Rodney Gibbs
@rodneygibbs.com
ED of Heartland Signal, a digital newsroom and radio network. Priors: Texas Tribune, National Trust for Local News, AJC + start-ups. Board member: Online News Association, The Current GA, Canopy Atlanta. DJ at WRFG-FM ATL.
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw
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Indiana University admin backs down, allows actual news in the student newspaper.
Editors: "We do intend to keep administrators to their word. Thus far, that’s been hard to trust."
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Editors: "We do intend to keep administrators to their word. Thus far, that’s been hard to trust."
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Indiana University admin backs down, allows actual news in the student newspaper.
Editors: "We do intend to keep administrators to their word. Thus far, that’s been hard to trust."
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Editors: "We do intend to keep administrators to their word. Thus far, that’s been hard to trust."
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Journalism tip: If someone says drop the story, that’s a sign to keep reporting.
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Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Journalism tip: If someone says drop the story, that’s a sign to keep reporting.
Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
Turn down the lights and turn up the spirits on @wrfg.bsky.social ‘s Soul Rhapsody🕯️
I play spooky cuts by Sly Stone, Billy Preston, Redbone, Nina Simone, Eartha Kit, Stevie Wonder, the Bar-Kays and more to summon a psychedelic Halloween dance floor.
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I play spooky cuts by Sly Stone, Billy Preston, Redbone, Nina Simone, Eartha Kit, Stevie Wonder, the Bar-Kays and more to summon a psychedelic Halloween dance floor.
www.mixcloud.com/WRFG/soul-rh...
Soul Rhapsody: Halloween Special - Rodney - 28 October 2025
The monsters came to jam. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Marvin Gaye, Redbone, and the Bar-Kays lead a Halloween soul revue packed with spooky swagger. Expect funky basslines, eerie horns, and midnight magic ...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Turn down the lights and turn up the spirits on @wrfg.bsky.social ‘s Soul Rhapsody🕯️
I play spooky cuts by Sly Stone, Billy Preston, Redbone, Nina Simone, Eartha Kit, Stevie Wonder, the Bar-Kays and more to summon a psychedelic Halloween dance floor.
www.mixcloud.com/WRFG/soul-rh...
I play spooky cuts by Sly Stone, Billy Preston, Redbone, Nina Simone, Eartha Kit, Stevie Wonder, the Bar-Kays and more to summon a psychedelic Halloween dance floor.
www.mixcloud.com/WRFG/soul-rh...
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I can’t believe how furious this makes me
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I can’t believe how furious this makes me
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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
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Organizers say more than 10,000 people have turned out for the No Kings rally at the Atlanta Civic Center in Georgia. The actual number could be closer to 12,000, says Laura Judge with Indivisible North Metro, which is one of the event's organizers. (Photo by @alander.bsky.social)
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Organizers say more than 10,000 people have turned out for the No Kings rally at the Atlanta Civic Center in Georgia. The actual number could be closer to 12,000, says Laura Judge with Indivisible North Metro, which is one of the event's organizers. (Photo by @alander.bsky.social)
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Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
October 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Wow. Look at that panel.
BREAKING: Major setback for Trump National Guard moves as 7th Circuit declines to disturb block on deployment in Illinois. Judges Rovner, Hamilton, St. Eve (GHWBush/Obama/Trump) see no rebellion permitting use of Guard by prez. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wow. Look at that panel.
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Democracy Dies in Both Sides-ism
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & I on the @washingtonpost.com 's pathetic editorial on the Comey indictment. In @lawfaremedia.org
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@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & I on the @washingtonpost.com 's pathetic editorial on the Comey indictment. In @lawfaremedia.org
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Democracy Dies in Both Sides-ism
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & I on the @washingtonpost.com 's pathetic editorial on the Comey indictment. In @lawfaremedia.org
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & I on the @washingtonpost.com 's pathetic editorial on the Comey indictment. In @lawfaremedia.org
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.
Shut down but not silenced: Federal workers find their voice
After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.
n.pr
October 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I always like spinning soul and R&B records at @wrfg.bsky.social, and this week's show was particularly fun—all covers!
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Soul Rhapsody - Cover Songs - Rodney - 07 October 2025
Your host Rodney Gibbs shares two hours of soul, funk, and gospel artists reimagining the familiar.
Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, and Stevie Wonder tackle The Beatles.
Candi Staton and Etta James t...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I always like spinning soul and R&B records at @wrfg.bsky.social, and this week's show was particularly fun—all covers!
www.mixcloud.com/WRFG/soul-rh...
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This Trump incident tracker is a great resource. Researchers in the UK are keeping a comprehensive, real-time database of authoritarian actions, policies, and statements by Trump and his regime.
www.trumpactiontracker.info
www.trumpactiontracker.info
www.trumpactiontracker.info
October 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This Trump incident tracker is a great resource. Researchers in the UK are keeping a comprehensive, real-time database of authoritarian actions, policies, and statements by Trump and his regime.
www.trumpactiontracker.info
www.trumpactiontracker.info
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"no more superficial individual expression"
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"no more superficial individual expression"
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
How Trump is decimating federal employee unions one step at a time
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
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The "Getting Closer" discount for #ONA25 ends midnight tonight (Friday, Aug. 22). Confirm your plans to join us in New Orleans. It'll feel so nice to check it off your to-do list before the weekend. ona25.journalists.org/register
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August 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The "Getting Closer" discount for #ONA25 ends midnight tonight (Friday, Aug. 22). Confirm your plans to join us in New Orleans. It'll feel so nice to check it off your to-do list before the weekend. ona25.journalists.org/register
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NEW: Federal judge blocks Texas law requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Federal judge blocks Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
A federal judge sided with 16 Texas families to stop a law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments from going into effect.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NEW: Federal judge blocks Texas law requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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#Texas is spending at least $1B over the next 2 years on private ed. @propublica.org & @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools, likely an undercount.
📰: @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
📰: @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
August 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#Texas is spending at least $1B over the next 2 years on private ed. @propublica.org & @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools, likely an undercount.
📰: @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
📰: @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill