Winter is coming (really, despite what this week feels like) and you might need a DLP beanie.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

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“It seems reasonable to expect that in an American city, you could go a block away from your own house and not worry about getting tear gassed when you’re just getting home from preschool,” Dixon said.

Here’s an idea for a reporter: Gather some retired cops or MPs together and show them how ICE handles hecklers and protesters. I guarantee you’ll get some amazing copy. Especially if your outlet lets you reprint profanity.

Are you a scientist, journalist, or civil society researcher studying New York State's distraction-free school policy, the one that bans internet-enabled devices in schools from bell to bell? If so, I want to hear from you, as I refine a project to archive & classify published school policies.

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

I was at this talk. Worth a rewatch.

Deported for journalism. A denial of due process and violation of First Amendment rights. What happened to Mario Guevara sets a chilling precedent that any member of the press, who wasn’t born in the US, could be detained and removed by the Trump administration.

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

South Dakota Public Broadcasting says there's an ironic result to President Trump's successful attack on public media: It will have to rely more on NPR programs.

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…

“Supreme Court will let Trump _______ _____ _____ _____ for now” (Mad Libs, 2025 Edition)

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

I'm not sure we even know what "free speech" means anymore.

Boston Police Deployed 71 Drones (!!!) Flights Over Caribbean Carnival horizonmass.news/2025/10/02/b...

New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

recognition: you like to see it, folks

Today's the second day that NPR and PBS and the hundreds of local stations that comprise both networks are operating without any government support after they were defunded. Consider giving them a bit of support =>

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Today marks the first day in the 55-year history of PBS and 54-year history of NPR that public media has broadcast to its audiences without federal funding. But even though lots of local outlets are at risk, PBS and NPR are still here, providing fair, accurate news coverage and will not be silenced.

I responded to this but we all have moments of wondering if we're fiddling while Rome burns. I really think it's about having some feeling of control and comfort when so much is out of our grasp. Feeding each other feels like victory.

If you live in a major city with a really well-supported public radio station -- or if you already support public radio -- consider donating to a NPR radio station that serves a more rural community. Those are the stations that are going to be clobbered by the federal cuts.

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Since 2023, youth as young as 13 have been held in solitary confinement units for weeks or months inside Shelby County’s juvenile detention center. mlk50.com/2025/10/01/n...

PEN America releases the following statement about the New York journalists injured by masked ICE agents: "This latest incident is part of an alarming trend of attacks on press freedom by the administration, putting journalists’ safety and the public’s right to information at serious risk."

New: CPB says NPR's restraining order did not prevail. "It is deeply disappointing that...NPR is forcing CPB to expend scarce funds that could otherwise support stations in defending a lawsuit that has no merit and does not benefit the system."

Do you have a tool or service that can support journalism and transparency in the public interest? We’d love to hear about what you’ve built and understand how we can help.

It’s no use soft-pedaling the extent of the problem, ignoring the suffering inflicted on ordinary Americans, or minimizing the Herculean work that will be needed to repair our system.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The 'enemy within' that must be purged is a hallmark of fascist ideology, from Italy in the 20s to Spain and Portugal to Hungary and other countries today.

“We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.” Read that again. This wasn't about trespassing. It was a direct order from the highest levels of the Trump administration to silence and punish a political opponent.

Only one week left until the release of Python 3.14.0 final! docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne... peps.python.org/pep-0745/ What are you looking forward to? #Python #Python314

At 9:00 a.m. Trump speaks to general and flag officers gathered from all over the world at Quantico. Remember: They Are Not His Generals. www.thebulwark.com/p/remember-t...

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

And another one caves. Absolutely craven nonsense.

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SCOOP: I FOIA'd economic development agreements & the ground lease for Meta's massive data center in Louisiana and found the state secured no explicit mandates for Meta to create locally-hired full time jobs to receive property tax breaks www.wired.com/story/louisi...

"When she and her colleagues began to circulate a petition opposing the firing, many were too afraid to put their names on it. Some gave only their first names. Others said they’d agree only if others in their department did." Sigh. I do not think this cowardice will save you.

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Started looking at the most-downloaded books on Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/browse/score... and keep thinking of side projects to do with that available text.