Jon Bassinger-Flores
@jbflores.bsky.social
UCLA staffer, scholarship manager, DEI advocator, casual hiker, travel lover! 🏳️🌈👨❤️👨
This. All of this.
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This. All of this.
This is very interesting, disconcerting, and not surprising. Kudos to these researchers for their work.
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning. n.pr/4oQlr52
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is very interesting, disconcerting, and not surprising. Kudos to these researchers for their work.
Wow, this article is wild, and I'm bothered by some overlapping details between this thug and myself. Gen X, likes snakes, Western Carolina University (he attended, I worked with WCU students one year).
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wow, this article is wild, and I'm bothered by some overlapping details between this thug and myself. Gen X, likes snakes, Western Carolina University (he attended, I worked with WCU students one year).
Thanks for spotlighting this article. Another heinous, petty, wasteful, disrespectful act by this regime.
Glad to see this story getting the coverage it deserves.
@npr.org 🙏
@npr.org 🙏
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thanks for spotlighting this article. Another heinous, petty, wasteful, disrespectful act by this regime.
This is the funniest description of the human brain I've ever read!
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This is the funniest description of the human brain I've ever read!
Rents for $6500/month in Van Nuys
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Rents for $6500/month in Van Nuys
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing
When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”
to.pbs.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
Did Bluesky do some dumb update that makes reading any one feed practically impossible? When I click into an account, there's now a small frame at the bottom where the account posts can be scrolled, but the account banner and profile into is static.
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Did Bluesky do some dumb update that makes reading any one feed practically impossible? When I click into an account, there's now a small frame at the bottom where the account posts can be scrolled, but the account banner and profile into is static.
A quick reprieve from our modern hellscape.
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A quick reprieve from our modern hellscape.
Lolol HAHA!
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Lolol HAHA!
Haha, yeah right.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Haha, yeah right.
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PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Channel ZERO
m.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is spot on.
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This is spot on.
Ok now. Let's see the rest of higher ed follow suit.
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ok now. Let's see the rest of higher ed follow suit.
If your industry depends on theft, change your business model or die.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If your industry depends on theft, change your business model or die.
Zen moment from my Saturday hike along the Switzer Falls Trail
October 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Zen moment from my Saturday hike along the Switzer Falls Trail
Reading this while walking my dog in Los Angeles, in the dark, armed with only a Pixel 7 and bag of dog poo. Couldn't have felt safer.
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
October 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Reading this while walking my dog in Los Angeles, in the dark, armed with only a Pixel 7 and bag of dog poo. Couldn't have felt safer.
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1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire
A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary
popular.info
September 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
If you follow thousands of people and you decide to follow me, I'll probably block you. If you're obviously a bot and you follow me, I'll definitely block you. And if you're transphobic and you follow me or comment on my posts, you guessed it, I'll block you.
Good night!
Good night!
September 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
If you follow thousands of people and you decide to follow me, I'll probably block you. If you're obviously a bot and you follow me, I'll definitely block you. And if you're transphobic and you follow me or comment on my posts, you guessed it, I'll block you.
Good night!
Good night!
The Economist article misrepresents the study's findings.
September 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Economist article misrepresents the study's findings.
@tagerai.bsky.social I really hope the ai in your handle doesn't mean you're a chatbot.
September 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
@tagerai.bsky.social I really hope the ai in your handle doesn't mean you're a chatbot.
Find your local news source!
2. And... there are so many others. The Marshall Project, States Newsrooms, so many more. Yeah, none are the NYT's size; but many are increasingly collaborating (including us at @bolts.bsky.social).
Pick at least one to follow & support!
original story: presswatchers.org/2024/12/how-...
Pick at least one to follow & support!
original story: presswatchers.org/2024/12/how-...
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Find your local news source!