"Local news around Oakdale hasn’t always been this way. In the early 2000s, the Modesto Bee, the largest regional paper owned by the newspaper chain McClatchy, had over a hundred reporters; it now has around a dozen." Such a good piece: nytimes.com/2025/05/03/tec…

The data you didn’t ask for: How predictive analytics is quietly rewriting fundraising and advocacy strategy fastco.expert/4dglrXQ Written by Bryan Whitaker of Statara Solutions

The data you didn’t ask for: How predictive analytics is quietly rewriting fundraising and advocacy strategy fastco.expert/3HbRpZd Written by Bryan Whitaker of Statara Solutions

The most trusted news sources in America (YouGov): 1. The Weather Channel 2. BBC 3. PBS 4. Forbes 5. ESPN 6. WSJ 7. Reuters 8. AP 9. NPR 10. NBC It's the fourth year in a row that The Weather Channel has been the most trusted outlet

🎉 Big news: Statara Solutions just won GOLD at the 2025 Globee Awards in the Digital Advertising Platform category! 👏 Thanks to our team, clients, and partners for making this possible. 👉 Learn more: statara.com/statara-soluti…

NPR EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans. From Jude Joffe-Block Miles Parks npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-…

For those who have been waiting, the 2024 EAVS data and report have been posted by the EAC: eac.gov/research-and-d…

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Republicans like to imagine that removing illegal immigrants from the Census would massively benefit them, but this simply isn't true. Here's the difference relative to actual 2020 reapportionment. Net 0 change in D vs. R states.

Ohhhh BABY this is the box of all boxes... IT'S MY ALMA MATER! While I wasn't the greatest quarterback in the world, my time as a Dayton Flyer was some of the best of my life. Thank you to Coach Andrews, Tony Caruso and Dayton Football, see you guys Week 1 @ Eastern Illinois!!

We have measured support for partisan murder for the last 3 years. Following Kirk's assassination support dropped to ~*1%* from around 3% in the weeks before. True for Democrats, Republicans and even MAGA Republicans. Americans reject political violence.

I joined PBS News to discuss federal efforts to interfere with how states run elections. In short, the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states, who have managed the most secure elections in our history, despite disinfo to the contrary. pbs.org/newshour/show/…

"Data like DL#, SSNs & DOB are the “holy trinity” of identity theft, and states have laws and processes in place to make sure that their citizens' data is protected. The state officials, Rs and Ds both, are right to do all they can to protect that data." politi.co/3VKMVNt

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundme-…

The Rise of the Smartphone and the Fall of Western Democracy nytimes.com/2025/10/14/opi…

Scoop: the DNC sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Super PAC today called “National Democrats” alleging it is "exploiting the goodwill of Democratic voters for personal profit." Part of a larger campaign w/i the DNC to crack down on alleged “scam PACs” axios.com/2025/10/15/dem…

I scrolled through the Freedom Forum's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with The Daily Sentinel:

23 U.S. states in recession, 11 on the brink; Michigan latest to tip into contraction — Moody’s

Do you wish Google search results were like they used to be — just a list of websites, no AI or inserted modules? The good news is you can get this *right now*. You can even change your search bar presets to search this better Google by default! My guide: dhmontgomery.com/2025/11/fix-yo…

I am a broken record on this, but the right question on social media use isn't whether people *ever* use a platform, but frequency. When Pew Research Center asked about *daily* usage you can see huge differences by gender, esp for Youtube, that you miss if you ask just the former