Neil Ralston
@journostuff.bsky.social
Former journalist and college journalism teacher. Photographer and traveler. Grew up in Missouri. Lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas. Living near St. Louis now.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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As seen at No Kings Atlanta:
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As seen at No Kings Atlanta:
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I'm wondering how many millions of dollars our government will have to pay out once some of these cases end up in civil court.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'm wondering how many millions of dollars our government will have to pay out once some of these cases end up in civil court.
apnews.com/article/immi... use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.
apnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
apnews.com/article/immi... use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, New Yorker
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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The "Journlism for All" curriculum from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is available for free to any teacher, educator, journalist, or reporting fellow who wants to use it. It includes 160 40-minute lessons and 125 slide decks. #journalism
www.teachjournalismforall.com
www.teachjournalismforall.com
Journalism For All
www.teachjournalismforall.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The "Journlism for All" curriculum from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is available for free to any teacher, educator, journalist, or reporting fellow who wants to use it. It includes 160 40-minute lessons and 125 slide decks. #journalism
www.teachjournalismforall.com
www.teachjournalismforall.com
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Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning' www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...
Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning'
Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.
www.npr.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning' www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...
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I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
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I am heartbroken by the horrific violence at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
August 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I am heartbroken by the horrific violence at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I know a fair number of people on the MAGA right from my past - including key figures in the current Trump regime.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I know a fair number of people on the MAGA right from my past - including key figures in the current Trump regime.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
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Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have all voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.
Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…
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August 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have all voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
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What bugs me most about students’ use of AI: Their use of it prevents benefiting from the goal of the assigned work. Example: I assign you to write a summary of the text. You don’t read the text. Also, you don’t think about the text, assess what’s important. The summary you hand in is pointless.
August 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What bugs me most about students’ use of AI: Their use of it prevents benefiting from the goal of the assigned work. Example: I assign you to write a summary of the text. You don’t read the text. Also, you don’t think about the text, assess what’s important. The summary you hand in is pointless.
Try to get in some relaxation in even when the days are crazy.
August 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Try to get in some relaxation in even when the days are crazy.
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
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What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?
July 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?
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I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
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July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
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"Strategies that put time and space between guns and those at high risk of suicide are proven to save lives."
Gun suicide crisis grows in U.S., hitting record levels - UPI.com
Gun-related suicides in the U.S. reached record highs for the third straight year in 2023, a new report on gun violence says.
www.upi.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Strategies that put time and space between guns and those at high risk of suicide are proven to save lives."
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This is accurate. I had to sell every bit of my parents’ assets and apply all of it to my mother’s nursing home care before Medicaid would pay. Nearly $300,000. It was gone in five months.
June 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is accurate. I had to sell every bit of my parents’ assets and apply all of it to my mother’s nursing home care before Medicaid would pay. Nearly $300,000. It was gone in five months.
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"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor
June 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor