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Once a food writer (Times-Picayune), once an enterprise reporter (Gannett South), now writing about research and playing guitar (and bass).
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The origins of the National Center for Education Statistics go back to 1867. Their reporting started in 1870. From 1918 to 1958 they published surveys every two years. Since 1962 they’ve put out the indispensable Digest of Education Statistics. It employs fewer than 100 people.

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it ought to be interesting to see how the economy shakes out, especially in light of everything that's been going on lately

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I suppose that is a number no one has actually ever seen

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The media robots want us to rise up!

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Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning

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DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

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Have any other journalists used the new iPhone call recording feature? I'm both amazed how well it works and appalled that Apple waited this long to offer it.

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Smart guy. One of the first bloggers I started following back in the day.

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All well and good, but percentages aren't hard numbers. I wonder what they're clearing. Half of "not much" is even less.

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The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

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“Somebody must have been telling lies about K, because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he woke up to find himself under arrest.” - Kafka, The Trial

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Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.

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The Pentagon flagged a photo of the Enola Gay in its DEI purge… apnews.com/article/dei-...

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The military is plans to scrub photos of the Enola Gay, one of the bombers that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, from its website as part of its purge of diversity content. It's among more than 26,000 images that the Pentagon plans to delete. apnews.com/article/dei-...

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"We have no evidence that this student did anything other than cover this event as a journalist." We're glad charges were dropped against the Stanford journalist unjustly arrested, but this also should have been blindingly obvious from the beginning.

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Columbia University senior Maryam Alwan was visiting family in Jordan over winter break when she received an email from the school accusing her of harassment. Her supposed top offense: writing an op-ed in the student newspaper calling for divestment from Israel.

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Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online: 🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank 🔎 Great Replacement theory 🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism 🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party

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'It is not advised to drink from Comus' cup.' You don't say, Errol? #RexComus

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Dancing gods #RexComus

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Really bad rendition of Chicago's Saturday in the Park is the accompaniment to this display. #RexComus

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Guys, we've fallen to six. We can do better. #RexComus

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