Gwen Florio

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey

Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...

If you feel the earth wobbling on its axis a bit, it's because I'm outlining.

Remembering Stanley Nelson, Louisiana journalist who exposed Ku Klux Klan secrets We remember Stanley Nelson, the editor of a small-town weekly newspaper in Louisiana, who exposed secrets about unsolved murders by the Ku Klux Klan. Nelson died this week at the age of 69.

Journalism
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The ‘American Dirt’ Backlash Nearly Stopped Jeanine Cummins From Writing

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South Jersey Assembly candidate selling photos of her feet as online adult content - New Jersey Globe A Democratic candidate for State Assembly is selling photos of her feet on an adult content website that caters to people with foot fetishes, promising to

Oh, New Jersey
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We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

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A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run Check out A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run - <p><b><i>Senior citizen Alice Sanders can finally settle into her well-deserved retirement home in New Jersey . . . until her past catches up wi...

Celebrating today's official release with a lovely review from Booklist. It's behind a paywall, but here's the pull quote: 'Once again, [Florio] delivers a solid thriller with social commentary.' @severnhouse.bsky.social
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Seattle Times journalists earn Pulitzer nod for investigation of WA’s salmon recovery spending Three Seattle Times journalists are Pulitzer Prize finalists for their work revealing the shortcomings of Washington’s salmon recovery program.

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‘James’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Savoring this brief moment in time when Journalism is favored #KentuckyDerby

Respect

#roadtrip

Not in New Jersey anymore #roadtrip

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Maya Angelou out, Mein Kampf stays. Doesn't this just say it all?
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Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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Judge orders White House to lift restrictions on Associated Press over use of Gulf of Mexico A federal judge granted the Associated Press' request for a preliminary injunction and ordered White House officials to restore its access to certain spaces.

'The Constitution requires no less,' McFadden wrote in his opinion.
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Lawmaker defends decision to cut arts funding, while spouse's group gets nearly triple its request • Daily Montanan Rep. John Fitzpatrick who led a 'radioactive' charge against arts groups is criticized because he didn't disclose a personal relationship with a member who got funding.

In Montana - Lawmaker defends decision to cut arts funding, while spouse’s group gets nearly triple its request dailymontanan.com/2025/04/07/l...

US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech

Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The administration...

FFS

'Joke.' Right.
Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a ‘joke’

'...edits on dozens of pages since Trump’s inauguration have already softened descriptions of some of the most shameful moments of the nation’s past.' -
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

A SENIOR CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO LIFE ON THE RUN | Kirkus Reviews Dark doings at a “planned community for active adults.”

Some great news - Kirkus Reviews likes the new book!

"Will friendship win out over caution at a time of life when most people just want to play it safe?" @severnhouse.bsky.social

Just hit 20K in the WIP, the point at which I start to think that maybe, just maybe, it could work.

Why is this writer so happy? Because copies of her book just arrived from publisher @severnhouse.bsky.social! Truly the second-best day of the year. Counting down now to the best day - the May 6 release date for A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run.

Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 15 hours and counting The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.

Our senator!
"And so we all have a responsibility, I believe, to do something different, to cause — as [late Rep.] John Lewis said — 'good trouble,' and that includes me.

Opening Connections today, and deciding to go back to sleep instead

A different kind of stakeout for ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino: A cheesesteak shop of his own Skinny Joey's Cheesesteaks in South Philadelphia marks the latest chapter in the storied career of Joey Merlino, podcast host and former wise guy.

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