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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

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For me, it was always the wink

They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick. Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. T...

As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules

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Me: “My infant came down with something at daycare and now I’m sick.”

MD: “Do less and sleep more.”

Baby’s first book on collective power through organizing gets a 10/10 in animal sounds and messaging

Had Peach Fuzz not closed, I would have a clear answer.

Buy the kid zutano booties online?

The Ecstasy of Sam Malone | The Brooklyn Rail This story from Marie-Helene Bertino’s newest collection, Exit Zero, confirms her status as a master of slippery twilight, a true believer that if one sidles up to a threshold just right, she can pass...

The Cheers + Marie-Helene Bertino mashup I didn’t know I needed: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fict...

Went to a Catholic funeral mass and got to hear the priest invoke the name of “Leo, our pope” with quite a lot of pride.

On any platform, your account delivers the details people are looking for, sir

Respect to Frog for doing what writers fear doing: confronting your personal cliches instead of pretending you have none
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Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...

I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can

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Ask me about working in tech while married to a journalist and how we decided to become parents in spite of *waves broadly at everything*

I am, once again, asking you to donate to keep the paper alive and keep as many of my colleagues employed as possible donorbox.org/end-of-year-...

We Need A New Deal To Save Local Journalism | Defector During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building’s roof once a day. I’d look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires had delivered that day…

We need a new deal to save local journalism:

Chicago Reader Announces Restructuring and Layoffs The Reader Institute for Community Journalism, publisher of the Chicago Reader, on Tuesday announced the immediate layoffs of six non-union employee staff positions, spurred by an urgent need to reduc...

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But will the sidewalks be clear 🙃

Bruce’s talent! Museum quality American crafting.

Perennial fav

I caught two buses with no wait or transit app use today. ✨

The best part of fall in Chicago is that you can walk away from your garden on October 1 and return to mountains of dreamy kale and peppers on November 1. No effort required.

“Let’s get to 121! This team sucks” - the White Sox fan behind me

Unsolicited rec: leave town the weekend of Lollapalooza

Portillo’s for dinner + Dairy Star for dessert, not in that order

A screenshot of the USGS river gauge data for the Winooski River in Montpelier, Vermont shows this week’s data overlaid with last year’s data for the same dates.

Flood watch from the current storm hitting on the anniversary of last year’s flood is pretty deeply uncool

Baltimore by Night In the city of vivid dreams, I take a call from a friend. He’s coming to the potluck, he says, he’ll bring eggs. Wild, I think, because in the dream I just had, he brought eggs to a party, cracked …

Mazel to @juliaheney.bsky.social in the New England Review!!

🔊 Listen Now: Remembering Steve Albini, rock musician and engineer, who died at 61 Morning Edition on NPR One | 3:41

I talked to Morning Edition about Albini

I wrote two issues of a zine that a few dozen people bought and it’s referenced in this New York Times Magazine story

I, for one, welcome Taylor Swift’s first collection of poetry and the Goodreads reviews it will stir up.

Life without a post office leaves Montpelier area residents scrambling - VTDigger After a mail carrier retired, residents and businesses in Montpelier and Middlesex have been left without mail and no physical post office to pick up their medicine or bills. The delivery problems are...

The capital of Vermont and hasn’t had a post office since July. Now a carrier has retired, leaving residents with no delivery and no place to ask for mail. Elections are in a month, 30% of residents vote by mail but showing a total lack of urgency, a USPS spokesperson says there are no updates.

Outgoing Pitchfork executive editor @amyphillips.bsky.social shared some of her favorite longform pieces from the music site with @markyarm.bsky.social, and of course she included some of the site's notorious scathing reviews.

Find her fave pieces here: depthperceptionbyll....