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Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith joins The Atlantic as a managing director overseeing events; he will remain senior adviser at Emerson Collective (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/2026/01/evan-smith-managing-director-e…

Evan Smith Managing Director for Events
Smith created the Texas Tribune Festival and has advised dozens of newsrooms on their editorial-events businesses.

I am pleased to report that, unlike the Star Tribune, local residents are very much stepping up to meet the moment.

Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military to Minnesota.
To learn more about the act and its limits, check out this explainer from @brennancenter.org
https://bsky.app/profile/startribune.com/post/3mchqk5bcie2z

Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com)
President Donald Trump this morning threatened to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota, following protests after a federal agent shot a man in the leg after an alleged assault on the officer. https://bit.ly/3Nk4u61

Friday's Star Tribune front page

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender (Jessica Priest/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/texas-universities-ai-course-audits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p43#a251215p43

Here’s a condensed version of a letter I sent to the Star Tribune last week.
I know that the editorial staff was considering publishing it, because they contacted me about it. Ultimately, however, they opted not to.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

« Dans la Tunisie gouvernée par Kaïs Saïed, la justice a cessé d’être un contre-pouvoir : elle est devenue un instrument de discipline politique »
https://www.lemonde…

« Dans la Tunisie gouvernée par Kaïs Saïed, la justice a cessé d’être un contre-pouvoir : elle est devenue un instrument de discipline politique »
Alors que l’avocat tunisien Ayachi Hammami, emprisonné depuis le 2 décembre 2025, est en grève de la faim, le militant démocrate Kamel Jendoubi dénonce, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’inaction des autorités locales, ainsi que des partenaires de la Tunisie. Notamment celle de nombreux pays de l’Union européenne.

R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/politics/bruce-dold-dead.html

R. Bruce Dold, Chicago Tribune Publisher and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 70
As head of the editorial page, he encouraged The Tribune’s support of Barack Obama, resulting in the paper’s first endorsement of a Democrat running for the White House.

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users https://tribune.com.pk/story/2585783/smart-glasses-find-purpose-among-blind-users "If it's on your head, it's definitely a lot more intuitive."

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users
The glasses 110 camera captures 50 more reducing head movement says Agiga CEO Wang

Accused Beth Israel arsonist Spencer Pittman calls congregation 'the synagogue of Satan' (Magnolia Tribune)
https://magnoliatribune.com/2026/01/13/accused-beth-israel-arsonist-spencer-pittman-calls-congregation-the-synagogue-of-satan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p51#a260113p51

Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism

L’arrestation de Ravatomanga, la roue tourne enfin.
« La vraie victoire serait que cette arrestation déclenche un vrai sursaut moral — dans les administrations, dans les entreprises, et surtout dans les consciences. »
https://www.madagascar-tribune.com/L-arresta…

The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/chic…

When the oligarch-owned, reactionary-run "Minnesota Star Tribune" is the voice of reason in a news roundup, you know things are bad.
Amazing how these media can instantly make alleged fraud in social services a bigger story than a kidnapping ring funded with $165 billion of taxpayer money.

The Salt Lake Tribune launches The Southern Utah Tribune, a free monthly newspaper, its latest local news product after a Cache Valley newsletter and Moab paper (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/t…

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah
“We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

« Écologistes : l’épuration qui vient »
https://reporterre.net/Ecologistes-l-epuration-qui-vient

« Écologistes : l'épuration qui vient »
La désignation de plus en plus forte des écologistes comme ennemis de l'agriculture et de la nation française préfigure une potentielle épuration, prévient le journaliste Nicolas Legendre dans cette tribune.

Construction is underway at the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in southeastern Utah, the first project approved under the Interior Department’s accelerated permitting process.
https://bsky.app/profile/sltrib.com/post/3m53mor7eex2f

The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib.com)
Construction is underway at the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in southeastern Utah, the first project approved under the Interior Department’s accelerated permitting process. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11/07/velvet-wood-uranium-mine/

I mean…just imagine. Just imagine that happening.
Just imagine •doing• that. How do you live with yourself?!
In the meantime, “it snowed again” gets top billing on the Star Tribune site.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate (Gabby Birenbaum/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/08/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p135#a251208p135

In a state where organized labor is not known to be a major political force,
supporters of teachers, police, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied to force the repeal of a particularly ill-advised, if not downright mean, act of the Utah Legislature.
An ad hoc alliance of labor unions
-- not just those representing public sector workers
-- arose under the title of
"Protect Utah Workers".
It included unions whose members primarily work…

"More than 97% of immigrants detained in the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago had no criminal conviction, according to federal court records.
The data, released on Friday and first reported by the Chicago Tribune, sharply contradicts the Trump administration’s portrayal of the immigration sweeps as an effort to fight crime" #Trump

Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school (Jaden Edison/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/08/texas-turning-point-usa-greg-abbott-high-schools/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p142#a251208p142

The $59 million price tag for
"Operation Midway Blitz"
A Tribune analysis of the Trump administration's Chicago-area immigration crackdown
provides one of the first examinations of Operation Midway Blitz’s financial impact on the federal government.
The back-of-the-envelope estimate is a conservative analysis of the full costs.
Federal officials are not eager to address the fiscal cost of
"Operation Midway Blitz"
-- the months…

An apparent disinformation campaign falsely identified Steve Grove, CEO/publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune, as the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-using-ai-to-f…

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.

Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/community-members-confront-bovino/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p28#a251108p28

Radoslaw Sikorski, vice-premier ministre de Pologne : « Le défi de l’UE consiste Š traduire son poids économique en influence et en leadership mondiaux »
https://www.

Radoslaw Sikorski, vice-premier ministre de Pologne : « Le défi de l’UE consiste à traduire son poids économique en influence et en leadership mondiaux »
Le ministre des affaires étrangères polonais appelle, dans une tribune au « Monde », au renfort de la coopération européenne en matière de sécurité, de migration, de technologie et de politique étrangère et à une alliance occidentale accrue avec les Etats-Unis.

From shooting to Slim Jims, immigration agents' poor tactics made for needless safety risks, experts say (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/experts-immigration-agents-poor-tactics-unsafe-policing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p29#a251207p29

'The use of force shocks the conscience': Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents (Jason Meisner/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/operation-midway-blitz-injunction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p131#a251106p131

The nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune plans to remove its paywall in Q1 2026 and projects 2025 net revenue of about $1M on gross revenue of $13.57M (Andy Larsen/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/footer/2025/11/21/tribunes-2025-annual-report/

« Les politiques migratoires françaises enferment les femmes dans une précarité économique et sociale propice aux violences sexuelles »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2…

« Les politiques migratoires françaises enferment les femmes dans une précarité économique et sociale propice aux violences sexuelles »
Des personnalités parmi lesquelles les responsables des principales associations d’aide aux femmes exilées dénoncent, dans une tribune au « Monde », les conditions d’accueil qui leur sont faites et exhortent les politiques à leur garantir un accès réel à la santé et aux droits fondamentaux.

'Doesn't look good': ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/ice-agent-chicago-drunk-driving-charge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p163#a251105p163

The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala (Brock Marchant/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11/21/newsmakers-2025-gala-salt-lake/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p124#a251121p124

Mainstream media is owned by Billionaires.
They control even small-town newspapers and TV.
Expect this belittling of your beliefs and actions:
https://bsky.app/profile/briarish.bsky.social/post/3m3koppqktc2r

Briar (@briarish.bsky.social)
Coverage of No Kings in the print MN Star Tribune is terrible. Story is in Section B (State & Region). Number of protesters is "throngs" (not the actual 10s of thousands). Main picture is the start of the Minneapolis protest that shows about 50 people, and a couple dozen more in St. Cloud.

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/chicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability/?lctg=64878560258254F155C4F504CF&utm_email=64878560258254F155C4F504CF&active=no
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p34#a251103p34

#LucyParsons #Anarchy #Anarchism #Capitalism

Man hospitalized after violent federal immigration arrest in Melrose Park, family says (Adriana Pérez/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/melrose-park-immigration-injury/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p40#a251103p40

Eight more newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, sue OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they violated copyright by using their content to train AI models (Pat Maio/Daily News)
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/11/26/8-mor

8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers including the L.A. Daily News and San Diego Union-Tribune seek more than $10 billion in damages.

On Halloween, 'state-sponsored terror' in Chicago and the north suburbs (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/chicag-halloween-immigration-raids-evanston/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p28#a251101p28

Salt Lake City mayor, council leaders broadly condemn ICE airport arrest in 'gateway to our state' (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10/30/salt-lake-city-mayor-condemns-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p49#a251031p49

Texas A&M System declines to reinstate fired lecturer despite faculty panel's findings (Jessica Priest/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p17#a251226p17

Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, 'Get out of our city!' (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/chicago-tear-gas-irving-park/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p51#a251025p51

As his two sons watch and cry, 'Pa, te amo,' federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments (Carolyn Stein/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/federal-arrest-man-naperville-apartment-sons/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p52#a251025p52

Alamo Trust president resigns after Dan Patrick calls for her removal (The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/23/texas-alamo-trust-dan-patrick-dissertation-history-politics-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p133#a251024p133

ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: 'He belongs with her' (Gregory Royal Pratt/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/ice-arrests-chicago-man-teenage-daughter-cancer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p7#a251022p7

Immigration agent who shot Chicago woman drove 'rammed' vehicle to Maine, attorneys reveal (Jason Meisner/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/agent-who-shot-woman-drove-vehicle-maine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p103#a251016p103