Today’s game is yarn chicken. 🫣 Almost finished with a Claudia Eisenkolb design named Woven Bands.

Duluth’s one-man newsroom embraces ‘bare-knuckles’ journalism John Ramos started the Duluth Monitor in 2019 with an aggressive approach to reporting local news. His reporting has upset some local officials but he says readers appreciate his muckraking style.

John Ramos has an affinity for the muckraking journalists of a century ago. It’s a style he brings to his reporting for the Duluth Monitor, the six-year-old online news site where he does all the reporting.

Here's how they report on him in the UK, where their free press has a spine.

F.A.A. Temporarily Halts Launches of Musk’s Starship After Explosion (Gift Article) The agency launched an investigation into the “space vehicle mishap” on Thursday night that forced commercial flights to divert and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands.

NYT: The urgent radio calls by air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration office in Puerto Rico started to go out on Thursday evening as a SpaceX test flight exploded and debris began to rain toward the Caribbean. A look at the the Starship blowup. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...