Judy Patrick

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

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In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

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Many people are saying that this kind of response in the corporate world would get you at the very least a summons to HR.

In other White Houses, it would get you fired.

In the Trump White House, of course, it likely gets you attaboys and high fives.

Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...

Tom Clare -- the libel lawyer who has threatened media outlets on behalf of clients including the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the Sackler family, Project Veritas & others -- is now representing the Trump family's crypto company World Liberty Financial.

50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die

"the headline also had the benefit of truth-telling, at a time when truth was easier to discern and less open to argument"

crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability

AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed AI is rapidly transforming journalism, but the extent of its use in published newspaper articles remains unclear. We address this gap by auditing a large-scale dataset of 186K articles from online edi...

"Despite this prevalence, we find that AI use is rarely disclosed"

Ottawa County settles 2 more lawsuits, including 1 involving newspaper Ottawa County commissioners on Tuesday, Oct. 28 settled lawsuits with Chester Township and the Holland Sentinel.

Fighting the good fight. #journalism #opengovernment

Local immigration court ousts reporters from hearings HYATTSVILLE, Md. – Federal officials ordered two reporters out of immigration court on Tuesday and barred them from observing future proceedings until they get permission from the Trump administration...

Reporters (one of whom is my daughter) were ousted from covering immigration court hearings. Trump regime using shutdown to impinge on free press and coverage of their actions. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

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Marking boundaries IRL

No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach

Mad Men

What Was America’s First Newspaper? It accused Louis XIV of a scandalous affair.

Shut down after just one issue.

Free speech advocacy group condemns UCO for ‘controlling’ student newspaper • Oklahoma Voice A national free speech advocacy group sent a letter on Monday to the president of University of Central Oklahoma accusing the state’s third-largest university of censoring student journalists.

Free speech advocate wrote that while The Vista is not “entitled” to UCO funding, the decision to end printing followed the administration being unhappy with the student coverage.

In response to the Washington Post defending Trump’s bulldozing the East Wing of the WH, I canceled my subscription to the paper I’ve read since growing up in Northern Virginia.

It would be so easy for journalists to point out, every time Trump mentions acing an IQ test, that it was a dementia screening. Put it in the chyron. Mention it after the quote in the article. Ask a follow-up. But a kind of decorum masking deference to authority is part of our media's culture.

New York, USA — September 9, 2025. A man reacts following a confrontation with federal agents on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, outside immigration courtrooms.

Monday, October 27, 2025

I love a good typo: "It's a great story, but this typo in the print edition is too amusing not to note: Someone (or something?) at the Journal changed Cindy Holland's name to "Cindy The Netherlands" #journalism #AIcopyeditor?

Journalists across the state step up to save Holdrege newspaper (copy) It was surprising news when Holdrege Citizen Publisher Bob King announced he was printing the newspaper’s last edition on Thursday, Sept. 4.

“The Nebraska Press Association came out the following Monday and convinced me that we need to continue,” King said."

Please sir I am just a small soybean farmer and a common man

Population | United Nations In 1950, five years after the founding of the United Nations, world population was estimated at around 2.6 billion people. It reached 5 billion in 1987 and 6 in 1999. In October 2011, the global popul...

Over the next week, I'll share facts about the shifting population, part of NPR's look at how smaller families are changing the world. One UN data point: "Fertility in *all European countries* is now below the level required for full replacement of the population..." www.un.org/en/global-is....

Oh?

False equivalencies will be the end of us.

Take a Look at Rare Photos of Red Lightning in New Zealand Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high definition against the Milky Way.

“It’s very meaningful to me, to capture an event that I’ve wanted to capture for a very long period of time.” Three photographers in New Zealand captured an atmospheric phenomenon that has rarely been photographed: red sprites, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms. Take a look.

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts • Kansas Reflector Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and t...

Yes, deleting those texts was a crime but this kind of reminds us of getting Al Capone for tax evasion.

The former police chief has done a lot worse, like illegally raiding a newspaper publisher’s home, likely resulting in Joan Meyer’s death.

Transparency Advocate Rejected From Ethics Commission Plans to Sue Gary Lavine says law school deans illegally blocked his nomination to the state's ethics body.

Since winning the lawsuit, it’s unclear if the ethics commission has made any further effort to force the ex-governor to repay the $5 million. #NYFocus

Please pay attention

'The Ogdenite' founder turns local pocket guides into biweekly community newspaper Deann Armes, founder of The Ogdenite, started her website a few years ago. Now, she is taking on a new challenge. She is working on creating a local newspaper with two issues going out every month.

"If any place can sustain a local paper, it’s Ogden,” said Deann Armes, founder of The Ogdenite.

Push to remove public notice from newspapers widens door to government secrecy | OPINION - ClarksvilleNow.com Municipal leaders across Tennessee are trying to "ease the burden" on government agencies, making it so that publishing their calendar on their own website is sufficient for public notice.

If you’re Jane Citizen trying to keep up with what’s happening in local government, you would have to check in daily with the websites for both the City of Clarksville and Montgomery County.