Grouchy Broderick

Happy Lunar New Year. 🧧
新年快乐。❤️

On this Lunar New Year eve, I am reflecting on spending time with my family in China last year at this time, and the year before that being in Gaza with the beautiful people of Palestine.

Updates: Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 84

Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday at 84. Follow live.

More on the Washington Post Bloodbath, Don Lemon’s Arrest, and the ESPN-NFL Deal Spotify video

New PRESS BOX w/ @joelanderson.bsky.social:

More on the WaPo Bloodbath
--What Happened to Features
ESPN/NFL
Don Lemon
Tina Brown + the Files
James Talarico
open.spotify.com/episode/06Lj...

Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025.

A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.

Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

had to mourn in person. Hell of a fucking season.

100 days until Pitchers and Catchers report.

BLUE JAYS WORLD SERIES HERO EL DEBARGE

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

In Oklahoma, some teachers show a Prager U video of a cartoon Booker T. Washington telling students not to feel bad about slavery, echoing a conservative talking point. “Future generations are never responsible for the sins of the past.” @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

DA YANKEES LOSE!
How can you not get romantic about baseball

Looks like October is Bird Season
#WantItAll

Edward Keenan: Some scoffed when the CN Tower was built. Today, it’s a reminder of something Toronto badly needs From tacky embarrassment to an indispensable part of the Toronto’s skyline, the CN Tower says a lot about the city we used to be — and the about the city we are now.

The CN Tower represents “ a time when we felt like our city deserved those kind of statement buildings, and could afford them, and needed them. Or at least wanted them, for the kind of city we aim to become.”

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

@thekeenanwire.bsky.social 👏

Trump Administration Forces Out More Senior Justice Dept. Officials The Trump administration targeted veteran career lawyers who managed pardon work, bankruptcy litigation and other legal issues in the latest wave of forced departures.

The Trump administration on Friday forced out a handful of senior Justice Department officials, further thinning the ranks of career officials who help guide the agency, according to several people familiar with the actions.

A surfer is riding the crest of a giant wave. A headline reads: "Surfers Return for Rare Big Wave Contest in Hawaii." Photo by Erik Kabik/Associated Press.

“It’s so much more than a surf contest.” The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is held only when conditions are just right. The 45 invited surfers had less than 48 hours to arrive on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, on Sunday to compete. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/u...

Covering the NYC Suspect, Bill Belichick’s TV Rehab Flopped, and the New Woj Bomb The Press Box · Episode

New pod with @joelanderson.bsky.social!

How we're covering the NYC suspect, Bill Belichick's TV rehab, Nick Saban's commitment to the bit, the new Woj bombs, and *much* more. open.spotify.com/episode/79qg...

This shit means something to me.

Seems like maybe part of the problem is turning to 80 year-olds who don’t know what TikTok is to ask them what the problem is?

Seems like maybe part of the problem is turning to 80 year-olds who don’t know what TikTok is and are just now realizing people get their information differently to ask them what the problem is? newrepublic.com/article/1888...

Parents are in control of which books their own children read - if you don't like one of the thousands they have that are on the shelves of our public libraries, put it back and choose another! Pretty simple concept. #FreedomtoRead #RighttoRead

I’m a little behind on holidays. Currently celebrating Arbor Day 2015 NO SPOILERS PLZ!!!

I worked with many talented, dedicated, good people at TVO. It sucks that so many won't be able to do the work they loved. We're all poorer for it.

Just got laid off as editor-in-chief of TVO Today after eight years. Some of my very talented colleagues were also let go. Hire them for all your writing and editing needs. Hire me if they’re unavailable.

More later.

Sounds like a horrendous day at TVO. My real sympathies to all involved, in this stupid business, and my disapproval to those who made the decision.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin