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Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · 6d

Yep

Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 6d

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 cameron @dell.bsky.social · 6d

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:

Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 6d

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 cameron @dell.bsky.social · 6d

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

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · 10d

Let er rip

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · 12d

Important piece on produced water and groundwater contamination 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

The Frontier @readfrontier.bsky.social · 13d

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...

www.readfrontier.org

The Frontier @readfrontier.bsky.social · 13d

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...

www.readfrontier.org

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...

billmoyers.com

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 hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).

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!

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

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.

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

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-b...

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

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/

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

freedom.press

Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · Mar 14

🧵I think there are many members of Congress who either don't understand, or don't care to understand, how central it is to their job description to show representational leadership even if there's few to no good policy outcomes that can result.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Mar 7

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · Feb 24

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Feb 19

For folks who are feeling overwhelmed and don't know where to start (and maybe especially journalists who've been trained to believe that civic activism is out of bounds, and are now questioning that for yourselves), a resource some very smart friends of mine put together: www.mycivicworkout.com

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 11

Oh dear

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 7

What happens to this site if cats turn out to be vectors, God help us all

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Feb 6

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

www.nytimes.com

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is an important essay.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Feb 6

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

www.nytimes.com

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 6

Correct

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 6

I love this and would also buy a print!

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 6

She loves you too, I’m sure of it

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Feb 6

Barbara says hiiiiiiii

Close up of middle aged black lab named Barbara, aka, Bubbe

Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · Jan 29

Literally every time I have filed this story (4x this week), something happened to change it before my editor had a chance to look.

But here’s WTF happened at NIH this week (so far)

cen.acs.org/policy/US-fu...

US funding freeze memo rescinded, NIH confusion persists

Acting NIH director Memoli clarifies communication restrictions as White House moves to freeze US government grants

cen.acs.org

Jen Schneider @jendschneider.bsky.social · Jan 29

Anyone get transferred from Blue Cross to Regence when the state switched over last year? Anyone all of a sudden having a lot of basic, run of the mill claims denied on what seem like absurd grounds? Just curious

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Jan 21

When my social battery runs out 7 minutes into the function

Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · Dec 24

Christmas carolers perform in the Kyiv subway during an air raid alert, where the subway also serves as a shelter.

🎥: kristinadoroshenko/Instagram

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