Jen Schneider
@jendschneider.bsky.social
Erstwhile rhetorician and cultural critic. Personal account. There are not enough Tums in the world right now
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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
Well worth your subscription
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:
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:
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Important piece on produced water and groundwater contamination 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Important piece on produced water and groundwater contamination 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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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
June 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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...
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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.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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.
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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.
April 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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.
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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.
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.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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.
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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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
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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Everyone needs to view this.
March 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Everyone needs to view this.
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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/
A thread/
March 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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/
A thread/
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This is absolutely wonderful. We have to resist slowly yielding to the lies; the corrosion of our conscience; acceptance of the false ideology pumped out by Trump and his ilk. We must not let our spirits be broken. We have to hold on to truth.
🔴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...
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
March 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is absolutely wonderful. We have to resist slowly yielding to the lies; the corrosion of our conscience; acceptance of the false ideology pumped out by Trump and his ilk. We must not let our spirits be broken. We have to hold on to truth.
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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
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.
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🧵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.
March 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🧵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.
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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.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
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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…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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…
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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
February 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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
What happens to this site if cats turn out to be vectors, God help us all
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
February 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
What happens to this site if cats turn out to be vectors, God help us all
This is an important essay.
February 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is an important essay.
Barbara says hiiiiiiii
February 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Barbara says hiiiiiiii
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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...
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
January 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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...
But here’s WTF happened at NIH this week (so far)
cen.acs.org/policy/US-fu...
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
January 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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
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When my social battery runs out 7 minutes into the function
January 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When my social battery runs out 7 minutes into the function
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Christmas carolers perform in the Kyiv subway during an air raid alert, where the subway also serves as a shelter.
🎥: kristinadoroshenko/Instagram
🎥: kristinadoroshenko/Instagram
December 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Christmas carolers perform in the Kyiv subway during an air raid alert, where the subway also serves as a shelter.
🎥: kristinadoroshenko/Instagram
🎥: kristinadoroshenko/Instagram
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“Orange Variee”, orange perfume set with eight spikes inside.
Made in 1925 for the company Le Parfum de Marcy, Les Lilas, Paris, it is in painted ceramics, glass and enamel, 6 cm tall, private collection.
Made in 1925 for the company Le Parfum de Marcy, Les Lilas, Paris, it is in painted ceramics, glass and enamel, 6 cm tall, private collection.
December 10, 2024 at 1:22 AM
“Orange Variee”, orange perfume set with eight spikes inside.
Made in 1925 for the company Le Parfum de Marcy, Les Lilas, Paris, it is in painted ceramics, glass and enamel, 6 cm tall, private collection.
Made in 1925 for the company Le Parfum de Marcy, Les Lilas, Paris, it is in painted ceramics, glass and enamel, 6 cm tall, private collection.
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ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights — the work will interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
Careers at ACLU
Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.
www.aclu.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 AM
ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights — the work will interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...