DrJessieNYC
@jessienyc.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
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Not mentioned in this excellent piece, the role of white American feminists in this propaganda. More about that here: criticalzionismstudies.org/white-femini...
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Only people who've never been incarcerated by psychiatry think it's the solution. Only them. The doctors, the family members. That's what they tell themselves. People who go through it, maybe they're even grateful it stabilized them, mostly agree that it is a terribly inhumane experience.
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Only people who've never been incarcerated by psychiatry think it's the solution. Only them. The doctors, the family members. That's what they tell themselves. People who go through it, maybe they're even grateful it stabilized them, mostly agree that it is a terribly inhumane experience.
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I received a thank you from some library workers for this piece after a Chicago city budget was passed this week without the previously proposed library cuts I described here. Many thanks to everyone who made noise about this issue. There were wins and losses in this budget, but this win matters.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I received a thank you from some library workers for this piece after a Chicago city budget was passed this week without the previously proposed library cuts I described here. Many thanks to everyone who made noise about this issue. There were wins and losses in this budget, but this win matters.
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AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
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Lots of my arguments with them are basically me screaming that to White racists we will always be less than. They might use us and our yearnings for Whiteness, but they do not think of us as ‘white’ and we need to have a little self respect and solidarity with other racialized groups.
So many of my arguments with relatives are them essentially saying ‘we count as white’ and me saying ’ the white people cannot tell the difference between hindus And Muslims’
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Lots of my arguments with them are basically me screaming that to White racists we will always be less than. They might use us and our yearnings for Whiteness, but they do not think of us as ‘white’ and we need to have a little self respect and solidarity with other racialized groups.
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance
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She looks like she just came in second on American Idol
These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
She looks like she just came in second on American Idol
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“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
futurism.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
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I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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Ask any historian, and this is a standard experience. The project you envision you will write turns out to be something different in the end. Why? Because you go where the sources lead you, and you can never get there if you rely on technology that only builds off of established knowledge.
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Ask any historian, and this is a standard experience. The project you envision you will write turns out to be something different in the end. Why? Because you go where the sources lead you, and you can never get there if you rely on technology that only builds off of established knowledge.
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BLESSED YULE AND HAPPY SOLSTICE TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE 🌲🕯️🌟
THE SUN IS GONNA COME BACK
THE SUN IS GONNA COME BACK
December 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
BLESSED YULE AND HAPPY SOLSTICE TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE 🌲🕯️🌟
THE SUN IS GONNA COME BACK
THE SUN IS GONNA COME BACK
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Should we turn the internet off?
Should we turn the internet off?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue world
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Should we turn the internet off?
hey, I know things are terrible but this won’t last & we’ll build something new and better for everyone.
December 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
hey, I know things are terrible but this won’t last & we’ll build something new and better for everyone.
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Indie book store owners are up there with poll workers, librarians and public school teachers as the front line Guardians of Democracy, whether they like it or not!
December 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Indie book store owners are up there with poll workers, librarians and public school teachers as the front line Guardians of Democracy, whether they like it or not!
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...
Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).
Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...
Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).
Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).
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Reports indicate the DOJ has roughly 300 gigabytes of data in theEpstein files
That equates to millions of pages in document form
Today they released about 300,000 pages-none of which mention Trump
This appears to violate the law
Congress should subpoena Pam Bondi to see what she’s hiding
That equates to millions of pages in document form
Today they released about 300,000 pages-none of which mention Trump
This appears to violate the law
Congress should subpoena Pam Bondi to see what she’s hiding
Khanna: "The law clearly required all unclassified information being released today. They obviously have not complied with that law. They claim it's because it was only a few weeks -- well they've known about this for months."
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reports indicate the DOJ has roughly 300 gigabytes of data in theEpstein files
That equates to millions of pages in document form
Today they released about 300,000 pages-none of which mention Trump
This appears to violate the law
Congress should subpoena Pam Bondi to see what she’s hiding
That equates to millions of pages in document form
Today they released about 300,000 pages-none of which mention Trump
This appears to violate the law
Congress should subpoena Pam Bondi to see what she’s hiding
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Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
#harmreduction saves lives
OnPoint NYC, the nonprofit that was the first in the nation to openly offer supervised drug consumption services, celebrated its fourth anniversary by trumpeting its positive community impact, making its case triumphantly and with a touch of defiance... www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/o...
Facing federal hostility, supervised consumption site points to 1,900 overdose reversals
OnPoint, the nation's first supervised drug consumption site, vows to continue its approach to harm reduction.
www.statnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#harmreduction saves lives
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since poverty is the overwhelming cause of relinquishment, we should think of #adoption, largely, as a grotesque mockery of mutual aid: instead of spending money to provide material support to someone in crisis, we spend even more to complete the catastrophe to which the crisis has driven them.
i’m rereading Kathryn Joyce’s THE CHILD CATCHERS and I came across this passage, which characterizes infant #adoption in the USA: an industry in which clients purchase children with sums of money that often could have lifted those children’s families out of poverty “many times over.”
December 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
since poverty is the overwhelming cause of relinquishment, we should think of #adoption, largely, as a grotesque mockery of mutual aid: instead of spending money to provide material support to someone in crisis, we spend even more to complete the catastrophe to which the crisis has driven them.
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NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
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I hate listening to Americans talk about "the left" this, and "the left" that, and the whole time, they're referring to fucking liberals. Like, liberals aren't part of the Left. Leftism (socialism, communism, and anarchism) starts at ANTI CAPITALISM. Liberals are fucking capitalist ghouls.
December 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I hate listening to Americans talk about "the left" this, and "the left" that, and the whole time, they're referring to fucking liberals. Like, liberals aren't part of the Left. Leftism (socialism, communism, and anarchism) starts at ANTI CAPITALISM. Liberals are fucking capitalist ghouls.
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good morning 🌞
December 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
good morning 🌞
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From Seattle to LA, the demand is clear: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
From Seattle to LA, the demand is clear: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...