This is why we need independent student media, but if a university is going to actually be involved, then it needs to respect its limits under the First Amendment.

As a former print subscriber, I get the dunking, but I don't think the Post's owner *wants* anything more than a token print subscriber base, anymore than Amazon wanted to own actual bookstores.

Maryland women's soccer has a road problem, and here's one way to understand it: the Terps have been unable to create shots away from home. Among teams with a positive average shot differential at home and a negative average differential on the road, UMD has the 2nd-largest swing (+3.4 to -17.1).

Husker Du's 1987 live cover of "Eight Miles High" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neqy...

An update on #NCAAWBB 2025-26 roster data: the latest release has more than 9,800 players and includes all but ~260 teams for all of the NCAA divisions, including about a half-dozen D-I programs. This version isn't standardized (yet) but that will come soon. github.com/dwillis/wbb-...

What a creative idea - exactly the kind of thing that humans are pretty great at.

This is great, and not just because I found out that my work is cited in a 2014 Congressional Research Service report.

"I'll take 'unbelievable possession stats' for $600, Alex."

TIL: the "worst of the worst" now includes youth soccer players.

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

I see that the Gators are employing a novel defensive scheme called “don’t cover receivers”

Bank robber describes getting caught robbing banks as "one of the most difficult moments" in his career of bank robbery.

It's a little weird that I have a favorite government publication: the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, produced by the Centers for Disease Control. But I'll take weird over the idiocy of firing the MMWR's staff & ~70 "disease detectives" who monitor worldwide events. An invitation to illness.

A neutral press can only offer a conflicting account to a public habituated to treat competing information with equal weight. But if the goal of journalism is to give non-Portland citizens what they need to decide, is a neutral press what we need? Or ought a pro-citizen press do more?

Last year a @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad student told me she wanted to build a news app about evictions in DC. Given the schedule and amount of work, it was an ambitious project. Taylor Nichols not only did it but got it published by a DC news org! streetsensedc.github.io/evictions-ap...

How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.

Maryland counties have mostly very high rates of MMR vaccination among kindergarteners, helping to contain the spread of measles. And then there's Kent County. cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/09/a...

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security. www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

My idea for this is to make my campus a Coca-Cola campus.

The fun part is that this stuff works

State of Florida steals $83 million from land conservation fund to pay off a developer (who is also a DeSantic donor). floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/c...

“Tazmin Brits” is like 1 billion on the colonial word name scoreboard

Sora stuff has filled a big chunk of my social feeds. I’m discerning enough to notice (most times). I fear for how its misuse will outpace, by orders of magnitude, society’s ability for its output to be debunked.

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

The very first Sora-generated video I saw was of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech in which the dream is that Sora wouldn't be so strict, so things are definitely gonna be fine, folks.

ProPublica and @theassemblync.bsky.social found that in some North Carolina counties, homeowners with the highest incomes received two to three times as much FEMA housing assistance as those with lower incomes after Hurricane Helene. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and Ren Larson

No wonder the guy I saw today with a Penn State shirt looked so unhappy.

Might need to start taking this to meetings

Sickening.

That’s some good student reporting: www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Like, I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but to me, this is terrorism! This does not make Chicago or anywhere in the United States *more safe*. It does not make Chicago more subject to the Rule of Law. This is a van full of goons terrorizing the neighborhood.

Steve Garvey, the former LA Dodger who lost his Senate race in 2024, resumed raising money for his new PAC last week:

What's a life well-lived? Researchers looked at 38 MILLION obituaries over 30 years to study virtue. Among the fascinating results, this one is chilling: After the pandemic, benevolence dropped in popularity and never recovered. In its place, tradition as a virtue experienced a popularity surge.🧪

A choir friend shared news of the passing of Dr. James Abbington, "the dean of African American church music" who helped to spread Black church music beyond Black churches. "There was no one like him." religionnews.com/2025/10/02/d...

The word "reckless" is having a moment in official congressional e-newsletters

So many hot takes about who will win/lose the shutdown, but so little discussion about what's at stake. The stakes here are whether Congress makes the law or the president can rule by diktat. Everything else is commentary.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

A little math can go a long way..... Nice work @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social flatwaterfreepress.org/we-dont-know...

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Hoddy F. Toddy

How it started/how it's going:

Why in God's name is Florida State wearing white?

I love this idea from Gotham, which is the first move I've seen from any NWSL entity that might help chip away at the league's many media issues.

We are hiring in the Lehigh U journalism department, a tenure-track position focused on technology law and policy. We take a multidisciplinary approach to platform governance and AI here that includes social sciences/humanities. Opportunity for someone wanting to make an impact. Spread the word!

Today is one of my favorite days of the year @ UMD: the Annual Fire Safety Report is out, detailing at least some of the ways that students unintentionally set fire to things last year. My favorite: "Chipotle chips burned in microwave oven"

Well, I think we knew this was coming:

It's an important story, but also important for what it says about who federal workers trust to tell their stories now.

A couple of weeks ago, our reporter Ivana got in touch with an idea about visualising the timing of air raid sirens in Kyiv, and how Russian tactics have seemingly changed... I went through a couple of other ideas before settling on visualising the whole year so far in this way.