“The act of confronting that terror is, itself, an education for the writer, because writing is both vehicle and vessel for thinking – abstract made concrete, feelings translated into words” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

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Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

What an interesting way to end the academic year: www.cbsnews.com/news/cyberat...

Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S.

A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline due to a cyberattack.

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Even if the EU’s age verification app and EUDI wallet improve data confidentiality and decentralize data to users’ phones, their promise of empowerment falls short due to centralized critical functions, writes Thijmen van Gend.

Europe’s Age Verification Push Raises Privacy Issues Beyond Data Confidentiality

Age verification mandates promise safer online spaces while expanding digital identity systems with uncertain consequences, writes Thijmen van Gend.

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"Minneapolis, Minnesota reminds me of a politically torn, unstable country in a transitional period before full-blown war with a repressive government. Maidan-era Ukraine, for example." A haunting and important piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...

Intolerable Things

We'll all be Minneapolis soon.

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Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So close, NYT! Just take out the "Appear to" and you're doing real journalism! (And even this is better than usual.)

Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social says a DOGE employee’s reported Social Security data breach could be a violation of the Privacy Act. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data

A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.

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The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.

Trump: We've got a deal Literally everyone else: No we don't, wtf The media:

Elise Thomas@elisethomas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wish people would stop reporting on random burblings Trump makes on stage as though they're binding contracts. "Ruling out" makes it sound like it means something beyond the forty seconds in which he held the thought in his head.

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’

The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

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i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Normal people don’t think it’s ok to execute someone bc their kids dad is dead btw.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows. If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public. The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging— Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now? MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela

The hard part about running a dictatorship is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What a difference a year makes.

New tonight: More surprising than Maduro’s capture was that the White House plans to run Venezuela. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Even Close Allies Are Asking Why Trump Wants to Run Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro was plucked out of Caracas, but the more shocking news was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.

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okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices..."“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Politico@politico.com · 8mo ago

Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.

guys bari lost glem

Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.

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The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant. by Jakob Moll www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...