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Christopher Howell
@chrishowell.com
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Independent Public Radio/Audio Producer. Ex-public radio news reporter (WOSU) and station manager (WMFE). Open to freelance work, tape syncs. Big fan of the IMSA and WEC endurance sports car series. https://chrishowell.com/
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chrishowell.com
You can't deport citizens. That's exile. If Trump opens that box I've got an idea about what to do with him, his VP, his child-raping cabinet and all the billionaires who are destroying this country. It involves the Aleutian Islands.
February 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Trump is steeped in Fox propaganda so he believes there's an immigration crisis and the majority of Americans want ICE to mass deport our neighbors. There's no crisis. A very, very small number of extremists want that but most American's don't. Except this Fox news grandpa has an army.
February 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
chrishowell.com
"What does this look like? An IHOP? We don't serve short stacks here."
February 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
chrishowell.com
Being so hated and jeered and still smile and show your face in public without shame has to be in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
charlotteclymer.bsky.social Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d
J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it.

“There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
chrishowell.com
You know how I know this excuse from the White House is bullshit? There's no, "we reprimanded the staffer", or "demoted the staffer" or "reassigned the staffer". They would have said that if the "staffer" were real.
lebassett.bsky.social Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said. There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said. Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears. Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change. "He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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I have been informed by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar and confirmed by the City of El Paso, Texas that there are two known active cases of tuberculosis registered at Camp East Montana. There are also at least 18 cases of COVID-19.

I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
2 active cases of tuberculosis confirmed at Camp East Montana
Two cases of tuberculosis have been confirmed at Camp East Montana in El Paso County.
www.elpasotimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
chrishowell.com
When I got my first office job in the 1990s the law firm I worked at had their Telex number on their letterhead.
February 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
chrishowell.com
As an older man, the number of people in power today who haven't learned a damn thing from their parents or from history books is astounding. They think the world was invented when they were born.
February 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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🎯 🎯
February 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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moreandagain.me
Short it
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February 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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esqueer.net
Bitcoin is completely collapsing right now.
Screenshot of a Bitcoin market summary showing the price at $63,690.12 USD, down $9,328.93 (−12.78%) today. A one-day line chart trends steadily downward from around $73,000 earlier in the day to near $63,700 by evening, with several small rebounds before a sharp drop late in the day. The timestamp reads Feb 5, 8:31 PM UTC, and options for different time ranges (1D, 5D, 1M, etc.) appear above the chart.
February 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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newslit.org
1/ 🎉 NEWS: We're thrilled to announce a partnership with the @startribune.com to bring news literacy education to high schoolers in Minnesota!

Full story: go.newslit.org/NewsLitMN

#NewsLiteracyWeek
Minnesota Star Tribune launches News Literacy Initiative - The News Literacy Project
The Minnesota Star Tribune Local News Fund today announced the launch of its News Literacy Initiative, in partnership with the News Literacy Project and ThreeSixty Journalism at the University of St. ...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
chrishowell.com
The SPC, which approved the death sentences, emphasized that the sentencing and subsequent executions reflect China's unwavering commitment to eliminating sexual abuse of minors and serve as a deterrent for potential perpetrators. www.lawinfochina.com/Search/Displ...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Are solar farms in Ohio being denied due to faked local opposition? @canarymedia.com's Kathianne Kowalski does the work of checking the names and addresses — and it sure looks like there are a lot of fabricated "local" opponents to it:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky
Are faked public comments about to tank an Ohio solar farm?
Dozens of public comments opposing the $98 million Crossroads Solar project appear to be fabricated. Ohio’s siting board may block the project anyway.
www.canarymedia.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
honestly not a bad informal heuristic for vetting polls
dhmontgomery.com David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d
Normal scientific polling doesn’t have decimal-point precision and a pollster reporting their numbers with decimals is a warning sign that they either don’t understand this, or do and are trying to trick you into thinking their data is more precise than it is.
jpmuir.bsky.social Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 3d
According to a survey by Swiftly (a retail technology company), 67.6% of shoppers (approximately 68%) said they were struggling to pay grocery bills because of inflation and rising food prices. The survey was widely reported by USA Today, Fortune, and other outlets in December 2025.
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
chrishowell.com
I have never wanted to shout, "Speak for yourselves" any louder in my life.
requiemarm.bsky.social Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3d
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Wait. Is this a confession?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I stopped the mutilation of children. The mutilation. The word is mutilation. They mutilized, you know, mutilation of children."
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
chrishowell.com
Life is hard. And it's a lot harder if you're stupid.
jentrification.com jentrification @jentrification.com · 2d
"... the young man was persistently kicking the back of the seat in front of him despite being asked to stop. At some point, the passenger ahead of him violently reclined, or slammed, his seat back resulting in the teen’s knee snapping up into his face with such force that his teeth broke."
Passenger slams seat back after teen kicks it repeatedly, breaking his teeth
A video of a teenage boy kicking the seat in front of him went viral after his actions resulted in broken teeth.
travelhost.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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jentrification.com
"... the young man was persistently kicking the back of the seat in front of him despite being asked to stop. At some point, the passenger ahead of him violently reclined, or slammed, his seat back resulting in the teen’s knee snapping up into his face with such force that his teeth broke."
Passenger slams seat back after teen kicks it repeatedly, breaking his teeth
A video of a teenage boy kicking the seat in front of him went viral after his actions resulted in broken teeth.
travelhost.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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propublica.org
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Check out this handy breakdown for scientists who want to pitch their research to the media 🧪📝
agentschangeej.bsky.social Agents of Change @agentschangeej.bsky.social · 9d
Most research pitches don’t fail on quality.
They fail on clarity.

We asked editors at Nature, Undark, and The Conversation what makes them say yes—and turned it into a quick checklist.

Read it here👇
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Read This Before You Pitch Your Research
Three editors break down what actually makes them say yes—and what makes them quietly close the tab.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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The FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia.
A post that says The fact that the regime is executing citizens in the street and them asking for lists of citizens who voted against them might raise a few alarm bells.
February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM