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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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Essays and published work by Jonathan (JB) Forney
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We're really losing recipes, y'all www.theverge.com/column/81574...
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It is with a heavy heart that I must report that I’ll be locked in today
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Ethics. Courage. Community. That’s what our newsroom brings to every Mississippi story. You can help us have a stronger impact. Donations are being matched right now: buff.ly/T48DifM
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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President Trump signed legislation that reopens the federal government and ends the 43-day shutdown, the longest in American history.
Trump signs funding bill into law, ending record-long government shutdown
Trump’s signature, which restores funding that has been frozen or halted for weeks, came shortly after the House voted to send him the measure.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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NEW: The Verge found a video spilling info about a new, currently unannounced MMO in the Horizon series: Horizon Steel Frontiers. The game is designed "specifically for mobile."

www.theverge.com/news/819657/...
Sony is making a Horizon MMO — here’s all the details
The new game is called Horizon Steel Frontiers.
www.theverge.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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At Theater Alliance, Furlough’s Paradise follows cousins reunited to grieve a family loss. They're living different lives, but both are searching for freedom.

The play’s “greatest victory is its dedication to empathy,” writes Douglas Corzine. Read the review:
Furlough’s Paradise Offers “Paradise” on Borrowed Time
At Theater Alliance, a.k. payne’s intimate two-hander turns a one-bedroom apartment into a world of grief, tenderness, and fleeting utopia.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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New Column: OK, this can't go on forever? But why cave NOW? Really politically tone deaf. newrepublic.com/article/2029... via @newrepublic.com
Once Again, Senate Democrats Show They Don’t Get Who They Represent
The party was riding high on election wins, a fractured GOP, and a flailing Trump. And then the Senate Surrender Caucus handed Republicans a win.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Chuck Schumer has failed utterly. In any functional organization, a leader who had failed as often and badly as Schumer would have been ousted long ago. If the party is to have a future, it needs to rid itself of the burden of this man’s weak leadership.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-...
Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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As the nation focused on New York City’s mayoral election and gubernatorial races in New Jersey & Virginia, there was an intergenerational movement of Black people, particularly millennial women, in small cities & rural towns shaking up local elections, too.

capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...
Black Women Sweep Local Elections in Small Towns
Millennial candidates made sweeping gains in rural towns and small cities — making history and achieving several firsts.
capitalbnews.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The article just being what she said and no commentary makes it even funnier
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
With the penny on life support, I will expect fewer takes out of you lot www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
The penny, America's oldest and most iconic coin in circulation, dies at 232
The penny will be remembered by tycoons and panhandlers alike as an iconic piece of America that stayed in our pockets for over two centuries.
www.usatoday.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Nice to see more opportunities to available to kids east of the river and their families afro.com/dc-mayor-bow...
Ward 8 Advanced Technical Center opens, giving students new career and college opportunities
Discover how the new Ward 8 Advanced Technical Center and D.C. HEAL program are transforming high school education and creating healthcare career opportunities for D.C. students.
afro.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Hakeem Jeffries says the ACA fight ends one of two ways: Either Republicans relent and accept a funding extension to prevent premium hikes, "or the American people will throw Republicans out of their jobs next year and end the speakership of Donald J. Trump once and for all."
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Good DC news: food and beverage workers at 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis, and Lincoln Theater just won voluntary union recognition!

Now, box office and production staff at the venues are fighting for union recognition too as separate bargaining units.

Congrats to the workers!
Staffers At 9:30 Club, Other Iconic D.C. Concert Venues Win Voluntary Union Recognition From IMP
Workers at the 9:30 Club and several other iconic D.C. concert venues have won union recognition from management at Independent Concert Promotions
deadline.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice.

Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.

grist.org/updates/gris...

#Rural #News #Media #Grants #Climate #Environment
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It’s a new time, and we have a new plan. Introducing Capital B in the Next Three — our three-year vision to expand access to trustworthy news for Black communities across the country.
Capital B in the Next Three: Our 2025-2028 Strategic Plan
A mirror and a window.  After launching in 2022, Capital B’s first few years were characterized by a sense of discovery and possibility. Our staff has worked hard to learn how to best serve and reach…
capitalbnews.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On digital blackface in the AI era www.teenvogue.com/story/digita...
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM