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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾)

@jb4nay.bsky.social

Chemistry magazine editor 🧪 freelance journalist & grad student. 📚, puns, 🏀, supporting good journalism, art, and 🎮. I be posting links, yes ma'am. Trying to be a little less wack every day (he/they) | Texas ➡️ D(M)V | linktr.ee/jb4nay | Signal: j_forney.85

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · yesterday

U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago, @joshuabenton.com writes in @niemanlab.org.

U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago

Ten years ago, I wrote a piece on how the internet was sucking journalistic resources out of the middle of the country and concentrating it on the coasts — primarily New York City. While digital publishing theoretically could have distributed reporters away from high-cost cities, in reality, it r...

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drew xolaya costley (they/she)@drewcostley.northsky.social · last wk.

Unhoused New Orleanians have been sweltering during an historically hot summer. The city's office for homeless services and nonprofits have been scrambling to provide relief, though the city's options have been curbed. veritenews.org/2026/07/27/h... More @veritenews.org and in the next post.

Homeless New Orleanians swelter amid scorching heat wave

As mornings get warmer and summer heat waves continue, will shelter shortages complicate aid for the city's homeless residents?

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Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 23h ago

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

BIG PLOT TWIST in TX: Tarrant County's GOP officials, faced with intense public outrage about huge cuts to the battleground county's polling locations in November, have decided to delay their final vote on the plan so more polling places can be added

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d ago

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

Chris Plante@plante.bsky.social · yesterday

Bad news: The old model of games media is collapsing, and "free" writing funded by Silicon Valley pivots will be a strange blip in the history of journalism. Good news: It's possible to make high-quality, low-cost indie games media by cutting out the ads and charging a very, very modest fee!

Post Games for $1 - The Summer Sale! | Post Games

Right now, $1 will get you every bonus episode, bonus segment, and ad-free episode of Post Games! Some say this is a terrible way to run a b

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GameSpot@gamespot.com · 2d ago

Obsession Star Inde Navarrette Has Been Offered Video Game Roles, Loves Shrek

Inde Navarrette reached a new level of fame this year after starring in Curry Barker's horror movie Obsession. She's also a big fan of video games. She's now revealed that she's been offered roles in games, and that she loves Shrek. "Yes, and I'm starting my journey with that soon," she told Variety when asked if any studios had come calling to ask her to be in a video game. "I want to try something smaller to test the waters and then later, different. Video games are, obviously, a big interest of mine." She is a big fan of Resident Evil, adding that she would "die inside" if she got the chance to have a role in one of the games someday. Navarrette did not name the companies that have pitched her or what games she could appear in. Inde Navarrette in Obsession. Also in the interview, Navarrette talked about some of her earliest memories with video games, and her comments are highly relatable. She said one of her favorites from yesteryear was the Shrek game for PS2, Shrek Super Party. In particular, she said she's a fan of the characters' big heads in the game. Navarrette went on to say that Call of Duty is another favorite gaming series of hers. She's mentioned this before, and Activision obviously took note, hiring her to appear on a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 panel in July. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvlSfoB0Fw Navarrette is a gamer who, like any reasonable person, watched Henry Cavill videos to help build her gaming PC. She also formerly hosted Twitch streams for Call of Duty. Obsession, meanwhile, was made on a reported $750,000 budget and has earned more than $470 million worldwide, making it a huge success. Prior to Obsession, Navarrette starred in Netflix's 13 Reasons Why.

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Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2d ago

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

ny times op ed tomorrow: sure, the city has experienced the lowest crime rate in history under mamdani's democratic socialist leadership. but are the lives saved worth the loss of support from republicans on long island?

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d ago

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

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Street Sense Media@streetsensedc.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library began enforcement of rules banning people from sleeping outside the building in July. Homelessness outreach organizations worry it will simply move people elsewhere, doing little to address homelessness. https://bit.ly/4wv81QI

MLK Library is stopping people from sleeping under its loggia with barricades and police - Street Sense Media

As D.C.'s MLK Library is enforcing a ban on sleeping under its loggia, advocates warn the policy will only move homelessness elsewhere.

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Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy