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The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

I arrived at The Post during a personal and professional nadir. But they welcomed me into their merry band of misfits, and believed in me — so I started believing in myself, too.

My ode to what makes The Post so special. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park

The National Park Service has dismantled exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park.

Here are some of the signs that were removed and why they were flagged.

YouTube video by CBS Evening News Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Researchers at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium last week discussed how lifestyle factors such as alcohol use and obesity affect cancer risk. Read about the session in Cancer Today. buff.ly/DYFlzd6 #SABCS25 @sabcs.bsky.social

The new issue of Cancer Today magazine is online now with new stories on a new approach to treating breast cancer progression, using dance to alleviate neuropathy, and much more. buff.ly/wJPMKOf

Inspired by the new documentary "The American Revolution," I followed in the footsteps of the founders this morning [got attacked by a rat outside of Independence Hall].

You could look it up! [big book news]

Happy onsale day to @merriam-webster.com 12!

"Physicians emphasize that for most patients, the study reinforces what they already discuss in the exam room: that hormonal birth control is broadly safe, and decisions should be tailored to each woman's needs and values."

Social media can highlight new information, but it's so important to dig deeper or speak with your doctor before accepting sensational statements as fact.

"researchers observed a small, short-term rise in breast cancer diagnoses among current or recent users. ... Still, TikTok is flooded with factually incomplete warnings that contraceptives cause cancer and are as dangerous as smoking."

Huge new study on breast cancer and birth control shows how science can be distorted The study sought to answer questions about how breast cancer risk differs by type of hormonal contraceptive. Doctors say the results won't change how they counsel patients.

Understanding the findings of the recent observational study on birth control and breast cancer risk: www.cbsnews.com/news/breast-...

Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

Image of two text posts. One from Olúfémi O. Táiwò reading: according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social f@hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race. That post shared by @golikehellmachine.com with the comment: i don't like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

Image of post from the Paris Review with a quote by Philip Roth: "I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, 'How he is going to hate this!' That can be just the encouragement I need."

Hater season in full swing!

Headline from STAT newsletter reading "David Half-Asselhoff: Why doctors might 'fake' CPR"

Amazing kicker in the Morning Rounds newsletter from @statnews.com today www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/h...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

"We love our veterans." -Trump

“Veterans benefits aren’t getting cut,” VA sec.

Reality: The admin is making it far harder for male vets w/ a deadly disease --breast cancer--to get benefits and care.

B/c...the fight against "Gender Ideology Extremism"

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

NEW: “As of Sept. 30, the department no longer presumes service connection for male breast cancer,” a Veterans Affairs rep confirmed to @propublica.org, meaning newly diagnosed veterans will have to show that their cancer is linked to their military service.

By @ericumansky.bsky.social

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

Cancer rates are rising among young adults in the corn belt, and like lots of the news about young adult cancer rates, there are more questions than answers.

A way to have a good weekend is to go to a local bookstore this afternoons and buy something random and counterintuitive from the staff picks shelf, and spend the next two days reading it.

The Open Notebook's 15th Anniversary - The Open Notebook For 15 years, The Open Notebook has been the trusted home for journalists worldwide who cover science. What started as an experiment to demystify the craft of science writing has grown into a vital, g...

Everything we do at The Open Notebook stems from our commitment to supporting community, equity, and professional growth. If TON has helped you hone your craft, build your career, or connect with journalists worldwide, please consider giving back, today, on our 15th birthday. 🧪

In her new book, Joelle Kaufman writes about finding "happiness tripwires" in everyday events. She spoke to Cancer Today about how these tiny doses of joy helped her through cancer treatment. buff.ly/06OYnk0

It drives me nuts that every program on my computer has made its AI into an early internet pop-up ad. They're a pain to work around and trying to close the button or box ends up just launching the AI.

Springsteen Celebrates Street Life By Bruce Pollock Dec. 16, 1973 WHEN Bruce Springsteen's first Columbia album, “Greetings From Asbury Park,” came out almost a year ago, it was met with the most extravagant and outrageous praise I've ever encountered in the Rock Press. Reviewers compared him to Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, El Topo, Webster's New World Dictionary. If superlatives were a dime a dozen, Springsteen could have retired then and there. Because of the amazing way he broke from the gate, even his most avid fans wondered how he could possibly sustain the pace. He'd never be able to follow his own act! Meanwhile, the cynical suspected a paper legend that would come apart at the first drop of split milk. Springsteen would have to do it again before they would believe. * Now, after five solid months of dedicated labor, that second piece of work is here — The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Columbia KC 32432) — and in an era of diminishing returns, false prophets and false bottoms, where the best of our instant pop‐up superstars are either choked‐off, laid‐back, lame or laid out flat, it is with a great sense of relief that I announce to the disbelievers that Bruce Springsteen has delivered another stone, howling, joyous monster of a record. Of course the fanatics knew the issue was never really in doubt. Springsteen is a word virtuoso, who uses language the way his band‐mate Clarence Clemons plays the sax: tough, fast and funky, sometimes frivolous, often devastating. His lyrics are intuitive, emotional, a mass of flung images that spin toward you from all directions and somehow hang on a canvas—great swatches of local color that blend into a landscape of remembered adolescent scenes and dreams in the swamps and seasides of Jersey, in the slums of New York. In a time when everyone else is leaving the city for greener pastures, Springsteen celebrates street life, rendering it completely imagined, with places an…

NYT on Springsteen, 12/16/73: "[WILD/INNOCENT] leaves you wishing it would go on forever. Every time Springsteen comes to town, all his friends flock to see him. This album should increase their number immeasurably. Can you imagine what his third album will be like?" www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/a...

(And thanks to @merriam-webster.com for including an explanation of this with the definition. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...)

Movie listing for "One Battle After Another" that is rated R for "pervasive language"

Oh no, there's language through this entire movie! I can't believe the MPAA has been sticking with this malapropism since the 90s.

Blood thinners can be an effective way to manage blood clots during cancer treatment, but they come with their own risks. Could using a lower dose prove effective in the long term? Learn more in Cancer Today: www.cancertodaymag.org/fall-2025/a-...

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall!

I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures.

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