“Gone are the top prosecutors who had overseen a sprawling, yearslong investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs, which the White House months ago cited as a reason for the immigration crackdown in the state.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

“Give me a task, tell me what to do, let’s go.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

I've been saying this for a few years now, the extreme shift to video podcasts (and even Netflix embracing them) is kind of the final domino to fall. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Explain the PBSWI Digital team retreat badly

Years of therapy hasn't fixed me yet, but maybe, just maybe, Fantastical might.

Um yes hello, it’s the relentlessly Wisconsin content I crave! #spookylakes www.wpr.org/news/meet-wi...

“What do you do when someone who used to be your donor becomes a client?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

“Let’s not let political polarization blind us to the end game: a reduction in the use of animals in research.” - Deb Blum www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Me when everything is on fire but there’s still content to post

Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...

Interesting sense of perspective. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

“In time, US citizens may find themselves trapped in a diminished, nightmare America—like a post-Musk Twitter at scale—where everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled.” apple.news/AkXgyDqu1QtG...

It's truly incredible how thoroughly we have erased the pandemic from our collective memory. We have learned nothing and we will suffer the consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge just re-aired one of the best things I've ever worked on: a show celebrating our loving partnership with dogs, and how we grieve and celebrate them when they are gone. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is arguing with a cable news channel to say that french fries aren’t unhealthy

Happy National Lighthouse Day! I interviewed the folks behind @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “Illuminating Cana Island” about scanning the lighthouse there, what it means to balance interactivity and accessibility, and how games fit into the public media mission. pbswisconsin.org/article/a-vi...

“If people are celebrating and eating treats, they don’t want to be tasting beets.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/rfk-food-dyes-candy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"The idea that ‘To The Best Of Our Knowledge’ has not reflected Wisconsin is hurtful.” @ttbook.bsky.social captimes.com/business/a-s...

Proud to have helped out with this, a lot of folks @pbswisconsin.bsky.social have worked hard on it. Check it out! 🎸 pbswisconsin.org/mileofmusic

Thought of it, couldn’t unsee it

Pope Chicagoland

Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

“The real change isn’t that older adults are absent; it’s that their kids need them more than ever.” https://apple.news/AN8frGnlNSam3MKDtJB74Mw

Japanese Breakfast x Gorillaz at #Coachella2025 streamable.com/cj40d7

Alert! @lucydacus.bsky.social content on @pbswisconsin.bsky.social! pbswisconsin.org/watch/americ...

There could always be more vinyl.

Civic Media is hiring. civicmedia.us/careers

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Me talking about SEO at work

Claude gets it @anthropic.com

Interesting thought experiment: based on pay, does your employer assume you are supporting a partner or kids, or just yourself? livingwage.mit.edu

“The question is not, ‘Are trans women biological men?’ The question is, ‘Do trans women deserve dignity as your fellow citizens?’” — @brianna.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Hearing from federal employees tonight who are getting messages via their agency’s emergency notification system, which is usually reserved for snow-related office closures, that’s like DO NOT RESPOND TO THAT EMAIL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE NO IDEA IF ANY OF THOSE PROMISES ARE REAL

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

As an internet content person, I can’t stop thinking about this

Alright, well, video games. With 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico on the way, I can see a sharp downtick in the number of disc-based games that get released physically in the US, as much of that production infrastructure is in Mexico. If they do get made, I expect higher prices both phys & dig.

“Too often in Trump 1.0, we embraced the aesthetics of protests instead of using them as part of a strategy. You shouldn’t start with a tactic. You should start with a goal.”— Ezra Levin, the executive director of Indivisible www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

January 19

please re-renner this urgent message

Goodnight, sweet prince.

“Fishes are one of nature’s most killable animals” I’m way late to the party but this is balm on my soul podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Not sure if these labels on @npr.org content on YouTube Shorts are new. How are #publicmedia folks feeling about labeling like this? It kind of gives the vibe that tech platforms aren’t really differentiating between public media (independent but funded by tax dollars) and state media (propaganda).

Other news contained in this document: Via an official "Slur Update," Meta has decided "'Tranny' is no longer a designated slur and is now non-violating." I have never seen the company (or any other platform) delist a slur before.

Undermining distributed file sharing and fair use simultaneously… 🫠

"Alex Schultz, the company’s chief marketing officer and highest-ranking gay executive, suggested in an internal post that seeing their queer friends and family members abused on Facebook and Instagram could lead to increased support for LGBTQ rights."