Senior advisor @BrennanCenter | Author 'Dark Mirror' & 'Angler' | ex-Atlantic & Wash Post | Contact: bartongellman.com/contact
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Welcome to The Joh…Forming Arts Center.
The message here seems to be: “If I can’t have my name on the building, neither can he.”
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I control the weather.
I control all sports.
But I still can’t get my husband to load the dishwasher correctly🤷🏻♀️
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Only a matter of time now.
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RT @TaylorLorenz: Back in March I wrote for The Guardian about how a “social media ban” for children is just forced Digital ID by another n…
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Idea for @Uber - free of charge
Use the accelerometers in the phones in the car to show the driver a notification if their passenger is likely to be experiencing motion sickness.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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"Worrying about digital privacy is a first world problem."
Tell that to the journalist whose source was identified through phone metadata and the activist whose location data was sold to their government.
Privacy isn't a luxury problem.
It's a survival problem.
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The FBI raided @OHorganizing last Thursday, as the Trump administration continues to cast doubt on our elections. As mentioned on @ABCWorldNews, we have shown time and time again that voter fraud is incredibly rare: youtube.com/watch?v=xG_j4WcT…
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Wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen production, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs by up to 47%, according to new research from Princeton engineers: bit.ly/3NHybP1
ALT Lin Du in his lab testing hydrogen electrolysis using reclaimed wastewater.
ALT Ions of calcium and magnesium sticking to a membrane held up tongs over a beaker
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Um: preamble to 2015 JCPOA that Trump tore up: "Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons." Literally the same.
Pretty solid that "Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons."
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From setting age limits for lawmakers and expanding the House to restoring Congress’s control over federal spending, here's how to fix Congress.
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Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government.
Democrats and voting-rights groups say the proposed rule is clear evidence that the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.
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How can high-rise cities like New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore keep cool and beat the heat? Retro-reflectors.
A study published by Princeton engineers shows that buildings with retroreflective material installed had a temperature decrease of up to 36°F. bit.ly/42jzjf7
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Politicians shouldn’t be able to use the legal system to bully the press.
We need strong anti-SLAPP laws in every state and at the federal level to help put a stop to this nonsense.
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Hany Farid saying this is terrifying.
“I don’t trust anything. Every image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in my head. It’s over. Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.” nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…
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Eric Trump trying to squeeze UFC Hall of Famer/broadcaster Dan Cormier for inside info is disgusting. @danawhite has to be pleased members of the Trump family think UFC is fixed. Cormier deleted the tweet (below) within a couple minutes.
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When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.
Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.
A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.
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The ban will fail. But the privacy loss will be permanent.
Long after UK teens have bypassed it (just as Australian kids did, by the way)...
...the British will be stuck self-doxxing to surveillance gatekeepers to use the internet.
Embarrassing legacy for Starmer, who should know better.
And a daily reminder to Brits of government overreach.
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A new Brennan Center poll finds widespread voter support across parties for key anticorruption reforms, including new limits on money in elections and stronger protections against self-dealing by high-ranking government officials. bit.ly/4apvVns
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New: Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds.
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A group of security researchers, AI entrepreneurs, and corporate executives, including myself, have released a letter calling for a return to the American ideal of transparent, predictable and evidence-based regulation when it comes to AI.
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