JFB
@jasonfbennett.bsky.social
trying to figure out what I'm even doing here. this'll probably be a mix of plants, cats, bikes, and music. dervish-y things too from time to time.
on Mastodon too [email protected], though there's not much going on over there.
on Mastodon too [email protected], though there's not much going on over there.
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James Baldwin wrote convincingly that 60s civil rights progress stemmed from competition with the USSR.
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
James Baldwin wrote convincingly that 60s civil rights progress stemmed from competition with the USSR.
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this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
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Cycling legend Major Taylor won the 1-mile sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of cycling world champion
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major!
November 26 (1878-1932)
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major!
November 26 (1878-1932)
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Cycling legend Major Taylor won the 1-mile sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of cycling world champion
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major!
November 26 (1878-1932)
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major!
November 26 (1878-1932)
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
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Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.
"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
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North Carolina has really shown out. Comrades are telling me that they have gotten 500 to 1000 people out to ICE Watch trainings [with more people wanting to attend].
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
North Carolina has really shown out. Comrades are telling me that they have gotten 500 to 1000 people out to ICE Watch trainings [with more people wanting to attend].
Devastation my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart, then you swallowed my pride.
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, i nearly forgot.
You brought me into your heart, then you swallowed my pride.
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, i nearly forgot.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Devastation my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart, then you swallowed my pride.
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, i nearly forgot.
You brought me into your heart, then you swallowed my pride.
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, i nearly forgot.
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Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
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Today is Pauli Murray's 115th birthday. If you're a law student (or just a curious person) and don't know who they are, look them up! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_M...
(And if you're in Durham, go check out @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social ! I had the privilege of visiting yesterday and it's great.)
(And if you're in Durham, go check out @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social ! I had the privilege of visiting yesterday and it's great.)
Pauli Murray - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today is Pauli Murray's 115th birthday. If you're a law student (or just a curious person) and don't know who they are, look them up! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_M...
(And if you're in Durham, go check out @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social ! I had the privilege of visiting yesterday and it's great.)
(And if you're in Durham, go check out @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social ! I had the privilege of visiting yesterday and it's great.)
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Timeline cleanse. Cackalack energy in the KEXP studios. #ladiesandgentlementheweekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCgZ...
MJ Lenderman - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Timeline cleanse. Cackalack energy in the KEXP studios. #ladiesandgentlementheweekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCgZ...
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very funny to be scolded by a train conductor for having my bike in the wrong place, showing him the literal rule written on the amtrak website showing that i have my bike in the only place it is allowed to be, and being told that we’ll have to “agree to disagree”
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
very funny to be scolded by a train conductor for having my bike in the wrong place, showing him the literal rule written on the amtrak website showing that i have my bike in the only place it is allowed to be, and being told that we’ll have to “agree to disagree”
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I've been thinking about the incredible work that @siembranc.bsky.social has been doing over the past few years ago and how so much of that work helped lay the groundwork for the community resistance that's taken place over the past few days across NC. I made a donation: www.siembranc.org
Siembra NC | Home
Join Siembra in the fight against ICE, abusive employers and landlords, discrimination and criminalization of the Latinx community in North Carolina.
www.siembranc.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I've been thinking about the incredible work that @siembranc.bsky.social has been doing over the past few years ago and how so much of that work helped lay the groundwork for the community resistance that's taken place over the past few days across NC. I made a donation: www.siembranc.org
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Three blocks from my house. Hell yes Durham North Carolina
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Three blocks from my house. Hell yes Durham North Carolina
It's cclo5'ko somewhere. h/t Metafilter. clocks.brianmoore.com
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It's cclo5'ko somewhere. h/t Metafilter. clocks.brianmoore.com
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Also! I'm in the process of migrating everything over from Substack to Beehiiv over the next few weeks, so no new newsletters during that time. If you're thinking of becoming a paid subscriber, now's a good time to...wait? All stories will still be available at the same URL (ncrabbithole.com).
North Carolina Rabbit Hole | Jeremy Markovich | Substack
Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country. Click to read North Carolina Rabbit Hole, by Jeremy Markovich, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
ncrabbithole.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Also! I'm in the process of migrating everything over from Substack to Beehiiv over the next few weeks, so no new newsletters during that time. If you're thinking of becoming a paid subscriber, now's a good time to...wait? All stories will still be available at the same URL (ncrabbithole.com).
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Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina
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Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina
Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sai…
trib.al
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina
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Tonight, as the sun set in Durham, while hundreds more joined patrols in Charlotte, courageous local officials, people of faith, and community leaders gathered to say: Enough is enough.
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Tonight, as the sun set in Durham, while hundreds more joined patrols in Charlotte, courageous local officials, people of faith, and community leaders gathered to say: Enough is enough.
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G took this photo. He titled it “accidentally hilarious foliage”
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
G took this photo. He titled it “accidentally hilarious foliage”
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Homelessness is a HOUSING problem.
Homelessness is not a drug problem.
Homelessness is not an economic problem.
Homelessness is not a climate problem.
HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM.
When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up.
via @zillow
Homelessness is not a drug problem.
Homelessness is not an economic problem.
Homelessness is not a climate problem.
HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM.
When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up.
via @zillow
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Homelessness is a HOUSING problem.
Homelessness is not a drug problem.
Homelessness is not an economic problem.
Homelessness is not a climate problem.
HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM.
When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up.
via @zillow
Homelessness is not a drug problem.
Homelessness is not an economic problem.
Homelessness is not a climate problem.
HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM.
When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up.
via @zillow
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Although Durham officials were not informed of any planned CBP activity, individuals have reported seeing agents in the city, and Nida Allam, who chairs the Durham County Board of Commissioners, said she witnessed three people taken into custody in a Durham shopping center on Avondale Drive.
Federal Agents Are Coming to the Triangle. Here’s What We Know.
Officials say Customs and Border Protection agents are in Raleigh today, and immigrant advocacy groups say they may appear in surrounding areas.
indyweek.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Although Durham officials were not informed of any planned CBP activity, individuals have reported seeing agents in the city, and Nida Allam, who chairs the Durham County Board of Commissioners, said she witnessed three people taken into custody in a Durham shopping center on Avondale Drive.
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This fascist panopticon is powered by Motorola and @reuters.com.
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This fascist panopticon is powered by Motorola and @reuters.com.