Adam Schweigert
@aschweig.bsky.social
Just a kid from Akron. Banjo player. Dog person. 📍Pittsburgh, PA
We're excited to welcome @aschweig.bsky.social to the team in a fractional role as our Head of US Partnerships 🎉 We're looking forward to seeing what he can do to bring news publishers across the pond to online spaces dedicated to them and their audience 🗞️
"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home." More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY
A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...
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we could be just wrapping up the first year of her second term as president
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9mo agoSENATOR WARREN: “I am a hell no.”
This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.
Nicole Foy@nicolefoy.bsky.social · 9mo agoImportant context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
After ICE agent shoots, kills person in Minneapolis, activists in New Orleans take to the streets Hours after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, activists from the New Orleans Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression gallered protesters…
After ICE agent shoots, kills person in Minneapolis, activists in New Orleans take to the streets
Hours after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, activists from the New Orleans Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression gallered protesters in Lafayette Square to demand ICE and other federal agencies leave the city.
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It’s a pleasure to announce @aschweig.bsky.social’s elevation to the position of Chief Strategy Officer at @deepsouthtoday.org. His leadership and dedication to operational excellence has been invaluable as Deep South Today has grown considerably during 2025. deepsouthtoday.org/2025/10/08/d...
Deep South Today Elevates Adam Schweigert to Chief Strategy Officer - Deep South Today
Deep South Today, the nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today, Verite News, and The Current, today announced that Adam Schweigert has been elevated to the position of Chie...
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Anyway, tell me if you find any broken stuff. mississippitoday.org/2025/10/02/m...
Mississippi Today launches redesigned website - Mississippi Today
Mississippi Today launched a major update to our website Wednesday night – the first redesign since 2021. In this revamp, we aimed to make the site a fitting
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yes obviously we'll open source the fun vertical video thing, just give me a couple days to sleep
Adam Schweigert@aschweig.bsky.social · last yr.made this cute lil' new website for @mississippitoday.org: mississippitoday.org
Getting old is weird. First, like everyone else our age, it was getting way into birds. Now, apparently, it's fixing mechanical watches. What's next?
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
2020 TRUMP: “We have laws… we can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.” (H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )
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The Trump DOJ pulled millions in funding for groups throughout Louisiana that support survivors of domestic, sexual + intimate violence. Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors. @arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org. veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...
DOJ cuts grants to survivor-advocacy groups in New Orleans
Two nonprofits in New Orleans are worried about their futures after the U.S. DOJ abruptly canceled a federal grant that would have helped them offer support to survivors of violence.
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“If you’re leaking a document, take pictures of it with the camera within Signal, which doesn’t save photos to your camera roll, and then send them to the reporter. If the document is on a screen, take pictures of the screen with the Signal app; don’t print anything out.”
You should go work with @aschweig.bsky.social if you’re looking for work in newsrooms in a part of the country that desperately needs it.
Adam Schweigert@aschweig.bsky.social · last yr.Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇
Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇
Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi. Here's how we can. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/21/t...
Trump and Musk are attacking the humanities. Mississippians must fight back. - Mississippi Today
Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi....
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Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.
15 years after Deepwater Horizon, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete
BP paid billions of dollars in damages over the Deepwater Horizon spill. Yet those who say they've suffered health problems have struggled to receive compensation.
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