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Nicole Lane @snicolelane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ca’ Musu is crafting zero-intervention wines in Northern Michigan using sustainable techniques—including horse-powered farming with their draft horse, Buster. Read our September cover story written by my husband @milesmacclure.bsky.social 👉 mynorth.com/stories/ca-m...

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Michigan Winemakers Embrace a Slower Pace with Horse-Powered Farming

At Ca’ Musu, wine begins with healthy soil, a working horse, wild grasses and a conversation with the vines.

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 25/08/2026

Traverse City, Michigan, is known as the “Cherry Capital of the World,” but heavy summer rains followed by intense heat are leading to increased American brown rot, causing cherries to shrivel and rot on the tree. Contributor @milesmacclure.bsky.social reports. ⬇️

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Climate Change Is Devastating the ‘Cherry Capital of the World’

As costs rise, Northern Michigan's cherry farmers face a choice: adapt or sell.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

While cities tend to have larger collections of air quality monitors, the number of monitors in rural areas is thin, leaving large data gaps. I wrote about Michigan's monitoring network for Bridge Michigan:

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Michigan monitoring gaps mean many may unknowingly breathe unhealthy air - Bridge Michigan

Michigan has just two monitors for the entire Upper Peninsula and no monitors north of Frankfort in the Lower Peninsula.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

give me a million dollars and i'll start the texas monthly of michigan

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

Drop down menu from a LinkedIn post offering the following options

Save
Copy link to post
Embed this post
Unfollow [person]
Not interested
Seems like AI slop
Report post

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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens have offered conflicting visions over the role of A.I. and corporate power. Voters are paying attention. @milesmacclure.bsky.social reports:

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Data Centers Divide Democrats in Michigan Primary

Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens offer conflicting visions over the role of A.I. and corporate power.

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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

NEW: At least five media companies are using algorithmic pricing to decide how much news subscribers should pay. If you've been told that your news subscription price was determined by an algorithm using your personal data, please take the survey at the end: www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/this...

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“This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emails

Outlets like Wired, NJ.com, and The Wall Street Journal are setting renewal prices just for you — and being forced to disclose it.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

does anyone know why LinkedIn is turning into eBay

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

SOURCE REQUEST: I'm looking to chat with an agricultural economist who can speak to how imports impact domestic farmers during a down year for their crop.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Could you imagine the uproar if they overturn this red card

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

work with my wife! traverse city is a nice place to live

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2026

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

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He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Will never not be funny that the so-called free speech warrior can't handle an ounce of crititism

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

With technological changes afoot, universities are adapting their agricultural programs. For the Hechinger Report, I traveled to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to learn about their new major in agricultural systems technology:

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As farming goes high tech, universities grow new types of agriculture degrees

New university “precision agriculture” programs teach the use of satellite images, soil sensors, drones, robotics and more

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

Matt Walsh post on X: “Imagine if conservatives, rather than pathetically crawling around on the ground to lap up discarded pop culture crumbs, actually went out and advanced their own creative and artistic vision. Imagine if we used an event like this to actually elevate our own artists and make them famous. What a crazy thought.”

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The real problem is that DoorDash is addictive in the same way that doomscrolling is. And like any addiction, when people try to gently suggest alternative solutions or coping skills, people lose their fucking minds.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For the Northern Michigan Journalism Collaborative, I wrote about vineyards adapting to climate change. Flooding, spring cold snaps, and unpredictable rain keep grape growers on their toes, but hybrid grape varieties often makes growing here possible

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Northern Michigan’s wine growing region adapts to a changing climate

Grape growers are planting hybrid grapes that can withstand colder temperatures, irrigating their vines rather than relying on natural rainfall and turning to new strategies to ensure healthy soil.

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 27/04/2026

NEWS: Texas Tech announces QB Brendan Sorsby will take an immediate indefinite leave of absence from the football program to enter a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction.

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

times like these call for a tinfoil hat emoji

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Missed this from White House instagram on 3/27 I’m sure farmers are thrilled with this messaging amidst collapsed markets, labor shortages, etc etc

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

time for buzzfeed quizzes to make a return. an are you doctor or jesus quiz would hit for about 30 seconds

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Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com · 09/04/2026

99 tractors but I can’t fix 1

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

to put this in perspective, JD tractors can cost close to a million dollars, so they're settling for 99 tractors lol

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

VERY SPECIFIC SOURCE REQ: I'm looking to speak with someone who lives in Michigan and has struggled with online gambling or online sports betting addictions. If you're willing to chat, my email is miles.macclure@gmail.com, signal is milesm.65

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404 Media @404media.co · 29/03/2026

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Ok back at the airport to try this flying home thing again. The Cornhusker faithful are here as the basketball team returns

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Was supposed to fly out of Lincoln this afternoon but flight was cancelled, guess I’m sticking around for some basketball

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’ve recently starting going to the gym after, uh, several years of not. Since when did 20 yo men start wearing headphones in the sauna???Sacrilegious imo

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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Insane storm outside in northern Michigan, here’s some bread I made today

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

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