Jake Varn

Check out our newest issue at rathallareview.org/post/2024-fall… 🎉

@HunterLoy Glad I swapped that with you in Greece, one of my favorite reads of the year and now I get to feel like I'm part of a trend I didn't know was happening.

This story is now out! You can read Saturday Night in Trader Joe's and dozen other merry pieces here: rathallareview.org/post/2024-fall…

The official contributors to our Fall 2024 issue! Coming soon to rathallareview.org!

I have a story about grief, and the loneliness of DC internships, and Trader Joes coming out in this upcoming print

Also, I'm mostly on the other site these days.

where death is, we are not.

Outstanding work from @JakeVarn from @pewresearch.org updating us on state low cost broadband options! I didn’t know that some states were offering waivers to exceed the lost cost requirement. What a surprise and disappointment. linkedin.com/pulse/affordab…

Sounds like something a big roll of copper would say

An incredible finish - and this doesn't even do justice to the decibel levels that were reached in the crowd

@AddisonKStark @SteveKornacki Few inches higher and you could have just attached the TV to the ceiling

@LazZamora @ckrutsick @MichaelStubel Just realized I fat fingered South Carolina into the mix, but we're sticking with it, there's no crime in dreaming

@ckrutsick @MichaelStubel Cowards

@MichaelStubel Sending NV the other way but agree it’s closest

Apologies to Iowans, whose days of always being politically front-and-center seemed to be over. I didn’t realize how far you were willing to go to win the nation’s attention back

@mikeconlow I'm gonna need that geoguesser guy to get me the exact intersections here

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i’m mad that everything about the internet that was fun & useful 10 years ago is broken now. this site, obviously. reviews are astroturf lies. search is ai hallucination. no place to share with friends & family without influencer / meme / polarized content overrunning the feed.

Good website

Congress is letting a vital program run out of money, leaving states to pick up the pieces? In other news, catch me on @Light_Reading's podcast The Divide talking about... how Congress let ACP run out of money and how states are picking up the pieces: lightreading.com/broadband/the-…

It’s pretty inhuman how this country leaves prisoners to die in every natural disaster, whether that’s a hurricane, heat wave, or pandemic. It’s an extension of the ordinary way that people behind bars are not considered human beings, and there’s hardly ever consequences for it.