Amy W. Ando

Ohio voters with absentee ballots still waiting at home have one week to get them in. Secretary of State Frank LaRose says hand-delivering ballots to a county board of elections or its drop box may be safer than mailing them now. About 235,000 ballots remain unreturned. Photo: AP

Do you need AI to explain who your child is? No thanks. I prefer to have a soul.

Read this conversation and remember hope

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Yet another reason atop the mountain of reasons we should have a 27 member court with randomly assigned panels of 9 justices to hear cases And this one comes with bipartisan logic!

These are good questions.

What a loss. 💔

I have spent this week in week 1 of the Food Systems Leadership Institute's fellow program - improving my skills, learning leadership strategies, and learning about the trends affecting higher education and the global nexus of food/ag/environment. This was both alarming and invigorating.

Nicol Trowbridge, my angry idiot hormone-addled oratory son, fully one of the best tv characters of all time

Sitting in an airline lounge on my last leg home. They are playing music from my high school dances - ballads by Bryan Adam, Bonnie Raitt, Chicago…. They are risking having all the Gen Xers turn the place into a karaoke bar

This is a gut punch. Curtis Flowers has died. His story is one of gross injustice. At least he had some years of freedom but far too few.

I have trained one of the other evil social media sites so it pretty much only shows me Jacob Collier videos and cats. I have won the internet.

Perfection

Is there a Jackson Lamb leadership training program?

This is appalling.

LOL

In-state tuition for a similar degree at Ohio State is $15k. Go public.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Gambling addiction is a real problem. This is a chilling story showing how companies promote dangerous gambling behavior

The bumblebees are very happy that these little goldenrods have self seeded all over our back yard

Wisdom. Demand for specific job skills will evolve over a student’s lifetime. We need to teach them capabilities that are robust to such disruption.

That’s pretty stark.

One of my favorite things is the book group I now co-lead which is full of people of many stripes who don’t really know each other otherwise but want to connect in person over a drink to talk about books.

"Over the five years following a sexual assault, victims’ employment falls by 6 percentage points and annual earnings decline... These effects persist for at least a decade and correspond to a 15% decline in employment, 17% earnings loss, and 28% rise in anti-depressant use"

If you need some good news on a Monday – baby sturgeon are thriving in the Cuyahoga River. It’s a great sign for the health of our river. signalcleveland.org/lake-erie-ba...

There is someone in this flight wearing red plaid pajama pants and a red terry bathrobe with bright yellow Tweety Birds, and honestly, respect

Judge Blocks Trump Rule Aimed at International Students and Journalists www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

The snake oil business is alive and well in America

I would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church

I remember this vividly. My sister-in-law and her family lived in fear because they were Lebanese and haters viewed them as enemies.

Beautiful

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

Lost a kitten today due to excessive curiosity and a string of very bad luck and we are absolutely gutted. RIP Calvin

Fascinating. Such a simple intervention - I had no idea iodized salt had such broad and important benefits

www.cbpp.org/press/statem... I hope Ohio can learn some lessons from Kansas’s income-tax-slash experiment. It was a disaster.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Useful for those of us with cats

And more beautiful things that are not AI slop

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

What a cool video