It’s giving evidence of being in charge.

Colorado is scrambling to process 900+ unemployment claims from federal workers during the government shutdown and the food pantry at Buckley Space Force Base has seen demand double

Yeah, way too small a backpack. Fascinating glimpse into Japanese girl culture, though.

I’m glad. I thought I had to type it out.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

In this video, I talk about how important local independent media has been in surfacing ICE abuse.

I should have included public defenders in there, too, bc with their help, these cases are crumbling.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlv...

That works? I thought it’d still be a screenshot.

Do you have an election on Tuesday, November 4, 2025?
Google "elections nov 4 2025". Your state should come right up first. Make a plan to vote. Take a friend. Check here if you are registered and to see if you still can. Vote.org

As access to contraception spread it changed our world – making it newly possible for more women to build prestigious careers and civic lives. I've spent my career carefully contributing to the evidence of this amazing, messy process. So I know that it has done a lot of good and this will hurt many.

I’m looking for Minnesota, New Mexico and Nevada to join.

That was a terrible move and I have seen little written about it. Telehealth transformed the lives of disabled, chronically ill, rural and non-driving folks.

“And I was mistaken to trust that anyone could maintain their integrity in a Trump cabinet.” You could say you were wrong, John.

After years spent there learning the craft of journalism, I could not imagine a world where officials at the Indiana University Media School ordered the school newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, not to print any news. Yet another sad development at a diminishing program. READ: loom.ly/kVhquyk

One of the favorite Bluesky games is bashing the framing offered in NY headlines, but this one is admirably direct.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Got your Covid shot yet? I did.

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

While we are on the subject of journalist safety in the field: follow along as I build up this space to share tips and eventually provide training and resources to journalists who would like to or expect to work in hostile environments.

@protect-the-press.bsky.social

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

Wow. I feel a quiver of hope.

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Agonizing. I grieve for you and your family.

Twice now you’ve used the word gross to describe old people.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...