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travelinganna.bsky.social
Journalist, former wsj, Vox, USA TODAY. Studying the neuroscience of information & happiness at Penn.
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Actual photo of me, a laid off journalist who still believes in information equity

Compelling evidence for me to ditch my “delete everything” mentality www.404media.co/r/feabad3d?m...

DOGE, the VP is taking a lot of vacations. We should look into that funding.

Mutual aid is how we’re going to get through this while our systems of living are stripped

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

Is Elon moving the US toward a depression so that his funded private companies can “save” it? blavity.com/jasmine-croc...

I wonder how the people who voted to create “greater” jobs feel about there being more unemployed people now, and more competition for every job.

We live in a post-truth era where every word said is on equal ground and facts are subjective. Dangerous business

I feel like you don’t want to make the actual workers running the country angry

WSJ says Twitter is telling advertisers to spend more with them “or else” — “They are afraid of the legal/political ramifications of not doing so.” Do y’all get it yet? www.wsj.com/business/med...

Publisher affiliate programs took away our discovery of new clothing brands because everyone’s going to use Amazon since they have the highest returns for publishers. I miss finding new brands.

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

A whole genre of humans who create problems and then pretend they have fixed them

Just spent an hour laughing over life events in therapy- if you don’t have a therapist that focuses on career, this is your sign to find one

I’m the luckiest girl to have people who celebrate big life moves with cake

My restaurant of the year choice is a Philly community chef incubator www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Coca-Cola is alreaady responsible for 11% of all global branded plastic pollution. sherwood.news/business/coc...

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

Mutual aid groups in big cities are smart about redirecting food waste. What happens in small towns?

This map of food insecurity is not shocking at all, but how do we change the pipeline of fresh foods and release the hold big chains have on poor communities? www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

Not me up early with the flu waiting for the #rundisney two race challenge registration to open because running is the only thing keeping me going right now

I was not a horse or dolphin girl. I was an obsessed with numbers station and cryptograms girl

I loved this episode because it takes about the birth of Gritty, our Roma

Go birds

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Don’t stop creating art right now www.npr.org/2009/02/25/1...

If you work in the federal government, this guide to locking down your communications from @heatherkelly.bsky.social is a must-read. wapo.st/3CPSmEN

Nothing is real anymore www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Philly: The Old Pine Community Center is hosting a blood drive on Feb 17th. You can sign up here: www.redcrossblood.org

The amount of good journalists pushed out of this field keeps me up at night

Where do they think all of these people are going to work after 8 months? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

It’s important not to overwhelm yourself with news right now. Changes happening at this speed mean you might have preemptive anxiety or anticipation for problems that never happen - that weakens your ability to react to real threats

A long time ago I went on a date with a doctor who said he didn’t “like” running for my “body shape.” He thought I should take up lower endurance sports. Anyway here’s my 7th half marathon medal

Iyktk #rundisney

When I ask that you try to share the most local news source it’s because they likely have people at the scene to verify other accounts. They can fact check faster because they are there.

For those of us with family in NE Philly, the abundance of noise combined with terrible consolidation of real information across social has made this a very long 45 mns. Searching for facts on social is a nightmare now

Some of us will always have to prove ourselves, in every newsroom, in every job, regardless of title or experience. Jenny lays down an unspoken truth - and a request jennygzhang.substack.com/p/media-indu...

I rented a challenger in California and drove to get a stack of sweet cream pancakes. I’m going to keep driving north to see some trees today

This is a post-fact world