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Good. Dallas BBQ served me the worst ribs I have ever had. The only reason to go there is for the giant drinks (which I didn’t even have, smh. I was there with my aunt, who didn’t drink and was paying)

This right here! I need at least a full eight hours of sleep every day. Being constantly sleep deprived would be absolute torture for me

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth

Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Yikes! But sadly I’m not surprised

wow I hate this

Oh, no. Good luck!

The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement: “We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

I don’t like aisle seats because the aisles on small planes are very narrow (my most frequent flight is on a regional jet), and you’re likely to be bumped into. One time I was on a flight where someone had her piercing ripped by someone who bumped into her. I still wince thinking about that!

Dear MSM: I'm going to call your BS if you don't cover Don Lemon & Georgia Forest's arrests without proper context that these 2 journalists were doing their jobs. Protest is not illegal & exercising our First Amendment rights as journalists not a crime. It's an attack to Press Freedoms.

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I cover loans so it legit took me a sec to get the joke 💀

Big yikes. Truly wild to put this out now

Statement on ICE’s killing of AFGE member Alex Jeffrey Pretti Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement on ICE’s killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti this morning in Minneapolis:“For the second time in less than three weeks, a Minnesotan…

“Just yesterday, tens of thousands of Minnesotans peacefully exercised our right to free speech without incident. When ICE is involved, nonviolent protesters and legal observers are gassed, assaulted, and shot." aflcio.mn/4abNrfk
#iceoutmn #iceout

The People vs. ICE Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune

Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.

Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

Indeed we live in a day of grave crisis. The crisis of this age presents a real challenge to all men of good will. We are chai- lenged to develop a world perspective. No nation or individual can live alone in the modern world. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. All life is inter-related and all men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. John Donne placed this in graphic terms. - "No man is an island, entire of itself; everyman is a plece of the contny man'a death di- a part of the And he goes on toward the end to say, minishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Another urgent challenge facing mankind today is a responsibility of keeping our moral progress commensurate with our scientific and technological advances. One of the great problems confronting us today is that we have allowed our civilization to outdistance our culture.

MLK was the commencement speaker at my dad’s graduation from CCNY in June 1963. This was 24 hours after Medgar Evers was assassinated. I’m going to share a few paragraphs from that speech

I'm in Minneapolis right now staying with friends. I'm working on an audio documentary project about the end of civil rights in the US. It felt important to come and witness it on the ground here. If anyone wants to connect and bear witness to grief and resistance, I'd love to meet up and talk.

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Ooh, I love your layout for your Hobonichi Weeks!

A reckoning comes for journalism philanthropy "These funders — including the American Journalism Project, which drove the creation of Houston Landing — have increasingly been picking the winners and losers in American journalism, with no conseque...

Read @damaso.bsky.social piece.

I 100 percent agree.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/a-re...

Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

Two Dozen New Yorker Staffers Crash Netflix Doc Screening to Protest “Union-Busting” at Condé The event at New York’s Paris Theater featured the magazine’s top editor, David Remnick, and filmmakers.

“union-busting like it’s 1925.”

19. No waterbed. These items aren’t that old 😭

Thank you for speaking up about this and for introducing me to a rich history!

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What?! This is wild

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

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I’m so sorry to hear this news. I hope you land something great soon!

Oh no, I’m sorry!