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Jon Gorey

@jongorey.bsky.social
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Writer, musician, dad, giver of shits, fan of preindustrial climate

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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I wrote and released this song, 'New American Dream,' about the senseless Iraq War, in early 2005 after GW Bush’s reelection. It is, unfortunately, unbelievably, inexplicably, still timely. Sigh.
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'New American Dream' by Jon Gorey (lyric video)
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The way things are going right now, I’ll be sending this zine from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social as our family holiday card and everyone’s gonna be getting “Separation of Church and Hate” by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for Christmas.
“Outlaw Billionaires” zine by Hamilton Nolan and S Mirk
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Beyond the fact that most AI is trained on the stolen intellectual property of millions of writers, journalists, photographers, and artists, the data centers that power AI are devouring our finite landscapes, water, and electricity at an unthinkable, unsustainable scale.
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Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy @landpolicy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities are not fully accounting for or prepared to meet. @jongorey.bsky.social explores their challenges and possible solutions: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 08/10/2025
"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Wonder why there’s microplastic in our brains? On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles. Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
A gloved hand holds plastic bottle caps by the marsh
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy @landpolicy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Happy #FellowsFriday! Today we're profiling Fernando E. Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and the 2020 recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship (now known as the Kingsbury Browne Distinguished Practitioner program).
Fernando Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and former Kingsbury Browne fellow at the Lincoln Institute. Credit: Courtesy photo.
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Bill Kole @billkole.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This essay I wrote for @bostonglobe.com (in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social. Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
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Guns made me leave the evangelical church. When will the church leave guns? - The Boston Globe
A bewildering marriage of faith and firearms is fueling our uniquely American gun scourge.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A quote from the article, and a quote from Socrates via Shakespeare: "The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess." "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy @landpolicy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Urban green space filters and cools the air, absorbs stormwater, and improves health. But it also increases property values, which can pose a risk to longtime residents without thoughtful anti-displacement approaches. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Philadelphia’s Schuykill River Park in 2011. Between 2000 and 2014, home values in the area increased 1,120 percent as development and investor ownership increased. Credit: aimintang/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Alt-weeklies “gave voice to and helped shape a way of thinking about cities: messy, thrilling, sad, funny, queer, glorious, pompous, comically crooked and endlessly fascinating.”
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"Short of burning a cross in front of the Lincoln Monument, there is little that the White House could do to more clearly signal its unapologetic racist nature... The more goading and horrific the racism of our government becomes, the more urgent the need to speak and act against it."
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Today's @hcrichardson.bsky.social is a bookmark-it, all-time great chronology & overview of movement conservatism and our path from deregulation and racism to Trump fascism. It will make you want to go flip a car, but still, it's an excellent read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...
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August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/08/2025
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
kplctv.com
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥YES🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Trying to re-liquify the honey with hot water and this honey bear hot tub situation has me dying 😂
Honey bear sitting in a deep soup crock of hot water
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Made this cool record player stand over the weekend, and it was mercifully simple to do!
houseandhammer.com
DIY record player stand and using relative measurements | House and Hammer
This mid-century modern record player stand is a super simple DIY project. Read on for the tutorial and one of my favorite woodworking tips.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Yes, this. Unless you’re planning to sell the place, you don’t generally do major renovations on a house you will be leaving in just a couple of years… which makes me very worried that he has no intention of leaving
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Love this. I’ve been using @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for a while *specifically for its environmental impact* and yet recently they introduced an idiotic beta AI search summary. Thankfully you can disable it, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy @landpolicy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A recent convening explored the land policy solutions that can help address tangled titles and other heirs property challenges. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates for the latest issue of Land Lines: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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Understanding Heirs Property - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Hundreds of thousands of people in the US own inherited property that lacks the legal protections of homeownership. Land policy can help address the challenges of such heirs property situations.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I enjoy cooking on the grill but not the macho charade associated with it. Like why are all grill spatulas 4 feet long? I’m not roasting dinosaur legs over a bonfire, I’m literally just flipping turkey burgers 9 inches away. This thing is UNWIELDY
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GBH @wgbh.org · 18/07/2025
This is very bad. Millions of Americans will be impacted by Congress defunding public media, and especially by the decision to claw back already appropriated funding. But despite the challenges we face, we are still here, and are committed as ever to our mission and to you.
Congress has officially voted to defund Public Media. Thank you for your continued support, it has never been more important. Please donate today.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
In 5 mos. Trump and his GOP toadies have: - burned food meant for starving children - declared war on science & research - reversed what little climate action we’ve taken - killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿 …all to pay for - mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force - more 💰 for billionaires
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Roughly one in every three Facebook users is now a man aged 18-34 ...which would explain so much about Facebook, or young men, or both.
statista.com
Global Facebook user age & gender distribution 2025| Statista
As of April 2024, men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience.
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Josh Kraft’s pandering plan will make Boston’s streets less safe & less fairly shared among all residents. He’s stoking division rather than finding a solution that works for everyone. Kraft: uninformed & unfit for #bospoli and #mapoli
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-m...
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Democratic majorities of the 1960s delivered the "Great Society" programs. They also delivered the Civil Rights Acts and the Voting Rights Act. And white voters abandoned Democrats like they'd flipped a switch. Sixty straight years voting Republican. It's not "economic anxiety" and never was.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/07/2025
GOP budget bill in a nutshell: "we have to kick millions of people off health insurance and close hospitals and reproductive health clinics so we can give $150 billion to the secret police to terrorize non-white people and cut taxes for richest Americans"
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"America is about to fund and build a huge secret police force that will, I promise you, be used to attack, imprison and exile the president’s enemies, of all sorts... Getting through the period of American history that is now descending upon us will require all of us to practice radical empathy."
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
or a moderate size country I guess
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“Are you willing to be killed for your government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed and your child hit by shrapnel and your elderly parents lose access to medicine because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair for you, it is unfair for anyone, anywhere.”
hamiltonnolan.com
Nations Are People
Do you deserve to die for your own bad government?
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
More middle fingers than you’d like to see (3-4 dozen over 3 hrs, including a double birdie from the guy in the Hummer) but they paled in comparison to the *thousands* of waves and honks in solidarity with #NoKings Milton. Felt good to see all these friends of democracy on Boston’s South Shore.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Look for us on the East Milton overpass above I-93 today. #nokings
Colorful sign says We the People Have No King
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
An excellent 1-2 punch in the timeline, courtesy of @jesseduquette.bsky.social and @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Cartoon with the word COWARDICE, with ICE spelled on a masked immigration officer’s chest“I laugh at the cowardly ICE agents. There’s a reason people are yelling at you, man. It’s because you’re being a fucking asshole. Do you know what would constitute bravery? Saying, ‘No, I am not going to carry out this grotesque and racist government assault on its citizens, because I know it is unjust.’ That would be brave. Saying ‘no.’”
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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Charles Soule @charlessoule.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID. Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring. America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy @landpolicy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Check out @jongorey.bsky.social's StoryMap to learn how individuals and municipalities are creating and protecting habitat at the local level: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Both replaced large portions of their suburban lawns with native plants and shrubs that better support and nourish butterflies, bees, caterpillars, and birds. 

Photo of a bird on a pink flowerNow their yards hold dozens of host plants—species that native insects eat or lay eggs upon—and hum with wildlife.

Photo of a butterfly on a purple flower
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I made a StoryMap about native plants, Miyawaki forests, and how a homegrown conservation effort is creating crucial wildlife habitat for our threatened birds and insects. TL;DR: Birds and butterflies need native flowers, shrubs, and trees to survive — BUT…
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Grassroots Conservation (Minus the Grass) - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
A growing movement is inviting nature back into the cities and towns from which it was once expelled, planting native pollinator gardens and Miyawaki microforests in front yards, schoolyards, parks, a...
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Important message spotted in Harvard Square today after commencement - congrats to the Harvard class of 2025!
Sticker on a lamppost says Long Live Ideas
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Federal support for conservation is waning, to put it mildly. But by planting the native flowers, shrubs, and trees that are so crucial to our birds and butterflies in your yard, you (yes, YOU!) can help create as much valuable new wildlife habitat as exists in most of our National Parks combined:
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Grassroots Conservation (Minus the Grass) - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
A growing movement is inviting nature back into the cities and towns from which it was once expelled, planting native pollinator gardens and Miyawaki microforests in front yards, schoolyards, parks, a...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/05/2025
NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city. Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
In Harvard Square even the sidewalk trash is poetic metaphor
A wet and dirty stuffed santa in a chimney cast aside on the sidewalk next to a pack of cigarettes
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.
AP: Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks
April 25, 2025CNN: US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier
April 29, 2025New York Post: Army Black Hawk helicopter causes 2 terrifying near-misses with airliners at Reagan airport after taking the 'scenic route
May 4, 2025CNN: Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier
May 6, 2025
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Jon Gorey @jongorey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Malevolent idiocy.
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Gintautas Dumcius @gintautasd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The same day she's getting endorsed by David Ortiz, Mayor Wu throws a heater of a statement at challenger Josh Kraft
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