486,000 people live full-time in an RV, which appears to be more than twice as many as in 2021, a sign of what the lack of affordable housing is forcing families to do www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An activist accused a school admin in Wisconsin of celebrating Charlie Kirk's death Except it wasn't her He later retracted it (the same day he boasted getting 1 million followers) but her district was already being harassed More here in my latest --> www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com

"Students had been back on campus just shy of a month when the body of Demartravion 'Trey' Reed, a 21-year-old Black student, was found hanging from a tree on campus Monday. Reed's death has ignited calls for justice" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An assoc. principal was falsely accused of making insensitive comments about Charlie Kirk. In just 4 days, the district told me, it received over 900 harassing voicemails and 1,000 emails from people who thought it was true Around 100 students stayed home Monday www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“six Tesla drivers who use FSD (self driving mode) said they experienced problems with the technology at rail crossings, and four of them provided videos” www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... @davidingram.bsky.social

The guy who flew a drone into a plane that was battling the LA fires in Palisades in January is going to prison for two weeks, after a federal judge rejected letting him off with only community service www.courthousenews.com/la-county-ma...

NEW: I got the audio of 911 calls made regarding the UVU shooting. They paint a picture of panic and confusion. Parents calling in worried about their children on campus. One person said they saw Kirk driven away in a black SUV, and suspected he didn't have long www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Educators are getting fired or suspended over their social media posts about Charlie Kirk www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I didn't have a chance to make it to this with breaking news I was on, so this is more of a commentary: I didn't know anything about what profs at my public university were studying when I was an undergrad. Regardless of funding probs, faculty should do this more so that students are aware and care!

Dug into what steps colleges have taken on the security front in the recent past to prepare for Charlie Kirk events, with several @nbcnews.com colleagues www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Also at Law Dork this week, I was the first journalist in the country to report that federal prosecutors had indicted an LGBTQ legal organization lawyer over testimony in a long-running Alabama "judge-shopping" investigation:

Had a great time seeing Noel’s High Flying Birds featuring Liam Gallagher

NEW: If you make 2 students debate political issues on Zoom, or in an AI moderated chat, then have them rate each other - will it make them nicer when they argue? What if it could help them get into an elite university? New tech products are trying it -> www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com

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"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.

"The business 'doesn’t seem suspicious until you start digging. All you’re seeing from the outside is a scooter business like Bird or Lime, but once you start digging deeper, the scooters were all just smoke and mirrors.'" Anatomy of a scooter scam www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com

in Iowa, a Democrat won a seat in the legislature last night, breaking the GOP's supermajority The Dem ran on a platform opposing the new universal voucher scheme in which parents get money to take their kids to private schools www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

“He would be here but for ChatGPT. I 100% believe that,” Matt Raine said. In a new lawsuit filed Tuesday and shared with @nbcnews.com, the family claims that “ChatGPT actively helped [their son] explore suicide methods.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

The "individualization of risk" approach to health reminds me a lot of how industries deflect their responsibility to address climate change and pollution by directing energy and attention toward consumers -- ditch plastic straws, recycle your plastic soda bottles theconversation.com/how-federal-...

“Agencies cannot get away from responding to FOIA requests by intentionally degrading their capabilities to conduct searches for records…This is like a fire department saying, ‘We don’t have a hose, so we’re not going to put out the fires anymore,’” @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @nytimes.com

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

Happy Hot Mulligan album release day to all who celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-La...

Here’s the student paper’s story. They had to delay until one, the principal lifted an illegal censorship order, and two, a judge reminded the school it can’t fire an adviser for letting students report news. Help these young journalists make up for lost time — spread the story far and wide.

Cuts to public media and higher education may create the perfect storm to impact one group of learners in particular: student journalists Mine for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Update in one of the lawsuits against the Ed Dept - the Trump admin says in a new filing today that dozens of civil rights investigators will be returning to work over the next several weeks storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump admin has now given back UCLA's NSF grants, per court filing storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: UCLA is getting part of its research funding back, likely around $101 million, after a judge ruled against the Trump administration Tuesday night But unlike the challenge brought by Harvard, this one was headed up by a group of UC Berkeley professors www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is from a deposition where she also talks about how she expects to get a job in the White House at some point - but this excerpt is about roast beef

NEW: A group of parents in Redlands, California is pushing for a school board member to resign after they found she had liked Instagram posts that included antisemitic, racist and anti-LGBTQ memes The school board meeting this week got pretty hostile www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Why does the WNBA hate the Fever so much?? www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

so weird to watch grok on twitter call itself mecha h*tler then tell conservatives they need to chill about culture war stuff

SCOOP: A key office in the US Dept of Education has a backlog of 27,000 complaints about student loans, up from 16,000 in March Nearly two-thirds of the staff in the office were terminated this spring as part of widespread layoffs in the department www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

hot take: people should stop trying to avoid saying "sorry" too much in conversation and focus more on not ending every sentence with "right?" when they're not actually asking if they're right

Here's the letter that NSF sent UCLA last week about cutting its research funding NSF says UCLA is doing affirmative action by asking applicants' their zip codes, family income and what HS they went to, and that they can discuss race in personal statements storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The reporting reveals that Assemblies of God leaders — all the way up to the denomination’s national superintendent — were warned repeatedly about Savala’s troubling history but did not cut off his influence. These failures allowed more children and young men to be abused, the reporting shows."

The Religion and Public Life program at Harvard's Divinity School attracted a devoted cohort of students, and signed up famous folks like Maggie Rogers, Alice Hoffman & André Holland as fellows. Then it fell apart after it was hit with antisemitism accusations. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Harvard's Divinity School created a program on bringing peace to religiously-influenced conflicts. It attracted a devoted cohort of students, & traveled w/ them to the West Bank But after it was accused of antisemitism, it fell apart This is how it happened www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Cleveland Clinic defended its use of facility fees -- for instance, one woman my colleagues spoke to paid a $174 facility fee for a 15 minute meeting with a gastroenterologist -- as an “appropriate practice” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Saw “Fantastic Four” and it is good, plus no homework required to understand the plot. Also curious what scientists will think of it — it’s the first Marvel movie that had technology and space ships more like “Apollo 13” than “Star Wars”

"Even we, the young ones, can barely walk due to lack of food,” said Walid Abu Mohsen, a father of seven. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

documentary directors really be like, I gotta get me some drone footage of the town this happened in

14 of my colleagues helped put together this story on how the Texas floods unfolded - down to the details of what girls at the Mystic camp were eating for dinner before the warnings came in www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A Michigan State University store accidentally armed teachers with small knives this week

This is the description of someone detained by ICE, who says she still supports Trump www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Yaqeen was conceived in war. She died in a fireball." www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

"A federal judge just had to remind police that they shouldn’t shoot at journalists" newrepublic.com/post/197885/...

power not to the people i guess www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Newly-obtained records and interviews reveal how the DOJ pressured UVA over a student's disciplinary case, calling the university's handling of it "disturbing" This is a key piece of the DOJ probe of UVA that largely escaped national attention www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com