Catherine Sweeney
@catherinejsweeney.bsky.social
Okie in Nashville. Health reporter at WPLN. Also write about social services and lethal injection. @cathjsweeney.38 on Signal
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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it feels incredibly ridiculous I spent a good chunk of my career working on developing skills and experience in feature writing when there are very few jobs doing this anymore and then learning how Olivia Nuzzi got her job at Vanity Fair despite truly terrible ethics and questionable writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
it feels incredibly ridiculous I spent a good chunk of my career working on developing skills and experience in feature writing when there are very few jobs doing this anymore and then learning how Olivia Nuzzi got her job at Vanity Fair despite truly terrible ethics and questionable writing skills
Made whipped brie and fig macarons
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Made whipped brie and fig macarons
Lost my mind at Warner Park today
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Lost my mind at Warner Park today
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This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
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A little over 10 years ago, when I worked at the Idaho Press, I had to make the difficult decision to leave journalism because I was making about $24,000 a year.
Had the same reaction.
Y'all, folks are gonna climb over each other for this job, because that is absolutely *great* money for a journalism gig.
This is also why referring to journalists as "elite" always makes the lot of us chuckle a bit.
Y'all, folks are gonna climb over each other for this job, because that is absolutely *great* money for a journalism gig.
This is also why referring to journalists as "elite" always makes the lot of us chuckle a bit.
There are several replies pointing out how low that pay is, especially for NYC, and I'm once again realizing that people have no idea how shittily journalists are paid.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A little over 10 years ago, when I worked at the Idaho Press, I had to make the difficult decision to leave journalism because I was making about $24,000 a year.
Latest on TN executions:
- Harold Wayne Nichols scheduled for lethal injection Dec. 11
- His attorneys want records TDOC refuses to hand over. A Knox Co. judge wants to review the docs, gave a Dec. 3 deadline
- TDOC fighting records release in a separate challenge
- Media witnesses selected today
- Harold Wayne Nichols scheduled for lethal injection Dec. 11
- His attorneys want records TDOC refuses to hand over. A Knox Co. judge wants to review the docs, gave a Dec. 3 deadline
- TDOC fighting records release in a separate challenge
- Media witnesses selected today
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Latest on TN executions:
- Harold Wayne Nichols scheduled for lethal injection Dec. 11
- His attorneys want records TDOC refuses to hand over. A Knox Co. judge wants to review the docs, gave a Dec. 3 deadline
- TDOC fighting records release in a separate challenge
- Media witnesses selected today
- Harold Wayne Nichols scheduled for lethal injection Dec. 11
- His attorneys want records TDOC refuses to hand over. A Knox Co. judge wants to review the docs, gave a Dec. 3 deadline
- TDOC fighting records release in a separate challenge
- Media witnesses selected today
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If every book I read this year costs $15.99 each…
I would have spent over $3,000 on books alone.
Instead, I borrowed them from my library.
Go support and help your local library
I would have spent over $3,000 on books alone.
Instead, I borrowed them from my library.
Go support and help your local library
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If every book I read this year costs $15.99 each…
I would have spent over $3,000 on books alone.
Instead, I borrowed them from my library.
Go support and help your local library
I would have spent over $3,000 on books alone.
Instead, I borrowed them from my library.
Go support and help your local library
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Tennessee’s three Episcopal bishops have released a joint statement on the death penalty. The state is set to execute Harold Nichols on Dec. 11.
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tennessee’s three Episcopal bishops have released a joint statement on the death penalty. The state is set to execute Harold Nichols on Dec. 11.
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It shouldn't need to be said that it isn't "insubordinate" in the United States for a free press to ask questions about government leaders. And in the United States, the president isn't allowed to silence news outlets for asking questions he doesn't like.
This isn't Saudi Arabia. Yet.
This isn't Saudi Arabia. Yet.
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It shouldn't need to be said that it isn't "insubordinate" in the United States for a free press to ask questions about government leaders. And in the United States, the president isn't allowed to silence news outlets for asking questions he doesn't like.
This isn't Saudi Arabia. Yet.
This isn't Saudi Arabia. Yet.
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While the government is back up and running, some aid programs — like utility bill assistance — are still facing disruptions.
wpln.org/post/the-shu...
wpln.org/post/the-shu...
The shutdown is over, but Tennesseans are still waiting for funds to help pay utility bills
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history impacted or cut off many federal programs that help Americans. And while the government is technically
wpln.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
While the government is back up and running, some aid programs — like utility bill assistance — are still facing disruptions.
wpln.org/post/the-shu...
wpln.org/post/the-shu...
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While Medicaid is by far the biggest player for children's coverage, the Marketplace has become increasingly important.
New brief from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social finds that 453,000 children will become uninsured if subsidies expire.
ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/11/14/n...
New brief from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social finds that 453,000 children will become uninsured if subsidies expire.
ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/11/14/n...
New Data Highlight Risks to Children and Parents if Enhanced Marketplace Subsidies Expire
Marketplace subsidy enhancements which have been in place since 2021 are set to expire at the end of December 2025, and their fate is currently uncertain. Since 2014, when Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
ccf.georgetown.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
While Medicaid is by far the biggest player for children's coverage, the Marketplace has become increasingly important.
New brief from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social finds that 453,000 children will become uninsured if subsidies expire.
ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/11/14/n...
New brief from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social finds that 453,000 children will become uninsured if subsidies expire.
ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/11/14/n...
If you drape an electric blanket on the couch before sitting on it, it’s like heated seats
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If you drape an electric blanket on the couch before sitting on it, it’s like heated seats
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Man, there are a lot of pieces that were published this past week that make me even more furious than usual that so many people who are dedicated to telling meaningful stories are unemployed or scrambling to pitch while...all that gets published, amplified, paid for, and inflicted on readers.
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Man, there are a lot of pieces that were published this past week that make me even more furious than usual that so many people who are dedicated to telling meaningful stories are unemployed or scrambling to pitch while...all that gets published, amplified, paid for, and inflicted on readers.
I’ve gotta block this account
We continue losing daylight for 36 days.
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’ve gotta block this account
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When ppl speak of elite impunity and a draw a direct link to complicit elite media, this is what we’re talking about.
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When ppl speak of elite impunity and a draw a direct link to complicit elite media, this is what we’re talking about.
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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there’s going to be a strong impulse to dunk on these patients. please pause and think how devastating & tragic the consequences are. no one deserves this
Patients around the country, misunderstanding the Trump admin's IVF announcement and thinking it will soon become free, are considering delaying their fertility treatments
Doctors and patient advocates are begging them not to, warning of high risks and low rewards. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Doctors and patient advocates are begging them not to, warning of high risks and low rewards. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Trump’s IVF news sparks a wave of misinformation
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
there’s going to be a strong impulse to dunk on these patients. please pause and think how devastating & tragic the consequences are. no one deserves this
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CDC flu data is back! I’m so happy I could cry. H3N2 is predominating, especially the new subclade K. This supports the emerging hypothesis that we will have a big flu season. More to come.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
CDC flu data is back! I’m so happy I could cry. H3N2 is predominating, especially the new subclade K. This supports the emerging hypothesis that we will have a big flu season. More to come.
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Hemp farmers and business holding a press conference outside of Mitch McConnell’s office in Louisville slamming him for slipping in language to the CR that they say will completely destroy their industry and livelihood.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hemp farmers and business holding a press conference outside of Mitch McConnell’s office in Louisville slamming him for slipping in language to the CR that they say will completely destroy their industry and livelihood.
Thanksgiving is one of the most boring parts of white American culture? And turkey???
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thanksgiving is one of the most boring parts of white American culture? And turkey???
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The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.
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Harold Wayne Nichols, sentenced in the rape and murder of a college student, declined to choose between lethal injection or electric chair. The default is lethal injection, which has had a troubling history in TN
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Tennessee schedules next lethal injection as questions linger about the last one
The next man scheduled for execution in Tennessee — Harold Wayne Nichols — has officially declined to choose a method of execution. He had two options:
wpln.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Harold Wayne Nichols, sentenced in the rape and murder of a college student, declined to choose between lethal injection or electric chair. The default is lethal injection, which has had a troubling history in TN
wpln.org/post/tenness... @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social
wpln.org/post/tenness... @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social
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The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them