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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

This is why your student newspaper needs to be independent, like The Badger Herald at UW.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

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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Isthmus - Madison news & culture since 1976 @isthmusmadison.bsky.social · 1d

Health issues kept two McFarland residents from attending anti-Trump rallies in downtown Madison, so they organized their own. They're running the suburban town's "No Kings" rally on Saturday:

isthmus.com/news/news/sm...

Small-town Wisconsin gears up for ‘No Kings’ rallies

Protests against Trump 2.0 aren’t limited to Wisconsin’s big cities — activist groups in smaller communities and rural towns will be demonstrating too.

isthmus.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

I get exactly what he’s saying but to be clear the best nat sec reporters in businesses often don’t have pentagon press passes

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

The Sunrise Spray Team was out carving up Monona this morning.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d

Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal for a huge art installation called Dear New York. “For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal.” [news.artnet.com]

‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show

Brandon Stanton, creator of “Humans of New York,” has launched New York’s largest public art installation since “The Gates” at Grand Central.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. n.pr/473xAwC

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure the WGN producer arrested in Chicago last week fit that description until she didn't.
All reporters are threatened. Especially women. Regardless of what they cover. Just ask one.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson ain't engaging with that in a 20-minute briefing. We know quite a bit about his fealty to Trump, thanks to reporters.
Your social media argument, sometimes multiple times a day, is journalists aren't up to this. Are academics?

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

They don't get follow ups when they want. It's a scripted event.
It's also disappointing to see people take shots at "journalism" off a 30-second clip.
Reporters are out there risking lives. Literally.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand the appetite for attacking reporters over a 20-minute avail.
Everything we know about Trump's move toward authoritarianism is thanks to journalists.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

You don't think he's been asked this and answered it? He has said that Trump's victory entitles him to do as he pleases. I'm sure I've seen Johnson say this >0 times.
The people in your comments really hate journalists. The stuff they say about reporters is moronic and angry. Like Russian bot level.

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 2d

"Kerik's professional biography is long, fascinating, and so chock-a-block with outrageous and alarming episodes of moral failure that his life takes on a sort of mythic scale, a tall tale of rolling skullduggery." - @nickpinto.bsky.social

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Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

Dilfer's available, Badgers fans.

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2d

Trent Dilfer is out after a 9-21 tenure at UAB. Could a TV return be in his future?

UAB fires former ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer

The UAB Blazers announced that they have fired former ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer after going 9-31 in three seasons.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 2d

Because it's all the Badgers fans I know are talking about, here's a ranking of buyout figures among college football coaches, per Yahoo (an authority on college football).
Luke Fickell comes in at 25. James Franklin is getting $48.67M.
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The 28 biggest college football coaching buyouts in 2025

28 NCAA coaches have buyouts of at least $25 million in 2025.

sports.yahoo.com

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Isthmus - Madison news & culture since 1976 @isthmusmadison.bsky.social · 2d

Isthmus sat down with deputy city engineer Chris Petykowski to get some answers on things we all might want to know during the construction on one of Madison’s busiest arteries.

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It's happening! How to be prepared for John Nolen Drive construction

A city engineer has answers to your questions about the construction project on Madison's most scenic artery.

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting retort.
We all read Vance's book, and by this logic, we should question the source, a right-wing politician.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 4d

Jake Bauers snatched the flag. Trevor Megill demanded to hold it.

“Gimme that shit”

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 4d

This headline strategy doesn't work on nights like this one. You're totally abdicating your role as a voice of authority.

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine getting boat-raced by Kirk Ferentz, whose religion forbids both boats and races.

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 4d

The most damning thing about this Wisconsin thing tonight is that losing 37-0 or 51-0 or 20-0 would all be the same thing re: what everyone can see happening to that program. Non-competitive. Let themselves become Maryland. Brutal to get into a spot where you really do have to fire Fickell

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 4d

Friends, we are in elephant-shits-on-field-at-halftime territory.

Super Bowl Champion Basketball Fan, NEVER of the Sixers @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 4d

Wisconsin’s last two offensive plays have resulted in interceptions by 300+ pound defensive linemen

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Matt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 5d

That Final Four press conference brought in an army of cameras—literally hundreds. You'd have thought it was Beyoncé, T. Swift or Tom Cruise.

But no, it was for a nonagenarian, wheelchair-bound team chaplain.

Here's the CBS Sports obituary on Sister Jean, gone at the beautiful age of 106.

Sister Jean dies at 106: Legendary Loyola basketball chaplain and March Madness icon passes away

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt gained national attention during the men's team run to the 2018 Final Four

www.cbssports.com

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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 5d

Weekend Read: A look at how local TV reporters across the country are breaking major stories and holding powerful figures accountable, reminding us why local news matters.

Read more at @columjournreview.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Laurels and Darts: Local TV news does good.

Forget about the mergers and buyouts and executive leadership for a while. The local grunts keep breaking news.

www.cjr.org

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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