Kristin Hussey

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

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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.

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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.

Saw it on the site and cheered for you!

Today's must-read, featuring incredible reporting by @jasonleopold.bsky.social. His story is wild—and scary as all get-out, if you care about the security of data at just about every federal agency.

Then, as a companion piece, read Jason's new FOIA Files, which turns the craziness up to 11.

Federal Funding and the First Amendment

An immensely important First Amendment Q right now is when the government may regulate speech by imposing conditions on federal funding. Here’s a new @knightcolumbia.org series on this topic. 1/ knightcolumbia.org/research/fed...

AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.

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Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Full Text of the U.S. Constitution Read and share the complete text of the United States Constitution.

For reference:
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NYTimes Publisher AG Sulzberger tells a Columbia conference that his company spends 10X as much on security as it did before Trump won his first term.

ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck. “It's funny how you can know nothing about something like LED billboard trucks and then suddenly become an expert in them."

I love this: ProPublica hired a billboard truck to tell federal workers how to reach reporters. It worked.
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Sunshine Week 2025 Secrecy gives the government control. FOIA can restore the power imbalance.

For #SunshineWeek, @laurenleharper.bsky.social writes about the importance of protecting and strengthening FOIA.

“FOIA is in trouble, and we need congressional help to fix it.”

Read her column in The IRE Journal: www.ire.org/ire-journal/...

All the talk about how to combat misinformation online often leaves out a core problem: misinformation is free, real journalism often isn't.

Proud that @freedom.press is partnering with @wired.com to do something about that. And shoutout to @404media.co and any other outlets also doing this.