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Jan Janes

@janjanes.bsky.social
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Idea incubator & communications creative w/ a slice of geek. Photojournalist, multimedia producer, educator, wordista.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over 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.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If 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. ⬇️
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Jan Janes @janjanes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It IS predation. The email becomes a commodity they endlessly sell/scam.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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Jan Janes @janjanes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This 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
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Re-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...
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Richard Clarke - 9/11 Commission Testimony
YouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do this…
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As 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!) 🌴
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO 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
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Jan Janes @janjanes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/s...
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NASA’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.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas 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.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live 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
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. 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.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has now fallen below 300 million barrels for the first time since it was filled.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
User 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...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown 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
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Heads 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
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Aaron 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.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
William 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...
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 22/07/2026
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Week Eight in 250 to 250
This 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.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Friends 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
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $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.
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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Want 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.)
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HarvardX: American Government: Constitutional Foundations | edX
Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Remember 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.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
OpenAI 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.
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since 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
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Reminder 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.
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This 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
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In 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/1919580
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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
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The NYRB is, for my money (& I literally pay for it), the best longform periodical
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Pleased 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....
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We're hiring an editor to lead our new California hub! If you're interested, check it out here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Cameron 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.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every 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...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Seán 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
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The 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...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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Tyler 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)
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 05/05/2026
Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx
A photo of the South Loop with a rainbow cutting through the skyline reaching down towards the ground and lightning striking 1000M
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Abe Streep @abestreep.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Come work with us! ProPublica's Southwest team is hiring a reporter: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
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Southwest Reporter
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Internet 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
The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness.
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