Solid fact-checking guide with methodology developed by two journalists from @thewalrus.ca: thetijproject.ca

Part of the push for hurried AI adoption: To stay ahead of the regulators. It build the inevitability foundation — the horse is already out of the barn.

Remember when there was wall-to-wall coverage of this detention center opening? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Florida Plans to Close ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Vendors Are Reportedly Told

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The only notifications I have are phone calls and texts from friends and family. The news organizations can no longer be trusted to identify true "breaking news."

I love The Pitt, so take this rec for what it's worth: Fabulous @gqmagazine.bsky.social profile of Noah Wyle, who definitely knows how to share a tale with a journalist. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

‘The Pitt’ Star Noah Wyle on Surviving Another Shift

As ‘The Pitt’ wraps up a season that took his character to the edge, Noah Wyle reflects on how he ended up starring in the hottest medical drama on TV—again.

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Coming up at 4 p.m. Central on the #FridayHappyHour: Disparate moods — songs where the music sets one mood but the lyrics reveal something else. Tune in to 98.1 FM in #sgf or kdruradio.com online to hear the community playlist!

ProPublica launched a database that helps journalists, researchers and others more easily find and connect pieces of financial information about individuals in key executive branch positions. Join us on Wednesday, April 8, for a walk-through of the new tool. RSVP below ⤵️

ProPublica Event: How to Use Our News App of Disclosures From Political Appointees

Learn to navigate ProPublica's database of Trump appointees' financial disclosures and potential conflicts of interest.

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Great historical overview of why the last time we visited the moon was 1972. airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit...

Why Has It Been 50 Years Since Humans Went to the Moon?

When the Apollo 17 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago, they were the last humans to visit the Moon. NASA’s Artemis program is set to return humans to the Moon, but not for two ...

airandspace.si.edu

What a great cover, @economist.com

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He’s Making a Mistake”

Jen Sorensen

Half of my menu bar stopped working on my MacBook Pro. This command got me back up and running: In Terminal, run "sudo killall ControlStrip" for a system refresh of the bar.

I guess we're not thinking about financial crime anymore. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

propublica.org

You can follow our AI and the Future of News 2026 conference all day today. You can watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r4g... or join in on Zoom: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/ai-...

AI and the Future of News 2026

YouTube video by Reuters Institute

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Thorough @brookings.edu analysis of AI in education with suggestions for incorporating the technology with important guard rails. Key insight: Students assume teachers are using AI to make their jobs easier. Be transparent to maintain trust in the classroom. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...

A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect | Brookings

This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.

brookings.edu

An excellent analysis of the attack that damaged a school in Iran.

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All the woes of the modern media landscape in one headline. apnews.com/article/mrbe...

MrBeast's company fired a video editor after Kalshi accused the employee of insider trading

A MrBeast video editor has been fired after accusations of insider trading by Kalshi. The prediction market operator says the immensely popular YouTube channel's employee traded about $4,000 on YouTub...

apnews.com

Key journalism source for deciphering what’s happening.

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 6mo ago

The US and Israel launched strikes across Iran this morning. Iran has responded by firing ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, and US bases in the region. Civilians have already been killed or injured in multiple countries, caught in the crossfire.

Read @jsweetli.bsky.social instead:

FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door

The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups.

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Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

Given where we are now in the U.S., @trosenstiel.bsky.social's discussion of objectivity from the 2020 #ISOJ is even more relevant today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPa...

Keynote Tom Rosenstiel: Objectivity is not neutrality: the purpose of journalistic inquiry

YouTube video by ISOJ

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Read of the day: Isaac Asimov, serial groper. daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall - JSTOR Daily

The science fiction author Isaac Asimov engaged in forms of unwanted touching with countless women. It set the tone for the entire genre.

daily.jstor.org

NYT finally dispenses with the watered-down headlines. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

Trump Decries a ‘Nation of Renters’ but His New Policy Promotes One

nytimes.com

The most important thread you'll read today 👇

WIRED@wired.com · 7mo ago

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened. So here’s a quick thread to help.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Meta appears poised to suck up yet another social-media format. techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/t...

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

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now known as CBS Newsweek

Polymarket really has become the ultimate place to engage in insider trading on privileged information. I'm not sure we're prepared for what happens when any outcome -- including violent ones -- can be wagered on.

EPDiogenes@ericpauldennis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"A newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759." www.axios.com/2026/01/03/m...

In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.

America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory

It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.

theatlantic.com

Look at how much they spent on their own travel. www.propublica.org/article/keny...

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

propublica.org

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