Carrie Brown

Journalists or Creators? How Media Entrepreneurs Are Reshaping News Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 07/31/2025 · 1h 4m

Good episode for those interested in future of news podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’ Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

“If they’re able to crush the LA resistance, that means they’re going to be able to do it anywhere else. That’s why LA as a frontline has been a critical space to show that the community is organized, and we’re not backing down.”

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

A conflict between two Americans: one, a West Point grad, combat vet, Rhodes Scholar, expert and academic. The other… a woman banned from Uber because she was too abusive to Muslim drivers.

Guess who wins.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

The dogs like to keep an eye on the neighborhood

Granty got a lime tree

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JFC. If you know anything about course evaluations....

🏠 Housing costs in New Jersey have skyrocketed, making it tough for many to afford a home or pay rent.

Stella Mach is using Census Bureau data and smart data analysis to craft stories that matter.

📺 Full video out now: youtube.com/watch?v=cnyT... #housing #newjersey #workshop

Pete Hegseth's younger brother is laying out a strategy to use the military for domestic law enforcement. Perfectly authoritarian brand of nepotism and democratic backsliding.

We can crack the pillars that prop up Trump’s authoritarian regime by refusing to cooperate or comply with requests, demands, or orders.

Watch the training: youtube.com/live/yqhFZjH...

Join the campaign to teach peaceful disruption tactics to one million Americans: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel decided tonight that every Palestinian child in Gaza should have breakfast tomorrow, it could undoubtedly be done."

"This system has so thoroughly ignored conditions on the ground that it raises the question of whether Israel has been intentionally engineering starvation in the strip."

Opinion | Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza

"Starvation also lives on in the body, especially for the young. For children who survive acute malnutrition, the resulting physical and cognitive damage can last a lifetime." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

You’ve got to admit that’s parody-level bothsidesing.

Me three months ago:

a man wearing glasses and a headband with the words it happened above him ALT: a man wearing glasses and a headband with the words it happened above him

Regret to report that after starting this season of Love Island to relate to my 15-year-old nieces, I have slowly but surely been sucked in

For Some, Return of Presidential Fitness Test Revives Painful Memories

Heh, ironically, the Presidential Physical Fitness Test was the one (1) thing in gym class I could actually do, and I was really proud to be only one of two girls who passed. I was TERRIBLE at any sport with a ball that required coordination, but this I could do www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

I worry about this a lot, tbh. Yes it is not healthy but imo, nothing has quite replaced it.

The New York Times’ local investigations fellowship gives local reporters the time and resources to take big swings “Newspaper wars are out. I think the future of local news is collaboration.”

"I think the future of local news is collaboration.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/the-... (May)

Next week in San Francisco at the #AEJMC25 conference, come see our panel, Community Media Centers and the Future of Local News! Thursday, August 8, 8:30am, Salon 13. @cratebeats.bsky.social got a great group of local folks to join us.

I have bet on the wrong event horizon so many times that I’ve given up. At this point, its either (a) we will march ourselves into the boiling ocean wearing new Air Force 1s rather than revolt or (b) the tipping point will be the absolutely silliest, dumbest thing imaginable.

Heartbreaking.

Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore just closed. The Kansas City Defender plans to reopen it as a newsroom and public archive. “The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.”

A beloved bookstore about to close; a determined volunteer; a local news nonprofit that got creative.

Got to write about a Kansas City icon named Willa Robinson and what @kcdefender.bsky.social is doing to preserve her remarkable book collection and legacy.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

We’re on watch, you say? No, Mr. President, we’re the goddamn Big Ten. You’re on watch. newrepublic.com/article/1983... Hell yes.

The Harder Right I spent 25 years in uniform, including four as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point and two and a half more teaching economics and national security at West Point’s Department o...

Jen Easterly writes a post on LinkedIn addressing her position at West Point being rescinded: "A casualty of casually manufactured outrage that drowned out the quiet labor of truth and the steady pulse of integrity."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/harder...

From the DoggyDNA community on Reddit: DNA results for our Sato (puerto Rican street dog) VERY SURPRISED Explore this post and more from the DoggyDNA community

I’m obsessed with this subreddit, where people post a bunch of pics of their dog and then, at the end of the carousel, the breed mix results from a DNA test kit. Among other things the world is just full of little chihuahua lotharios making mutts small. www.reddit.com/r/DoggyDNA/c...

Oh no. Ugh.

I am really feeling this 🫤