Sarah Cohen

No matter how incompetent these schlubs have to fight to the teeth to keep their jobs so they can continue to live like billionaires on the public's dime

Perspective : $100 million annually for Bezos is the equivalent of tapping your $75,000 nest egg for a Chic Fil A meal for your family . Yes you can do it every year

Yes but 6:13 is fine

Real question - who's writing this stuff? It sounds like AI slop

To be fair there aren't any others that combine state and local or that are small in the center of a huge metro area // maybe San Francisco but most others have more of the regions population and businesses

What?? Kill anything good for no reason

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

Ever wonder about the VIP treatment Matthew McConaughey gets at the University of Texas?

FOIAball, a new site covering college football through public records reporting, is coming next week.

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New rule: The truth is inversely related to the number of adjectives used in an official statement

LMK if I can help, Jake - I'm not working full time anymore and am a little obsessed with this as well but have done nothing productive with that obsession. I'm on vacation next week, but will be back after that

Crossed out "the administration is trying to accomplish" and replaced it with Congress

Here I fixed it

Real question: how do customs officers figure out how much tariff is owed? Do they have a blinking light for each product / country combination that changes hourly?

Anti deficiency act? There's a reason that you're it allowed to "volunteer" and "donate" to the feds

Cmon publishers - join them : Wired and 404 media are "tipping the balance .... between public interest and business more toward the public interest. "

Wow. The worst of earmarks and signing statements put together

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

The same sophisticated keyword searches they've been using to shut down programs and data -- amazing the power AI can bring to just a few words

And on weekends when they shut off what few pollution controls they had at the steel mills

Firing of FOIA officers leaves experts worried about public records access under Trump - Poynter ‘Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things’

“Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things,” said Washington Post FOIA director Nate Jones.

www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

This headline. This photo.
Is it bad when people get what they want?

Homeland Security budgets $200m for new border ad campaign In the ads, Kristi Noem praises President Trump and warns migrants in the US illegally that “we will find you.”

I would love to see the wheels turn as they try to decide between funneling taxpayer $ to their media supporters vs reaching their supposed audience

www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

Change a headline that said "expanding access to Ivf" to "saying something vague"

Here I fixed it

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

Uh "fight off the left"?? Sorry I missed that in the sec def's job description. Sheesh

An incredibly stupid policy of 3 byline limit and no tag lines at the WSJ. A better idea: get rid of bylines altogether if there are too many, since reporting is a team effort. The union said it pretty well talkingbiznews.com/media-news/w...

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Glad to see the president using the awesome powers available to him to dictate plastic straw use. Guess they're running out of things to sign in the daily performance art part of governing

Hear me out - some inefficiencies in gov are features not bugs. They're failsafes against failing or corrupt contractors; separate systems to prevent untrustworthy government officials from having too much power. If you distrust gov then you want this

Oh c'mon Jake - who needs unique ids?

Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling (Gift Article) Some groups said their funding was still blocked, even after the freeze had been rescinded. Others saw their money reinstated but worried about future cuts.

Job training in West Virginia, unemployment help in Wisconsin, assistance for disabled kids. It's all been thrown into disarray because of Trump's federal funding freeze. Our story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

It is kind of funny to think about what a headache it is to get and maintain Special Sworn Status so that I can access a relatively small amount of completely de-identified administrative data in a cold room for use on pre-approved research projects