Neil Ralston
@journostuff.bsky.social
Former journalist and college journalism teacher. Photographer and traveler. Grew up in Missouri. Lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas. Living near St. Louis now.
Hey news media, I know it's a tradition for you to end the year with a look back on the biggest stories of the last 12 months, but can we just skip that this time?
December 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Hey news media, I know it's a tradition for you to end the year with a look back on the biggest stories of the last 12 months, but can we just skip that this time?
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Thou shalt not condemn “violent rhetoric” after your ally is murdered and then mock the murder of someone who criticized you.
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Thou shalt not condemn “violent rhetoric” after your ally is murdered and then mock the murder of someone who criticized you.
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I’m a gun owner. My entire inheritance from my dad was guns.
That said, we should regulate guns.
That said, we should regulate guns.
December 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’m a gun owner. My entire inheritance from my dad was guns.
That said, we should regulate guns.
That said, we should regulate guns.
US senator’s revelations show Israel does not investigate war crimes against journalists; US and international community must step in cpj.org?p=546370
US senator’s revelations show Israel does not investigate war crimes against journalists; US and international community must step in - Committee to Protect Journalists
US government failed in its duty to pursue accountability for American journalist Dylan Collins, targeted in the October 13, 2023, Israeli attack that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah Washing...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
US senator’s revelations show Israel does not investigate war crimes against journalists; US and international community must step in cpj.org?p=546370
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
I take the usual touristy shots on vacation, but my favorite photos are of people doing their people things. This is from a bay near Phuket, Thailand, last month.
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I take the usual touristy shots on vacation, but my favorite photos are of people doing their people things. This is from a bay near Phuket, Thailand, last month.
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Quoted here talking about Alabama's decision to remove funding from student publications they claim run afoul of Trump Administration "non-discrimination" mandates.
TL;DR: That's hogwash and just cover to restrict students' 1A rights.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
TL;DR: That's hogwash and just cover to restrict students' 1A rights.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Quoted here talking about Alabama's decision to remove funding from student publications they claim run afoul of Trump Administration "non-discrimination" mandates.
TL;DR: That's hogwash and just cover to restrict students' 1A rights.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
TL;DR: That's hogwash and just cover to restrict students' 1A rights.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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As seen at No Kings Atlanta:
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As seen at No Kings Atlanta:
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I'm wondering how many millions of dollars our government will have to pay out once some of these cases end up in civil court.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'm wondering how many millions of dollars our government will have to pay out once some of these cases end up in civil court.
apnews.com/article/immi... use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.
apnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
apnews.com/article/immi... use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, New Yorker
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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The "Journlism for All" curriculum from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is available for free to any teacher, educator, journalist, or reporting fellow who wants to use it. It includes 160 40-minute lessons and 125 slide decks. #journalism
www.teachjournalismforall.com
www.teachjournalismforall.com
Journalism For All
www.teachjournalismforall.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The "Journlism for All" curriculum from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is available for free to any teacher, educator, journalist, or reporting fellow who wants to use it. It includes 160 40-minute lessons and 125 slide decks. #journalism
www.teachjournalismforall.com
www.teachjournalismforall.com
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Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning' www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...
Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning'
Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning' www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...
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I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
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I am heartbroken by the horrific violence at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
August 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I am heartbroken by the horrific violence at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
Events like these should not be our "normal." The simple solution is to pass sensible gun control. Without that, these tragedies will continue to happen, and children will continue to die.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I know a fair number of people on the MAGA right from my past - including key figures in the current Trump regime.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I know a fair number of people on the MAGA right from my past - including key figures in the current Trump regime.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
They hate modern America, its institutions, multiculturalism, the Democrats, “the media” and many, if not most, Americans.
Hate. That’s what drives them to tear it all down.
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Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have all voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.
Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…
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August 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have all voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.