Jonathan Gerhardson
jongerhardson.bsky.social
Jonathan Gerhardson
@jongerhardson.bsky.social
"Journalist" in "western Massachusetts."

https://jongerhardson.github.io

jon.gerhardson@proton.me

https://jonathangerhardson.substack.com/

He/him's opinions

This bot is my fault: @massgovupdatesbot
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the 1st anti-drug law in the US. San Francisco banned opium dens in 1875 on the racist accusation that Chinese men were luring white women and “ruining them.” Time & again, new drug laws were passed to protect sexual purity of white women from people of color.
The Drug War at 100 | Stanford Law School
One hundred years ago this week President Woodrow Wilson signed the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 and committed the federal government to combating t
law.stanford.edu
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
The Shoestring found that state police and Boston police still participate in a federal task force that the Trump administration has directed to focus on "anti-capitalism" or "extremism" on race, gender, and migration as indicators of terrorism.

By Brian Zayatz: theshoestring.org/2025/11/15/c...
Criminalizing dissent: Trump directive applies to some state, local police in Mass.
A federal directive orders state and local police that partner with the FBI to use common opinions as evidence of terrorist intent.
theshoestring.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I made a searchable database for the House Oversight Committee Epstein files. Tried to get it running on Turso last night and got frustrated at my stupidity and gave up but if anyone wants to run it locally github.com/jongerhardso...
GitHub - JonGerhardson/Epsteindb
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November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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☀️ Good morning, Massachusetts! Here are today's most popular stories:

1. Sweeping energy bill to weaken 2030 climate goals clears key House committee
Sweeping energy bill to weaken 2030 climate goals clears key House committee   - CommonWealth Beacon
The measure is ushering in an unexpected — and messy — debate over the state’s overall policy push to meet its 2030 climate commitments as Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability package filed...
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Which LPR cameras had the best views of the aurora borealis last night?
Oh wait I misread this it's about images?! Fun!
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I am not exaggerating when I say that I have one million lisence plate scans from Flock records, and I wasn't even trying to do this. That's like three csv files. It seems not great IMO
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Again for the back row
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
*chef's kiss* muah Beautiful, and amazing. no notes.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And while I'm shit posting I really need to know if anyone in Albany can see the northern lights
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Made a political compass to help you determine if your a trapper or a prepper
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Jacobian Mag defending Planter as not a racist because he posted on Reddit about things conducive to building an off grid compound really feels like they're missing the forest for the trees imo

Sorry to the seemingly unrelated Jacob and or Ian I just @tted about this
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Am I ICE popular, or this is a long con from LinkedIn to get me to shell out for Premium?
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Someday I will learn to use git the correct way rather than just drag and dropping files into github web ui. For now, I've made some reasonably big updates to my slop factory github.com/JonGerhardso...
GitHub - JonGerhardson/masshoLLM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Someone finally did it m.soundcloud.com/keifergr33n/...

Brb going to commit armed robbery at a hot topic
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
Now in its fifth year of operation, the Massachusetts Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund (ORRF) Advisory Council spent more than $60 million in Fiscal Year 2025. A review of the fund expenditures by @binjreports.bsky.social found $13 million in discrepancies.

Reported by Jonathan Gerhardson.
Mass. spent a record amount of opioid settlement funds last year. But on what?
BINJ examined an unpublished remediation fund report, which revealed spending on services, equity grants, and millions unaccounted for.
theshoestring.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
www.instagram.com/wmassfirebuf... this guy is live on scene and seems to know what he is talking about
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM