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It’s not everyday you get to work with an awesome former coworker and have a blast with students. Thanks Mark Robertson-Baker for the great guest lecture and workshop at ETSU!

Four essentials for the press right now If we have any hope of preventing a full slide into permanent autocracy, these must happen

"Big Journalism’s leaders need to think hard—and fast—about whether they are just presenting facts or actually getting the nightmarish reality across," writes @sulliview.bsky.social in her invaluable newsletter (with kind words for a recent NYT piece.) margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

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In all the buy Canada, there are things we Canadians should still support in the US - especially what media there that hasn’t bent a knee. There are more to consider, but here are some I recommend: @npr.org is massively under attack, and they depend heavily on donations www.npr.org/donations/su...

Sadie enjoying the sun on the front porch.

Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Finally some good news

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

feels so right on

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looks cool—like a new wave do.

Trump Demands California Adopt Voter ID Requirement to Get Wildfire Aid Read more here.

The central core of Trumpism is voter suppression and election subversion. Too many people only pay attention to this right before elections and forget it once elections are over.

We must take this threat literally and seriously if we want to have free and fair elections in the future.

Journalists. Please. Too many of you are going to call this a tax “on Colombia”.

It’s a tax on Americans. All Americans who ever drink coffee. Or buy cut flowers.

A tax. On Americans.

here we go again

The Great Creator Reset + discount Cybertrucks, soup drops, Douyin goes global, a PNUT memecoin lawsuit, peak "it bag", and Gen Z's midlife crisis

The TikTok ban represents the most significant and widespread deplatforming of creators in American internet history. It far surpasses Vine's closure in 2017 in both scale and impact, and stands to permanently reshape the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape.

I need to be working on my classes which start next week but all i wanna do is watch Blue Velvet.

A zoom-like effect in the Méliès film THE MERMAID (1904) accomplished by simply wheeling the fishtank closer to the camera.

Hear me out: What if, instead of infringing on Americans’ rights and taking stuff away from them, Congress gave them even *more rights*?

If that sounds good to you, that’s fundamentally what a national data privacy law — governing all companies, not just the Big Bad of the day — is all about.

thank you for your coverage

stay safe

BREAKING NEWS: META AND MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM | GLAAD Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Conduct Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate ...

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

Awesome news!

"In those moments where we don't think we're smart enough, or pretty enough, or skinny enough, or successful enough, or basically just not enough ... you CAN know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick." — Demi Moore

Couldn’t be happier for Demi Moore’s Golden Glove win! Amazing speech too. Never, ever give up! And drop the measuring stick! #goldenglobes #demimoore

What’s next for Katie Porter? For now, it’s teaching and learning, she says The Irvine Democrat neither says she’ll run for governor in 2026 nor rules out a bid.

Katie Porter is going back to UC Irvine, where she has been on leave for the last six years. (Leave policies in academia are their own interesting universe.) www.ocregister.com/2024/12/12/w...

Money for 9/11 Health Care Was Dropped from Year-End Spending Bill A plan to ensure long-term funding to address health needs stemming from the terrorist attacks fell to the wayside after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk objected to a bipartisan budget deal...

Another win for the richest man in the world

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/u...

Sadie wishes you all a Merry Christmas eve to all who celebrate

Happy Monday y’all.

Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

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