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21 Years Later, Dave Matthews Bus Poop Incident Makes Chicagoans Laugh — And Groan Dave Matthews’ tour bus emptied its 800-pound septic tank on people taking a cruise 21 years ago this week. The DMB poop incident is "now old enough to drink," one social media post pointed out.

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Chicago pope

Student loans paid off

20 years in the making!

Sara Bareilles, Love Song. All-time grocery store banger.

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Tough day for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Can't ever really re-watch much of Curb Your Enthusiasm at this point.

Herren volk shit

Headline from AP on Trump gutting aviation safety commiter

1 week ago

This is part of my long game to get more people wearing the Old Gold and Blue of WVU

Chasing points before the 4th quarter rarely pays off

Chasing points before the 4th quarter rarely pays off

The House is Great

TMBG Flood

35 years ago today... a brand-new record for 1990.

Greathouse. In the middle of our street.

In the arms of Angeli

Merry Christmas 2024

Merry Christmas 2024

Fun time of year where I am punished with roughly 20 emails per hour from every company I've ever divulged my email for a $5 discount.

I get why journalists are reticent to try to port a following to a new platform—I was, and I still post my work everywhere—but if your career is predicated on people clicking your links and engaging with your work, this site is the only one not actively working against that.

How Innovation Keeps an Activist Ugandan News Site Ahead of the Government Reporting that pops up in different media, documents as proof, and crowdsourced investigations have revealed corruption.

How Innovation Keeps an Activist Ugandan News Site Ahead of the Government www.cjr.org/world/how-in...

What will a second Trump term mean for the Freedom of Information Act? The law itself is likely to stand, but experts expect a surge in requests, longer delays, and more court dates.

What will a second Trump term mean for the Freedom of Information Act www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/what...

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Would be glad to be added. Thanks!

The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

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Anatomy of a censorship campaign: A tech exec's crusade to stifle journalism Tactics used by businessman against reporting he dislikes are increasingly common. Here’s how reporters can be prepared and fight back

To be clear, it's not just the government who is an increasing threat to independent journalism. Rich people—from Peter Thiel to Elon Musk to Maury Blackman—are doing their best to sue news organization's out of existence.

Hard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I don’t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.

2024’s other big loser? The mainstream media. Is there any path forward? | Will Bunch As an electorate besieged by disinformation turned to Trump, trust in traditional media has imploded. What comes next?

2024’s other big loser? The mainstream media. Is there any path forward? www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The Media’s Identity Crisis Legacy media must compete against a choose-your-own-adventure reality.

Bad News: Legacy media must compete against a choose-your-own-adventure reality www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Frequently asked questions about the PRESS Act The bill to protect journalist-source confidentiality that passed the House last week is the most important press freedom bill in modern times

If we want meaningful oversight of a second Trump administration, the lame-duck Congress needs to act quickly to pass the PRESS Act, which will protect journalists from government surveillance and from court orders to reveal their confidential sources. #1A #journalism