This:
Our job is not to paint a sympathetic victim. Our job is to show the totality of a person. The wholeness of a person includes achievements and flaws and mistakes.
re: <<victim>> or anyone a journo is covering, really.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/i...
The Imprint is an #INNYs2026 finalist for Best Investigative Journalism and Breaking Barriers Award for Sara Tiano’s “State-Sponsored Abandonment,” earning both nominations.
gpt’s/@OpenAI’s move apparently making links internal (below) was the final push I needed to ditch a company that signs Pentagon surveillance contracts no q’s asked. The air is hopefully a little cleaner over here at @claudeai.
Former prosecutor: We were wrong. I have seen people change behind bars in ways the criminal justice system did not anticipate. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...
NH Gov and prosecutors applaud big increases in the no. of non-convicted people in NH locked up: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ayot...
where there is no doctor (ICE version): www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
Well this is an interesting NIMBY subsidiary:
If you live in the DC area this is the weekend to go to the arboretum.
Any weekend is a good one to go to Panda Chinese (super authentic Chinese restaurant a block from the arboretum)
Brown U agreed to spend $50 million on workforce training to restore federal funding after Trump administration pressure. Meanwhile the new Trump admin budget cuts workforce training at community and tech colleges. In @hechingerreport:
NY State spent $10 million to retrain teachers in reading instruction. But literacy experts say the course relies on flawed methods the state pledged to replace.
My latest for @hechingerreport.org:
“We’ve spent $10 million on this? Can I get a refund?” asks one expert after reviewing NY State’s science of reading teacher training course. Its critics say it could undermine the state’s literacy overhaul.
My latest for @hechingerreport.org:
Teachers and education experts are sounding alarms over South Dakota’s math standards overhaul. Critics say the changes simplify content at the expense of rigor. My latest for @hechingerreport.org:
Reformers wanted kids under 12 out of the justice system. But in several New York cases, the response has been to jail moms.
My latest for The Imprint:
From social studies to math, conservative groups are reshaping state standards. South Dakota’s math rewrite could influence other states next. My latest for @hechingerreport.org:
A little used child endangerment law is now being used in a new way: prosecuting parents for their young children’s alleged crimes. Public defenders say they’ve never seen it applied like this.
My latest for The Imprint:
Small banks hold just 10% of U.S. banking assets but make more than half of loans under $1 million. Their survival increasingly depends on niche lending.
My latest for Comstock’s Mag:
Small banks aren’t trying to beat Wall Street at scale. They’re beating it with specialization.
My latest for Comstock’s Mag:
Alabama poured millions into improving elementary math instruction and scores are rising statewide. But students in the poorest districts still lag far behind wealthier peers in proficiency. My latest for @hechingerreport.org:
Summer math programs, high‑quality curricula and coaches have helped some Ala. students catch up. But optional attendance and resource disparities threaten long term gains. My latest for @hechingerreport.org:
Kids & immigration enforcement: One child asked her mom to teach her how to cook so she’d be able to feed herself if her mom was deported. In @hechingerreport: hechingerreport.org/parents-chil...
"Never before has there been a need to beg for lawyers to work for the DoJ": blog.simplejustice.us/2026/02/07/w...
Rarely used felony vandalism charges against Palestinian protestors.... filed by Calif. Dem prosecutors: boltsmag.org/stanford-san...
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
California farm exports are collapsing under retaliatory tariffs, with wine and rice shipments plunging and growers forced to destroy long-term crops. My latest for Comstock’s Mag:
Tariff hikes are squeezing small distributors who depend on imports: soaring costs and tight margins making it hard to pass higher prices to customers. My latest for Comstock’s Mag:
In the least surprising follow up to Trump's invasion of Venezuela, Chevron now prowling, reportedly granted sole export authorization of oil.
www.infobae.com/venezuela/20...
"A newly unredacted FTC complaint shows that PepsiCo and Walmart worked together to rig grocery pricing, drive up pricing at competitors and protect Walmart’s dominance": www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Results of Washington Post survey question: Do you approve or disapprove of the US having sent its military forces into Venezuela to capture Maduro? 40% approve, 18% unsure, 42% disapprove
Results of Washington Post survey question: "In your opinion, who should decide the future leadership of Venezuela?" The US 6%, Venezuelan people 94%
The question on the left is a valid inquiry into a matter of public opinion, whether the regime's illegal invasion is popular. The one on the right implies that Americans have the right to opine on deciding who leads a separate sovereign nation. We don't.
