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Kevin Reuning
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politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc
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All opinions, views, thoughts, and takes are strictly my own.
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I have an undergrad who is doing work on how different news networks used different terms over the past 15 years. Here is "woke" at Fox News and in official congressional e-newsletters
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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California SHOWED UP for Starbucks workers 💜
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol isn't listening to his workers.

So we went directly to his luxury California office.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Westbound I-94 closed currently in western Minnesota due to multiple jackknifed semi-trailers.

More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weather/jackknifed-semis-close-westbound-i-94-blizzard-warnings-in-minnesota
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Miami University is on the list of schools losing funding for the Diplomacy Lab www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Introducing whimsy into the day by signing a long bureaucratic email with "Gobble gobble"
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
SELL SELL SELL SELL
oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The debatification of everything is wild. Related, my students really love Jubilee videos and I find it absolutely baffling.
I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Nice economic growth you got there, would be a shame if anything happened to it.
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
footnotes go after the period
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Running to the barricades to protect Sally and her baking addiction.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The turkey has been spatchcocked.
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
That's my neighbor. Also we totally aren't the suburbs.
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Pretty depressing to live in a society where this is seen as a pretty reasonable thing to say
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
>offers a window into what Williams describes as a pattern of hostile, threatening and retaliatory behavior that ended his brief attempt to impose accountability on a department known nationally for unchecked violence and resistance to reform.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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begins here, over this article: www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
>The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

The world's most expensive p-hacking machine?
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dealers at the Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino went on a recognition strike after the shutdown indefinitely delayed their vote. They've been on strike for over a month now.

labornotes.org/2025/11/indi...
Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike | Labor Notes
labornotes.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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My “I’m Not Enron” tshirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Lecturing liberals telling Americans they cannot weird pajama pants on the airplane.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Nudging your nudge so that people ignore the nudge.
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM