Jenna Somers
@jennasomers.bsky.social
Research news writer, editor @ an R1 university (all opinions are my own)
https://www.clippings.me/users/jennasomers
https://www.clippings.me/users/jennasomers
I recently moved to CA and enrolled my child in publicly-provided TK because of the cost of childcare. We also conveniently have a cheaper after school program. With that said, this study speaks to all the fears I had about a well-intentioned program.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
One state made preschool free. Then dozens of child care centers closed in its largest city
Universal preschool promised equity but benefits went to the wealthy
hechingerreport.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I recently moved to CA and enrolled my child in publicly-provided TK because of the cost of childcare. We also conveniently have a cheaper after school program. With that said, this study speaks to all the fears I had about a well-intentioned program.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
We are going to need Nuremberg-like trials for the evil fucks in the DeSantis regime and the Trump regime. I am so disgusted with this country, with the callous, selfish, depraved people of this country who voted for these evil regimes.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
We are going to need Nuremberg-like trials for the evil fucks in the DeSantis regime and the Trump regime. I am so disgusted with this country, with the callous, selfish, depraved people of this country who voted for these evil regimes.
As misogynistic as I know this country is, it is still shocking, 3.5 years after the overturning of Rowe, that we have normalized women dying preventable deaths.
But then, again, we normalize, thanks also to republicans, the mass murder of children in schools.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
But then, again, we normalize, thanks also to republicans, the mass murder of children in schools.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
As misogynistic as I know this country is, it is still shocking, 3.5 years after the overturning of Rowe, that we have normalized women dying preventable deaths.
But then, again, we normalize, thanks also to republicans, the mass murder of children in schools.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
But then, again, we normalize, thanks also to republicans, the mass murder of children in schools.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
The problem is that for too long our politicians and America’s institutions have allowed tech bros to think wealth = intelligence, and that we should turn to them for the answers to societies’ most complex problems. No, they were and are the most complex problem.
www.ft.com/content/b127...
www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The problem is that for too long our politicians and America’s institutions have allowed tech bros to think wealth = intelligence, and that we should turn to them for the answers to societies’ most complex problems. No, they were and are the most complex problem.
www.ft.com/content/b127...
www.ft.com/content/b127...
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
If @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social proves to be a good mayor and continues running for higher offices, he has the opportunity to become the most effective political communicator of my lifetime, surpassing Obama.
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social proves to be a good mayor and continues running for higher offices, he has the opportunity to become the most effective political communicator of my lifetime, surpassing Obama.
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
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Harvard's prosecutorial culture was "miserable," says Jill Lepore. Even so, she stayed, but has since come to regret her silence. https://chroni.cl/4ihof9O
Why Jill Lepore Nearly Quit Harvard
The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
www.chronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Harvard's prosecutorial culture was "miserable," says Jill Lepore. Even so, she stayed, but has since come to regret her silence. https://chroni.cl/4ihof9O
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There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
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No one should be shocked by this. If I could leave this country, I would do so in a heartbeat, and I have wanted to leave form quite some time. America is a misogynistic country.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No one should be shocked by this. If I could leave this country, I would do so in a heartbeat, and I have wanted to leave form quite some time. America is a misogynistic country.
The Nazis pepper sprayed a baby.
This is what the shutdown should have been about, restoring the Constitution. This is what the next shutdown needs to be about. We cannot continue to fund this authoritarian regime.
newrepublic.com/post/203046/...
This is what the shutdown should have been about, restoring the Constitution. This is what the next shutdown needs to be about. We cannot continue to fund this authoritarian regime.
newrepublic.com/post/203046/...
Damning Video Shows DHS Agents Pepper-Spray a Baby
The Department of Homeland Security has denied it.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The Nazis pepper sprayed a baby.
This is what the shutdown should have been about, restoring the Constitution. This is what the next shutdown needs to be about. We cannot continue to fund this authoritarian regime.
newrepublic.com/post/203046/...
This is what the shutdown should have been about, restoring the Constitution. This is what the next shutdown needs to be about. We cannot continue to fund this authoritarian regime.
newrepublic.com/post/203046/...
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This, too, is what the shutdown should have been about, but feckless democrats can’t be bothered with human rights and the Constitution.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This, too, is what the shutdown should have been about, but feckless democrats can’t be bothered with human rights and the Constitution.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
The “don’t-call-us-Nazis” crew is Nazi-ing again. Literally being Nazis.
Greg Bovino, a prominent commander of the CBP/ICE responsible for leading kidnapping campaigns nationwide, is seen performing the Nazi “sieg heil” salute and engaging in “rock paper scissors”
Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025
Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The “don’t-call-us-Nazis” crew is Nazi-ing again. Literally being Nazis.
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Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.