Here is Thomas Jefferson's “Original Rough Draught" of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions added by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:

Quite a sky For the 4th of July

“It’s not safe here anymore on so many levels,” Ali-Khan said. “It’s not physically safe. It’s not economically safe. It’s not professionally safe. It’s not intellectually safe. That was not true when I got here.” By Divya Kumar & Ian Hodgson tampabay.com/news/education…

Two stories by Katya Kazakina about a jewelry auction that didn’t end up quite the way Christie’s might have liked. news.artnet.com/news-pro/the-2… news.artnet.com/news-pro/chris…

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“My boyfriend was shot by his father, and his father killed himself and the rest of the family,” she would tell the [suicide hotline] crisis counselor on the line. “So, I’m not doing so hot.” By Mary Claire Molloy (who started this project as a journalism student) indystar.com/story/news/inv…

This film was “fantasy” in 2014. #SAGAFTRAstrike The Congress youtu.be/zkDyKWKNeaE

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Columbia Journalism Review did a deep dive on this dark money operation and it's many layers of foundations and cut out organizations to hide the money tied to "Metric Media." It's insane how big this operation is. Read the two stories here. cjr.org/tow_center_rep…

Bloomberg put more than 130 questions to 5,000 $TSLA customers about their cars, the company and Elon Musk Out of dozens of questions repeated verbatim in 2019 and 2023 surveys, the steepest change was… The 📉 in positive opinion of Musk. 🧵 (1/12)

The journey with Oglethorpe Echo has been a wild and unexpected ride — but one of the best of my professional career — here’s where I tell you about what we’ve figured out so far : niemanlab.org/2023/07/what-o…

🚨Job opportunity! The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University is seeking a deputy curator to help guide our journalism fellowships, publications and programming. The right candidate will work with Nieman staff and accomplished journalists from around the world. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

After Katrina, alt-weekly papers across the U.S. raised money to help Gambit (which flooded & shut down for 9 weeks) keep paying its staff. Now we’re helping the Maui Times survive the fires & protect its community during recovery. Please join us & donate. nola.com/gambit/news/th…

A Navajo girl from Monument Valley has won a prestigious drawing contest with Google. The sixth-grade student used her Indigenous roots to inspire her award-winning drawing. navajotimes.com/edu/tsebiindzi…

To quote Scott — Let me just say: I love this story.

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.