Jennifer Weeks

Jennifer Weeks

@jenniferweeks83.bsky.social

Freelance editor and writer, formerly @us.theconversation.com. Many bylines in many places. DC native, mom, Red Sox fan, alto II, Eph. Parallel parking is my special power.

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The Editorial Board
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1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

cbsnews.comMusk chose to restrict Ukraine's access to SpaceX satellite network, sources sayA decision by Elon Musk led to restrictions on Ukraine's use of SpaceX's satellite communications network, people familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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G Elliott Morris
@gelliottmorris.com

New NYT and Strength In Numbers polls this morning showing roughly same thing regarding national environment, around D+11-12 lead for Dems in the generic ballot depending on population. Double digit margin now a 50-50 chance in my modeling of all polls www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-21...

gelliottmorris.comPoll: Democrats post their biggest generic-ballot lead yet, two weeks outDemocrats lead by 10 among registered voters and 12 among likely voters, both highs for our poll, as Trump sets new lows on immigration and border security
Jennifer Weeks
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Susan Collins in a nutshell: “bragging about bringing home a slab of bacon, when you gave away the rest of the pig”.

Will Saletan@saletan.bsky.social

"Again and again, Collins comes back to the same twisted argument: Only she can limit the damage her party is doing." "The question is whether Mainers will settle for that grim bargain, or whether they’ll give her seat to a party that will take on Trump for real." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-case-a...

thebulwark.comThe Case Against Susan CollinsThe Maine senator accumulated power. But what good has she done with it?

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The Editorial Board
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No he can’t do that. Congress must defend itself. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest. apnews.com/article/russ...

apnews.comTrump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying waiver is in US national interestPresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest.

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Ann Monster Lipton
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this is pretty cool. Now that the CFPB has been functionally dismantled by Russell Vought, a bunch of the attorneys formed a consumer protection law firm www.law360.com/colorado/art...

law360.comHome Equity Fintech Is 1st Target Of Ex-CFPB Attys' Law Firm - Law360Home equity fintech firm Unlock has used deceptive marketing and confusing contract terms to hide that its "investment" agreements are actually illegal high-cost loans, according to a new proposed cla...
Jennifer Weeks
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#Aviation contributes roughly as much to #climatechange as plastics production, shipping, or the nation of Brazil. There's work ongoing to make flight greener, but your packages will probably fly carbon-free before you do -- my latest article for Distillations Magazine explains why. 🌎🧪

Science History Institute@sciencehistory.org

The question of how to best power planes is as old as aviation itself, and a surprising number of schemes have been tried over the past century. But as the Earth warms and oil prices soar, calls for a more sustainable approach to aviation have grown. ⁠ ⁠ Is such a thing even possible?⁠

sciencehistory.orgDelayed ArrivalCan sustainable air travel get off the ground?
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“If this summer’s celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding failed to inspire widespread patriotism, the increasingly bipartisan revolution against [cameras that track license plates] suggests Americans have not entirely lost their rebellious spirit.”

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org

OPINION: "As a historian of the American Revolution, I see parallels between Americans’ revolt against ALPRs and colonists’ destructive and often violent pushback to late 18th-century British rule," G. Patrick O'Brien writes. buff.ly/8VXjY9I

buff.lyOpinion | The American Revolt Against Flock Cameras Mirrors the Boston Tea PartyG. Patrick O’Brien writes about how the Flock camera pushback is similar to how American colonists rejected growing British surveillance.

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E.J. Dionne
@ejdionne.bsky.social

“Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After CNN Is Barred.” This is important. Trump has gotten away with abuses of power by dividing the groups (see: lawyers, universities) whose rights he assaulted. In this case, networks are standing in solidarity. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

nytimes.comTrump Live Updates: White House TV Pool Suspends Trump Coverage After CNN BanCNN, MS NOW and Politico said they would sue to regain access to the White House. They argued in a joint statement that President Trump’s decision to block them violates the First Amendment.

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Bradley P. Moss
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I absolutely encourage the GOP to go with this message for the next 6 weeks. 10/10, no notes.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Roger Marshall: I'm sorry gas prices are going up but your national security is more important than your pocketbook

Jennifer Weeks
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Everyone should understand how climate change is affecting conditions where they live, esp in places like Florida that are seeing huge storm surges, rising seas and widespread sunny-day flooding. Dropping it from textbooks won't make it go away. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

npr.orgIn Florida, textbook publishers are minimizing or removing climate change coverageThe words "climate change" are slowly being removed from textbooks in Florida and from the state's education standards.
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Continuing today's wont-get-fooled-again theme

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Silicon Valley’s leaders have spent the past 20 years "bombarding us with inappropriate and culturally corrosive content, turning a blind eye to social dysfunction and outright addiction, [and] flooding schools with technology that hooked young users but did little for education."

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"Silicon Valley may have enjoyed the days of Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous directive to 'move fast and break things,' but it turns out that we were the things being broken. We will not put up with that again."

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If you're a fearful flyer, or know one, here's a good breakdown of the relative risk of air travel. Authors estimate that "an hour in a passenger car or truck carried about 74 times the fatality risk of an hour aboard a commercial aircraft." Drive carefully! theconversation.com/compared-to-...

theconversation.comCompared to driving, flying is extraordinarily safe – but why doesn’t it feel that way?When it comes to transportation, there’s a hidden danger in choosing what feels safer.

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Jen Fifield
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1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇

Jennifer Weeks
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Great post pegged to the convergence at Reagan Washington Airport of military #veterans visiting DC and people coming for the 63rd anniversary of the #MarchonWashington

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

We made progress towards King’s dream—toward the American dream—over the subsequent half century. But we’ve regressed in the last decade. And yet, we shall once again overcome, someday. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

lnk.thebulwark.comA Dream Delayed Will Not Be a Dream DeniedThe country that beat fascism, communism, and Jim Crow still has some promise left.

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Mstreefrog
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A honey bee hovering near a blue, blue cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), carrying a bright yellow load of pollen on its hind leg. The green background is from a row of corn in the garden. 🌿🐝 #insects #pollinators #invertebrates #bugsky #macrophotography

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Swipe blue

The Cook Political Report@cookpolitical.com

🚨 Cook Political Report is shifting 4 key statewide race ratings: #TXSEN: Lean R → Toss Up
 #IASEN: Lean R → Toss Up #TXGOV: Solid R → Likely R #IAGOV: Toss Up → Lean D Read our latest: www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/gov...

cookpolitical.comTexas and Iowa Senate Races Move to Toss Up; Races for Governor Also Move in Democrats’ DirectionThe battle for the Senate is about to intensify ahead of the traditional Labor Day starting gun. Republicans still retain a structural advantage given the partisan challenges of the map, and Democrats still need almost every key race to break their way. But as we recently wrote, in a wave election akin to 2006, even states that President Donald Trump won by double digits could move within Democrats’ reach.
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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEWS: Another 60 U.S. service members wounded in Trump's Iran war have been added to the Pentagon’s casualty count, bringing the total to 775: 18 killed and 757 wounded. The Pentagon has not said when or where the newly reported injuries occurred.

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ex-Lethality Jane
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Today in "this administration totally supports The Troops", service members are getting notified that their children will no longer be provided with transportation from day care to elementary school. When your work day starts at 6:15 AM, that's a problem.

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To power data centers, "the rapid construction of new islanded power plants with inefficient turbines—many of which are designed to last for decades—threatens to create a parallel fossil fuel grid that generates millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions." www.wired.com/story/real-r...

wired.comThe Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So DirtyA massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.