Christina Couch

You want me to write “logistics?”…Jason, burn their application

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@thexylom.com provides vital coverage of underreported stories. If you’re looking for a way to support grassroots journalism, this is a great way to do it

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Girls are getting their first periods earlier. Here's what parents should know Girls in the U.S. are getting their first menstrual period about 6 months earlier on average than they did in the 1950s and '60s. And the number of girls starting their period before age nine has doub...

It’s 6 months, not 6 years: www.npr.org/sections/sho...

And @prismreports.org — hell yes to their coverage every damn time

Two people sit in camping chairs in a meadow, in conversation with each other.

📣 Job alert! 📣

The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!

thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...

This is fantastic and much needed. If you plan to attend or cover one of the many No Kings protests this Saturday, please consider joining this effort!

Ability to self-govern…sigh, autocorrect

Maybe? I think I read it as a passive or indirect rejection, but it might not be. I could be interpreting that incorrectly. It’s not as explicit as the MIT response is. The line about not compromising ability to self-governance reads as a rejection to me

I think it’s dismissive rather than a direct rejection

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Dartmouth also rejected it

A giant Australian cuddle fish swims up from the Moy seafloor and looks at the camera. She is red with w shaped curious pupils

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.

This:

I’m featured in this excellent story by @willvh.bsky.social. Valuable info in here for anyone doing sensitive reporting

Rick Taskley

It's Wayne, now and forever, with Freaks and Geeks as a very close second

www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/wayne

I went to a peanut party this weekend to celebrate a kid who was successfully treated for a severe peanut allergy. It was DELIGHTFUL. I ate my weight in peanut m&ms

An Ice-Cold Octopus Nursery Could Help Expand Marine Protections Indigenous and Western scientists are working together to uncover biodiversity in the icy deep. They're getting some eight-armed help.

I wrote about octopus gardens and the delightful science of octo brooding on the seafloor for @scifri.bsky.social.

www.sciencefriday.com/articles/oct...

We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago, collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and traffic stops conducted by federal agents and the National Guard.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago.

Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.

Reminder: @propublica.org is still tracking how immigration agents use force when they make arrests.

Do you have video or other documentation of forceful or violent arrests by immigration agents that we should review? Please reach out.

email: nicole.foy@propublica.org
Signal: @nicolefoy.27

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

This

Honestly, I was really excited for the sewer competition

It's me. You know what you did.

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens