Maeve McGoran

"This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation," Judge Immergut wrote in 30-page opinion: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

The journalists said they "were never consulted about the edits. (They) wrote, 'The willingness to acquiesce to a public official’s editorial demands...is a betrayal not just of the journalists...but of the company’s integrity as a purvyor of news.'”
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

"Gramm argued that once the government begins owning shares in businesses, even with good intentions, the practice inevitably invites corruption and spirals into favoritism.
'It’s ripe for corruption and special treatment,' he said."

Shipwreck Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank ...

Audible.com/shipwreck

10 years after the SS El Faro sailed into a hurricane, a podcast reconstructs what happened Maeve McGoran, the reporter and host of the podcast “Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company and Culture Sank the SS El Faro” joined WLRN’s Danny Rivero on "The Florida Roundup" to discuss the series.

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Why?

Rows of empty chairs marked with black ribbons. One holds a plaque and a bouquet of white flowers

Ten years ago today, the loved ones of the 33 people lost on the SS El Faro found their lives changed forever. I'm thinking about all of them on this very difficult anniversary.

Podcast reconstructs El Faro disaster, 10 years later | Jacksonville Today Thirty-three crew members died when the SS El Faro container ship sailed from Jacksonville into a hurricane.

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

Exclusive: In the first half of the year, upheaval from the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze delayed the delivery of hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies to regional warehouses in dozens of countries.

The consequences were deadly.

I've listened to The Florida Roundup for years, now I'm going to be a guest! To talk about my new Audible podcast Shipwreck, audible.com/shiwreck, about the tragic sinking of the SS El Faro. Listen at 12:45 today, on your local Florida public radio station, or online at wlrn.org

Work with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Check out the full-time jobs, fellowships and internships available at the Reporters Committee.

Want to join the fight for press freedom at this critical moment? @rcfp.org is hiring a Staff Attorney to protect journalists and their First Amendment rights!

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SFGATE launched a National Parks bureau. It led to explosive growth. SFGATE was one of America's 10 fastest growing news sites in back-to-back months.

🚨 WE. ARE. HIRING 🚨

In June I told you @sfgate.com's national parks expansion across the American West was SMASHING and now we're looking to add a contributing editor to the team to help us cover the 🌵 Southwest 🌵.

Story on how well it's going + Quick 🧵 on the job👇 www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Jimmy Kimmel Will Return to the Air Following Backlash, Boycott “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,” said the Walt Disney Company.

This is a huge win for free speech and a massive credit to the millions of people who expressed their outrage and sent a clear signal with their voices and their wallets.

And it's a credit to Bob Iger and Disney as well that in the end they did the right thing. ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop. Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.

Sebastian Junger and Patrick O'Brian had the same editor! "Try rewriting with the goal of leaving out everything you possibly can... and if the reader has to scramble a bit to understand, that’s okay." What a terrifying note for a writer
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Where is the $50,000 now?

Up til 2 months ago, Carol Leonnig was winning Pulitzers for the Washinngton Post. Now MSNBC gets to present her stellar journalism

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column 'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

"Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week...Their goal is to instill fear...Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize...Because the story’s not written-the pen is in your hand."
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Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key data report with no explanation There is heightened concern about the future of key government statistics, including politicization and accuracy.

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4

The most consquential news this week."'If people cannot access vaccines, we will see the return of diseases that once caused serious health issues for children,' said Dr. Sean T. O’Leary, infectious diseases committee chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Union that reps the musicians on Kimmel: “This is not complicated — this is State censorship, happening in 🇺🇸… a direct attack on free speech… we stand with all those who will be out of work because of government overreach.”

What Kimmel should do is file a civil rights suit against the FCC.

"Last year, NSF ended support for its other Antarctic research ship, the ARSV Laurence M. Gould, citing escalating costs and budget constraints. That left the Palmer on its own."

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.

M Comey Complaint

NEW: Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, sues the Justice Department over her abrupt firing from her job as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.”

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A new McCarthyism:

WAPO fires their last black columnist because she:

A. posted frustration about the gun violence problem post -Kirk without due respect (apparently) and

B. Posted direct quotes from Kirk disparaging black women’s intelligence.