"I think the Daily News could very well be a successful newspaper," the unit chair of the Daily News Union told Hell Gate. "It was in the past, and could be again, if they were owned by somebody that actually cared about the newspaper and the journalists."

Goddammit

honestly a little embarrassed I let the pitch get as far as it did, but I’m fine with that if this helps any other tiny pubs avoid getting scammed.

One of my kids asked if the stars we see are still there, because they know light takes time to travel so we are seeing the past, and so what if the stars are all gone and we are already alone in the universe

Check out @projectsaltbox.bsky.social, a volunteer effort to collect public data on DHS acquisitions of warehouses for ICE -

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

guys we're gonna win (we = reporters)

WaPo: We laid off a third of staff NYT: We sent a dog on a cruise

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get & they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

In today's paper, @richiefife.bsky.social call's Alden Capital's NYDN Font Gate "another visible marker of a paper steadily abandoning its identity, its readers, and its responsibility to this city."

Everybody's saying it

If I had even a fraction of Bezos's money I would fund so much unprofitable shit and let it absolutely rip.

I think about this a lot www.notus.org/trump-white-...

"At least 20 states do not test private wells for PFAS outside of areas where problems are already suspected...." and "While utilities can rely on centralized treatment facilities, restoring safe water for well owners must be done household by household." apnews.com/article/pfas...

Great resource from Nicole at @consumerreports.org, and a reminder of why it's a good to go fragrance-free www.consumerreports.org/product-safe...

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I know this might seem silly -- but the Daily News has long been the news in a New York accent. The fonts of this storied tabloid are immediately recognizable from across a crowded subway car. To have them changed on us with no warning feels like having our voice taken from us.

My @propublica.org colleague @peterdicampo.bsky.social & I reported from Minnesota last week, amid the federal immigration crackdown. This is what we saw: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

Oregon Trail ass 2026

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Thank you @miasato.bsky.social for a new term that will likely be the Word of the Year for 2026: "slopagandist"

The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

This here👇👇👇

If a winter storm is headed your way, you could lose power. If using a portable generator, take precautions. Generators are a leading cause of unintentional CO poisoning. Learn how to keep safe and why CR only recommends generators with CO safety systems here: #COsafe

Folks I know in Maine are wondering if ICE operations there will get as much national attention as what's happening in bigger cities - but what ICE is doing in Portland and Lewiston is actually proportionally massive. They say they are targeting 1,400 people www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/i...

Friendly reminder, the House of Representatives switchboard is 202-224-3121. Sometimes when you call your Rep, you just leave a message, and that can feel kind of cathartic, in a speech-making way; other times someone answers, talks to you, and writes down what you say, and that feels even better -

No www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/t...

This would be ominous no matter what the circumstances, but it’s not like she was working on national security or classified military information. She’s been reporting about federal workforce issues.

"The seven grants terminated in December supported numerous public health programs, including efforts to prevent sudden unexpected infant death"

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

I’ve been disagreeing with a lot of NYT coverage lately, but one thing they got right today was devoting an entire article to Bob Weir’s shorty shorts. What an absolute legend ❤️ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

Can't believe they left out Fhqwhgads

Just figured out my new years' resolution

oh christ look at the time

Are you guys even up on the latest candy technology

WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry

Need a last-minute gift idea? The best book I've read in YEARS came out in 2025, and it's "The Death and Life of August Sweeney" by @samuelashworth.bsky.social. It's both spectacularly weird and universally appealing, if that makes sense. Everyone you know will like it: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

In light of the news that HHS is cutting funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including a grant to help reduce sudden infant deaths, I'm just going to share this around again... www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:

"Hundreds of thousands of work orders for NYC buses flagged for inspection or repairs show no recorded labor hours by MTA maintenance crews — a finding that raises the possibility buses are being put into service...without critical repairs or required inspections." Gift link below:

Really enjoying this new @darrencullen.bsky.social merch - a working Magic 8 Ball that answers your questions like ChatGPT. "That's a great question!" "You're 1000% right!"

The Handbasket's independent journalism holiday gift guide is LIVE! If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:

🚍👀 This new @simko-bednarski.bsky.social investigation is an important one

A bus on Staten Island lost control just before picking up Manhattan-bound passengers. 9 mo prior, mechanics found a steering flaw, but the bus was put in service. My new investigation for the Daily News finds that hundreds of thousands of bus records are missing proof of repairs and inspections.

Let's take a peek at the ol' email inbox "Lab-Grown Human Skin" nope nope let's go ahead and close it again www.personalcareinsights.com/video/lab-gr...

lol, guilty