Kristin Hussey

The Stories We Most Admired in 2025: Businessweek’s Jealousy List The stories we admired most this year.

Businessweek's Jealousy List is one of my favorite features every year. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Which begs the question, did someone have a shredding party over the weekend? #EpsteinFiles

Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files

Huh. How bout that
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

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

So, as you know, we had a big cheat sheet to the elections on Bolts: nearly 200 key contests that we were tracking, & why.

The page is now updated with the results of ALL the races that were on it — from judges to mayors to school boards.

You can explore! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

We're accepting gold bars from Switzerland in exchange for a lower tariff rate? And weeks after DOJ said no further action on Epstein files, Trump orders an investigation, which means DOJ now can't release files bc of an active investigation? And Flynn wants a settlement? ❗WHAT ❗IS ❗HAPPENING ❗

Same! Ridic

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

A glorious history of a famous headline, by NYT's Bill Brink.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer’ The number of legally sanctioned homicides has grown substantially in states with expanded self-defense rights under stand-your-ground laws.

This investigation is as sobering as they come, by Mark Maremont and Paul Overberg. (Free link)
www.wsj.com/us-news/homi...

Who’s going to save local newspaper archives? Archivists worry in particular about photographs that have never been digitized.

Who will save wedding announcements, obituaries, school honor roll lists, and high school sports events -- all the milestones that make life special?
www.cjr.org/analysis/dig...

What Do the New Pentagon Press Reporting Rules Say? The new rules codify strict limitations on access and raise the prospect of punishment for requesting information on matters of public interest.

Look, I don't know, but it sure seems like this move is abridging freedom of speech and of the press, no?
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Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works

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Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

Mr. Jones for years falsely claimed on his Infowars show and website that the shooting was a hoax and that family members of the victims were actors in a plot...

Twenty children, all of them first graders, and six educators died in the shooting. By Ann E. Marimow

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

It's time to dial back the insanity and get our shit together, America.

No credible threat at USNA; Here's what happened There is no credible threat to the U.S. Naval Academy, Gov. Wes Moore's office told 11 News.

"A midshipman who was sheltered in place thought a member of law enforcement was a threat and hit him with a training weapon. Law enforcement then shot the midshipman, who is at a hospital and expected to recover."

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Thank goodness someone is taking up this necessary project! #savethepast #savethememories

Sigh.

Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April

No transparency here. #FOIA www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

This is bananas. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

This is v distressing

Screenshot of a paragraph from Brian Stelter's Reliable Sources column on Aug 11 2025, about AOL ending its dial-up service.

Hat tip to the 160,000 people still connecting to the interwebs via dial-up. Good luck on the other side. From @brianstelter.bsky.social

‘The most transparent administration in history’

Great scoop @jasonleopold.bsky.social

Officials remember Capital Gazette shooting victims, 7 years later Saturday is a solemn day for the city of Annapolis and the state of Maryland. Seven years ago, a gunman killed five staff members at the Capital Gazette.

John. Rob. Wendy. Gerald. Rebecca. #CapitalGazette
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Nice shout out to #MuckRock, at any rate. 😅

Alex Jones accused of trying to shield assets as Sandy Hook families seek payment on $1B judgment The trustee overseeing Alex Jones’ personal bankruptcy case is accusing the far-right conspiracy theorist of trying to shield more than $5 million from his creditors.

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Pete Hegseth’s ‘Next Step Is to Ban Reporters Entirely’ From the Pentagon, Warns Veteran Correspondent Hegseth is "making the Pentagon as difficult to cover as possible. And the next step is to ban reporters entirely from the Pentagon"

This is all going in the wrong direction. Worrisome.

www.mediaite.com/politics/vet...

A Risky Plan Made in America

A man, a dream, a ... wool mill in Connecticut? What a story.
By Steven Kurutz
Visuals by Jillian Freyer
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/f...

Former CT Gov. John Rowland pardoned by Donald Trump Rowland, the twice-convicted former governor of Connecticut, said he was “humbled and appreciative” Wednesday after learning he was pardoned.

BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump has pardoned former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland, who said he was "humbled and appreciative" after learning of it.

HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu The department cited Moderna’s use of the messenger RNA technology, which it said “remains under-tested,” for the cancellation of the funding.

On Wednesday, Moderna announced that it had received positive interim data about immune response and safety from an early-stage clinical trial

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Why is this happening?
It's a question many are asking.

👉If I do one thing, I hope it's getting across how news deserts underlie the decline in our democracy.

They are where: pubic officials have no checks, there's a lack of civic engagement, more risk of corruption at the local level.