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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾)
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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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A presentation on the gentrification of DC's Chinatown 12/4 at the Takoma Park Library dclibrary.libnet.info/event/15159974
Displacement in DC Chinatown
A presentation about gentrification and efforts to save DC Chinatown.
dclibrary.libnet.info
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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“Most of the time, if the video is big enough, you will see something in the top comments telling you, like, ‘Hey, this is just wrong.’ That’s when I would actually look.”

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November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Minnesota Lynx snag No. 2 overall pick in 2026 WNBA Draft - The IX Basketball
The Minnesota Lynx will have all kinds of flexibility when they pick second overall in the 2026 WNBA Draft in April.
www.thenexthoops.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Felt www.esckey.co/the-death-of...
There are so many examples for what success might look like in this new age, and that can be overwhelming. You don’t have to figure it all out right now. In fact, it’s better if you “build in public,” as sometimes insufferable product designers like to say. But it’s true. Keep an open mind. Experiment. Iterate. Write a lot. Take an entrepreneurial business class. Study up on the new media models. Follow people who are killing it in different ways. Learn from the best. I need you — we need you — to try and prove there’s a way forward. Because we need your voices. It won’t be easy. It will be even harder if you, too, grew up working class and with intersecting marginalized identities. You’re going to work harder than your peers, whose privileges the world will mistake for merit, as has long been the case. I wish I could change that. I can’t. But I also know if anyone can do it, young writer, it is you. I need you to believe that, too. I’ll be cheering you on.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Arizona state senator @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social on how TikTok, old-fashioned door-knocking, and actually making small differences in peoples’ lives is the way for the Democrats to start winning again: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I am reminded how long DC taxpayers will be on the hook for RFK stadium construction www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
DC Mayor Bowser says she won't seek a fourth term in 2026
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told News4 she won’t run for reelection next year, ending months of speculation over whether she’d seek a fourth term.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Cool $10k journalism award opportunity for those covering immigrants, LTBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other marginalized communities!

cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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wmata.com
Did you know you can access Amtrak via three Metro stations?

🚇 🚌 New Carrollton

🚇 🚌 Union Station

🚇 🚌 King Street

Enjoy your Thanksgiving travels! Take Metro and beat traffic and rideshare prices.
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Until Republicans use their position to check him, Trump will keep trying to weaponize government agencies against people he disagrees with wapo.st/4oVyTW1
'This is what dictators do," Schumer wrote in a social media post. Experts on military law said the inquiry was almost unprecedented. The Pentagon has recalled retired service members after discovering they committed illegal conduct while still on active duty. But that is far different than investigating someone for expressing an opinion after retirement, said Geoffrey Corn, a former Army judge advocate general who now teaches at Texas Tech University. "We've never dealt with this," Corn said. This is really chilling."
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I love books of the year season 😤
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I remember the official NBA Instagram account posted a table explaining how to watch games on each day and got ratio'd to the moon in the comments. We are in the bad place www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Can’t I Just Watch Sports on Television?
It shouldn’t be this hard to be a fan.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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hyphenonline.com
Cuffing season is here.

Amna Saleem is skipping the dating carousel and putting energy into relationships that matter👇🏽

hyphenonline.com/2025/11/24/d...
This cuffing season I'd rather freeze than get back on dating apps
I won’t be back on the dating carousel. But I will be choosing friends and family over passive winter isolation
hyphenonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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velshi.com
BREAKING: indictments against James Comey and Letitia James are dismissed and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan’s appointment is ruled invalid
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The Verge’s new podcast is just an excuse to rewatch iconic Vines and intellectualize them. An era where you could make a funny joke online and get invited to be on Ellen. Had so much fun doing this!

youtu.be/ZUHNcsfag9Y
Vine walked so TikTok could run | Version History
YouTube video by The Verge
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November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
jb4nay.bsky.social
You love to see it blacknewsandviews.com/black-women-...
Black women claiming power through lifting NABJ Black News & Views
LANHAM, Maryland — At a gym in metropolitan Washington, D.C., Black women lifted weights and encouraged one another as they took part in the second annual USA Powerlifting Women of Power Competition. ...
blacknewsandviews.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Texas will soon issue a required reading list for all K-12 students. Here's what to know (gift link) www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
Texas is developing a required reading list for all K-12 students. What to know
The Republican-led State Board of Education will set the list. Early title suggestions include "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Outsiders."
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Important reporting with some nice photography on who really gets to benefit from government investment in improving waterfronts www.thebanner.com/community/cl...
The hidden cost of saving the Chesapeake Bay: millions for private waterfronts
Virtually all of the Chesapeake Bay’s shoreline is privately owned, which means taxpayer-funded waterfront improvements go to properties with limited public access.
www.thebanner.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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codyboteler.bsky.social
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman will issue an apology for the county’s support and enforcement of slavery tomorrow.

It’s personal for Pittman — he’s a direct descendant of enslavers, and lives on the family farm where people were once held in bondage.

more: @thebaltimorebanner.com
The family history beneath Anne Arundel's apology for slavery
On Nov. 22, Anne Arundel County leaders will formally apologize for the county’s role in enforcing and supporting slavery. The issue is personal for County Executive Steuart Pittman, who grew up and l...
www.thebanner.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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bannermoco.bsky.social
Oy: Call Your Mother deli sues New Jersey bagel shop over trademark dispute
Call Your Mother deli sues New Jersey’s Bubbi Bagels over trademark dispute
Call Your Mother, the locally founded bagel shop, is suing New Jersey’s Bubbi Bagels for trademark infringement. Bubbi’s Bagels uses a “Call Your Bubbi” tagline.
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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niemanlab.org
At five, City Cast makes some changes — and reconsiders its markets www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/at-f...
At five, City Cast makes some changes — and reconsiders its markets
"We no longer begin with the idea that we're a local podcast network, even though that is the most familiar thing to most people.”
www.niemanlab.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Big sword lady youtu.be/c3guhZL477Q?...
Vendetta | New Hero Gameplay Trailer | Overwatch 2
YouTube video by PlayOverwatch
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November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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cnbc.com
Texas data center expansion raises blackout risk during extreme winter weather
Texas data center expansion raises blackout risk during extreme winter weather
Texas' supply and demand balance can become tight during winter and potentially fall into deficit as data center demand grows.
cnb.cx
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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freedcproject.bsky.social
If you've been to a @washingtonspirit game this season you've heard the #FreeDC chant at the 51st minute — because the people of DC refuse to be silent in our demand for full rights, dignity, and full power from this federal administration.

DC, RISE UP! GO SPIRIT, WE LOVE YOU DC!
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Influencers are going from BookTok to book deal. Is it a new publishing model?
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Influencers are going from BookTok to book deal. Is it a new publishing model?
More influencers are nabbing book deals. Why the publishing industry is signing BookTok creators like Luke Bateman, Haley Pham and Brooke Averick.
www.usatoday.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM