With others, I salute #HelenVendler , her rare mind for poetry, esp. #JohnAshbery , & her good heart. I have story or two, but nothing to match this, from #RitaDove :

America's campuses are in utter turmoil, but one group stands tall: the student journalists who've been on the air or out at protests around the clock, gathering facts to counter online BS and showing the true meaning of free speech

My column (gift link) inquirer.com/columnists/att…

Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the barriers faced by veterans in crisis, Sen. Jon Tester asked VA Secretary Denis McDonough to increase the number of mental health care providers and ensure they are “in locations where veterans need them most.” propublica.org/article/vetera…

'Blanche is now trying to portray The National Enquirer’s practices as similar to how other news outlets operate, in terms of deciding when and how to publish a story. That is not correct.'

Not even close. nytimes.com/live/2024/04/2…

Russia relentless campaign to purge Ukraine of evangelical Christians played a big role in changing Speaker Johnson’s views on support for Ukraine aid

RIP to Terry Anderson, the most courageous journalist I have ever known

I met Terry back in 2015 when we testified before a House committee about FOIA failures. Here's Terry's statement

My condolences to Terry's daughter Sulome and his family
docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO…

This is a BFD. New York just passed a journalism jobs tax credit.

Shipments of American weapons could begin flowing to Ukraine again soon after House approval of a long-stalled aid package, U.S. officials say, with goods from the Pentagon’s stockpiles in Germany shipped quickly by rail to the Ukrainian border. nyti.ms/3UokS6y

HUGE NEWS: Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee have voted to unionize, according to the UAW.

They are the 1st Southern auto factory to vote to unionize since the 1940s.

washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

We have launched a new series at The Paris Review called DINNER PARTIES and we have our very first, today, by Elisa Gonzalez

theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…

“It just became clear to me that if I didn’t face up to this, that it would actually, in a way, kill me.... So if I wanted to actually not be killed artistically, I had to face this.' Salman Rushdie with @SuleikaJaouad
pen.org/salman-rushdie…

Thrilled to announce that the 10th anniversary edition of 'The Sixth Extinction' is now out, with a new epilogue on insects. You can listen to an excerpt here:

is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean

The problem I see is nobody wants to read and everyone wants to yell

During a Cleveland Monsters hockey game, a puck flew toward Asia Davis’s 4-year-old son.

Fan Andrew Podolak deflected it within about a second. wapo.st/3PYY3Ub

If spring was a horror novel (and it pretty much is), Forsythia would be the young girl who blossoms before any of her peers in the opening chapter, then vanishes abruptly. And the entire town is thrown into chaos for the remainder of the book

Looking forward to chatting with the inimitable Tommy Tomlinson about his great new book. tinyurl.com/4ba2cz2n

The next 24 hours are going to be extremely tense in the Middle East. So many actors are now in the fray, both states and non-state actors/proxy forces. A lot of missiles and drones flying around heavily contested airspace. Major chances for miscommunication and miscalculation.

brilliance, continued podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cri…

A massive scam targeting older Americans who own timeshare properties has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars sent to a Mexican cartel.

Our reporter tells the story of a family who lost everything on this episode of “The Daily.” nyti.ms/3vTfn6r