"Stop me if you've heard this before" dept: Student-run independent college newspapers should be in the running for Pulitzers. This from @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

RIP Jamal Khashoggi The CIA found that his death was "ordered" by the man Trump says "knew nothing about it".

"How does a country burst? To answer this question, it helps to see matters as do the president and the vice-president: from inside a grift bubble."

Astonishing. Good for them. “We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.”

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Same. Sorry, not sorry.

Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case. openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Donated! Amazing resource during this election. Looking forward to more great coverage.

A path to sustainability for local news organizations. New report (I edited). LION Publishers pulls important threads from its work with hundreds of local news organizations. lionpublishers.com/a-roadmap-fo...

Media standards: 1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention. 2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing. Way too many think that’s journalism.

I don't disagree. But wondering wth Durbin is still #2 in D leadership?

Conservative school board members lost throughout Ohio on Tuesday: signalohio.org/culture-warr...

Picture of the day

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Good.

Finally just called it.

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Shitstorms work: Indiana University Lifts Ban on Printing News in College Newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

Could say this about most of Trump's cabinet but I don't expect to see that story any time soon in #brokentimes

My new book, AMERICAN OTHERNESS IN JOURNALISM @routledgebooks.bsky.social , will have its debut reading and signing at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social on Nov. 18. More information here: boulderbookstore.net/event/2025-1...

From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.

Joyce is one of the true warriors of this present time; indefatigable on her substack, on her podcast, on TV, and in her commitment to the belief that democracy depends on ordinary humans doing extraordinary things. Today is a great day to thank her for showing up for the rest of us, every day.

It is my understanding that a new meme shows us that Donald Trump produces so much fecal material every day that it is necessary for him to dump it out of an airplane. (Don’t repost the meme. Just make fun of it!)

(Gentle reminder: We don’t actually need to do far-right justices’ work for them. If they want to destroy the VRA, trust me, they’ll do it. You don’t need to cut down the brush in front of them to help them on their way.)

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I just got home at 6 PDT so maybe I missed it but *strongly* suggesting MSNBC skip the guest commentators on Comey and Israel put Jacob on TV live please

The 2025 INN Index Report is here 📊 The data shows a nonprofit news sector that's financially stronger, increasingly local and more collaborative than ever. inn.org/research/inn...

Right hand. Meet left hand.

Next year doesn't exist when you are shuttering your business today.

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The way that white male podcasters/public figures—and not only/mostly talking about Ezra— are clearly panicking about their own personal safety in wake of Kirk is so indicative of how proportionally less violence they fear/face every day their whole lives. And obvs others face more than I. Still.

Here’s a video from today of press and a legal observer being specifically targeted.

Here’s the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on what happened today and what we need to do now…. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

I wish the media would consider this. I heard a reasonable NPR report a few minutes ago in which they explained “antifa” (not an actual organization; it means “anti-fascist”)—BUT they continually used the term “antifa” nevertheless. I suggest we drain its power.

gotta give @jeffjarvis.bsky.social props -- this is what a professor is supposed to do. say what needs to be said.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Wow!!!