Kim Bellware

With the Paramount merger complete, the Ellisons will get "unprecedented control over what the next generation watches and reads" and the chance to bolster their "lucrative interests in war and surveillance tech," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social writes in @theintercept.com:

NEW: The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida. by @keribla.bsky.social

I wrote a story about menopause in May, when many women were already reporting having trouble obtaining estrogen-replacement patches. Nearly 9 months after the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists acknowledged a shortage, the FDA is too.

How workers died last week: Skid loader incidents, airplane crash, lawn mower, explosions, industrial incidents, firefighting, drowning, heat, shootings, and vehicular collisions: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

ICE and Oklahoma state police are illegally arresting and detaining Ukrainian truck drivers who are here legally via TPS. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

Unfortunately, very crappy news today from me, on the McClatchy hedge fund gutting Kentucky's second-largest paper 👇

Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

Read this!

Helping found my union through @sagaftra.org is one of my proudest achievements. Our union has consistently helped workers and improved conditions from pay to discipline. Happy labor day to my union brothers and sisters, it's an honor to fight for you all

Here's a good reason to visit Columbus, Ohio. The exhibit "Chris Ware: Life Is Complicated" is at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Columbus through Jan. 3. (And he'll be there in person Oct. 17.) cartoons.osu.edu/exhibits/chr...

I just want to know who's baby this is? Because I am proud of her like she's one of mine. This is perfection

Headstone for Eugene Williams, whose murder was the first in a wave of racialized violence in Chicago in the summer of 1919. 102 years after his death, a group of people determined to see him remembered & honored were successful in getting his grave marked.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.

If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

From who? And if you are a white house reporter please do not be too scared to ask this

At 8:00 pm it’s still 90, feels like 100.

"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.

Absolutely deranged

Controversial to whomst? The owner of the Los Angeles Times?

Zoo staff members are breeding thousands of tadpoles to ship to Puerto Rico in an effort to save from extinction the island’s endangered crested toad, known as the sapo concho in Spanish.

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Summer solstice sunrise at Montrose Beach

Only one Chicago journalist won a James Beard Foundation Media Award this year. Ahmed Ali Akbar received the honor at a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday.

Human Rights Watch has released a comprehensive report detailing human rights abuses by the government during this winter’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, which the group alleges also violates international human rights treaties that the U.S. is signed onto.

The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.

Just watch Thierry Henry once Lalas is done

Authorities that won't introduce congestion pricing are making an official announcement that their policy is to prioritize convenience for car owners over all of these benefits for all residents.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reminder, this “Blessing of the Bicycles” is tomorrow outside St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Wait ... are bison wildlife or livestock? 🦬 It sounds like a simple question, but it’s not. And the answer is shaping a major fight over conservation, grazing rights and the future of bison restoration in the American West.

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

If the @poynterinstitute.bsky.social memes folks don’t get ahold of this for Friday’s roundup, I’m gonna be so sad