The only notifications I have are phone calls and texts from friends and family. The news organizations can no longer be trusted to identify true "breaking news."

‘The Pitt’ Star Noah Wyle on Surviving Another Shift As ‘The Pitt’ wraps up a season that took his character to the edge, Noah Wyle reflects on how he ended up starring in the hottest medical drama on TV—again.

I love The Pitt, so take this rec for what it's worth: Fabulous @gqmagazine.bsky.social profile of Noah Wyle, who definitely knows how to share a tale with a journalist. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Coming up at 4 p.m. Central on the #FridayHappyHour: Disparate moods — songs where the music sets one mood but the lyrics reveal something else.

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ProPublica Event: How to Use Our News App of Disclosures From Political Appointees Learn to navigate ProPublica's database of Trump appointees' financial disclosures and potential conflicts of interest.

ProPublica launched a database that helps journalists, researchers and others more easily find and connect pieces of financial information about individuals in key executive branch positions.

Join us on Wednesday, April 8, for a walk-through of the new tool.

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Why Has It Been 50 Years Since Humans Went to the Moon? When the Apollo 17 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago, they were the last humans to visit the Moon. NASA’s Artemis program is set to return humans to the Moon, but not for two ...

Great historical overview of why the last time we visited the moon was 1972. airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit...

What a great cover, @economist.com

Jen Sorensen

Half of my menu bar stopped working on my MacBook Pro. This command got me back up and running:

In Terminal, run "sudo killall ControlStrip" for a system refresh of the bar.

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

I guess we're not thinking about financial crime anymore. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Denial: The moment when you realize all the money in the world will not fill the hole in your soul.

AI and the Future of News 2026 YouTube video by Reuters Institute

You can follow our AI and the Future of News 2026 conference all day today. You can watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r4g...

or join in on Zoom: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/ai-...

*cue Bill Bruford*

A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect | Brookings This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.

Thorough @brookings.edu analysis of AI in education with suggestions for incorporating the technology with important guard rails.

Key insight: Students assume teachers are using AI to make their jobs easier. Be transparent to maintain trust in the classroom.

www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...

An excellent analysis of the attack that damaged a school in Iran.

MrBeast's company fired a video editor after Kalshi accused the employee of insider trading A MrBeast video editor has been fired after accusations of insider trading by Kalshi. The prediction market operator says the immensely popular YouTube channel's employee traded about $4,000 on YouTub...

All the woes of the modern media landscape in one headline. apnews.com/article/mrbe...

Key journalism source for deciphering what’s happening.

Read @jsweetli.bsky.social instead:

Keynote Tom Rosenstiel: Objectivity is not neutrality: the purpose of journalistic inquiry YouTube video by ISOJ

Given where we are now in the U.S., @trosenstiel.bsky.social's discussion of objectivity from the 2020 #ISOJ is even more relevant today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPa...

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall - JSTOR Daily The science fiction author Isaac Asimov engaged in forms of unwanted touching with countless women. It set the tone for the entire genre.

Read of the day: Isaac Asimov, serial groper. daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Trump Decries a ‘Nation of Renters’ but His New Policy Promotes One

NYT finally dispenses with the watered-down headlines. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

The most important thread you'll read today 👇

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

Meta appears poised to suck up yet another social-media format. techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/t...

now known as CBS Newsweek

Polymarket really has become the ultimate place to engage in insider trading on privileged information.

I'm not sure we're prepared for what happens when any outcome -- including violent ones -- can be wagered on.

America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.

In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Look at how much they spent on their own travel.

www.propublica.org/article/keny...

We're doing hard rock/metal tunes on the #FridayHappyHour today. Anything you want to hear?

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