Now available! THE OLDEST ROCKS ON EARTH sheds light on why Earth is the only planet known to harbor life and what this might tell us about our future. buff.ly/6uQRwxe #ReadUP #Geology

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Crosbie’s THE POLITICAL ARMY has been named 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. buff.ly/dd0jVmI @choicereviews.bsky.social

🎉 The countdown to #ISOJ2026 is on! After 27 years in the spring, #ISOJ is moving to the fall 🍂 Join us in Austin on Sept. 17–18, 2026, online or at UT Austin, for two days of bold ideas shaping the future of journalism. The 19th Iberoamerican Colloquium follows on Sept. 19.

This is hilarious. Nothing the machine outputs can have copyright, but it’s power of business divination are so great it owns part of your next business. Remember, we have your chat logs.

The Amargi, a new grassroots-funded, nonprofit digital newsroom, covers Kurdish affairs from exile—free from partisan interference. Read Seyma Bayram. www.cjr.org/feature/amar...

Fascinating:

Took off from Austin, Texas, United States.

Just wait for what’s next: Cheeseburger!

This morning, the FBI executed a search warrant at a @washingtonpost.com reporter’s home. @rcfp.org President Bruce D. Brown called it “a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press.” Read his full statement: www.rcfp.org/fbi-search-w...

"Searches of newsrooms and journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, and we must ensure that these practices are not normalized here," says @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, calling on the Justice Department to publicly explain its actions. See our full statement: knightcolumbia.org/content/fbi-...

When the press becomes an arm of an FBI investigation, journalists will be treated by their sources as cops. That’s a chilling effect on a Free Press.

It’s astonishing that a memo from the AG can render a federal law, the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, null and void. The FBI search warrant is sealed by the judge, so we the people don’t know if the FBI used an exception in the law or said the law didn’t matter. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I know this isn't a headline that gets many people to click, but I spent a ton of time going over the last 7 years of Ohio news. I put all the articles all in one place. It's a valuable resource for anyone researching or trying to keep track of all that's happened in Ohio. I hope folks take a look.

John Hayes had officially achieved every merit badge offered by Scouting America at the time, making him one of only 621 Scouts in the U.S. to ever accomplish the feat since the program began in 1910. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)

@rcfp.org is urging Illinois lawmakers to pass a bill that would insulate non-student public media organizations run by public universities from undue political influence or pressure.

Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.

Landed in San Jose, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 49 min.

Patients of NKC Health in North Kansas City learned in November that their data was compromised in ‘one of the most massive breaches in the health care industry’

Five years ago.

Now available with a new look! Part mystery, part meditation, this engrossing tale features the return of Parisian amateur detective and newspaper reporter Stephanie Delacour (Kristeva’s alter ego), drawn into the mystery of a friend's murder. buff.ly/CQdCpyV #JuliaKristeva #Translation #Fiction

Kansas State’s latest incoming transfer will help the Wildcats on the defensive line.

A Minnesota man was removed from the Lawrence Kansas Turnpike Authority service station less than 24 hours before he was killed.

He is the ninth player KU has added from the transfer portal. He’s one of the biggest thus far.

So Texas is now discriminating against dead white men? Never thought I’d see the day.

Just gonna throw this out there that no book is more prescient for the times we face. It’s not hyperbole to say that the similarities to right now are chilling. You won’t vote your way out of this with a spineless opposition party and this is going to end very badly for many, many people.

Are you sure it’s an error? My vote is for Freudian slip.

The Kansas City Royals have accounted for the players in their organization who were in Venezuela.

Landed in Hawthorne, California, United States.

For Epiphany (today), here’s a nice 1859 window by William Wailes, from All Saints Church, in Maidstone. Oh, that wonderful Marian blue:

A charter school scam cost Ohioans $600 million. The largest bribery scandal in state history scammed $1.3 billion. Why do I see more shrieking about unproven allegations of possible fraud from certain lawmakers than I ever heard on very real fraud perpetrated on Ohio families?

Blue is Mercator, red is actual land area.

Amid other rising costs, three Ohio cities rank near the top when it comes to medical expenses as a share of income, a new analysis said ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/05/o...

It’s right there in the terms of service, I’m sure. It’s as if these internet users prefer to move fast and break things instead of respecting authority.

For our latest podcast episode, I sat down with Rep. Allen Reavis, R-Atchison, and Rep. Lon Pishny, R-Garden City, to talk about their plans for a new, bipartisan Local Government Caucus. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/01/05/k...

Perhaps the best way to frame this: When you buy a physical good - you made a one-time transaction for a thing. When you buy/use a digital platform service you have entered into a lifetime relationship with the CEO’s best or worst instincts and politics.

New York media outlets are being proactive about defending their rights as they anticipate the deployment of federal law enforcement. Read @joelsimonsays.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/new...

#TwelfthNight It was time to sweep away the Christmas trees, and gather round this delightfully rotund Victorian heater in Worcester Cathedral.

Here’s what Bill Self thinks of his Kansas basketball team with Big 12 play underway.

“Linear television “? Is that a reference to Star Trek or did I miss on the black Friday sales on linear appliances?

New uses of AI 🤖, genealogy research 🧬, cinematic sound design 🎞️ and media literacy training 👩‍🏫 were among the ways these 10 journalism projects made an impact across Latin America 🌎 in 2025.

Happy 2026!

Economic growth in a large, undefined area in Wyandotte and Johnson counties will be reserved to pay down STAR bonds over the next two to three decades. The Chiefs also could enjoy income and property tax subsidies #ksleg

A bit of a weekend project: A CMS for lecture slides. SQLLite to python-pptx and a few other bits to export to Slides, PDF or HTML. Includes injected variables for asignment due dates, linked slides that stay in sync, selection of templates and color schemes.

In the latest edition of The Nuance, @rcfp.org's Gabe Rottman explains the legal theories advanced by @nytimes.com in its 1A lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's new press policy.

Burning $1 billion a month also proves that AI can’t draw up a business plan.

As long as AI is being valued as a growth platform not infrastructure the needed integrations for really valuable agentic access is only going to happen within not between ecosystems.

China is getting rid of retractable door handles, while the EU is getting rid of essential controls hidden in touch screen menus. The world is healing. ♥️