Janice Obuchowski
@janiceobuchowski.bsky.social
Vermonter | Author of THE WOODS, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award | assistant editor at Conjunctions
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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Look at academia giving me a little hope
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Look at academia giving me a little hope
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LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.
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If a college or university pledged to eliminate not only AI but screens from campus, outside dedicated labs, I would want very badly to teach there.
What are the most effective things—even if they sound extreme—that we can do to limit, and ideally abolish, the unauthorized use of AI on campus? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Question All Colleges Should Ask Themselves About AI
How far are they willing to go to limit its harms?
www.theatlantic.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If a college or university pledged to eliminate not only AI but screens from campus, outside dedicated labs, I would want very badly to teach there.
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We've become the monsters we used to hunt.
At least two of the men released from CECOT needed help getting off the plane and were put in wheelchairs because of the physical torture they endured.
DOJ actions.
And the evangelicals cheer for this.
At least two of the men released from CECOT needed help getting off the plane and were put in wheelchairs because of the physical torture they endured.
DOJ actions.
And the evangelicals cheer for this.
'We lived through hell,' say Venezuelans released from mega-prison in El Salvador
Four men deported from the US to a notorious facility in El Salvador tell the BBC after their release they were mistreated.
www.bbc.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We've become the monsters we used to hunt.
At least two of the men released from CECOT needed help getting off the plane and were put in wheelchairs because of the physical torture they endured.
DOJ actions.
And the evangelicals cheer for this.
At least two of the men released from CECOT needed help getting off the plane and were put in wheelchairs because of the physical torture they endured.
DOJ actions.
And the evangelicals cheer for this.
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I wrote about my transition from The Washington Post and how I'm looking at my future. But mostly I wrote about who is trying to use your power for their own purposes. www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
The power we use and the power we give
There was an article posted recently that walked well-worn terrain, arguing for people not to abandon Twitter but, instead, to engage with it. There’s not much point in rehashing the details; the piec...
www.pbump.net
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I wrote about my transition from The Washington Post and how I'm looking at my future. But mostly I wrote about who is trying to use your power for their own purposes. www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
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ICYMI: our 7th annual STORY Foundation Prize is open for submissions. Submit here: www.storymagazine.org/submissions/
#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #writer #contest #deeshaphilyaw
#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #writer #contest #deeshaphilyaw
It's open! Submit to our 7th Annual STORY Foundation Prize by December 15 for $1500 and publication in STORY. Award-winning author @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social will choose our winner. All entries will be considered for publication. Head to our website to learn more!
August 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
ICYMI: our 7th annual STORY Foundation Prize is open for submissions. Submit here: www.storymagazine.org/submissions/
#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #writer #contest #deeshaphilyaw
#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #writer #contest #deeshaphilyaw
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This isn’t over—we can still stop the GOP bill. I’m staying in the fight for every baby who shouldn’t go hungry. Every senior who shouldn’t get kicked out of a nursing home. Every American who shouldn’t lose their health care.
Now is the time to call your senators.
Now is the time to call your senators.
Look Up Your Senators' Numbers
Call your senators today and demand that they vote NO on this bill.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This isn’t over—we can still stop the GOP bill. I’m staying in the fight for every baby who shouldn’t go hungry. Every senior who shouldn’t get kicked out of a nursing home. Every American who shouldn’t lose their health care.
Now is the time to call your senators.
Now is the time to call your senators.
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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So many beautiful places in danger of being despoiled
June 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
So many beautiful places in danger of being despoiled
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i think this is exactly right
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
June 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
i think this is exactly right
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.
"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him
May 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.
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For over half a century, the National Weather Service has operated 24/7. But after the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency pushed to shrink the federal workforce, that’s no longer possible in parts of the country.
May 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
For over half a century, the National Weather Service has operated 24/7. But after the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency pushed to shrink the federal workforce, that’s no longer possible in parts of the country.
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The two fighter jets we just lost cost $120 million.
Trump's planned birthday/military parade will cost $45. He just called this "peanuts compared to the value of doing it."
The entire annual budget for the NEA last year was $207 million.
Trump's planned birthday/military parade will cost $45. He just called this "peanuts compared to the value of doing it."
The entire annual budget for the NEA last year was $207 million.
May 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The two fighter jets we just lost cost $120 million.
Trump's planned birthday/military parade will cost $45. He just called this "peanuts compared to the value of doing it."
The entire annual budget for the NEA last year was $207 million.
Trump's planned birthday/military parade will cost $45. He just called this "peanuts compared to the value of doing it."
The entire annual budget for the NEA last year was $207 million.
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Breaking News: The Mellon Foundation announced $15 million to support state humanities councils after federal aid cancellations left some in danger of collapse. The endowment provides crucial support to museums, historical sites, cultural festivals and community projects.
Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million for Humanities Councils
The emergency funding came after the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled most existing grants, part of a pivot toward President Trump’s priorities.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Breaking News: The Mellon Foundation announced $15 million to support state humanities councils after federal aid cancellations left some in danger of collapse. The endowment provides crucial support to museums, historical sites, cultural festivals and community projects.
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