Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾)
@jb4nay.bsky.social
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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RIP Gramma. You will be missed 🐢🥬 timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/11...
'Queen of the Zoo' Gramma the tortoise dies after century at San Diego Zoo
Gramma arrived in San Diego between 1928–1931 as part of the first group of Galápagos tortoises to come to the zoo.
timesofsandiego.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
RIP Gramma. You will be missed 🐢🥬 timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/11...
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Black college students and Black borrowers could be impacted by the shuffling of agency responsibilities. https://capitalbnews.org/department-education-student-loans-repayment-trump/
Attack on the Department of Education: What Black Borrowers Need to Know
Black college students and Black borrowers could be impacted by the shuffling of agency responsibilities.
capitalbnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Black college students and Black borrowers could be impacted by the shuffling of agency responsibilities. https://capitalbnews.org/department-education-student-loans-repayment-trump/
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A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year. www.wired.com/story/the-da...
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year. www.wired.com/story/the-da...
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Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
So here:
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
So here:
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Each week through the end of the year, we’ll give out prizes to the top referrer — and a new subscriber. 51st.news/referral-cha...
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When DCist was shut down, it had 70,000+ subscribers.
The 51st is proud to carry forward the spirit with which DCist served our city.
But we can’t stop thinking about how most of those subscribers — our neighbors and friends — are just no longer receiving the kind of local news they signed up for.
The 51st is proud to carry forward the spirit with which DCist served our city.
But we can’t stop thinking about how most of those subscribers — our neighbors and friends — are just no longer receiving the kind of local news they signed up for.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
When DCist was shut down, it had 70,000+ subscribers.
The 51st is proud to carry forward the spirit with which DCist served our city.
But we can’t stop thinking about how most of those subscribers — our neighbors and friends — are just no longer receiving the kind of local news they signed up for.
The 51st is proud to carry forward the spirit with which DCist served our city.
But we can’t stop thinking about how most of those subscribers — our neighbors and friends — are just no longer receiving the kind of local news they signed up for.
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@businessinsider.com quietly lifts its paywall: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/b...
Business Insider lifts its paywall - Talking Biz News
Business Insider quietly lifted its paywall recently, reports Oliver Darcy of Status. Darcy reports, “The change was not announced publicly—perhaps because it directly undercuts the story chief execut...
talkingbiznews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@businessinsider.com quietly lifts its paywall: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/b...
DC Cocktail Week is nearly here www.dccocktailweek.com
DC Cocktail WeekDC Cocktail Week
One of the region's most "spirited" events. DC Cocktail Week features specially crafted cocktails and small bite pairings - giving you a taste of the best of both worlds for one price.
www.dccocktailweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
DC Cocktail Week is nearly here www.dccocktailweek.com
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
A presentation on the gentrification of DC's Chinatown 12/4 at the Takoma Park Library dclibrary.libnet.info/event/15159974
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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.”
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“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.”
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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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.
lnk.to
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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
I am reminded how long DC taxpayers will be on the hook for RFK stadium construction www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
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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
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cool $10k journalism award opportunity for those covering immigrants, LTBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other marginalized communities!
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize
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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.
🚇 🚌 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
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.
🚇 🚌 New Carrollton
🚇 🚌 Union Station
🚇 🚌 King Street
Enjoy your Thanksgiving travels! Take Metro and beat traffic and rideshare prices.
Until Republicans use their position to check him, Trump will keep trying to weaponize government agencies against people he disagrees with wapo.st/4oVyTW1
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Until Republicans use their position to check him, Trump will keep trying to weaponize government agencies against people he disagrees with wapo.st/4oVyTW1
I love books of the year season 😤
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I love books of the year season 😤
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
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...
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Cuffing season is here.
Amna Saleem is skipping the dating carousel and putting energy into relationships that matter👇🏽
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/24/d...
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
Cuffing season is here.
Amna Saleem is skipping the dating carousel and putting energy into relationships that matter👇🏽
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/24/d...
Amna Saleem is skipping the dating carousel and putting energy into relationships that matter👇🏽
hyphenonline.com/2025/11/24/d...
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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
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
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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
BREAKING: indictments against James Comey and Letitia James are dismissed and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan’s appointment is ruled invalid
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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
youtu.be/ZUHNcsfag9Y
Vine walked so TikTok could run | Version History
YouTube video by The Verge
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
youtu.be/ZUHNcsfag9Y
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
You love to see it blacknewsandviews.com/black-women-...
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
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...