Jonathan Groves

An excellent analysis of the attack that damaged a school in Iran.

MrBeast's company fired a video editor after Kalshi accused the employee of insider trading A MrBeast video editor has been fired after accusations of insider trading by Kalshi. The prediction market operator says the immensely popular YouTube channel's employee traded about $4,000 on YouTub...

All the woes of the modern media landscape in one headline. apnews.com/article/mrbe...

Key journalism source for deciphering what’s happening.

Read @jsweetli.bsky.social instead:

Keynote Tom Rosenstiel: Objectivity is not neutrality: the purpose of journalistic inquiry YouTube video by ISOJ

Given where we are now in the U.S., @trosenstiel.bsky.social's discussion of objectivity from the 2020 #ISOJ is even more relevant today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPa...

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall - JSTOR Daily The science fiction author Isaac Asimov engaged in forms of unwanted touching with countless women. It set the tone for the entire genre.

Read of the day: Isaac Asimov, serial groper. daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Trump Decries a ‘Nation of Renters’ but His New Policy Promotes One

NYT finally dispenses with the watered-down headlines. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

The most important thread you'll read today 👇

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

Meta appears poised to suck up yet another social-media format. techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/t...

now known as CBS Newsweek

Polymarket really has become the ultimate place to engage in insider trading on privileged information.

I'm not sure we're prepared for what happens when any outcome -- including violent ones -- can be wagered on.

America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.

In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Look at how much they spent on their own travel.

www.propublica.org/article/keny...

We're doing hard rock/metal tunes on the #FridayHappyHour today. Anything you want to hear?

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Trump administration blocks religious groups from ministering to people in detention A religious nonprofit and several Catholic clergy are suing the Trump administration for blocking them from ministering to people at the Broadview detention center outside of Chicago.

Eye-opening interview about pastoral efforts to get inside ICE detention centers. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

I really don't understand how this makes our country great. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

One thing I love about @cwarzel.bsky.social: he always shares a gift link.

Coming up at 4 p.m. on the #FridayHappyHour: songs with non-English titles, lyrics or phrases.

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2025: Year of the Dropped Pass #nfl

OH NO

I am actually glad they’re airing Bears/Vikings here instead. My heartburn would be flaring watching them lose to the Giants

Grabs you from the lede and doesn't let go.