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couts.bsky.social
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
In the last days, there has been an unprecedented attack targeting investigative journalists trying to seize their Signal accounts. This has gone largely unreported. I have been repeatedly targeted by phishing, and I learned that also colleagues from other outlets were targeted, with the attackers unfortunately managing to compromise at least one colleague’s account. What’s worrying: this doesn’t seem like an isolated case. A broader wave is apparently hitting journalists (and some civil society actors) via Signal. How it works: Attackers message you on Signal pretending to be “Signal Support,” warning about “suspicious activity,” and urging you to “re-verify” your account. Once you accept the chat, you receive a real Signal SMS verification code, because the attacker is actively trying to register your number on a new device. If you share that code, you’re handing them the keys. Signal’s extra protection is the Signal PIN. If an attacker also tricks you into giving up your PIN (or you don’t have strong protections enabled), they can see your contacts and networks, potentially join chats going forward, and lock you out by changing settings. Quick protections worth doing today: - Signal will never contact you via a two-way in-app support chat. Treat those messages as hostile. - Never share SMS codes, Signal PIN, or anything called “registration lock.” - Turn on Registration Lock (Settings → Account → Registration Lock). - If you see a “safety number changed” alert: verify the person via a different channel (call/video), not just Signal text. - Report + block suspicious requests, and review linked devices. If you work with sensitive sources: this isn’t just about losing an account, it’s about exposing networks. Please share this with colleagues who rely on Signal day-to-day.
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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theonion.com
Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun https://theonion.com/explanation-of-board-game-rules-peppered-with-reassuran-1819579569/
Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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aereorg.bsky.social
📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁of #JAERE! 📢
"The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes ( @hernandezcortes.bsky.social ).
Read it here: buff.ly/TGLGRAC
📈📉 #Econsky
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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noeygriff.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social
#Phoenix50501
May 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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jaereaere.bsky.social
🆕 Just accepted 🆕 in JAERE:

"The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social)

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#EconSky 📈 📉
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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jaereaere.bsky.social
🌬️ Just accepted 🇧🇷 in JAERE:

"The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) and Sophie Mathes (@s-mathes.bsky.social)

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#EconSky 📈 📉
April 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
news.azpm.org
April 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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xkcd.com
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.

Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
March 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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historianpub.bsky.social
What to know about Saturday's nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protestshttps://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/hands-off-protest-trump-musk-april-5
What to know about Saturday's nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protests
More than 1,100 rallies, visibility events and meetings were scheduled.
www.axios.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
gdsheriff.bsky.social
Welp “no pain, no pain” as I like to say
April 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
3, maybe 4, people will get this joke
Distracted Guy meme with EPA, Corporate Polluters, OIRA
March 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
gdsheriff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
AAUP and Middle East Studies Association sue to block the Administration from
targeting students and faculty for deportation based on their political views. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...
AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
www.aaup.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net
scott-delaney.bsky.social Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 21
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.

If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.

Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
forms.gle
March 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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blkahn.bsky.social
literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
www.epa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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amarcklynn.bsky.social
Updates on forms and please share with your other accounts and multipliers so we can reach out all over the country at town halls
Stand Up and Share Information
March 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
February 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is potentially a huge deal, since it is an internal appeals board laying out criteria saying some probationary firings were illegal, e.g. for citing performance rationales with no evidence.

Could rippled out to include many more employees.

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated
The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.
www.govexec.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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rorytruex.bsky.social
I'm going to try to do more writing about how universities and researchers are being affected by recent policy changes from the Trump Administration. If you are an academic or researcher willing to share your experience, you can do so here:
forms.gle/oyhXivWMJeno...

Please share/repost.
Academic/Research Disruption Survey
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February 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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sselisker.bsky.social
Mark Greif with the piece of writing I’d been hoping someone could write: clear-eyed analysis, historical comparison, practical advice

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif
There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...
www.nplusonemag.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
spotted on fb
February 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM