Jake New

Writing about education @WhiteBdAdvisor. I also sometimes write about movies and take photos. Find me: @bwdr @insidehighered @teenvogue @chronicle

[Jake New @jakenew]

Happy Birthday, Godzilla! 70 years ago today, the King of the Monsters first debuted in Japan. Earlier this year, I dove into seven decades of history to see what’s behind his enduring popularity for @BWDR https://t.co/s7ip66SJOu

[Mark O'Connell @markoconnell_1]

Now that you've seen @disclosureday read about the scientist and UFO investigator whose work inspired Steven Spielberg: Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
https://t.co/rnaXlnGsmB

[Ellen Wexler @EllenWexler]

My cousin Christopher posed for one of these paintings in 1968. When Hockney died, I decided to write about the series: https://t.co/pUUJnfBnoY

[Ellen Wexler @EllenWexler]

David Hockney painted variations of the same scene several times: One subject looks at the other, while the second subject gazes out at the viewer

[Jake New @jakenew]

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Steven Spielberg is returning to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." For @SmithsonianMag, I take a look at what's behind the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with flying saucers and aliens https://t.co/dg41b2ItB9

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg's first late film; where he usually plays to the crowd and hedges his bets, here he's self-revealing and reckless, emphatic and unabashedly strange; his own pleasure in making it comes through clearly, and I share in it:
https://t.co/Ymuy6awoUS

[Jake New @jakenew]

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Steven Spielberg is returning to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." For @SmithsonianMag, I take a look at what's behind the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with flying saucers and aliens https://t.co/dg41b2ItB9

[TIME @TIME]

"Teaching can be the entry point into the workforce that Gen Z graduates need," write Jane Swift and Arne Duncan
https://t.co/qwntLqwYwt

[Ellen Wexler @EllenWexler]

During their marriage, John and Abigail Adams wrote more than 1,000 letters to each other. Their correspondence is full of playful sparring and thoughtful questions. I wrote about the 250th anniversary of Abigail's most famous written request: https://t.co/5lHcoU227t

[Jake New @jakenew]

Some early accumulation in Columbia Heights and City Center @capitalweather

[Ellen Wexler @EllenWexler]

Happy Public Domain Day! Copyrights are expiring on Betty Boop, “The Maltese Falcon,” Nancy Drew and other creative works from 1930 https://t.co/jnmpGAokdP

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

Jesus Linares, 48, stands at his damaged apartment, after the U.S. launched a strike on Venezuela, capturing its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela January 4, 2026. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa

[Ellen Wexler @EllenWexler]

Jane Austen said that the “true art of letter-writing” was “to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.” To mark her 250th birthday, I wrote about the letters in her novels and her surviving personal correspondence https://t.co/rSDisjszgL

[Ellen Wexler @EllenWexler]

Fifty years ago today, the “Edmund Fitzgerald” sank in Lake Superior. I wrote about why the shipwreck—and the mournful ballad it inspired—became so deeply embedded in the popular imagination https://t.co/9que4hmGcK

[Jake New @jakenew]

400,000 children

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

One analytical model shows that Trump's dismantling of USAID has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://t.co/b9lZy45gN1

[Jake New @jakenew]

Outrageous.

[Indiana Daily Student @idsnews]

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: Our student media director refused to censor the Indiana Daily Student. IU fired him. https://t.co/iFxA02nbs8

[Variety @Variety]

Drew Struzan, the renowned artist known for designing posters for films including “Star Wars,” “Back to the Future” and “Blade Runner,” died on Monday. He was 78.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel it is important that you all know how many times he expressed to me the joy he felt knowing how much you appreciated his art,” read the statement from his brother Greg Struzan.

Read more here: https://t.co/4gl2vLnMAJ

[IndyStar @indystar]

Trump admin cancels $35M Purdue grant, ends college prep for low-income students https://t.co/9BRwSFEAWO

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A "five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family" in Gaza "were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians." https://t.co/wzivKxUQoM

[Jake New @jakenew]

Lizard Music was my favorite book as a kid. Truly an all-time great novel for weird kids. I can’t wait for this

[Variety @Variety]

Dwayne Johnson says his weight loss is for a new movie in which he'll play a “70-something” year old whose best friend is a chicken.

The Rock will play Chicken Man in “Lizard Music,” a new movie that will reunite him with "The Smashing Machine" director Benny Safdie: “I still have a long ways to go. I’m so excited to get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in ‘Smashing Machine,'” Johnson added. “[It means] eating less chicken.”

Read more here: https://t.co/0hR1TZ1Wm0

[Jake New @jakenew]

Doing some digging into early press about Godzilla and found this (perfect) promotional balloon of the big guy