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Prof/journalistic refugee in #sgf battling mis/disinformation. Believer in podcasting, music and photography. Co-author with @Brizzyc of “Transforming Newsrooms.” Host of #FridayHappyHour.
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On the #FridayHappyHour: Songs with north, south, east or west. Reply with your suggestions and then tune in to kdruradio.com at 4 p.m. Friday to hear the communiry playlist!

The power of audio: The brilliantly creative "The Letter S" audio documentary (2001) by Chris Brookes, about Marconi's first radio transmission. www.xmtr.fm/transmission...

A seven-byline story from WaPo: “.. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits ..” @washingtonpost.com $TSLA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The podcast community is so generous. Dallas Taylor (Twenty Thousand Hertz) said it best at #OnAirFest: it's so important to lift one another up

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"

Share the personal stories. The billionaire carelessness with which they are upending lives will be their downfall.

Tr*mp released Tarrio, who received a 22-year prison sentence, as part of the Jan. 6 excusefest.

ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. Read 👇 by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

Just remember all these cuts when they say in a year, “Government is ineffective.”

I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

Watch for this “On Being” episode when it comes out. Such an incredible conversation between Krista Tippett and Justin Vernon about truth and meaning.

Get yourself some buddies like @brizzyc.bsky.social and @grantmeaccess.bsky.social. They keep you grounded in these strange times.

Go beyond these spaces. Meet people. Connect.

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

Turns out that Musk is mixing business and gov by using the same cloudflare id across his PAC and DOGE.

Translation guide: When they call journalists "liars," it means the story is 100% accurate at spotlighting their scamster grift.

It feels like bullies who’ve been let loose in the school yard while the teachers watch from inside. The sad part is so many are willing to look away from this hatred as long as they get their piece.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is an absolutely astonishing report. DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root. This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat

Meta has turned Instagram into a Trumpian nightmare feed.

Yeah, I totally forgot about #MWE with all that's happening in our country, so I am going to do my best to catch up with the crowd and get back to listening to new-to-me albums for you all. We'll see if I can do two albums a day to get caught up...

That tracks: Minimal effort with lots of noise to create the veneer of action.

Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die "the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... "A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The power of guerrilla messaging

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Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social

This week on the #FridayHappyHour: Songs of darkness and chaos. Reply with your favorites and then tune in at 4 p.m. Friday to hear the community playlist.