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Skilled tradespeople are the climate workforce rural areas need most In Colorado, industry and higher ed are teaming up to grow the rural climate workforce of tomorrow.

Skilled tradespeople are the climate workforce rural areas need most www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1... good story here by @raedear1.bsky.social

News Subscriptions Should Be Subsidized Eighty-three percent of the country doesn’t have a single media subscription. Readership assistance programs can help them.

News subscriptions should be subsidized.! 🦋
www.cjr.org/opinion/news...

FWC announces results and winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge™ 10-day competition, 934 participants from 30 states and Canada Everglades conservation by removing a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from south Florida.

Your annual reminder that you need to read "Squeeze Me" by @carlhiaasen.com myfwc.com/news/all-new...

Dan Zanes — Episodes — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

@marcmaron.bsky.social listeners: As we pre-mourn the podcast's end, one way to fill the gaping hole is w/ past episodes that connect to our lives. Reading Warren Zanes' books now drove me to the two great Zanes bros episodes, starting w/ @danzanes.bsky.social in '15: www.wtfpod.com/podcast/tag/...

Made In America, But Not In My Backyard - Site Selection Magazine I’ve been in the room when a company’s leaders met with a state’s economic developers to plan a flashy, scripted news conference announcing the latest and greatest manufacturing project.

See this exclusive commentary for Site Selection magazine from Cornerstone Government Affairs Principal Ben Sheidler. #NIMBY #MadeInAmerica #economicdevelopment siteselection.com/made-in-amer...

In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million - Inside Climate News The deal will send hundreds of millions toward cleaning up water polluted by “forever chemicals,” checking on people’s health and fixing damage to land and rivers.

In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million insideclimatenews.org/news/1305202...

Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law - Inside Climate News Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law insideclimatenews.org/news/1805202...

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

Alan Garber fan here. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse Fired NCES and IES employees describe a mad dash to save data that has informed higher-education policy and practice since the days of Abraham Lincoln.

For nearly 160 years, the National Center for Education Statistics has collected and reported data about educational progress. The center was essentially decommissioned overnight when all but three of its staff members were fired. Here's a look inside the chaos. chroni.cl/4j3CoGG

How to Poison the A.I. Machine - Freakonomics How to Poison the A.I. Machine - Freakonomics

I am hoping Ben Zhao and his team at U. of Chicago are going to devise a tool to combat such theft from wordcraft as well as visual art. freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...

If you haven't yet listened to Dr. Marvel's conversation with @pablo.show , do so and then get in line for this book. I feel like she and Elizabeth Kolbert are twin bookends made of equal parts hope and grief on my teetering planetary bookshelf.

Sarasota, Bradenton developers score big tax breaks with “Rent-A-Cow” loophole - Suncoast Searchlight A state loophole is costing Sarasota and Manatee counties millions in lost revenue by allowing developers to tap a decades-old law meant to preserve agriculture and shrink the taxes on pastures they i...

Compelling data journalism from @karanewhouse.bsky.social and colleagues at the new Suncoast Searchlight news org. suncoastsearchlight.org/sarasota-bra...

@mental-floss.bsky.social so far this year you are flossing my mental faculties very well on a daily basis.

@icapgeorgetown.bsky.social

Writing in the Age of AI The author John Warner discusses why “writing is thinking.”

John Warner has a warning about AI: "We have to think of this technology as potentially dangerous to our well-being.... If it de-skills us or alienates us from the things that we think are important about our labor, we're sort of signing our own death warrant." chroni.cl/3CHOqWC

From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now Nominees Bondi's and Patel's confirmation must be delayed until they explain how they will redress the damage done against government prosecutors and law enforcement.

From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now www.justsecurity.org/107278/bondi...

A kickass cover if ever there was one. #sizzler

Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of...

NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

If We’re Renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Texas Would Like a Word “The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure. “The Sea of Storms” sounds epic.

“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure.

We raise you: “The Sea of Storms.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

The future of the US Education Department: 8 tips for journalists We offer eight tips to help you interrogate and contextualize President Trump's plan to close the U.S. Department of Education.

Thx, Denise-Marie Ordway of @journoresource.bsky.social at @shorensteinctr.bsky.social for providing comprehensive guidance, incl. resources to examine whether Carter's original vision for the dept. has been fulfilled & what state depts. can handle or not. journalistsresource.org/home/us-depa...

19 Higher Education Databases to Understand College Issues Use these free higher education databases to understand college issues, such as student demographics, graduation rates and campus crime.

Want to better report on higher education issues?

In this piece from Denise-Marie Ordway of journoresource.bsky.social, check out 19 free databases journalists can use.

ewa.org/data-researc...

#highered #education

Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis: 9798217047802 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers. The government is a vast, complex system that Ame...

Um, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social has slated this one for March release but might want to put a rush on it. @wkamaubell.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788713...

619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 01/24/2025 · 52m

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... @ravenben.bsky.social you are my hero. If anyone reading this is a human creative, listen to this and you may wish to support Ben’s work.

Only now have I found my way to this wonderful book by @dlauxpoet.bsky.social . Even as I experienced each poem’s particular light & weight, nothing prepared me for the suite of newer poems, the language an open boat on a sea of feeling, like I felt at the climax of “Lincoln in the Bardo.” Thank you

One of the ways to set a publication apart will be (is) to become certified as a non-AI-composed endeavor with real conversations, human-crafted sentences and connections sparked by living minds, senses and sensibilities.

Opinion | AI and the Death of Student Writing The move away from true hands-on scholarship feels tragic.

Opinion: An English instructor says that amazing writing by young people used to bring her joy, but now it usually depresses her. chroni.cl/3E4YGsm

They don’t call it the fall line for nothing.

With minutes to go in his presidency, Biden granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, the Native American rights activist in prison nearly 50 years. Our take some time ago acquia-d7.ncronline.org/node/14227 via
@NCRonline

I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM.

I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.