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Bruno Vander Velde

@brunovelde.bsky.social
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Comms dude, American Psychological Association. Chicagoan in exile; tireless editor; tired dad. Opinions are mine.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 5h
On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20h
Getting 2005 energy from these White Sox
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Are … are the White Sox *good*?
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If this is true, then no one should speak to a reporter from USA Today or Gannett ever again 
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lord have mercy
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
inquirer.com
Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eh ... no lies detected.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again, for any journalist who may still be on my feed: if your parent or grandparent was talking this way, you would be discussing assisted living options with your family 
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Cognitive impairment" is a judgment-free term, and it is absolutely appropriate here. I'm only halfway through this transcript and I'm stunned.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man who could order a nuclear attack. From Eric Cortellessa TIME interview. time.com/article/2026... H/t @katzish.bsky.social
Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers. 

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Open the schools
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
:-)
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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another excellent resource from @apastyle.bsky.social! Check it out ⬇️
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tell me you don't have children in your house without telling me, etc. That fridge would look like the inside of a looted McMansion after a week
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My god just make it stop
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Best of" lists are supposed to stir disagreement, so let's get right to it: "Breaking Bad"? Really?
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Tim Jesper Suhrhoff @climatejesper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For a century, we’ve essentially been running an Enhanced Weathering field trial. In our Nature paper out yesterday, we show that agricultural liming in the Mississippi River Basin acted as a net CO₂ sink—while offering a rare century-scale analogue for EW. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I seriously would buy this
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
See now this is the Bears we know and love 
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Help request—I received this image from a person filing for unemployment in Missouri. The ID verification asks "Are you of Haitian heritage?" I've been unable to confirm additional info w the state or find others who saw it. Any info, reach out: Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
screen from Missouri ID verification. under Ethnic Origin it asks "Are you of Haitian heritage?" with options "Yes, No, I do not wish to comment"
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Jonah Busch @jonahbusch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
-man finds stray kitten -feeds it noodles, rice, and eggs -realizes it’s wild -takes it to animal sanctuary -sanctuary runs genetic tests -IT’S AN ENTIRELY NEW SPECIES OF CAT! www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...
nbcnews.com
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is 1) well worth your time to read; 2) bleak as hell; and 3) but a glimpse of what is surely to come, barring some spine from the likes of Google, regulators and others
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
donmoynihan.substack.com
China: “Thank Trump”
The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Welp. Haven’t busted this one out in a while. But today is that day
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BUT, industrial harvesting and drainage turn these food oases into flammable tinderboxes. When we destroy them for cheap garden compost, we lose our best natural flood defense and unleash millennia of stored carbon. This fall, skip peat-based garden soil and protect our soggy climate heroes. 5/
Photograph of a drained bog for oil plantations in Borneo
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a case of a lot of things being true at the same time that many people can't seem to wrap their brains around. True, nature can absorb massive amounts of C from the atmosphere, and yes, we can reliably measure that uptake. And true, some C-reduction projects have been crap/scams, and ...
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
Washington
President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cool. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh really?
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When I die and go to hell, this is what will be playing on repeat  variety.com/2026/digital...
variety.com
Chicago Cubs Sets Rom-Com Series ‘Nine Innings to Love’
The Chicago Cubs are entering scripted content with 'Nine Innings to Love,' a rom-com series which is set to debut on TikTok.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Headlines that employ the word “may” by definition could just as well say “may not.” Speculative headlines like these almost always telegraph a preconceived framing, which is faulty at best and malignant at worst
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And her peers and colleagues, cowed into silence, will do and say absolutely nothing about it
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Guys this seems bad
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A future in which the police exist solely to protect the apparatus of the surveillance state and focus exclusively on punishing those who dare to fight back.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/08/2026
The Trump administration is responding to public blowback on data centers by ... giving the public fewer opportunities to speak.
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers
Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am neither a sentimentalist nor a fan of George Will's broader work, but he nailed this one. There was some dust in my eye at the end ... wapo.st/4zxUR7f
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Opinion | Dolly Parton: Gifted in song and storytelling, she got the rainbow
The music superstar grew up steeped in the ethic of self-reliance.
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’m glad someone finally articulated what this pipeline is and how it works for those who don’t know
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Every day is a new opportunity to say, "What's the dumbest and worst thing we can do?" and then do that
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/08/2026
The daily global average sea surface temperature has just reached its highest level on record, per C3S. "The timing of the record is particularly notable. Global ocean temperatures are typically highest in March and April, following the austral summer, yet this record has been reached in August."
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Bruno Vander Velde @brunovelde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Greatest Country in the World ™
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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The thing about deep sea mining is, market prices for the targeted metals already spiked and fell below a level that would be profitable because operating at sea is expensive AF… which coincidentally makes it a really attractive industry to launder money. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
americanprogress.org
The Trump Administration’s Deep-Sea Mining Scheme
From the Pacific Islands to the ocean floor, the Trump administration’s deep-sea mining scheme could reshape the future of America’s territories and surrounding waters.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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