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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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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · Aug 5

Did some tweaking on my portfolio site. You can find my previous work and subscribe to my free newsletter! forneys-findings.beehiiv.com/authors

Forney's Findings

Essays and published work by Jonathan (JB) Forney

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14d

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 15d

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at
www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsff...

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8 nights, 8 cities, 8 panel discussions

Elaine Cho, JR Dawson, Emily Jane, Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Mia Tsai, Julia Vee, with Amanda Foody, Matthew Kressel, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, Veronica Roth, Fran Wilde

Week 1
Monday, Oct 13: PT Knitwear, New York, NY
Wednesday, Oct 15: Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD
Thursday, Oct 16: East City Bookshop, Washington, DC
Friday, Oct 17: Mavey Books, Philadelphi, PA (Ardmore)

Week 2
Tuesday, Oct 21: Possible Futures, New Haven, CT
Wednesday, Oct 22: Smith College, Northampton, MA
Thursday, Oct 23: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT
Friday, Oct 24: Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: We talked to 65 federal judges about the Supreme Court’s use of the emergency docket during Trump’s 2nd term, how it impacts morale in the lower courts, and its effect on the public’s view of the judiciary.

They had a lot to say.

Free gift link … www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 8h

It's very powerful seeing federal workers refuse to be used to give Republicans leverage, even at the cost of their livelihoods
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

“This latest round of federal firings is not an unfortunate byproduct of the government shutdown, but a deliberate choice,” Mr. Warner wrote on social media. “Republicans are intentionally holding federal workers hostage to force through their agenda driving up health care costs for millions.”
[break for image depicting Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, at the Capitol on the first day of the shutdown. Credit: Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times]
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Representative Don Beyer, a Virginia Democrat who represents the Northern Virginia suburbs, home to one of the largest concentrations of federal workers in the country, said that the move would “make it harder to get the bipartisan deal that is needed to end this shutdown.”

“President Trump and Russ Vought have been firing federal workers by the thousands continuously since the beginning of the DOGE disaster, and as numerous Republicans have admitted, they plainly hoped to use the pretext of a shutdown to fire even more American workers,” Mr. Beyer said.

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AfroLA @afrolanews.bsky.social · 5d

Los Angeles deserves a newsroom that reflects and represents its Black and Brown communities, not one that overlooks them.

AfroLA exists to do just that. Through Nov. 15, we are fundraising so that we can continue to do impactful community-driven work.

Investing in Impact campaign

AfroLA is a community-powered news media organization rooted in Los Angeles. We exist to reflect and represent the city’s Black and other marginalized communities, telling the stories too often…

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 17h

Bumping this older article that had really cool scrollytelling just because highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/...

Generation Screwed

Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.

highline.huffingtonpost.com

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

Not the point, but this entire paragraph being a prompt for the AI just looks dingy

"The RIFs have begun," White House budget director Russell Vought posted on X on Friday afternoon, using an acronym for reductions in force.
The administration told a federal judge in California on Friday night that seven agencies - Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security and Treasury - had issued RIF notices to a total of more than 4,100 workers. Lawyers for the government added that the Environmental Protection Agency had also told about 20 to 30 employees that they might be affected by a RIF in the future and other agencies are
"actively considering whether to conduct additional RIFs related to the ongoing lapse in appropriations," according to the court filing.

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

So this is where we’re at wapo.st/4mUH2s1

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that the administration deliberately moved to lay off "people that the Democrats want."
"It'll be Democrat-oriented because we figure, you know, they started this thing," he said. "So they should be Democrat-oriented.
It'll be a lot."

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

Man… www.thecut.com/article/is-a...

Is It Cheating If It’s AI?

Couples are negotiating what counts as infidelity when one partner has a ChatGPT sidepiece.

www.thecut.com

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: The Complete Limited Series (Blu-ray) up for preorder on Amazon ($24.98) buff.ly/oyyhGn8 #ad

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

AI this. AI that. Why is your search broken beyond repair?

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

I need to find a way to spin being able to find articles I’m actually looking for on a publication’s website as an investigative reporting skill for my resume

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Commissioner Rodney Ellis @rodneyellis.bsky.social · 1d

"State extremists in Texas are altering school curriculums to minimize the brutal truths of slavery, racial injustice and police brutality," Ellis said. "They are disproportionately purging books by LGBTQIA authors, women and authors of color."

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Harris County libraries urge residents to check out banned books

Harris County Public Library System is designated as a book sanctuary.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

Every paragraph got worse, I swear

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunate but not surprising

The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza.

The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services. The termination will raise questions within Israel about the policy of holding sensitive military data in a third-party cloud hosted overseas.

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

A testament to the importance of accountability journalism against governments violating human rights www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail or Outlook accounts. You can create Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files right from the Copilot chat interface. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/798098/...

Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail

Documents can be created from the chat interface

www.theverge.com

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

Every day, I have second thoughts about this whole being able to read thing

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 2d

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency. She joins Healthbeat in another period of upheaval.

Meet Alison Young, Healthbeat’s new senior national reporter

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

People will just keep talking for minutes and someone has to be like "is there a question in there?"

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

Going to more book talks, it always makes me laugh that moderators have to remind the audiences to actually ask questions in the Q&As

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't count the outlets this time, but there are at least quite a few!