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Full text of the articles of impeachment.

Key Bridge families get $1.2M donation after funding controversy The Baltimore Community Foundation donated $1.2 million to help the families of the six workers who died in the Key Bridge disaster, Mayor Brandon Scott said Tuesday afternoon.

Two weeks ago I reported that Key Bridge survivors and victims' families were shut out of the Baltimore Community Foundation's $16M relief fund. This afternoon the foundation announced a $1.2M donation for the families.

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Key Bridge families get $1.2M donation after funding controversy The Baltimore Community Foundation donated $1.2 million to help the families of the six workers who died in the Key Bridge disaster, Mayor Brandon Scott said Tuesday afternoon.

Good news, just two weeks later

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I’m in the U.S., heading to the grocery store and tempted to start turning everything upside down

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

Still going. No fooling.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Some of us had a hard time not falling for April Fool’s Day even before 2025

Agreed. Also WTF is this “one of its core tenets: the responsibility not to abuse the authority of the classroom by introducing extraneous material.”

This idea that current events are irrelevant to most classes or that making real-world connections is inherently political is crazy.

Exactly! Thanks again @bensessoms.bsky.social

Faith Hatton (Fayetteville), Ben Sessoms (Chattanooga), Anna Kathman (WNEM) and Makaelah Walters (NYT) speak to students during App State journalism alumni Zoom panel

Our journalism alumni give me hope: These four, from New York Times, Chattanooga Times, Fayetteville Business Journal and WNEM TV5, spoke to Appalachian State students during a recent Zoom panel.

Thank you, Makaelah Walters, Ben Sessoms, Faith Hatton and Anna Kathman!

In a state in which it is possible for the holders of executive power to directly order the extrajudicial imprisonment, punishment, or execution of citizens, the de facto judicial power is held by political branches of government, and the resulting system is not a constitutional one. ! e separation of lawmaking and law enforcement into a multi-stage process housed in institutions sta# ed by separate personnel, with legally segregated duties, is a critical feature that allows us to identify systems as constitutional. And for this separation to have e# ect, it is not only necessary that there be an independent judiciary. It is also necessary that the holders of executive and police power not be above the law. If a president or prime minister can, with impunity, order armed agents of the state to seize or kill their opponents, then the fact that there are also regular courts sta# ed by independent judges doesn’t make a system constitutional. Holders of executive power must therefore not have impunity, which means that they must face accountability. ! is institutional separation of rulemaking from rule-enforcement, and the attendant system of accountability that prevents any political agent from being able to circumvent the regular separated system, is at the heart of the separation of powers, and of constitutionalism.

Seizure by executive command, without due process and without judicial review, undermines the whole rest of a constitutional system. Preventing it is the core purpose of the separation of powers and the key distinction between constitutional and unconstitutional systems. tinyurl.com/JTLSepPow

How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas In the wake of the 2024 election, where “democracy” was not a top issue for most voters, local news messaging focused on democracy may not suffice to build the broad coalition essential to give local ...

"Local newsrooms that are able to activate the 'local psyche' rather than the national, partisan psyche have a better shot at supporting a substantive exchange of ideas." www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/how-...

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

It’s not the biggest EO, and unlike some it won’t kill or imprison people, and yet in its explicit appeal to white supremacy, and noting thr unease I feel now writing that publicly, I find this one of the most chilling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The National Trust for Local News, as its own leaders have said, has multiple contradictions built into its core mission. It’s a national org championing local news; it’s pursuing conservation AND transformation of local newspapers; it’s a nonprofit, and it’s a $50 million media business. (1/3)

One thing I haven't seen said about the Signal security breach -- maybe because there's soooo much else to say ...

This is why you don't rely on a team of inexperienced strangers, all too busy pretending they know what they're doing to dare ask who else is in the room and why

Perhaps the idea is to streamline the agency and to make it more efficient by focusing it on people Trump doesn’t like.

Maybe it will be renamed the Internal Retribution Service.

Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
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YouTube video by t bro Three Branches of Government School House Rock

1973: "Divided in three like a circus. Ring one, Executive,
Two is Legislative, that's Congress. Ring three, Judiciary ... Each controls the other, you see, and that's what we call checks and balances"

2025: "Gonna have a three-ring circus"

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Wired’s un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of its role in the information ecosystem Trump's wholesale destruction of the information-generating sectors of the federal government will have implications that go far beyond .gov domains.

New from me —>

Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem

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I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.

“At a time when many media outlets are cutting back on state government coverage, public media is increasing its journalism about how North Carolina state government is serving its citizens.”

WUNC Partners with Public Media Stations Statewide to Expand Government News Coverage WUNC to lead North Carolina Newsroom, offers localized stories from the Legislative Building.

WUNC is partnering with public media stations across the state to launch the North Carolina Newsroom, Capitol Bureau, a journalism collaboration expanding North Carolina state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences throughout the year.

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How the humanities got us through the pandemic (opinion) Michael J. Socolow asks if we have already forgotten how the humanities got us through the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There’s been a lot written about the crisis in the humanities. There’s been far less written about the humanities during a crisis."

For @insidehighered.com I wrote about how we've forgotten how the humanities kept us sane during an existential crisis.

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It's co-produced by the N.C. Local News Workshop and the N.C. Open Government Coalition, and hosted by N.C. Central University.

Here's the agenda with a link to buy tickets (free to students and WNC journalists): www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-nc-ne...

Looking forward to this important event. Among the excellent speakers are reporters and editors from NYT, N&O -- and one of Boone's very own, Watauga Democrat editor & App State alumnus Moss Brennan

Chimamanda Adichie Is a Hopeless Romantic Discussing "Dream Count," her first novel in 12 years, the Nigerian author shares her thoughts on masculinity, political chaos, and the future of fiction.

I spoke with Chimamanda about America, which is starting to seem no different to her than Nigeria.