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Joshua Eaton

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Investigative reporter: Hearst Connecticut Media Group | Alum: NBC News, CQ Roll Call, Harvard Divinity School, University of West Georgia | FOIA nerd | Church mouse | Georgia boy | #FirstGen


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me: Did you leave during the fire alarm? roommate: I just stayed on my computer. me: What if there was an actual fire? roommate: *shrugging and pointing to the window* We’re not that far up. - scene -

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I will never, ever understand the bowl thing.

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I puked inside one grocery bag inside another grocery bag + some paper towels in the bottom. But mostly in the toilet.

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Early morning walk in the woods with the girls!

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

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As someone now closer to her forties than her twenties, no pair of ankle socks or skinny jeans or side part will make you look as old as trying to chase the trends of 20-year-olds

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Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

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President Biden told Democratic governors that he plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so he can get more sleep, sources say.

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IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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I don't think Confederate monuments belong anywhere, let alone at Gettysburg This is what happens when sites/monuments/holidays/names are decontextualized

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Discovering the “Murder She Wrote” channel on Roku is both the best and worst thing to happen to me.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Julie DiCaro's avatar Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social
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Reminder that many journalists have been forced to pivot to independent newsletters (including yours truly) and them promoting their work is good and necessary.

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MY HUMAN SAID, “CATS DON’T EAT DORITOS.” I SAY, SHOULD WE NOT STRIVE TO BUILD BETTER WORLDS?

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I'm contractually obligated to point out that there's also a 24/7 Dick Van Dyke Show channel

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She has no idea what an election is.

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Roku has a whole channel that just streams Murder She Wrote.

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Most can barely tell you anything about Christianity beyond contemporary American Evangelicalism and maybe Catholicism.

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People who back into parking spots won’t see heaven.

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Trip Kirkpatrick's avatar Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.bsky.social
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Update: CT Sen. Saud Anwar and (my rep) Rep. Josh Elliott say they were told by the company that they are no longer manufacturing pentobarbital.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at JHU have identified the Aplp1 protein, which facilitates the spread of harmful alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain as a novel therapeutic target for Parkinson’s disease AND a potential therapy using an EXISTING FDA-approved cancer drug. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Joshua Eaton's avatar Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social
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Yeh between that and lactose I would really like people to stop asking my favorite New Haven pizza place.

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True! But also I feel like people just put garlic powder in everything because they think they’re supposed to? It’s like salt now.

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*stares in garlic and onion sensitivity*

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Tim Carvell's avatar Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"

2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."

latenighter.com/news/paramou...

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Josh Sternberg's avatar Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.bsky.social
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A new survey from Resume Builder revealed that 39% of hiring managers said their company posted a fake job listing in the past year.

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NEW: Travis County Attorney Delia Garza dismisses all 79 criminal-trespassing charges from the April 29 pro-Palestinian protests at UT Austin. Garza said her office concluded it could not carry its burden of proving these cases beyond a reasonable doubt. (via Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman)

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Gizmodo is also hiring a social media editor

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Cats don’t hate you; they just don’t have the facial muscles to smile.

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The whole “cats hate their owners” meme was always stupid.

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This is the face of the lamb chop thief.

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I’d imagine shoes are low on the list of things one worries about people taking off in a college library.

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come down to middle georgia, and we'll show you some *real* cockroaches (why am i bragging about this)

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Joshua Eaton's avatar Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social
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Oh no! I am gentle and small and meant this entirely tongue in cheek!

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Froger update: Still cute. Still kittening.

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The four-hour rule feels like a challenge. I accept.

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Also I’m blissfully free of context for this particular discourse. Selah.

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I do as much self-cultivation as the next media worker laboring under late capitalism. But I’ve promised myself I’ll always keep it real. Y’all get the rough edges, too. It’s important.

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Does posting about FOIA and cats at ungodly hours count as a brand? Asking for a friend.

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