Erik Gunn
@erikgunn.bsky.social
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Went to a small liberal arts college with ambitions to be a filmmaker (Kubrick, Spielberg) or novelist. Struggled at having to invent plots and make stuff up. Joined the college paper. Found writing about reality a lot easier. Have done that one way or another ever since
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“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
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This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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🇺🇸, a mere 35 years ago, under a GOP president, led a UN-backed coalition to uphold the principle of territorial sovereignty, the bedrock of the post-WWII int'l system. Like threatening to take territory from our allies (🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰/🇬🇱), working to allow 🇷🇺 to violate this should have ended this presidency.
Exclusive: Surrendering land to Russia to end the war is off-limits, Zelensky’s chief negotiator tells Simon Shuster. “As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory.”
Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🇺🇸, a mere 35 years ago, under a GOP president, led a UN-backed coalition to uphold the principle of territorial sovereignty, the bedrock of the post-WWII int'l system. Like threatening to take territory from our allies (🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰/🇬🇱), working to allow 🇷🇺 to violate this should have ended this presidency.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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These families are not having a happy Thanksgiving.
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, machinery, crushed by pipes, acid exposure, forklift, airplane crash, conveyer belt, shootings and vehicle incidents: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll - Confined Space
On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. Here are how a few died last week.
jordanbarab.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
These families are not having a happy Thanksgiving.
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The lawsuit said the new guidance would eliminate eligibility for legal immigrants who had previously been eligible to receive such benefits, including those who had been granted asylum or refugee status.
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
Nessel joins lawsuit against USDA for cutting off SNAP benefits to certain legal immigrants • Michigan Advance
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a lawsuit alongside 21 other state attorneys general against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over guidance issued by the department. The lawsuit said th...
michiganadvance.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The lawsuit said the new guidance would eliminate eligibility for legal immigrants who had previously been eligible to receive such benefits, including those who had been granted asylum or refugee status.
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
Story by @kdailey.bsky.social
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The paper is about how AI can improve autism diagnosis and management…. Not giving me any faith that said diagnosis and management will be accurate based on the output below. Keep this shit out of healthcare it’s already bad enough.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The paper is about how AI can improve autism diagnosis and management…. Not giving me any faith that said diagnosis and management will be accurate based on the output below. Keep this shit out of healthcare it’s already bad enough.
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This is alarming, as @nature has one of the best statements on gen AI I’ve ever seen.
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is alarming, as @nature has one of the best statements on gen AI I’ve ever seen.
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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First they came for the proofreaders
And I am a proofreader, so you bet your ass I'm speaking out
And I am a proofreader, so you bet your ass I'm speaking out
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
First they came for the proofreaders
And I am a proofreader, so you bet your ass I'm speaking out
And I am a proofreader, so you bet your ass I'm speaking out
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Just gonna leave this here...
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just gonna leave this here...
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
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You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
Your 70% number is just a fabrication.
And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
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my belief in god largely depends on the day and my SSRI serum levels, but if you can’t see the many shades of faith, from good to evil, in our humongous world, then you need to educate yourself and get out and meet some folks
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
my belief in god largely depends on the day and my SSRI serum levels, but if you can’t see the many shades of faith, from good to evil, in our humongous world, then you need to educate yourself and get out and meet some folks
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Among the things I am grateful for is my dream job with @tennesseelookout.com, the team I work with and our supporters from in Tennessee and beyond.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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EDITOR'S NOTE: "Teaching and journalism are deeply connected by the same core value: service," Torsheta Jackson writes.
Editor’s Note | Teach Young Journalists to Ask Great Questions
Torsheta Jackson reflects on returning to USM to speak to students and the messages she hopes listeners took away from her speech.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Teaching and journalism are deeply connected by the same core value: service," Torsheta Jackson writes.
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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NEW TODAY: Our @ashleymurray.bsky.social reports 2 National Guard members remained in critical condition Thursday as federal law enforcement officials examined evidence collected from the home of the alleged lone gunman
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/alle...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/alle...
Alleged gunman in National Guard attack drove across US to ambush troops, officials say
WASHINGTON — Two National Guard members remained in critical condition Thursday as federal law enforcement officials examined evidence collected from the home of the alleged lone gunman, who drove to ...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
NEW TODAY: Our @ashleymurray.bsky.social reports 2 National Guard members remained in critical condition Thursday as federal law enforcement officials examined evidence collected from the home of the alleged lone gunman
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/alle...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/alle...
Defying planned obsolescence.
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Defying planned obsolescence.
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
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I told the Branch Manager he could have the day off but he insisted
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I told the Branch Manager he could have the day off but he insisted