Reposted by Jan JanesHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same. 5329801597
Reposted by Jan JanesTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️ 101157856
Jan Janes @janjanes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It IS predation. The email becomes a commodity they endlessly sell/scam. 000
Reposted by Jan Janes Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026Claude making a scientific discovery 182101482
Reposted by Jan JanesMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 257143976830
Reposted by Jan JanesPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Re-posting this: in honor of tomorrow's solemn anniversary: Richard Clarke, a senior NatSec official, opening his testimony to the 9/11 Commission with something I hadn't seen before, or since, in Congressional testimony: an apology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxq1...youtube.comRichard Clarke - 9/11 Commission TestimonyYouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com 1126965
Reposted by Jan JanesPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way 322114312
Reposted by Jan JanesLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Rest in peace, Wendell Berry. 121374414
Reposted by Jan JanesRachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴 752695759
Reposted by Jan JanesTasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried 227120886810
Jan Janes @janjanes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/s...nytimes.comNASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Leaves Earth to Chart the Stars (Gift Article)Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds. 011
Reposted by Jan JanesChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.goelect.txelections.civixapps.comIvisMvpUi 7835172754
Reposted by Jan JanesTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops 6277272026
Reposted by Jan JanesStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”. 282115172169
Reposted by Jan JanesSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/202641 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming. 393142865760
Reposted by Jan JanesMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports. 374412809
Reposted by Jan JanesMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026BREAKING: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has now fallen below 300 million barrels for the first time since it was filled. 12425112
Reposted by Jan JanesJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026User of the web, have you ever asked yourself, "where is this coming from?" I have. We all know this, of course, but it is well described here by Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Having organized the web, Google now proposes to replace it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha... 1620193
Reposted by Jan JanesBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu 12443942697
Reposted by Jan JanesMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM 704131636661
Reposted by Jan JanesAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"Ordinary people are just people" is perhaps the single biggest motivating reason behind why I do what I do. 520345
Reposted by Jan JanesOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Themopenculture.comUmberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left ThemWilliam Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the 'Eco Chamber.' The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian n... 6297119
Reposted by Jan JanesRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 22/07/2026Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot. 47759461205
Reposted by Jan JanesNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏 58153723627
Reposted by Jan JanesHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026heathercoxrichardson.substack.comWeek Eight in 250 to 250This was the eighth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 12636209
Reposted by Jan JanesMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one. 2525661274
Reposted by Jan JanesBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31 3031677
Reposted by Jan JanesJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207463773
Reposted by Jan JanesLawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Want to qualify to celebrate America's 250th July 4? The Kennedy School is offering a "free, short, nonpartisan HarvardX online course on the U.S. Constitution" (tbc: it's 250 since the Declaration, not the Constitution (trick question #1)): bit.ly/FreeCourseHa... (click “audit” 4 free ver.)bit.lyHarvardX: American Government: Constitutional Foundations | edXLearn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized. 68945
Reposted by Jan JanesAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public. 312756792
Reposted by Jan JanesMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by the owners of 400 local newspapers nationwide for mass copyright infringement. The publishers claim the two tech companies illegally scraped their content to train their AI models — jeopardizing local journalism in the US. 201095335
Reposted by Jan JanesButtons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19 21093603491
Reposted by Jan JanesAlexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Reminder to all Americans: www.AirNow.gov can give you air quality where you live. A fire subdomain shows where wildfires & smoke plumes are: fire.airnow.gov Silver Lake, Glendale, & Burbank have unhealthy air due to a massive warehouse fire. www.latimes.com/california/s... There are city warnings. 15517
Reposted by Jan JanesSchera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines 242125036540
Reposted by Jan JanesSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026In 1982 Wood published a brilliant article about the role of conspiracy theories in the age of the American Revolution that very much speaks to our present moment. The way this essay blended intellectual and cultural history was very innovative for the time. www.jstor.org/stable/1919580jstor.org Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century on JSTOR Gordon S. Wood, Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul., 1982), pp. 401-441 114239
Reposted by Jan JanesKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The NYRB is, for my money (& I literally pay for it), the best longform periodical 1035852
Reposted by Jan JanesAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Pleased to post my draft article, “Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution.” I study the history of birthright citizenship from the 1100s to the 1700s. The English common-law rule of natural-born subjects was always tied to territory and jurisdiction. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 391351408
Reposted by Jan JanesCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026We're hiring an editor to lead our new California hub! If you're interested, check it out here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... 316190
Reposted by Jan JanesOn the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Cameron Hamilton, Trump's nominee to lead FEMA, called us this week and asked us to delay the release of our latest episode so that it wouldn't negatively affect his upcoming confirmation hearing. We said no. 16841266
Reposted by Jan JanesTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133939735
Reposted by Jan JanesSeán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 15/05/2026'Aqua Chroma' A meditative slow gaze at Earth's atmosphere, revealing the hidden depths of activity in the water-filled skies of planet Earth. 4K HDR 36m20s youtu.be/F2jsuJPU0Lo 7535168
Reposted by Jan JanesJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comSelma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965. 225178929064
Reposted by Jan JanesTyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 10/05/2026🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below) 14754335
Reposted by Jan JanesNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 05/05/2026Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx 17984561232
Reposted by Jan JanesAbe Streep @abestreep.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Come work with us! ProPublica's Southwest team is hiring a reporter: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...job-boards.greenhouse.ioSouthwest ReporterPhoenix, Arizona, United States 25923
Reposted by Jan JanesInternet Archive @archive.org · 21/04/2026🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social 6897371