Freddie Forest
@oznezol.bsky.social
district of columbia. Houston born & raised
somewhere between engineer and writer.
Rockets fan 🇲🇽
somewhere between engineer and writer.
Rockets fan 🇲🇽
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This is why all these discussions are just eugenics wrapped up in process and anecdote. You can’t explain the outcomes without acknowledging privilege UNLESS you think white men are genetically superior. They all disgracefully think that but most are too chickenshit to say it.
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is why all these discussions are just eugenics wrapped up in process and anecdote. You can’t explain the outcomes without acknowledging privilege UNLESS you think white men are genetically superior. They all disgracefully think that but most are too chickenshit to say it.
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The Department of Education shared data today on IHEs where, 4 years after earning a credential, graduates earned less than peers with only a high school diploma.
What ED didn't shout out was just how many of those institutions are for-profits. So I got the data. jamessmurphy.com/2025/12/09/w...
What ED didn't shout out was just how many of those institutions are for-profits. So I got the data. jamessmurphy.com/2025/12/09/w...
FAFSA Reveals Earnings Data for Colleges and Graduates
The Department of Education's new FAFSA changes highlight the alarming number of for-profit institutions where graduates earn less than high school completers.
jamessmurphy.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The Department of Education shared data today on IHEs where, 4 years after earning a credential, graduates earned less than peers with only a high school diploma.
What ED didn't shout out was just how many of those institutions are for-profits. So I got the data. jamessmurphy.com/2025/12/09/w...
What ED didn't shout out was just how many of those institutions are for-profits. So I got the data. jamessmurphy.com/2025/12/09/w...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
goddamnit texans you’ve given me hope
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
goddamnit texans you’ve given me hope
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Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
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This Friday at noon ET, I'll join an MIT Mobility Initiative webinar to discuss my research exploring the politics of urban speed reduction.
(TL;DR: Tactics like speed humps, automatic cameras, and road diets are more popular than many think)
Open to the public: mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
(TL;DR: Tactics like speed humps, automatic cameras, and road diets are more popular than many think)
Open to the public: mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This Friday at noon ET, I'll join an MIT Mobility Initiative webinar to discuss my research exploring the politics of urban speed reduction.
(TL;DR: Tactics like speed humps, automatic cameras, and road diets are more popular than many think)
Open to the public: mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
(TL;DR: Tactics like speed humps, automatic cameras, and road diets are more popular than many think)
Open to the public: mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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This week's No Substance is out. It's a bit of a long one.
Anyhow, it's a post about short story writers, and I talk briefly about 10 writers who I think are a good place to start if you want to get into reading more short stories but haven't.
Anyhow, it's a post about short story writers, and I talk briefly about 10 writers who I think are a good place to start if you want to get into reading more short stories but haven't.
No Substance #249: 10 Short Story Writers to Start Your Journey
It’s coming to the end of the year and it seems like the madness is starting to creep in on everyone.
nosubstance.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This week's No Substance is out. It's a bit of a long one.
Anyhow, it's a post about short story writers, and I talk briefly about 10 writers who I think are a good place to start if you want to get into reading more short stories but haven't.
Anyhow, it's a post about short story writers, and I talk briefly about 10 writers who I think are a good place to start if you want to get into reading more short stories but haven't.
don’t give me hope texans
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
don’t give me hope texans
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Ralph Sampson and Hakeem Olajuwon
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ralph Sampson and Hakeem Olajuwon
roberto bolaño:
you cannot make me read that trash they're calling "good writing"
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
roberto bolaño:
corporate button up with no tie probably one of the sluttiest things a man can wear
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
corporate button up with no tie probably one of the sluttiest things a man can wear
Free my guy harden
Just in: Los Angeles Clippers guard Bradley Beal has a fracture in his hip and will undergo season-ending surgery, sources tell ESPN.
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Free my guy harden
You can tell who has kept up with Isaacman’s nomination vs who has not
Sean Duffy was courting Boeing/Lockheed and other traditional space contractors that typically run way over budget and behind schedule
Sean Duffy was courting Boeing/Lockheed and other traditional space contractors that typically run way over budget and behind schedule
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
You can tell who has kept up with Isaacman’s nomination vs who has not
Sean Duffy was courting Boeing/Lockheed and other traditional space contractors that typically run way over budget and behind schedule
Sean Duffy was courting Boeing/Lockheed and other traditional space contractors that typically run way over budget and behind schedule
took me a good 3 days of receiving their newsletter to understand how low bar the work that passes for journalism at the Free Press is
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
took me a good 3 days of receiving their newsletter to understand how low bar the work that passes for journalism at the Free Press is
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November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
twitter has never been a real place
Twitter/X is a story on its own:
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
twitter has never been a real place
5 feds slow rolled and stopped me on my way to Georgia Ave metro at 6:45am to ask for my identification simply because i am Latino
@brianneknadeau.bsky.social
@brianneknadeau.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
5 feds slow rolled and stopped me on my way to Georgia Ave metro at 6:45am to ask for my identification simply because i am Latino
@brianneknadeau.bsky.social
@brianneknadeau.bsky.social
few million dollars to do some toddler ass shit while fed workers are in food lines and +40mil SNAP recipients are told to eat dirt
Heads Up: Military Aircraft Flyover coming over the National Mall www.popville.com/2025/10/head...
Heads Up: Military Aircraft Flyover coming over the National Mall - PoPville
photo by Victoria Pickering From AlertDC: "The U.S. military will conduct an aircraft flyover in the National Capital Region (NCR) over the National Mall on Monday, October 28, at approximately 11:15A...
www.popville.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
few million dollars to do some toddler ass shit while fed workers are in food lines and +40mil SNAP recipients are told to eat dirt
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Thank you, Chicago.
ugly ahh statue
Just In: Confederate Army General, Albert Pike, Statue Reinstalled on D Street www.popville.com/2025/10/conf...
Confederate Army General, Albert Pike, Statue Reinstalled on D Street - PoPville
3rd and D Street, NW Thanks to Jim for sending: "The Albert Pike statue is being reinstalled today on D Street NW after being partly demolished during the Black Lives Matter protests (June 2020)." Fro...
www.popville.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
ugly ahh statue
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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The NBA will return to painting the Larry O'Brien trophy at center court and Finals script logo on the home team's floor for the Finals starting this season, per sources. The last time the large trophy was painted on court was 2009.
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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