Journalism folks: I’m having some trouble finding explanatory reporting pieces breaking down potential impact of medicaid cuts on people with disabilities. Any recommendations?

I don’t care if their source is Trump himself. One anonymous source does not - and cannot - cut it. Get it confirmed and stop being so damn reckless.

Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

The GOP and its RW media apparatus understands this too, which is why they spend so much time working to discredit her.

So fighting pollution is woke also? I can’t keep track anymore.

One thing I detest about AI is how it's diminishing my capacity to believe in great student work. A student turned in a fabulous first draft, and instead of enjoying their moment of brilliance, I find myself skeptically wondering if they used AI. I hate that that's my instinctive response now.

Scroll through the array of WAPO news stories published these last few weeks and you will see an impressive scope of watchdog government reporting.

Suggested follows:
@hannahnatanson.bsky.social
@jeffstein.bsky.social
@emilydavies.bsky.social
@danielleabril.bsky.social
@julez.bsky.social

Many others

Just my perspective: Not happy with the Bezos op-ed announcement, but I would discourage anyone from dropping their WAPO sub at this time. The news desk is still churning out excellent political journalism, and that work if anything is what will ultimately induce change.

The challenge here is getting credible projections at the local level to guide this type of (critically important) reporting, right? Any suggestions or resources we can start creating/distributing would help folks all over, imo.

Just to be clear, Jeff, pigeonholing your op-ed page into publishing one perspective while eliminating room for dissent actually fails to align with your “I’m American derp love America derp freedom America patriot derp freedom” bullshit position.

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money.

apnews.com/article/doge...

I love this platform. For a thousand reasons. Chief among them is how it fuels (rather than throttles) journalism. Thank you @jay.bsky.team and BS team.

As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.

As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Looking for recommendations: Who is producing consistently strong coverage of prep sports in your area? Individuals, sports sections, entire operations, doesn’t matter. If it’s quality I’m interested.

Oof. That’s depressing to consider, and I’m not in disagreement.

As I work through the Bowie-style labyrinth of cancelling a non-national news subscription, I wonder: how much self-inflicted damage have news orgs caused through shady cancellation processes. Feels like I'm battling a scammer every time.

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY

“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Can someone please recommend a sharp explainer of yesterday’s events in South Korea?

After years of failure I finally got the kiddos to acknowledge that the Muppets are “good.” Excuse me while I celebrate this parenting victory.

Fellow j-profs who require students to post on social media for course assignments, how are you handling X vs Threads vs BSky? Have you changed your approach? Curious to see what folks are doing, what's working vs. what's not, etc.

Occasionally I get weirdly sad about having abandoned irrelevant knowledge I once needed. Like ... I used to be really freaking good at taking agate on busy sports nights. Typing out DOI links now makes me nostalgic.

Received my annual reminder that NBA League Pass is an absolute garbage product.

6 hours from Memphis, but this Sixers game is blacked out.

Please add me, Jeff! Thx

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Can I leave work to go vote? Does my employer have to let me leave my job to vote? What to know about Alabama's law regarding employee voting.

This type of local election coverage is always critically important.

www.al.com/election/202...

Voted in a new location this morning in Auburn. Heavy traffic but logistics inside made for a speedy voting process. The way it should be!

Deleted my X account, finally. Will make this my new home. Maybe. Let’s hope.