No matter how incompetent these schlubs have to fight to the teeth to keep their jobs so they can continue to live like billionaires on the public's dime

Perspective : $100 million annually for Bezos is the equivalent of tapping your $75,000 nest egg for a Chic Fil A meal for your family . Yes you can do it every year

Real question - who's writing this stuff? It sounds like AI slop

Ever wonder about the VIP treatment Matthew McConaughey gets at the University of Texas? FOIAball, a new site covering college football through public records reporting, is coming next week. So subscribe now: foiaball.com

New rule: The truth is inversely related to the number of adjectives used in an official statement

Real question: how do customs officers figure out how much tariff is owed? Do they have a blinking light for each product / country combination that changes hourly?

Anti deficiency act? There's a reason that you're it allowed to "volunteer" and "donate" to the feds

Cmon publishers - join them : Wired and 404 media are "tipping the balance .... between public interest and business more toward the public interest. "

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

“Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things,” said Washington Post FOIA director Nate Jones. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

This headline. This photo. Is it bad when people get what they want?

I would love to see the wheels turn as they try to decide between funneling taxpayer $ to their media supporters vs reaching their supposed audience www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

An incredibly stupid policy of 3 byline limit and no tag lines at the WSJ. A better idea: get rid of bylines altogether if there are too many, since reporting is a team effort. The union said it pretty well talkingbiznews.com/media-news/w...

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Glad to see the president using the awesome powers available to him to dictate plastic straw use. Guess they're running out of things to sign in the daily performance art part of governing

Hear me out - some inefficiencies in gov are features not bugs. They're failsafes against failing or corrupt contractors; separate systems to prevent untrustworthy government officials from having too much power. If you distrust gov then you want this

Job training in West Virginia, unemployment help in Wisconsin, assistance for disabled kids. It's all been thrown into disarray because of Trump's federal funding freeze. Our story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

It is kind of funny to think about what a headache it is to get and maintain Special Sworn Status so that I can access a relatively small amount of completely de-identified administrative data in a cold room for use on pre-approved research projects

This is a good time to settle down with a great read on - yes - civil servants (gift link, I think) wapo.st/4aHhMRI

Finally got to hear part of the famous Superman series that took on the Kkk by publushing its secret words and symbols Change can come from unexpected places www.otrcat.com/p/superman-f...

The definition of sunk cost fallacy - waiting to return one small item at Whole Foods after 1st Person returns an entire shopping cart of books.

Here's a choice: 1. Be one of the 20 most powerful public officials in the country 2. Have privacy and avoid public scrutiny for you and your spouse You don't get both

What an exceptional run Susan Chira has had leading the Marshall Project. She is an exemplary journalist and leader, mentor to so many women (very much including me!) and I cannot wait to see what she does next. Brava. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/16/s...

It's the last day of class at the Cronkite School -- and the last forever for me! Looking forward to the every-day-is- Saturday life and going home, but will miss the remarkable students I've had the privilege to mentor & my incomparable colleagues -30

I *love* this. The 19th starts a network for mutual sharing quality news. I did this years ago in NJ: embeddable news. Didn't take off. So glad it's happening here. Brava! 19thnews.org/the-19th-new...

If you’re a newsroom CEO and your reference point for “alternative storytelling techniques” is the New York Times 2012 “Snowfall” project, your newsroom is in big trouble. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

An officer overdosed on fentanyl on duty. At first, police believed he had been “exposed” to fentanyl confiscated that day. After placing some in evidence, he had actually kept the rest to use. PSA: LEOs have the same substance use rates as the general population. Drug myths are bad for them, too.

Latest pain meds inspired political outlook test: who is Roadrunner and who is Wiley Coyote ?