Rosemary Pennington

Miami #Redhawks go 31-0. Unbelievable.

I was worried I wouldn’t be able to wear my OU gear around town after this game.

Genuinely incredible that the U.S. will celebrate the 250th without an Archivist of the United States.

I’m so sorry. You are loved.

Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

"Across the world, many welfare and anti-poverty policies are premised on distrust and suspicion. Instead of offering supportive and compassionate pathways towards improved lives and livelihoods, they have become a means for policing and punishing the poor."
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I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

In my multimedia journalism class I have students create fugly infographics in class just to get the bad out of their system.

The bunch turned in this semester are truly delightful in their ghastliness.

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973.

During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment

The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

I did, however, want to hear Jesse Jackson speak. He is the only living American politician with a mastery of classical rhetoric. Assonance, alliteration, litotes, pleonasm, parallelism, exclamation, climax and epigram—to listen to Jesse Jackson is to hear everything mankind has learned about public speaking since Demosthenes. Thus Jackson, the advocate for people who believe themselves to be excluded from Western culture, was the only 1988 presidential candidate to exhibit any of it.

P.J. O’Rourke on Jesse Jackson at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, from Parliament of Whores…

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and Chicago icon, dead at 84 Jackson was a Chicago institution who left footprints on the world stage, an ardent advocate for civil rights whose attempts to wield political power himself were thwarted, and channeled into the powe...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago institution who left footprints globally in his ardent advocacy for civil rights, has died. He was 84. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

This is simply terrifying. I remember when I read a long piece about how the Covid vaccine was invented and I cried (I do not cry easily) because I worked in NYC and so many people had died and it was all so visceral at the time. God we are fucking fools. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

the day people read wuthering heights as a horror/ghost story rather than a romance story is the day i will know peace

I will keep saying it: I’m not against AI as a category, but institutions whose product is information distribution for public good (news, universities, etc.) miss a huge market by just giving in rather than planting an AI-skeptical flag. Where is the institutional push to engage folks who doubt?

Millett Hall at Miami University is full of spectators for a basketball game.

At Millett Hall for the #Redhawks v Bobcats game tonight. Packed house.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.

ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations reut.rs/46wwn1j

Surprise, surprise!

Where Print Is King: In the college town of Oxford, Ohio, the 74-year-old ex-mayor is the paperboy. In the college town of Oxford, Ohio, the seventy-four-year-old former mayor is a paperboy.

Really nice write up in the @columjournreview.bsky.social on the Oxford Free Press.

I'm a founding member of the paper's board and our journalism students regularly intern there.

Miraculous things can happen when small towns come together to support local news.

Opinion | Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level (Gift Article) Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.

Please read/look at this.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

Lovely review from @nytimes.com of Wil Haygood's new book 'The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home.' I'm lucky to be co-teaching a class on war stories with Wil this semester.

The book is being launched here at Miami on the 17th.

This is an incredible thread

Bad Bunny’s halftime show was incredible. What a celebration of life and love!

A meme, Leo DiCaprio pointing in recognition at the screen

English-as-an-only-language audiences when Bad Bunny said “San Francisco” during the halftime show at the Super Bowl

I don’t even know what to say about any of this anymore.

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

Marissa J. Lang @Marissa Jae X.com I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community. Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com 9:15 AM • 2/4/26 • 76K Views

The Washington Post Sign in Marissa J. Lang Washington, D.C. Enterprise reporter Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

WTF

'There’s something bigger going on': State election chiefs rebuff Trump bid to seize voter rolls Roughly two dozen states have rejected the Trump administration’s request, prompting an unprecedented legal clash between the Justice Department and state election officials.

Roughly two dozen states have rejected the Trump administration’s requests for voter rolls, prompting an unprecedented legal clash between the DOJ and state election officials. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...