Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on the Univ of Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
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Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
· Nov 22
Ok, there are so many new followers and I appreciate it, but you should know what you're getting into LOL so here are some things I've written or worked on to give you an idea of what I do, what I care about
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nerds did a study on why kissing is good lmao
Animals have been kissing for over 17 million years, a new study suggests.
Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
When was the first kiss? Over 17 million years ago, a study suggests.
Evolutionary biologists don’t know why we kiss — but new research suggests kissing evolved long before humans existed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
nerds did a study on why kissing is good lmao
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The only reason to go kill the survivors and lie about it is because you knew the boat wasn’t carrying drugs
5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The only reason to go kill the survivors and lie about it is because you knew the boat wasn’t carrying drugs
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Texas vs South Carolina in women‘s bball in 45 minutes because I love to be Sports Stressed on Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Texas vs South Carolina in women‘s bball in 45 minutes because I love to be Sports Stressed on Thanksgiving!
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It’s cool that you don’t like that thing everyone likes but have you considered shutting the fuck up
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s cool that you don’t like that thing everyone likes but have you considered shutting the fuck up
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.
www.transanta.com/about
www.transanta.com/about
About — Transanta
www.transanta.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.
www.transanta.com/about
www.transanta.com/about
HERO!!!!! THANK YOU!
On HBO!
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
HERO!!!!! THANK YOU!
I set an alarm last night so I wouldn’t forget to turn this on and still just now when I saw this I was surprised and thought, “OH SHIT! HUGE GAME!”
Madison Booker and the #4 ranked Texas Longhorns are locked in ahead of their matchup with #3 UCLA
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I set an alarm last night so I wouldn’t forget to turn this on and still just now when I saw this I was surprised and thought, “OH SHIT! HUGE GAME!”
Kavitha and I recently had a prof who taught our book, Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back, email us comments from her students, all of whom loved the book. I cried. This email will sustain me for weeks, at the least.
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Kavitha and I recently had a prof who taught our book, Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back, email us comments from her students, all of whom loved the book. I cried. This email will sustain me for weeks, at the least.
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ICYMI: I wrote about what it's like to have gotten my autism diagnosis, fallen in love and built a life during a time roughly concurrent with our evolving understanding of autism, and what it means to stand firm in that knowledge and self-determination in a time when the state seeks to tear it down
I will not give up that which I have tasted
Promotion of the myth
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ICYMI: I wrote about what it's like to have gotten my autism diagnosis, fallen in love and built a life during a time roughly concurrent with our evolving understanding of autism, and what it means to stand firm in that knowledge and self-determination in a time when the state seeks to tear it down
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
This would be like watching basketball and suddenly they show you the game from under the basket. I hate it and ESPN is doing it so much tonight.
I need the email of whoever at ESPN keeps deciding to show points in the volleyball matches from behind the serving line instead of from half court.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This would be like watching basketball and suddenly they show you the game from under the basket. I hate it and ESPN is doing it so much tonight.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
COME ON LONGHORN VOLLEYBALL !!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COME ON LONGHORN VOLLEYBALL !!!!!!!
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
UT beats A&M in the SF of the SEC volleyball tournament. Will play Kentucky in the final tomorrow. UT has only lost twice this season: to A&M and Kentucky. The revenge tour continues!
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
UT beats A&M in the SF of the SEC volleyball tournament. Will play Kentucky in the final tomorrow. UT has only lost twice this season: to A&M and Kentucky. The revenge tour continues!
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Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
I need the email of whoever at ESPN keeps deciding to show points in the volleyball matches from behind the serving line instead of from half court.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I need the email of whoever at ESPN keeps deciding to show points in the volleyball matches from behind the serving line instead of from half court.
I see the discourse but no one can get me to not deeply love Rogue One! That’s my entire contribution. I love it and always will.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I see the discourse but no one can get me to not deeply love Rogue One! That’s my entire contribution. I love it and always will.
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According ESPN, Briles received a $15m settlement when he left Baylor, not to mention the $3m he was making annually. Why is anyone paying him to coach anywhere?
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
According ESPN, Briles received a $15m settlement when he left Baylor, not to mention the $3m he was making annually. Why is anyone paying him to coach anywhere?
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this was truly one of the most bizarre things i have ever witnessed, in a courtroom or anywhere else, just this bafflingly antagonistic testimony when he wasn’t even the one being sued
If you are interested in whether Briles has taken responsibility for the failures under his tenure at Baylor, consider that two years ago, during the only time he's been under oath, he lied about basic things like whether he wrote his own memoir: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Most Puzzling Moments From Art Briles’s Testimony in the Baylor Title IX Lawsuit
The former head football coach was called to testify on Thursday—and made some surprising assertions.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this was truly one of the most bizarre things i have ever witnessed, in a courtroom or anywhere else, just this bafflingly antagonistic testimony when he wasn’t even the one being sued
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
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Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
sure
Art Briles reportedly remerging as head coach of D2's ENMU Greyhounds... the Pride of Portales.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
sure