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Jen Schneider
@jendschneider.bsky.social
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Erstwhile rhetorician and cultural critic. Personal account. There are not enough Tums in the world right now

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Paul Scheer @paulscheer.com · 3d
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 4d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · 6d
Bell rang, time for class
seancasten.bsky.social Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 7d
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 7d
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 7d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · 7d
The best thing on the internet today
joshgondelman.bsky.social Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Nov 14
My friend Dan Perlman made this short doc about being hired to impersonate Michael Bublé at a party and it’s so funny and good. (And my other friend Charlotte produced it!!!)
I Got Hired as a Michael Bublé Impersonator (For Some Reason) | BEING BUBLÉ
YouTube video by Dan Perlman
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d
A story I found about Haiti:

In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
Some photos of Haitians running in the streets. There's smoke in the background. It looks like political disorder. A Haitian man stands next to a wall with some barbed wire behind him. The original Magnum caption said the man felt Haiti was a prison and he dreamed of making it to the United States. He wanted to be a rapper. Some men take a break from building a boat. A boat sets sail far off into the distance.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10d
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 12d
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 14d
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15d
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 17d
lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Nov 24
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
AI-generated image of Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg all standing in a circle in a parking lot. Musk is smoking a cigar and they're standing near a Cybertruck. The word "fake" has been added in bold letters by me.

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Nov 20
I mean
Image from the BBC article showing smoke and flames erupting inside the COP venue, like what fossil fuels are doing to the planet

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Nov 19
I had a Pomsky and he was the best boy. But yes. We always wondered…

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Nov 14
My friend Dan Perlman made this short doc about being hired to impersonate Michael Bublé at a party and it’s so funny and good. (And my other friend Charlotte produced it!!!)
I Got Hired as a Michael Bublé Impersonator (For Some Reason) | BEING BUBLÉ
YouTube video by Dan Perlman
m.youtube.com

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Nov 5
Yep
nedpyle.com Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · Nov 4
With Teen Vogue shuttered, Wired magazine is now one of the only truthful hard news outfits still running. Ain’t that some 2025 shit.

Well worth your subscription
dell.bsky.social dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Nov 4
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · Nov 4
With Teen Vogue shuttered, Wired magazine is now one of the only truthful hard news outfits still running. Ain’t that some 2025 shit.

Well worth your subscription
dell.bsky.social dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Nov 4
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Nov 1
Let er rip

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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Oct 30
Important piece on produced water and groundwater contamination 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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The Frontier @readfrontier.bsky.social · Oct 29
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Jun 28
I really need to figure out the right way to get this poem tattooed on me because it has gotten me out of the hole that is not my grave entirely too many times and I think everyone needs to read it this week billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
Poetry Month: WHAT RESEMBLES THE GRAVE BUT ISN’T - BillMoyers
Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Apr 6
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road. Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic. Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse). The Cat With The Pearl Earring.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Apr 4
One of the things about the time Trump, et al ambushed Zelensky in the Oval Office is Trump kept telling him, "you don't have the cards." He truthied this about China today, what do I see here? Zelensky doesn't have "cards" & China "played it wrong"? A telling "game" metaphor.
Trump: “You’re, right now, not in a very good position. You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position –” Zelenskyy: “From the very beginning of the war —” Trump: “You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.” Zelenskyy: “I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious, Mr. President. I’m very serious.” Trump: “You’re playing cards. You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III.” trump truthie: CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED--THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO!

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The Economist @economist.com · Apr 3
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Apr 3
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Mar 22
🔴Hot Type: Being Braver Than We Want to Be

American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin

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Hot Type: Being Braver Than We Want to Be
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
www.bylinesupplement.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Mar 22
In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about.

A thread/

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WIRED @wired.com · Mar 18
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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