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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾)
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Chemistry magazine editor 🧪 freelance journalist & grad student. 📚, puns, 🏀, supporting good journalism, art, and 🎮. I be posting links, yes ma'am. Trying to be a little less wack every day (he/they) | Texas ➡️ (D)MV | linktr.ee/jb4nay | Signal: j_forney.85
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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · Aug 5
Did some tweaking on my portfolio site. You can find my previous work and subscribe to my free newsletter! forneys-findings.beehiiv.com/authors
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Student researchers and postdocs feel the effects of missing SNAP payments cendigitalmagazine.acs.org/2025/11/10/s...
Chemical engineer Ahmed Harhara says he saw during his studies how food aid had an impact on his science and engineering peers in graduate school at Texas A&M. "Cutting or reducing SNAP doesn't just affect nutrition; it slows down innovation. Many of the best ideas and breakthroughs come from students who are already stretched thin financially. Removing that safety net means fewer people can afford to stay in STEM long enough to contribute," he wrote in an email to C&EN. According to self-reported data from PhDStipends.com, the median stipend for chemistry and chemical engineering graduate students is around $29,000 per year. The site is an ongoing project by Emily Roberts, a personal finance adviser focused on academics. "The real best practice is to pay graduate students enough that they would not qualify" for SNAP, she says.
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
This wave of bigotry comes as mainstream corporate media, already in the grips of a harsh rightward shift, has explicitly targeted queer journalists in new cutbacks and eliminated the rare platforms that covered queer people with sufficient knowledge, context and framing. "Fewer and fewer national news outlets have teams dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights coverage, but anti-trans legislative activity is at its highest peak in 200 years," said Kae Petrin, president of the nonprofit Trans Journalists Association, citing legislative research from Stanford. "Each contraction of resources for journalists covering these topics is a huge loss for public information and a huge loss for journalism, especially since these outlets have wide reach and longstanding public trust at a time that trust for national news is dwindling." "It's important to speak to trans people not just as victims of policies that target us but as experts who can shape public understanding of the consequences and broader import of government actions, or even just as individuals with lived experience who see policies as they affect us. Those perspectives shouldn't just be sources or quotes, but can also serve as scaffolding as you decide how to frame your journalism,' " TJA's Petrin said in an interview with Assigned Media. "If we do not quote the people who will live with the consequences of Trump's rhetoric and actions," the TJA report said, "journalism is failing to inform the public."
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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assignedmedia.org
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.

From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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standardissuecomputing.blog
I’m playing Kingdom Hearts again
Kingdom Hearts, Once Again
There are plenty of reasons to write off the Kingdom Hearts series. From an unnecessarily complex and confusing story to a prolonged wait between mainline entries, it’s an easy series to walk away …
standardissuecomputing.blog
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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vox.com
Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending.
The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Capitalism done did it again www.vox.com/today-explai...
In fact, in the run-up to the 2018 Supreme Court decision that led to the explosion of legalization, these leagues were actually against it. They didn’t want this to happen. But once the door was opened, it was either join or forgo billions of dollars.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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On AI and social media's role in brain rot (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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older.bsky.social
We're now down to just over $250 left to get to $6000 and stay on track for November - big thanks to those generous donors! Please contribute if you can: even a small donation helps us to keep producing and publishing fantastic, wide-ranging independent news stories!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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🫡 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Outkast Ushered Into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Donald Glover and a Stage Full of Dungeon Family
Outkast were welcomed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with a tribute from Donald Glover and speeches from André 3000 and Big Boi
www.rollingstone.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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nbcnews.com
BREAKING: Senators reach a tentative deal to end the government shutdown which, if passed, will take days to reach Trump’s desk to become law.
Senators reach tentative deal to end the government shutdown
The deal, negotiated by a group of Democrats and GOP leaders, funds the government through Jan. 30. If it passes, it will still need to clear the House, which will likely take days.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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bannermoco.bsky.social
Parking in bike lanes will soon be illegal in Montgomery County
Parking in bike lanes will soon be illegal in Montgomery County
Drivers will now face a $60 fine and a traffic citation for parking in a bike lane in Montgomery County.
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
jb4nay.bsky.social
It is actually hilarious that Black conservatives think the answer is swaying Black people at HBCUs to the right instead of convincing white Republicans to not be racist lmao www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...
Can young Black influencers grow Trump’s MAGA movement?
Young Black conservatives are reshaping Republican politics online, but can they win elections?
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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ChatNPC goes crazy, I'm afraid www.thecut.com/article/woul...
It’s one thing to use ChatGPT to cheat at things you’d rather not do: homework, work-work. Or when it involves a reward like a good grade or a cash prize. But to cheat your way through leisure activities, especially ones you pay to do? As one TikTok user puts it, “It’s like going into a corn maze and just wanting a straight line to the end.” Just as the word clanker now serves as a slur for chatbots and agentic AI, a new lexicon — including secondhand thinkers, ChatNPC, sloppers, and botlickers — is being workshopped by people online to describe the kind of ChatGPT user who seems hopelessly dependent on the mediocre platform. Online, people aren’t mincing words when it comes to expressing their disdain for and irritation with “those types of people,” as Betty describes them. Escape-room employees have crowded around several viral tweets and TikToks to share stories of ChatGPT’s invasion. “So many groups of teens try to sneakily pull out their phones and ask ChatGPT how to grasp the concept of puzzles, then get mad when I tell them to use their brains and the actual person who can help them,” reads one comment. On X, same energy: “Using ChatGPT to aid you through an escape room is bonkers bozo loser killjoy dumdum shitass insanity.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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thecut.com
Conservatives and Andrew Cuomo diehards are in the midst of a spectacular crash-out after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win on Tuesday night.
Someone Check On the Cuomosexuals
Conservatives and Andrew Cuomo diehards are in the midst of a spectacular crash-out after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win on Tuesday night.
www.thecut.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: The Trump administration is demanding states "undo" efforts to provide full SNAP payouts for November amid court battle.
Trump administration demands states 'undo' full SNAP payouts as states warn of 'catastrophic impact'
President Donald Trump's administration is demanding that states reverse full SNAP benefits issued under recent court orders. The U.S.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
jb4nay.bsky.social
Have you or someone you know recently looked for a pet-friendly apartment in DC? Please reach out! I'm working on a project about the recently enacted amendment that caps pet rent/fees in the city #journorequest
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
"Common Crawl’s executive director, Rich Skrenta, has publicly made the case that AI models should be able to access anything on the internet. 'The robots are people too,' he told me."

bitch no they not
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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lmatsakis.bsky.social
Despite Trump's tariffs and never-ending political drama, TikTok's e-commerce business is exploding, @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports in this week's Made in China www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay
TikTok’s ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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studyhall.bsky.social
Thank you for joining the podcast @judysquirrels.bsky.social ! great convo about the state of film criticism.

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Film Criticism in the Rotten Tomatoes Era ft. Jourdain Searles
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · 10/29/2025 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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theflytrapmedia.com
We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.
On a floral fabric, three hard copies of Bitch Magazine are arranged on top of a pink t-shirt with The Flytrap logo in white on it.
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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m-kaeru.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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51st.news
Open for pics from our bday party, stick around for our growth schemes for next year: 51st.news/the-51st-fir...
A first birthday worth recapping
Celebrating the wins of the last 12 months and scheming for the future
51st.news
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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51st.news
Exciting news: We’re partnering with @lpostcollective.bsky.social to expand the capacity of our Ward 7 Community Connectors program.

To support this work, we’re hiring for two short-term, contract positions. Share this post to help us spread the word!

More about the project and the positions:
We're hiring Ward 7 Community Connectors
We're hiring two Community Connectors — one for in-person events and another for online outreach.
51st.news
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM