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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 6h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n...

In Patz Case, Manhattan Prosecutors Ask for Months to Decide on Retrial

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Politico @politico.com · 11h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 1d

Wheat Field at Auvers with White House - 1890
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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

No one has ever finished that book. If they say they have, they are lying.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general and former head of President Trump’s criminal defense team, has helped usher in his retribution campaign. But he faces anger on the right for resisting some of the most extreme measures.

Part Enabler, Part Buffer: The Bind of the Justice Dept.’s No. 2

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has helped usher in President Trump’s retribution campaign. But he faces anger on the right for resisting some of the most extreme measures.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Part Enabler, Part Buffer: The Bind of the Justice Dept.’s No. 2

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian won’t sign the Pentagon’s new press policy, a spokesperson tells me

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

WaPo also will not be signing the new Pentagon press policy, per a note from executive editor Matt Murray

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Mamdani Pushed to Cut 1,300 Officers From a ‘Racist’ N.Y.P.D. in 2022

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/n...

How Mamdani Proposes to Make New York City Safer

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

Mamdani Says He Will Apologize for Calling the N.Y.P.D. Racist in 2020

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Mamdani, Facing Mistrust Within the N.Y.P.D., Reaches Out to Officers

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“Dr. Paige’s husband, a chef, can support the family. But the sudden loss of her work, especially as Ebola rages on, has plunged her into a deep depression, she said.
To keep busy, she volunteers at an animal shelter and takes long walks…But she feels, she said, as if she were “walking through mud.”

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/n...

Mamdani Seeks to Charm New York’s Most Powerful Capitalists

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 2d

smokey's news stand, alabama avenue, selma, alabama, 1982

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 2d

Eclectic Laundry
Eclectic, AL

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 2d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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