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Barb Gray

@profgray.bsky.social
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Investigative research professor @newmarkjschool Former @nytimes director of news research. Thinking and writing about WTF web research is now.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 07/07/2026
An interview with Le Monde CTO Paul Laleu about "fiercely defending" the French outlet's journalism from AI bots, including by generating infinite content mazes (Anna Tobin/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Otterly 🦦 Cute 🥰
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Gotta take a break I'll catch up with everyone a little bit later Have a great Caturday evening everyone
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/05/2026
Planning the AI chapter as the conclusion for the book (Why Everything Stopped Working, penguin random house, out 2027) and it is shaping up to be so great. The AI bubble is a psy-op, a con, a drama and a dark comedy! It’s full of weird characters and freaks and a few heroes and a lot of losers.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Paxton only returned the stolen pen after the courthouse security cameras showed he was the one who took it.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Jamila B. Me @amomentwithmila.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
I've sold 6 books so far. For me, that's huge.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
checking to see if my office has any gold bars just lying around
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.
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Ghoul Friday 👻 @girlfriday.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Look at this perfect old lady
A very old doggo named Nikki. She’s black with SO MUCH white around her face.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Let’s not doubt Trump reportedly agreeing to take $1.7 billion of our taxpayer money rather than $10 billion is any less of an egregious abuse of power.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Bedtime procrastination can feel fun but I need to go to bed soon so I have enough energy tomorrow to walk my dog and do cool things that will spite my enemies (like age better and build interesting projects)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026
Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is a very good essay from Helen Lewis, with a Bluesky easter egg 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.
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Sean A. Morgan @memphisbelle1114.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I want to announce that I have recovered. After nearly 8 years of hardly reading at all, I read AN ENTIRE BOOK last night. I'M SO BACK. #Booksky
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.
A powerful narrative portrait of Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald investigative journalist celebrated for her "Perversion of Justice" series, which exposed the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and led to her 2026 Pulitzer Prize special citation. Brown sits in the heart of a newsroom, leaning forward with her hands clasped over the back of a vibrant lime-green chair. Her expression is steady and resolute, a faint, knowing smile playing on her lips. She has shoulder-length, strawberry-blonde hair and wears a crisp, white short-sleeved linen top. Her look is punctuated by bold, artistic accessories: a long necklace featuring large, multi-colored geometric beads and matching statement earrings. The background is filled with the tools of her trade: Dell computer monitors and large wall-mounted screens displaying blurred news segments, including one featuring her own likeness. The composition is balanced and centered, capturing a mood of quiet authority and tireless determination. This image stands as a tribute to Brown’s historical significance in journalism, marking her as a champion for victims whose reporting forced a global reckoning on power and systemic failure.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’m at the Met Gala blowing the fashion world away with my fiercest look.
BJ from the righteous gemstones wearing a shiny pink outfit with angel wings
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.
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Barb Gray @profgray.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A small city just voted on AI, and the result could ripple nationwide www.fastcompany.com/91524538/a-s...
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A small city just voted on AI, and the result could ripple nationwide
The decision is being called a first of its kind, and other communities are watching closely.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NPR using the Tiny Desk YouTube series for fundraising is such a good idea. A very different relationship with a much different audience than the folks clicking on links, listening to the podcasts, tuning into terrestrial radio etc
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open
Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Wouldn't you know it, there are stupid Jan6ers and REALLY stupid Jan6ers.
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Can someone please explain to me how we have all this extra oil to sell to other countries, but gas is over $4/gallon here as if there’s some sort of shortage.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm kind of fascinated by that big Lauren Sanchez Bezos feature in the Times. There's just nothing going on there at all, no insight or conflict or notable color, so the hook is just "this unfathomably rich but otherwise fatuous person enjoys their lifestyle a great deal." Fantastic stuff.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A WIRED investigation has identified multiple members of the paramilitary units behind some of the most egregious immigration enforcement actions of the last year. from @awinston.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social
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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Wait till they find out there are thousands of unsettling deepfakes of her all over X and TikTok with virtually no moderation in place
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Government censorship of the media is the "preferred weapon of choice" of autocrats around the world. Free speech rights are "often the first 'domino' to fall when countries autocratize." And V-Dem says America is "rapidly autocratizing." More here >>> www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...
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US downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow | CNN Business
“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.
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Barb Gray @profgray.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Perhaps not a huge surprise Elon Musk is in the Epstein files
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/01/2026
Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
An individual with short hair and glasses stands outdoors wearing a dark grey sweatshirt with an illustration of a tiger wearing a headband that reads "FIGHT ON." They have a neutral expression and hands clasped. Tall, dried grass is in the background. A headline reads: "She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again." Photo by Nick Oxford for The New York Times.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Doctors won’t tell you this,” Kennedy said as he dropped to the floor… theonion.com/rfk-jr-demon...
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RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet
WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/01/2026
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
this is why i worry we may be stuck in an infinite doom loop of the party out of power promising lower prices, the incumbents getting ejected, incoming party unable to reduce prices either, rinse and repeat
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/01/2026
i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/01/2026
This is really freaking weird.
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Barb Gray @profgray.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
'Diet Alex Jones': Demonstrators roast Joe Rogan outside Austin comedy club www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/ar...
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'Diet Alex Jones': Texans roast Joe Rogan's comedy club on NYE
So a unicorn, a cow and an Eric Cartman impersonator walk into a bar....or protest outside a comedy club.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/12/2025
NEW: Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hurting patients.
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Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths
Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hu...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
probably not a great sign that Trump's assistant AG for civil rights uses a slur for people with disabilities
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Harley Rustad @harleyrustad.com · 19/11/2025
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." Brilliant essay/investigation by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social into journalism scammers in the age of AI. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/11/2025
North Korean operatives created a fake job-application platform targeting applicants to major US artificial intelligence and crypto firms as part of a new effort to steal money and know-how for the Kim Jong Un regime, researchers said.
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North Korean operatives running fake job portal targeting US AI firms | CNN Politics
North Korean operatives created a fake job-application platform targeting applicants to major US artificial intelligence and crypto firms as part of a new effort to steal money and know-how for the Ki...
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Barb Gray @profgray.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power in the First Place. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power in the First Place.
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haterofhate62.bsky.social @haterofhate62.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
In case anyone has forgotten how we went from clutching our pearls and impeaching over a BJ job and turning a blind eye to daily corruption without missing a beat! This is the GOP now. Shameless!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
TIL from Naomi Klein that 100,000 volunteers have canvassed for Zohran Mamdani
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