Jason Joyce

Laurels and Darts: Local TV news does good. Forget about the mergers and buyouts and executive leadership for a while. The local grunts keep breaking news.

Weekend Read: A look at how local TV reporters across the country are breaking major stories and holding powerful figures accountable, reminding us why local news matters.

Read more at @columjournreview.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self. ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are. Order Life with Baum!

like a daughter to him

Disgusted barbie

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Wisconsin rarely grants compassionate release as aging, ailing prisoners stress systems Increased use of compassionate release could ease costs and crowding with minimal risks to public safety, experts say. But it remains off limits to many prisoners.

WI rarely imprisoned >3,000 for a century. Since adopting Truth in Sentencing, prisoner numbers have soared to 23,500. Many are over 60 w/ health care needs. Use of compassionate release could ease costs & crowding but just 5 of 63 cases were approved in 2024

wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...

No Cash, no Dylan.
Bob would say that himself.

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

Everyday Watergate

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7 “We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.

The FBI's Terrorist Screening Center is widening its focus to include unspecified “national security threats."

The new mission has resulted in a new name: the Threat Screening Center.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

NEW:

Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin

But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

How apple cider vinegar cured everything — until it didn't A headline-grabbing study touting apple cider vinegar for weight loss has been retracted. Other claims for the internet-famous remedy are also under fire.

A headline-grabbing study touting apple cider vinegar for weight loss has been retracted. Other claims for the internet-famous remedy are also under fire.

Trump Sends California Guard Troops to Portland, Ore., Newsom Says

Trump is sending California National Guard troops to Portland. California is going to sue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Editor’s Note: How we reported on text messages between senior Trump administration officials A source approached the Minnesota Star Tribune with photographs of sensitive messages exchanged by a key Trump administration official in a public place. Here are the steps we took to confirm the fact...

A source approached the Minnesota Star Tribune with photographs of sensitive messages exchanged by a key Trump administration official in a public place. Here's how they verified the information and turned it into a story. (gift link)
www.startribune.com/editors-note...

"Beyond social media scams, women journalists have also increasingly been the target of pornographic deepfakes used to harass and blackmail them, and deepfakes created to fuel disinformation campaigns and push political narratives."

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

“State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence white noise,” Hawaii Justice Todd Eddins wrote in a recent ruling that assailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

The lack of a truly split crowd was jarring, given how Cubs-Brewers games in Milwaukee typically look (and sound).

“I heard the Brewers fans. I didn't hear anything else."

www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

An incredibly touchy subject around here, and the Triibe is one of the few outlets that can properly frame it.

This graf is so fascinating:

Color photo of a 10-story Art Deco skyscraper clad mostly in limestone blocks. Above base each story has 7 windows. Chunkier sections on end but middle windows and green sprandrels alternate with minimalist pilasters. Top has four fins and, higher, a rectangular parapet.

Color photo of a 3-story commercial building in a sand-colored stone (sandstone?). Six large windows with divided lights on top 2 stories, gray spandrels in between.

Color photo of a 10-story limestone skyscraper, taken from corner. Not a lot of ornamentation visible but subtle tan spandrels between inner rows of windows. Parapet rises in short rectangles to barely perceptible point.

Braved the October heat in Madison to appreciate these Art Deco beauts near the Capitol, all, it turns out, designed by Law, Law, & Potter

All eyes on Broadview, Illinois tonight.

Broadview is a suburb about 12 miles west of Chicago.

Our friends are reporting on the scene ⬇️

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants' This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

More Americans than ever now get news on TikTok, Pew finds One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week. “During that span, no social…

One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/more...

In announcing that Hunter Simmons will start at QB for the Badgers at Michigan today, coach Luke Fickell says "Everybody’s got to deal with different things. This is just something we’ve got to deal with."

Boy, how could you not want to run through a loosely held strip of crepe paper for that guy?

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

State Journal announces changes to its print frequency We work hard to bring you news, sports and features content when and where you want it, and we’re constantly evaluating the best ways to do that. We know that

The Wisconsin State Journal will stop printing a Monday edition starting Nov. 3:
madison.com/opinion/colu...

Crowd of protesters pray together.

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

Note that the original House GOP budget proposal for what would become the “big, beautiful bill” included cuts to WIC which would’ve resulted in $1.3 billion in fruit and vegetable benefits being taken from some 5.2 million women and children who participate in the program

This really is THE issue - you've got a situation where Dems can sweat and bleed to get their stuff in a bipartisan bill, and Rs can nix it with 51 votes (or just impoundment).

That's new, and it removes the incentive to deal.