Jenn Lena
@jenniferlena.bsky.social
Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences.
Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
Couldn’t sleep as cold/flu symptoms grew overnight; starting at 8am there’s very loud construction noise in the apartment above. The whole world (including my very small bit of it) feels infinitely cursed.
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Couldn’t sleep as cold/flu symptoms grew overnight; starting at 8am there’s very loud construction noise in the apartment above. The whole world (including my very small bit of it) feels infinitely cursed.
Shatteringly, an answer in the Sunday Times puzzle this week
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Shatteringly, an answer in the Sunday Times puzzle this week
Waking up in Europe to news of a mass shooting just blocks from my childhood home, and at a university…just unbelievably grief stricken and heartbroken. I’ll have to sign off for today because the hot takes are already flooding in while young people are still in surgery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Waking up in Europe to news of a mass shooting just blocks from my childhood home, and at a university…just unbelievably grief stricken and heartbroken. I’ll have to sign off for today because the hot takes are already flooding in while young people are still in surgery.
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The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”
Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”
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…And here’s a general flyer for the coaching (which I am also a very heavy user of) from the same folks. I’ve worked with all three coaches and recommend all three
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
…And here’s a general flyer for the coaching (which I am also a very heavy user of) from the same folks. I’ve worked with all three coaches and recommend all three
It made me so angry that I wrote a whole screed in the final open question box
is there anything more futile in december 2025 than taking an hr course on sexual harassment at an institute of higher education
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It made me so angry that I wrote a whole screed in the final open question box
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Talking about race or sex politics with (white) French people will leave you shook, shaken and stirred EVERY time. They’ll be like, “oh you Americans, so puritanical” in the middle of conversation about rape.
As an American, I’m used to how terribly SA is treated here. But when I read about France, holy shit.
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Talking about race or sex politics with (white) French people will leave you shook, shaken and stirred EVERY time. They’ll be like, “oh you Americans, so puritanical” in the middle of conversation about rape.
Maybe the only good news is that I still have my “no blood for oil” merch from the Iraq war
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Maybe the only good news is that I still have my “no blood for oil” merch from the Iraq war
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Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
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Boy and Moon - 1906
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105373
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105373
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Boy and Moon - 1906
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105373
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105373
It would be a really great day for things to break in my favor so if you have any pull with the universe, I hope you can say a word in my defense. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It would be a really great day for things to break in my favor so if you have any pull with the universe, I hope you can say a word in my defense. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is fucked. Jimmys Corner is the best thing about Times Square bar none and deserves to be cocooned from market forces/private equity/the fall of civilization. Gloves on.
this is the worst thing a member of the Durst family has ever done
Times Square May Lose Its Beloved 50-Year-Old Boxing Bar
Jimmy’s Corner boxing bar in Times Square is being evicted
ny.eater.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This is fucked. Jimmys Corner is the best thing about Times Square bar none and deserves to be cocooned from market forces/private equity/the fall of civilization. Gloves on.
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Passing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale.
Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative.
Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going.
Masks are required!
Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative.
Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going.
Masks are required!
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Passing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale.
Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative.
Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going.
Masks are required!
Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative.
Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going.
Masks are required!
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Could someone just try being honest with students and parents about job outcomes and what it means to get an education and how it affects you if your instructor is struggling to piece together a living wage by teaching 5 different classes at different colleges at the same time?
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Could someone just try being honest with students and parents about job outcomes and what it means to get an education and how it affects you if your instructor is struggling to piece together a living wage by teaching 5 different classes at different colleges at the same time?
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
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A new book co-edited by Prof. Jean Beaman examines how racialized minorities are leading a shift in anti-racist activism across Europe www.gc.cuny.edu/news/open-ac... @jean23bean.bsky.social
Open-Access Book Explores the Rise of a ‘New Wave’ of Anti-Racism Across Europe
Professor Jean Beaman co-edits "A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe?" about how racialized minorities are leading a shift in anti-racist activism across the continent.
www.gc.cuny.edu
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A new book co-edited by Prof. Jean Beaman examines how racialized minorities are leading a shift in anti-racist activism across Europe www.gc.cuny.edu/news/open-ac... @jean23bean.bsky.social
Anything Hanif offers is worth the price of admission
I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison.
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Hanif Abdurraqib at Stanford | On Art, Survival, and the Heart’s Work
YouTube video by Stanford Arts
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Anything Hanif offers is worth the price of admission
I should fucking hope not. I still can’t comprehend taking the birthright citizenship case
The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local officials to remove 17 books that these officials deemed objectionable from public libraries.
US Supreme Court turns away appeal of Texas library book ban
The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local officials to remove 17 books that these officials deemed objectionable from public libraries.
reut.rs
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I should fucking hope not. I still can’t comprehend taking the birthright citizenship case
ICEstapo and Nerd Reich are two of the better neologisms this month
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ICEstapo and Nerd Reich are two of the better neologisms this month
A high percentage of women—I’ve heard as much as 1/4—have hemmoroidal prolapses so I’d say do this if you want more of your squishy insides on the outsides
People are too quick to judge. The woman in the video is actually starting her career as a teacher in San Diego, that restroom? It’s her entire apartment. That’s all she can afford.
I want this woman thrown in prison for at least a decade.
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A high percentage of women—I’ve heard as much as 1/4—have hemmoroidal prolapses so I’d say do this if you want more of your squishy insides on the outsides
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Between cheating students, AI-hyping administrators, and political demagogues, pretty much everyone out there is telling educators that our life's work is totally worthless.
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Between cheating students, AI-hyping administrators, and political demagogues, pretty much everyone out there is telling educators that our life's work is totally worthless.
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It takes a certain kind of racism - the kind we are seeing in spades - to combine panic over immigration being too high with panic over birth rates being too low.
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It takes a certain kind of racism - the kind we are seeing in spades - to combine panic over immigration being too high with panic over birth rates being too low.