mollie bryant
@molliebryant.bsky.social
I cover housing & criminal justice for nonprofit news site StreetlightNews.org in OKC. Previously: Oklahoma Watch, JXN Clarion Ledger & Amarillo Globe News. [email protected] and molliebryant.70 on signal
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mollie bryant
@molliebryant.bsky.social
· May 28
A Streetlight investigation found EPA data excluded how many Black residents live within one mile of sites under the agency's oversight. After questions from @molliebryant.bsky.social, the EPA restored the missing numbers, calling the error a coding "bug"
streetlightnews.org/epa-echo-data/
streetlightnews.org/epa-echo-data/
EPA excluded, then restored, data on Black people who live closest to toxic sites - Streetlight
The EPA said a bug caused the error, which only affected data on Black residents
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I got obsessed with data in college and have always relied on it for my work. I'd never seen a government agency exclude data about an entire racial group until last week.
I canceled my subscription after the reorg/etc. at vanity fair but somehow still received the all-male cover Hollywood issue. 100 journalism points to whoever came up with “let’s hear it for the boys!”
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I canceled my subscription after the reorg/etc. at vanity fair but somehow still received the all-male cover Hollywood issue. 100 journalism points to whoever came up with “let’s hear it for the boys!”
the second crew member's hand on the back of the guy running the vomit hose is like vomit hose guy is actually the one puking and crew member 2 is comforting him and holding his hair back. supposedly there was a lot of toxic behavior on the madmen set but this is proof there was also a lot of love
‘Mad Men’ is now on HBO Max with a dazzling 4K restoration that unfortunately includes a shot of two crew members operating a puke machine.
HBO Max Showed Us a Little Too Much Mad Men
‘Mad Men’ is now on HBO Max with a dazzling 4K restoration that unfortunately includes a shot of two crew members operating a puke machine.
www.thecut.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
the second crew member's hand on the back of the guy running the vomit hose is like vomit hose guy is actually the one puking and crew member 2 is comforting him and holding his hair back. supposedly there was a lot of toxic behavior on the madmen set but this is proof there was also a lot of love
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i'm grateful there's a fervor to launch new projects and publications right now, because the times are as dire as they appear to be, and a generation of young writers is looking out at a landscape that appears to be all ash and dust
Via Andrea Tinker: The University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines on Monday, claiming that the publications were not in compliance with federal guidance on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
University of Alabama suspends student magazines for Black students, female students | Alabama Reflector
The University of Alabama suspended publication for Nineteen Fifty-Six Magazine and Alice Magazine citing a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
alabamareflector.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i'm grateful there's a fervor to launch new projects and publications right now, because the times are as dire as they appear to be, and a generation of young writers is looking out at a landscape that appears to be all ash and dust
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Strib has a live blog following what seems like the imminent targeting of Somali migrants in the Twin Cities by ICE: www.startribune.com/live-minneap...
Live: Minneapolis officials to address reports of Trump administration targeting Somali migrants
The New York Times reports that the ICE operation comes as President Donald Trump has used increasingly inflammatory language to attack Somalis in recent days.
www.startribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Strib has a live blog following what seems like the imminent targeting of Somali migrants in the Twin Cities by ICE: www.startribune.com/live-minneap...
"I am told that writers used to be interesting." this is so fucking good www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | Olivia Nuzzi tries and fails to save her reputation in ‘American Canto’
The flashy reporter who lost her job at New York magazine over a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returns with a memoir light on gossip — and reckoning
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"I am told that writers used to be interesting." this is so fucking good www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
I sort of choked on my own spit when i got to the bottom of this and saw nuzzi’s salary for her vanity fair position is $200k and she’s never been to a meeting, responded to an email or edited anything pagesix.com/2025/12/01/c...
pagesix.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I sort of choked on my own spit when i got to the bottom of this and saw nuzzi’s salary for her vanity fair position is $200k and she’s never been to a meeting, responded to an email or edited anything pagesix.com/2025/12/01/c...
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"This is the point where our story starts to get weird."
Oh sweetie.
Oh sweetie.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"This is the point where our story starts to get weird."
Oh sweetie.
Oh sweetie.
Honestly, yeah. This is her mom’s bio from her law firm fulneckylaw.com/2020/07/abou...
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Honestly, yeah. This is her mom’s bio from her law firm fulneckylaw.com/2020/07/abou...
honestly, this song gets stuck in my head at least once a week, along with killer tofu and that "bangin on a trash can, strummin on a streetlight" song, both by fictional band The Beets
Does anyone else perpetually have the theme song to Nickelodeon's "Doug" stuck in their head or is it just me?
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
honestly, this song gets stuck in my head at least once a week, along with killer tofu and that "bangin on a trash can, strummin on a streetlight" song, both by fictional band The Beets
it's our first fall/winter with Reggie, and during the last few days, we've learned his tolerance for cold temps is insane. he wants to be outside for hours, even if it's freezing, and the only sign the cold affects him is he more or less goes to sleep for the night around 5 p.m.
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
it's our first fall/winter with Reggie, and during the last few days, we've learned his tolerance for cold temps is insane. he wants to be outside for hours, even if it's freezing, and the only sign the cold affects him is he more or less goes to sleep for the night around 5 p.m.
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I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
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Jacob put lights up all over our house and I made late night coffee with raspberry cocoa and tbh it’s cozy af
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Jacob put lights up all over our house and I made late night coffee with raspberry cocoa and tbh it’s cozy af
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I drove through this town at least ten times a year, and my mom had us all convinced you were supposed to roll down your windows and shout WAHOOOOOO at someone. "they like it when you do it!" I did this for 20 years, including during college, before I discovered, oh my mom just made that shit up
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I drove through this town at least ten times a year, and my mom had us all convinced you were supposed to roll down your windows and shout WAHOOOOOO at someone. "they like it when you do it!" I did this for 20 years, including during college, before I discovered, oh my mom just made that shit up
A day after the Post's story, the Coast Guard reversed this policy "only after the White House and Department of Homeland Security had falsely claimed The Post’s reporting was inaccurate, with DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin calling the story 'fake crap.'" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A day after the Post's story, the Coast Guard reversed this policy "only after the White House and Department of Homeland Security had falsely claimed The Post’s reporting was inaccurate, with DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin calling the story 'fake crap.'" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I should add: criticism of capitalism *in general* is also hardly unusual among American Christians and Jews, as well as American Muslims.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
Rep. Salazar, apparently referring to socialism, says Dems have been “infiltrated by an ideology that is completely foreign to the American values — the Judeo-Christian values.”
Religion note: Myriad debates around it aside, there's a long history of U.S. Christian and Jewish support for socialism.
Religion note: Myriad debates around it aside, there's a long history of U.S. Christian and Jewish support for socialism.
Rep. Maria Salazar: "The GOP is also a morally sound party"
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I should add: criticism of capitalism *in general* is also hardly unusual among American Christians and Jews, as well as American Muslims.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
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Update: Two of the Florida academics featured in our piece, Karen Leader and Rebel Cole, have been reinstated:
www.reuters.com/world/us/two...
www.reuters.com/world/us/two...
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Update: Two of the Florida academics featured in our piece, Karen Leader and Rebel Cole, have been reinstated:
www.reuters.com/world/us/two...
www.reuters.com/world/us/two...
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
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The fact that this news outlet literally has the person who developed Poynter's AI ethics policy on their board and still allowed multiple documented cases of fabricated quotes from the top editor go unchecked and undisclosed is alarming
we weren't there at the same time, but Emily previously was an investigative reporter at the clarion ledger and I've admired her work for a long time. her investigations were part of why I wanted to work at the clarion ledger tbh. this is stunning. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The fact that this news outlet literally has the person who developed Poynter's AI ethics policy on their board and still allowed multiple documented cases of fabricated quotes from the top editor go unchecked and undisclosed is alarming
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INBOX: In a detailed LinkedIn post, investigative reporter @mackoxenden.bsky.social accuses Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news outlet based in SW Florida, of firing her in retaliation for raising concerns about her executive editor's use of AI, leading to the insertion of hallucinated quotes.
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
INBOX: In a detailed LinkedIn post, investigative reporter @mackoxenden.bsky.social accuses Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news outlet based in SW Florida, of firing her in retaliation for raising concerns about her executive editor's use of AI, leading to the insertion of hallucinated quotes.