clicks and drive traffic) - maybe another consequence of AI search impact on news site traffic. Oppose of what headlines should do for readers, like so much else with digital media.

Hello setting aside politics and partisanship for a minute, is JD Vance really lecturing THE POPE on theology?

How media pick up phrasing from one another: 1) "Marathon" negotiations over the US-Israel/Iran war (describing a single day, with no context of negotiations for ending past wars). "Off-ramp" for US/Trump to same war, a metaphor that suggests a nation can easily exit a global conflict it undertook.

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

Science is good. We should fund it.

Happy Local News Day! Across North Carolina, journalists from local newsrooms of many kinds will be celebrating and chatting with readers, viewers and local people. Find out more: www.instagram.com/reel/DW6TKGW...

Why diplomacy shouldn't be done by social media post

On April 9, join us for the first-ever Local News Day. Stop by Cocoa Cinnamon in Durham from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and meet teams from The Assembly, INDY, and NC Local. 👋 ☕

So much news coverage recycles the same information but leaves obvious questions unanswered. The latest: North Carolina's new basketball coach hiring, $8m annual salary average for first years. Multiple outlets covered heavily, with no mention of where money comes from (and obvious related costs).

No self-respecting journalist would attend the White House Correspondents Dinner. It's long been an awkward event at odds with journalism's mission, an extreme example of Washington cocktail party journalism, and in this era — with 1st Amendment freedoms under fire -- it embarrasses the profession

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

The problem with this piece from The Hill, like so many others, is it misses core reality: Most fraud is by companies and bureaucrats turned crook, for decades and recent, not by individual recipients. "Welfare queen" myth vs. giant companies that commit fraud to tune of tens of millions

I understand why reporters monitor twitter/x — I would too if I were covering news now — just as with any major platform or outlet where people post or talk publicly. But there's no gain (journalistic or audience) in associating their professional identity, by posting or engaging there —

Okay fine, in this one instance you do have to hand it to Fox News

Hi! Your friendly neighborhood 82nd Airborne vet here to tell you 1,000 paratroopers is a command group+advance party and it makes no sense to send this element unless the plan is to send a fuck ton more ground troops relatively soon!

Always fascinating to watch journalism invent new boilerplate — where'd this "offramp" term originate, and isn't it trivialzing the complexity of the situation the Iran war has created?

This makes perfect sense at a time when electricity prices are about to remain stable due to no geopolitical conflict.

Alternate and beter news angles today would use these programs to address questions for all Americans: What ICE officers at the airports will involve, what the president is actually doing today amid Iran crisis, many other lines of reporting better than spin

Made a quick interactive about federal spending and the federal debt. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

Congratulations and good luck to @danamilbank.bsky.social and the new Washington news org but please don't try to be the Post of old or Politico — put your journalism on the side of people and fight to keep them informed. Be a newsroom that looks out for how people are affected by power.

Let's retire this: "saying the quiet part out loud." Say what you mean. Expressed racist ideas. Proposed taking legal rights away from women. Etc.

Doesn’t really work to demand intensely data-driven decision-making from the news side while maintaining the opinion side as a vanity project that alienates your audience.

UPDATE: We just added more info to the Trump Team Financials app! Now including President Trump's most recent financial transactions, which were filed late + released the same day we published our app. You can now see his transactions up until late Jan 2026. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Sickening racism from a sitting senator. The Ogles hate is contagious. You’re either calling this out or normalizing it. There’s no third option.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

"A dangerous precedent is being set in Trump’s new Middle East war: targeting critical and highly vulnerable desalination plants that provide vital freshwater resources for the region" by @petergleick.bsky.social thebulletin-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thebulle...

Bulk voter registration forms may soon be unavailable. On Feb. 27, the NCSBE directed county boards to stop providing forms in bulk once their current supply runs out. Learn more in this op-ed by YCV Founder & Executive Director Kate Fellman at youcanvote.org/latest-news. #ncpol #ncpolitics

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...