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Jessica Wakeman

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Independent journalist in Asheville, NC | https://jessicawakeman.contently.com | previously seen in Brooklyn and Connecticut | cream puff in a knife fight | email: jessica dot wakeman at gmail dot com | signal: jessicawakeman.80

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 13h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 15h

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US supreme court rejects Alex Jones appeal over $1.4bn defamation penalty

Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist had been ordered to pay because of false claims about Sandy Hook massacre

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 15h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 1d

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He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot.

Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 1d

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NC housing organizer's car destroyed while canvassing with tenants: Investigation ongoing

A WNC housing organizer's car was destroyed while she was canvassing at an apartment complex. Asheville Fire Department officials said the investigation is ongoing.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

How smoking a bong brought back the trauma of being shot by the Taliban – an exclusive extract from Malala Yousafzai’s memoir

In the activist’s new memoir, she remembers how trying weed at university brought on terrifying flashbacks

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/n...

These Students Are Scared. Friends and Teachers Are Their Protectors.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/n...

Man, 64, Is Fatally Beaten in a Subway Station After Chance Encounter

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Boston Prosecutors Invoke Law Used Against Anarchists to Charge Protesters

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Trump Has Not Ruled Out Invoking Insurrection Act to Deploy National Guard, Vance Says

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 2d

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Stein's Death Penalty Backlash

State Senate Democrats asked Gov. Josh Stein to veto the crime bill. Some in his party are angry he signed it.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 4d

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands for censorship.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 4d

www.truthdig.com/articles/is-...

Is ICE Today’s Klan? - Truthdig

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 4d

www.wunc.org/education/20...

Under pressure from right-wing groups, NC public universities disagree on whether a syllabus is a public record

Right-wing groups are increasingly requesting copies of syllabi and course materials to assess what's being taught in college classrooms. That means universities like UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensbor...

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 4d

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 7d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Inside The Times’s Reporting and Judgment Calls on Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 8d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...

A Marine Park in Canada Warns That It May Euthanize 30 Beluga Whales

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 8d

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The Mad King's Unverified Information Hose - Truthdig

Trump is ordering federal troops to occupy Portland, in defiance of a federal court, based on video clips from 2020.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 8d

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The UN calls conversion therapy 'torture.' Could the Supreme Court greenlight it anyway?

In the first of three blockbuster LGBTQ+ cases on its docket this term, the Supreme Court is about to hear a challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 8d

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Americans remain wary of electing a female president, new poll reveals

Four in 10 Americans say they know someone who would not vote for a woman president.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 8d

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Their parents never got them vaccinated. As young adults, they faced a choice.

Falling vaccination rates around the country mean more will grow up without protection from debilitating diseases until they are old enough to decide for themselves, typically at age 18.

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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 8d

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Gov. Stein signs 'Iryna's Law' despite mixed feelings over bill

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein waited until the last possible day to take action on the bill known as Iryna's Law. In a video statement, Stein explained that he has mixed feelings over the bill.