Got an interesting email today from FedEx, retroactively charging tariffs on a package I ordered in December that's already delivered. Since the Supreme Court overturned IEEPA tariffs, and FedEx is suing to get its own money back, is there actually any legal basis for them to bill for this?
Throw the whole Internet away.
New: Prediction markets are trying to cut deals with reporters, offering hundreds of dollars per story that uses their data. Rick Ellis, and independent entertainment reporter, tells me why he said no (gift link):
www.theverge.com/news/897388/...
Lots of previously unreported allegations in the lawsuit, including how NOAA also terminated a cooperative agreement with UCAR at the same time as the NCAR news, and how NSF demanded individual cost accounting for every UCAR employee that attended AMS with only 6 days to turn it around.
It is so critical to document just how much Trump 2.0-era corruption is being laundered by mainstream institutions, who have the ability if not the desire to make different choices.
Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime.
www.ft.com/content/055d...
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies
Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
wonderful opportunity for climate journalists!!
I always love reading all the winners, which ends up serving as an incredible collection of climate journalism from around the world
There's a late stage-capitalism answer: mortgage servicers typically get paid fees by the owner of your loan. When rates go up, so does the value of the service contract, because the loan is less likely to pay off. Lenders haven't been doing well, need more cash, so sell off their servicing rights.
Oh and Brontë? She survived—cleaning and cauterizing the bite could have helped—only to die at 30 of tuberculosis, another preventable disease now seeing a resurgence, including in the concentration camps we're building. www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healt...
Vaccines are miracles. But undermining public health leaves populations exposed to now thankfully preventable disease. Joseph survived to become caretaker of the Pasteur Institute. When the Nazis occupied Paris, he took his own life.
Science is only as strong as the society practicing it.
Joseph miraculously survived, laying the foundations for many other vaccines and saving millions of lives. Today, rabies isn't gone, and its distribution is changing with warmer winters, shifting habitats and animal migration patterns. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...
His distraught mom begged him to save her son. Having recently created the first laboratory-produced vaccine (after losing 2 of his own daughters to typhoid), Pasteur injected Joseph daily with a series of spinal cords taken from rabies-infected rabbits, each containing a stronger dose.
Brontë faced a terrifying wait—it can take a year before symptoms appear. If she was infected, the inevitably fatal symptoms would progress from rage and an intense fear of water to seizures and paralysis. Several decades later, scientist Louis Pasteur faced a 9-year-old in similar straits.
Margot Robbie in a black veil on the Wuthering Heights set, contemplating what happens without vaccines.
In today's "everything old comes back to bite": In 1848, Emily Brontë was attacked by a stray dog that was foaming at the mouth. At the time, the disease was spreading around Yorkshire, and there was no treatment. She took a red-hot poker and cauterized the wound herself.
When Carpenter Media bought three Alaska newspapers, they had nine journalists in the state. Next week, they will have one.
As the Washington Post cut 300 journalists, I spoke to @wearehpr.bsky.social about a publisher rapidly taking over local newspapers and its similarly sweeping layoffs. It’s a timely look at political pushback against reporting, and why a free press matters to communities large and small.
Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn
- Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As someone laid off from investigative reporting last year, today’s news feels bleak. Journalism works like a mycorrhizal network—sharing critical info and warnings for democracy. When it disappears, the whole system suffers. And it doesn't work in isolation. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
This prompted allegations that Vance violated a ban on using gov. funds or assets for a non-legislative purpose, or in support of partisan political activity.
The investigation is requesting the same communications between Vance and Carpenter Media that my FOIA request for was denied this fall.
Thrilled that @Longreads selected my Carpenter Media reporting as one of its Editor's Picks.
Also, the Alaska State Legislature's ethics committee announced an investigation into Rep. Vance. As I reported, they say that Vance offered her opinion and urged corrective action on official letterhead.
People targeted by federal agents - for their skin color, accents, or immigration status - are afraid to seek healthcare; healthcare staff are fearful for their safety at work. Here's how Minnesota providers are responding to an unfolding crisis - my latest:
We dropped our paywall for this new piece.
Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism
‘Dockets Die In Darkness’
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
Climate change is increasing landslide risks in the U.S. too. I reported on how out of date some landslide maps were last year (and how hard it is to find the will to update them).
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest. (Just ask Homer, Alaska.)
www.cjr.org/feature/carp...
By @loisparshley.bsky.social via @columjournreview.bsky.social
Carpenter came in to Oregon like a wrecking ball and immediately closed at least one community’s paper, laid off many experienced journalists, and at the same time required more output from the ones they kept, leading to low quality stories. All in the name of “preserving local news”.
In Hawai'i, Carpenter Media owns the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Midweek, the Hawai'i Tribune-Herald and West Hawai'i Today.
Notably, West Hawai'i Today no longer has any reporters and is essentially a ghost paper.
For years I’ve been begging for a comprehensive look at Carpenter Media and their whole deal and it dropped this morning; tales about an existential threat to local news in my hometown and others like it. From the Alaska resignations to mass layoffs to unrealistic quotas and ghost papers.
Crucially, this project was supported by a grant from @economichardship.bsky.social, which supports independent journalism.
