Jessica Marie Johnson
@jessicamariejohnson.com
writer, historian of slavery, assoc prof and director at @lifexcode.bsky.social. books: Wicked Flesh (Penn Press, 2020); Computational Humanities (UMinn, 2024). Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
Third Offering: A Pattern for Future Thought
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Third Offering: A Pattern for Future Thought
We watch from the future with craving in our eyes.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Third Offering: A Pattern for Future Thought
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BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
Happy Bad Bunny Day 🇵🇷
February 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Happy Bad Bunny Day 🇵🇷
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Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
February 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
First Offering: The Other Side of 1619
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First Offering: The Other Side of 1619
May Njinga's Anger Fuel Our Power
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January 30, 2026 at 7:05 PM
First Offering: The Other Side of 1619
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Anyone telling you NOT to call your member of congress today is an op or under the influence of an op
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
January 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Anyone telling you NOT to call your member of congress today is an op or under the influence of an op
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
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"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Best team to ever do it; thank you Lauren Klein and the co-authors for being such generous thought partners. Just in time for your spring semester courses....
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Updated Provocations on Generative AI Paper Available for Download
A revised version of our preprint is now up!
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January 14, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Best team to ever do it; thank you Lauren Klein and the co-authors for being such generous thought partners. Just in time for your spring semester courses....
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Thank you to all the peer reviewers and colleagues who supported this project!
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Thank you to all the peer reviewers and colleagues who supported this project!
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Thank you to series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Thank you to series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social
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@lisaironcutter.bsky.social Mark Algee Hewitt, Kasper Beelen, Vanessa Holden, Josh Rothman, Crystal Hall, Julie Damerow, Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, Mariekej Van Erp, Tobias Blanke, Tassie Gnady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Lee Zickel 👇🏼
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
@lisaironcutter.bsky.social Mark Algee Hewitt, Kasper Beelen, Vanessa Holden, Josh Rothman, Crystal Hall, Julie Damerow, Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, Mariekej Van Erp, Tobias Blanke, Tassie Gnady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Lee Zickel 👇🏼
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Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
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January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼
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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student... Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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April 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student... Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
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As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
April 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
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We hope you’ll join us at Red Emma’s tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the Uprising and what it meant for Baltimore.
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Looking Back. Moving Forward: A Special West Wednesday.
It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death and the Uprising. It will be the 611th West Wednesday calling for justice for Tyrone West.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We hope you’ll join us at Red Emma’s tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the Uprising and what it meant for Baltimore.
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Baltimore City Paper tried to cover the Uprising differently, writes Jack Serpick. His father was editor-in-chief of the paper at the time.
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‘A particular responsibility’: What it was like to cover the 2015 Baltimore Uprising
“Everybody was all in.” It’s a bit of a full circle moment to hear this statement come from my father 10 years after I witnessed him pulling up outside our house, looking dazed and half-asleep. I was ...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Baltimore City Paper tried to cover the Uprising differently, writes Jack Serpick. His father was editor-in-chief of the paper at the time.
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baltimorebeat.com/a-particular...
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Find images from the Uprising, shot by photographer Devin Allen, on our Photostory page.
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Photostory: Images from the 2015 Baltimore Uprising
“I think the death of Freddie Gray inspired a whole new generation of activists,” photographer Devin Allen tells me on a phone call earlier this year. At the time of Gray’s death, Allen was beginning...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Find images from the Uprising, shot by photographer Devin Allen, on our Photostory page.
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Jaisal Noor and Logan Hullinger wrote about the Baltimore Legal Action Team, which got its start during the Uprising.
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From emergency response to sustained resistance: How Baltimore Action Legal Team endured after the Uprising
As day turned to night in Baltimore on April 27, 2015, the number of arrests for disorderly conduct, failure to obey, and destruction of property ticked upward. What began as street protests over the ...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Jaisal Noor and Logan Hullinger wrote about the Baltimore Legal Action Team, which got its start during the Uprising.
baltimorebeat.com/from-emergen...
baltimorebeat.com/from-emergen...
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To try to understand what happened in 2015 and to get a sense of where we are now, Baynard Woods sought out people who were involved in the uprising in one way or another.
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A Mass Movement: A History of the Baltimore Uprising, From the Ground Up
On the morning of April 12, 2015, at about 8:48 a.m., a 25-year-old Black man named Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. allegedly made eye contact with a police officer at the corner of North and Mount, where he was walking with his friends Brandon Ross and Davonte Roary looking for breakfast from a carryout. Gray and […]
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April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
To try to understand what happened in 2015 and to get a sense of where we are now, Baynard Woods sought out people who were involved in the uprising in one way or another.
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“Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Snowden writes in her letter.
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Letter from the editor- Issue 59
Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism. I felt pushed to think seriously about the way class com...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Snowden writes in her letter.
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Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
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a lot of very important stories and memories in this issue. it was very moving to read even as an editor
Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
April 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
a lot of very important stories and memories in this issue. it was very moving to read even as an editor