Adam Schweigert
@aschweig.bsky.social
Just a kid from Akron. Banjo player. Dog person. My opinions, as always, may well be bad, but I own them. By day, Chief Strategy Officer at Deep South Today.
📍Pittsburgh, PA
📍Pittsburgh, PA
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It’s a pleasure to announce @aschweig.bsky.social’s elevation to the position of Chief Strategy Officer at @deepsouthtoday.org. His leadership and dedication to operational excellence has been invaluable as Deep South Today has grown considerably during 2025.
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Deep South Today Elevates Adam Schweigert to Chief Strategy Officer - Deep South Today
Deep South Today, the nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today, Verite News, and The Current, today announced that Adam Schweigert has been elevated to the position of Chie...
deepsouthtoday.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It’s a pleasure to announce @aschweig.bsky.social’s elevation to the position of Chief Strategy Officer at @deepsouthtoday.org. His leadership and dedication to operational excellence has been invaluable as Deep South Today has grown considerably during 2025.
deepsouthtoday.org/2025/10/08/d...
deepsouthtoday.org/2025/10/08/d...
Anyway, tell me if you find any broken stuff. mississippitoday.org/2025/10/02/m...
Mississippi Today launches redesigned website - Mississippi Today
Mississippi Today launched a major update to our website Wednesday night – the first redesign since 2021. In this revamp, we aimed to make the site a fitting
mississippitoday.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Anyway, tell me if you find any broken stuff. mississippitoday.org/2025/10/02/m...
yes obviously we'll open source the fun vertical video thing, just give me a couple days to sleep
October 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
yes obviously we'll open source the fun vertical video thing, just give me a couple days to sleep
made this cute lil' new website for @mississippitoday.org: mississippitoday.org
Mississippi Today | News, Information, Videos and Podcasts
The state’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom, covering politics, education, public health, justice, environment, equity, and sports.
mississippitoday.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
made this cute lil' new website for @mississippitoday.org: mississippitoday.org
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From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...
theonion.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:
...good?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
...good?
Getting old is weird. First, like everyone else our age, it was getting way into birds. Now, apparently, it's fixing mechanical watches. What's next?
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Getting old is weird. First, like everyone else our age, it was getting way into birds. Now, apparently, it's fixing mechanical watches. What's next?
*and* they are apparently meant to...
July 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
*and* they are apparently meant to...
we really just can't have nice things, huh?
no more "click to cancel" www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...
July 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
we really just can't have nice things, huh?
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Once more with feeling
June 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Once more with feeling
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2020 TRUMP: “We have laws… we can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.”
(H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )
(H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )
June 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
2020 TRUMP: “We have laws… we can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.”
(H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )
(H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )
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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
Finally some good news!
May 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Finally some good news!
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Truth belongs to everyone. At Verite News, it’s always free.
We’re not paywalled. We’re people-powered.
Early giving for #GiveNOLADay is open — and your support keeps our journalism accessible to all. Give early, give today!
We’re not paywalled. We’re people-powered.
Early giving for #GiveNOLADay is open — and your support keeps our journalism accessible to all. Give early, give today!
GiveNOLA Day!
GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to…
www.givenola.org
May 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Truth belongs to everyone. At Verite News, it’s always free.
We’re not paywalled. We’re people-powered.
Early giving for #GiveNOLADay is open — and your support keeps our journalism accessible to all. Give early, give today!
We’re not paywalled. We’re people-powered.
Early giving for #GiveNOLADay is open — and your support keeps our journalism accessible to all. Give early, give today!
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The Trump DOJ pulled millions in funding for groups throughout Louisiana that support survivors of domestic, sexual + intimate violence.
Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors.
@arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org.
veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...
Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors.
@arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org.
veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...
DOJ cuts grants to survivor-advocacy groups in New Orleans
Two nonprofits in New Orleans are worried about their futures after the U.S. DOJ abruptly canceled a federal grant that would have helped them offer support to survivors of violence.
veritenews.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Trump DOJ pulled millions in funding for groups throughout Louisiana that support survivors of domestic, sexual + intimate violence.
Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors.
@arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org.
veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...
Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors.
@arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org.
veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...
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“If you’re leaking a document, take pictures of it with the camera within Signal, which doesn’t save photos to your camera roll, and then send them to the reporter. If the document is on a screen, take pictures of the screen with the Signal app; don’t print anything out.”
April 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“If you’re leaking a document, take pictures of it with the camera within Signal, which doesn’t save photos to your camera roll, and then send them to the reporter. If the document is on a screen, take pictures of the screen with the Signal app; don’t print anything out.”
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You should go work with @aschweig.bsky.social if you’re looking for work in newsrooms in a part of the country that desperately needs it.
Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇
April 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
You should go work with @aschweig.bsky.social if you’re looking for work in newsrooms in a part of the country that desperately needs it.
Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇
April 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇
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Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi. Here's how we can.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/21/t...
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Trump and Musk are attacking the humanities. Mississippians must fight back. - Mississippi Today
Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi....
mississippitoday.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi. Here's how we can.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/21/t...
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/21/t...
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Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.
15 years after Deepwater Horizon, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete
BP paid billions of dollars in damages over the Deepwater Horizon spill. Yet those who say they've suffered health problems have struggled to receive compensation.
veritenews.org
April 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.
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I have my problems with any Pope, by definition
But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward
But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward
April 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I have my problems with any Pope, by definition
But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward
But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward
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Deconstruction.
Historians will propose in due course a name for this current phase we are witnessing in the United States. My early submission: The Great Dismantling.
April 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Deconstruction.
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#OnThisDay in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” about the lynchings of Black Americans — 6,400+ between 1865 & 1950. The song reminded her of her father, who died when a hospital refused to treat him because of his color. The song sold 1M+. #History
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On this day in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded 'Strange Fruit'
On this day in 1939, legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit" about the lynchings of Black Americans.
mississippitoday.org
April 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#OnThisDay in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” about the lynchings of Black Americans — 6,400+ between 1865 & 1950. The song reminded her of her father, who died when a hospital refused to treat him because of his color. The song sold 1M+. #History
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/20/o...
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/20/o...
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RFK Jr. paints autism in a apocalyptic colors. As an #ActuallyAutistic journalist who has spent the last decade writing about autism, I had to confront him about it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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RFK Jr calls autism a tragedy. As an autistic journalist, I have thoughts
ANALYSIS: Health Secretary wilfully misreads data that should be celebrated, not feared, writes Eric Garcia
www.independent.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
RFK Jr. paints autism in a apocalyptic colors. As an #ActuallyAutistic journalist who has spent the last decade writing about autism, I had to confront him about it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...