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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Why are there more food recalls than usual?

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk explains why he’s not racist.

Local News International @lni.media · last wk.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can the U.S. build more houses with less workers?

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2w ago

U.S. energy policy the last 50 years

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

Birthright citizenship, explained.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

11 months in. 1 million by next year!

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

Today’s Supreme Court decisions, explained

Local News International @lni.media · last mo.

That’s us!

Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

geting a "profitable media empire" bumper sticker www.amediaoperator.com/news/former-...

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

My thoughts on me, I mean, JD Vance and his wife, Usha.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

Behind-the-scenes of Usha Vance’s ‘Storytime’ show

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · last mo.

Former President Obama looms large over the Reflecting Pool repairs and Iran War negotiations

Local News International @lni.media · 2mo ago

LNI's @davejorgenson.bsky.social is co-hosting the @icfjorg.bsky.social Awards Dinner with @npr.org's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social this coming November. www.icfj.org/2025-awards

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How some AI companies are helping students cheat and helping teachers catch them.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A FIFA referee was turned away by U.S. Customs.

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

I feel like I am going insane! I have been shouting from the rooftops since February and Dem electeds STILL don’t get it! THERE ARE FIVE (5) NEW DHS LUXURY JETS. NOT THREE. FIVE. —The two “Coast Guard” G7s —The BBJ “bedroom jet” —Plus two G650s. One of them did a test flight TODAY. 1/

An ADSB Lx map showing N473US, a G650 registered to DHS, doing a test flight in the Dallas area.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JUST FILED: New memo to Trump Administration urges Dept of Homeland Security to Sell Its Fleet of "Luxury" Jets open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is a presidential library anyway?

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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This is what “triggers” me most. Everyone is getting scammed. Including the people in the comment sections, mocking a factual video. As a journalist for the last ten years, it only gets more frustrating trying to present facts to a group of people who are just as negatively affected by a news story as anyone else.

This still cuts both ways, by the way. There’s plenty of Democrats, liberals and non-conservatives scamming people. As NPR reported (and I’ve seen with my own eyes), left-wing conspiracy thinking is only becoming more prominent. So, we’ll keep reporting on all misinformation at Local News International. I’ll also probably take a break from reading the comments for a bit.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote about the Reflecting Pool discourse for tomorrow's newsletter (and why it's "triggered" me). Subscribe to get our free newsletter: www.lni.media (1/2)

I think I’ve been triggered, in the most classic, title-of-Donald-Trump-Jr.’s-book sense. Conservatives, or more specifically MAGA Trump supporters, have reacted to the Reflecting Pool being “finished” with dozens of snarky comments in our weeks-old TikTok video.

Screenshot of commenters on the video saying it didn't age well.

I’ve spent a lot of time (maybe too much time) trying to look inward and figure out why this is bothering me so much. I think I’ve managed to come to a logical, unemotional Spock-like conclusion. So much of what the right might consider being “triggered” is really just an annoyance at the lack of facts in MAGA’s response to this situation.

I would love if the president, or any president fixed long-term issues with the Reflecting Pool. The reason I have so many photos of the Pool from the Lincoln Memorial (featured in Friday’s video) is because, when I lived in D.C., I ran to the top of the Memorial Rocky Balboa-style, several times a week, for years. Like Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, I marveled at the monument and surrounding area like I was seeing it for the first time, every time. And this is exactly why I know the Reflecting Pool wasn’t fixed. For 80% of the year, it looks absolutely beautiful. Even in the winter, when it freezes over, it’s magnificent. Infamously, the local news once caught me illegally walking on it while filming a video for The Washington Post.

And for the other 20%, during the summer, algae accumulates slowly. This is what Trump saw that made him want to fix the Reflecting Pool - and I agree with him there. It looks bad when the algae is at full Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie fungus levels. But, as we explained in both videos, the fixes Trump made these last two months were temporary. It’s the pipes pumping the water from the Tidal Basin to the Pool that are leaking millions of gallons each year. And it’s that same water, basically normal lake water, that makes the pool reflect. It’s just opaque enough that the dark blue paint applied to the bottom has had zero effect on the look of the Pool.

Picture of the Reflecting Pool looking exactly the same in November.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Airports everywhere are dropping liquid restrictions

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't care how successful we get, @mbgelman.bsky.social is never going to get a fully serious answer when he asks me for a "quote for the PR release." lni.media/press-releas...

Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 2mo ago

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Meta’s AI problems are international

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Local News International @lni.media · 2mo ago

Quittez la plage !

Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

POV you’re trying to relax on the beach in Marseille but some American is making a video explaining recent news

Local News International @lni.media · 2mo ago

At WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, @davejorgenson.bsky.social and @laurensaks.bsky.social talk about the creation of LNI and our dual mission of reaching news-averse audiences with factual information and helping brands, newsrooms and non-profits build creative muscle.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stuck in Munich airport. Don't have the time to make a intricate three-minute video today. Very much online like 2020 when I only made 17-second tiktoks. AMA.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I didn’t make it to Marseille in time but after winning the “Americas” category, we won’t globally tonight!

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Most of the Freedom 250 concert performers dropped out over partisan concerns. But what IS Freedom 250? And how is it different from America250?

Local News International @lni.media · 2mo ago

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did someone really wear a mask on Fox News?