December 21, 2025
· One min read
December 18, 2025
· One min read
- Rob Reiner Was a Mensch. In Death, He Showed Us Trump’s a Schmuck.
- Anti-Trans Alaskan State Medical Board Doctor Charged With CSAM, Home Goes Up In Flames
- Lil’ devil’s footprints
- Layoffs begin at Pa. cyber charter schools after historic state budget cuts
- What Rob Reiner believed
- “I’ve Never Seen So Many Police Cars”
- Want to see more WHYY News in your Google searches? Here’s how
December 17, 2025
· 3 min read
- Scientists Find Polar Bear Genes Behave Differently According to Climate
- How I Assess Open Source Libraries
- Pa. could end the year with the lowest number of new laws in at least a decade
- With Trump orders tied up in court, congressional Republicans could take up an elections bill
- Inside the legislative effort to expel cellphones from Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools
- Letter to editor: Souderton Area School Board election continues to make history
- In Her New Media Ascent, Erika Kirk Whitewashes Her Husband’s Legacy
- How AI Is Transforming the Adoption of Secure-by-Default Mobile Frameworks
- Trump says Rob Reiner's death caused by "Trump derangement syndrome"
- Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant evade federal authorities
- After shedding thousands of feds, Trump admin's new 'Tech Force' aims to recruit workers to two-year jobs
- MAGA breaks with Trump on mocking Rob Reiner's killing
- Voting by mail faces uncertain moment ahead of midterm elections
- Republican lawmakers slam Trump's "inappropriate" posts on Rob Reiner
- Donald Trump Hates That Rob Reiner’s Political Legacy Extends Far Beyond Hollywood
- Area professionals honored for mentoring Souderton Area High School students
- Google’s ‘dark web report’ feature will no longer be available starting in February
- All the Best Ways to Upgrade and Organize Your Garage
December 14, 2025
· One min read
- The Senate voted down dueling health proposals. Here’s what’s at stake for Americans
- A Hurl The Heinz Day for the White House
- States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
- White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
- Down the Linux rabbit hole
- Instacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says
- December 12, 2025
- Lessons From Trump’s “War” on Chicago
- Higher cost, worse coverage: Affordable Care Act enrollees say expiring subsidies will hit them hard
December 12, 2025
· 6 min read
- Donald Trump is losing.
- [Steven Calabresi] Some Answers to Justice Barrett's Questions in Trump v. Slaughter
- Digital Detox Is Urgently Needed
- Democrats Call Out Trump’s Affordability Crisis As He Visits Pennsylvania to Test New Economic Messaging
- Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal'
- Musk says DOGE was only "somewhat successful," wouldn't do it again
- MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras
- ‘Not Playing Games Anymore’: Republicans Subpoena Shapiro Flights, Private Home Security Upgrades
- DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was “Bad” before They Charged Her
- 10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
- New White House construction site photos show rubble where East Wing once stood
- Opioid settlement spending faces growing scrutiny as Pennsylvania awaits millions more
- Downballot Democrats Are Gearing Up for “2010 in Reverse”
- Shapiro admin subpoenaed for records detailing use of public funds to upgrade gov’s private home
- Introducing the News Media Help Desk for local newsroom sustainability
- Observability with automated customer journey graphs
- Placeholder for an Untellable Story
- While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains
- Nancy Mace introduces bill to rename DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza after Charlie Kirk
- Jenkintown releases updated policy, statement on local law enforcement and immigration in the borough
- Mississippi To Vote on Prince Hall Recognition in March
- Other Nations are Updating their Threat Assessments, Too
- Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Demands Someone at DOJ Put Ethical Skin in the Game
- Why RAM Prices Are Going Way, Way Up (and Why You Should Care)
- Building Ecosyste.ms Polite API Rate Limits
- Venezuelan Nobel laureate Machado arrives in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding
- When federal might meets local resistance
- The AI industry’s $100 million play to influence the 2026 elections
- Three Allegheny County police departments walk back ICE partnerships
- Tariffs have cost U.S. households $1,200 each since Trump returned to the White House, Democrats say
- Use the '168-Hour Method' to Track Your Weekly Productivity
- I Asked the Pentagon About Pete Hegseth’s Mentor. Then the Threats Started.
- The New CDC Leader’s Whooping Cough Scandal
- Still Just Concepts of a Healthcare Plan
- How Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers.
- Pa. Rep. Fitzpatrick leads move to force US House vote on extending Obamacare subsidies
- US national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI
- Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
- We’d Never Deport Veterans, Noem Says in Earshot of Deported Veteran
- New Jersey under state of emergency Friday due to propane shortage
- Towamencin board approves 2026 budget with 7 percent tax hike
- Jenkintown limits local police collaboration with ICE
- Wisconsin Elections Commission refuses to send Justice Department unredacted voter list
- Senator says FAA administrator failed to sell multimillion-dollar airline stake as promised
- ‘VA helps you get to wherever you need to go’
- The White Supremacist Origins of the Constitutional Sheriff
- An Ever-Larger Share of ICE’s Arrested Immigrants Have No Criminal Record
December 11, 2025
· 5 min read
- The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
- Attending an NA meeting as a non-addict
- RJI webinar: Learn how to host a community journalism training to keep local journalism thriving
- If I ran my life
- The Bitter Taste of the Land Grant
- Experimenting with content strategies on Instagram, LinkedIn
- Is your community not engaging with news? Try listening to them first
- Deplete the Police: How the federal immigration crackdown could cripple local law enforcement
- Diff Risk Score: AI-driven risk-aware software development
- Why walking tours offer another medium for local journalism
- Lack of Local News Tied to Government Secrecy, New Report Says
- Naming a news desert or oasis doesn’t tell the whole story
- Writing a Blog Post on a Palm Pilot
- OPINION: Why Local News Still Matters in Bucks County
- Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds
- Republican unity crumbles as America's mood sours
- Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Released From ICE Custody on Bond
- American Conversations: Marc Elias
- Alina Habba Will Stop Pretending to Be a Federal Prosecutor—for Now
- Judge hears argument in Pennsylvania voter fraud case where Trump pardon at issue
- LA Unified School District forces unfiltered AI on kids
- Judge to rule on whether Trump’s 2020 pardon applies to a Pa. voter fraud case
- It's never simple
- New film reveals faults in PA’s system to protect older adults from abuse, neglect
- DeSantis labels Muslim advocacy group CAIR a foreign terrorist group in Florida
- Pennsylvania restricts weight-loss drugs for Medicaid patients amid budget woes
- Why I’m Fascinated by Package Management
- Rep. Abby Major: Shapiro promised transparency. Instead, Pennsylvanians got secrecy.
- Why RSS matters
- What could CDC changes to hepatitis B vaccines mean for infants and families in Pennsylvania and New Jersey?
- White Man’s Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test
- Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
- The Story Behind the “Misconduct” Allegations Against RFK Jr.
- Voting by mail faces uncertain moment ahead of midterm elections
- Bill advances mandating bell-to-bell cellphone bans in Pa. schools
- Where Has All the Interest Gone?
- The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators - The American Prospect
December 10, 2025
· 6 min read
- Governor Shapiro Pulled Pennsylvania Out of Regional Carbon Market to Appease Republicans. Critics Say ‘He Got Rolled’
- Groups Pressure Bradford To Bring Bills to Protect Girls’ Sports to the Floor For a Vote
- Costco Becomes Biggest Company yet to Demand Refund of Trump Tariffs
- Russian Cosmonaut Axed From Crew-12 for ‘Smuggling’ SpaceX Materials
- What to know about the administration’s plan to withhold states’ money to manage SNAP food aid
- 38 under 15: ACA enrollment & looming premium hikes for every vulnerable GOP House member
- Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections
- Pennsylvania’s unique system of electing poll workers comes with downsides
- Silicon Valley Wants Disaster Bunkers. Norway Wants ‘Preparedness Friends.’
- Kohler's Smart Toilet Camera Not Actually End-to-End Encrypted
- Former Montco employee sues county, alleges it violated ADA, committed ‘fraud’ and hid ‘financial mismanagement’
- As immigrant detentions spike, Montco activists demand transparency: ‘ICE is burning trust to the ground’
- Democrats target Trump's affordability crisis in 2026 offensive
- Critics, former staffers mull future of Fetterman’s Senate seat
- New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings
- DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store
- Trump’s Pardon of Honduran Ex-President Who Conspired to Traffic Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US Exposes ‘War on Drugs’ Myth
- App Defaults - 2025
- ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video
- U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown
- [Eugene Volokh] "As Colossal a Collection of Excuses and Projection as the Court Has Seen in 25 Years on the Bench," Says Court About Lawyer's Response in Fabricated Citation Dispute
- Federal Judge Orders Release of Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records in Florida
- A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent.
- AI Is the Next Frontier for Far-Right Extremists to Spread Propaganda, Incite Violence, and Recruit New Followers
- Judge: DOJ likely broke Constitution in using Comey lawyer's seized emails
- Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Speaks Out From ICE Detention
- Trump pardoned him days ago. Now he's furious the Democrat is running for reelection.
- Pennsylvania Department of General Services hires new vendor after discovering unsent state agency mail, PSERS now headed by former Gov. Shapiro colleague
- [Eugene Volokh] Expert Report Admitted Despite AI Hallucinations in Citations
- The f*** off contact page
- ‘Doing Nothing Is Not An Option,’ Says Fitzpatrick On GOP Affordability Agenda
- Trans Healthcare Coverage Ban Stripped From Negotiated Military NDAA Bill In Sunday Night Surprise
- The Web Runs On Tolerance
- Rate hike, bankruptcy, or sale: Pa. judge to decide what’s next for troubled rural water company
- How the unprecedented redistricting war is harming election officials, politicians, and voters
- The casino-fication of news
- Understanding carriage
- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Flack for Ditching Regional Carbon Pact
- [Eugene Volokh] Speech to the Public Laying Out Legal Theories Isn't Unauthorized Practice of Law
- Use the 'MIT Method' to Keep Your Big-Picture Goals in Mind During Everyday Tasks
- Swing District Republicans in States Like Pennsylvania Brace for Political Fallout if Health Care Subsidies Expire
December 9, 2025
· 3 min read
- American Water Works, Essential Utilities to merge, creating $40B public water utility
- Going beyond traditional surveying to map community assets
- Archive or Delete?
- The case for treating the news like a campaign
- Baltimore bucks the trend
- Discovering the Indie Web
- Pennsylvania Inadvertently Making Drivers’ License Data Available to ICE
- Baltimore Officer charged with attempted murder after viral video shows him trying to run man down
- Email over algorithms: how newsrooms are reclaiming their audiences
- State Department Reverses Course, Says Trans Passports Will Be Valid Until They Expire
- Drones’ impact on journalism continues to grow
- What would happen if Fetterman’s health would cause him to resign from the U.S. Senate?
- Upper Makefield jet fuel leak prompts U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick to propose pipeline safety reforms
- Child Care Workers Are Building a Network of Resistance Against ICE
- Burnout Prevention Through Strategic Reassignment
- A Taxonomy for Open Source Software
- Two kinds of useful specifications
- Codifying Irregular Warfare—Inside the Pentagon’s new DoD Instruction 3000.07
- Documenting Package Manager Data
- Colorado Finally Got Its Wolves Back. Why Are So Many Dying?
- Netflix Is Killing Casting From Your Phone
- Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking
- Rapidly Expanding Local News Networks
- FEMA’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
- Where Do the Children Play?
December 8, 2025
· 2 min read
- GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst | Andrew Nesbitt
- Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica
- Transgender health leader’s name changed on her official HHS portrait : Shots - Health News : NPR
- Alex White | Email Is Amazing, but People Try Their Best to Ruin It.
- Blogging Gets Serious in 2001 With Warblogs and Movable Type | Cybercultural
- Have we forgotten how to build ethical things for the web?
- As mayor’s administration tiptoes around overdose prevention centers, Councilman Dorsey says they’re needed now
- Solutions for auditing sources in small newsrooms
- How do we build public trust in elections?
- Two useful AI tactics
- Rebuilding Grassroots Media – Back to the Soil
- With news creators and influencers on the rise, what’s next for local news?
December 7, 2025
· 3 min read
- PA budget cuts cyber charter funding, adds oversight rules • Spotlight PA
- Pennsylvania pharmacy closures continue despite new law • Spotlight PA
- Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny
- The Construction Industry’s Invisible Villains | The New Republic
- Sick in a Hospital Town — Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined — ProPublica
- Norristown man jailed for burglarizing Lower Salford residence
- Trans Healthcare Coverage Ban Stripped From Negotiated Military NDAA Bill In Sunday Night Surprise
- Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn
- Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots
- Costco Becomes Biggest Company yet to Demand Refund of Trump Tariffs
- Sen. Tracy Pennycuick: A no-new-tax-increase budget moves Pennsylvania forward
- Medicare’s New AI Experiment Sparks Alarm Among Doctors, Lawmakers
- As immigrant detentions spike, Montco activists demand transparency: ‘ICE is burning trust to the ground’
- New records reveal details on the $1M in taxpayer-funded security upgrades at Gov. Josh Shapiro’s private residence
- Utility regulators vote to investigate Pa. American Water’s proposed rate increase
- Donald Trump’s Restitution Scheme Is Among the Greatest Heists in US History
- Your Private Data Is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine
- Trump Intensifies Use of ‘Race-Baiting’ Anti-Immigrant Language by Calling People from Somalia ‘Garbage’
- Trump’s Pardon of Honduran Ex-President Who Conspired to Traffic Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US Exposes ‘War on Drugs’ Myth