Jessie Sholl
@jessie-sholl.bsky.social
Freelance editor, book coach, part-time faculty at The New School and The Loft Literary Center. Animal enthusiast. www.jessie-sholl.com She/her
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Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
Yes, they should be. It's nonsensical that 3 Dems did this. It's capitulation to bigotry.
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yes, they should be. It's nonsensical that 3 Dems did this. It's capitulation to bigotry.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
What is happening? Has the vote happened? This wait is excruciating
House Dems have the votes to pass a 3yr extension of ACA tax credits.
Now Senate Republicans are the only thing standing in the way of getting this bill to the President & preventing huge spikes in costs for millions.
Leader Thune: commit to bringing this bill to a vote, now.
Now Senate Republicans are the only thing standing in the way of getting this bill to the President & preventing huge spikes in costs for millions.
Leader Thune: commit to bringing this bill to a vote, now.
December 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What is happening? Has the vote happened? This wait is excruciating
Seriously?? Just no.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Seriously?? Just no.
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minneapolis, be aware - national right wing youtuber nick shirley is here. he was in loring park this afternoon sniffing around somali businesses. remember that he was at lake and bloomington, despite not living here, so he seems to get early information
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
minneapolis, be aware - national right wing youtuber nick shirley is here. he was in loring park this afternoon sniffing around somali businesses. remember that he was at lake and bloomington, despite not living here, so he seems to get early information
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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It’s day 14 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
Today’s assignments:
1. Continue to organize with your neighbors
2. Spend some money at an immigrant owned business, if you can.
3. Remember we’re in this for the long haul. This is our community, and these are our neighbors.
Today’s assignments:
1. Continue to organize with your neighbors
2. Spend some money at an immigrant owned business, if you can.
3. Remember we’re in this for the long haul. This is our community, and these are our neighbors.
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It’s day 14 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
Today’s assignments:
1. Continue to organize with your neighbors
2. Spend some money at an immigrant owned business, if you can.
3. Remember we’re in this for the long haul. This is our community, and these are our neighbors.
Today’s assignments:
1. Continue to organize with your neighbors
2. Spend some money at an immigrant owned business, if you can.
3. Remember we’re in this for the long haul. This is our community, and these are our neighbors.
Thank you, @nyccomptroller.bsky.social for bringing attention to this! This simply can't happen -- if it does, The New School as we know and love it will cease to exist.
The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Thank you, @nyccomptroller.bsky.social for bringing attention to this! This simply can't happen -- if it does, The New School as we know and love it will cease to exist.
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Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
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December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
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Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
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We have received so many donations and we are still almost out of blankets AGAIN. If you have extras, if you can go to the Goodwill By the Pound locations, if you can find a bag sale, we give them out at the same rate as we are getting them in, it is dangerously cold out.
Sanctuary Supply Depot is keeping our neighbors warm! Who can join me in sending some $ to fill their Venmo back up so they can keep going?
PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
We have received so many donations and we are still almost out of blankets AGAIN. If you have extras, if you can go to the Goodwill By the Pound locations, if you can find a bag sale, we give them out at the same rate as we are getting them in, it is dangerously cold out.
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🧵 This sounds like a pretty clear cut case of self-dealing which 501c3’s like the New School are barred from doing but it’s rarely enforced.
December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
🧵 This sounds like a pretty clear cut case of self-dealing which 501c3’s like the New School are barred from doing but it’s rarely enforced.
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“we do better as socialists and leftists when we have a clear platform and the reactionaries get to debate us on that,” says robin wonsley. “we should never run on vibes. our whole thing is to set the terms of the debate with the reactionaries, the ruling class. because they have nothing to offer.”
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“we do better as socialists and leftists when we have a clear platform and the reactionaries get to debate us on that,” says robin wonsley. “we should never run on vibes. our whole thing is to set the terms of the debate with the reactionaries, the ruling class. because they have nothing to offer.”
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Absolutely devastated by the news of a mass shooting at Brown University. My heart breaks for every single person impacted by this tragedy.
It is unacceptable we keep finding ourselves here as a country. We have the power to end this horrific cycle of gun violence and must act.
It is unacceptable we keep finding ourselves here as a country. We have the power to end this horrific cycle of gun violence and must act.
December 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Absolutely devastated by the news of a mass shooting at Brown University. My heart breaks for every single person impacted by this tragedy.
It is unacceptable we keep finding ourselves here as a country. We have the power to end this horrific cycle of gun violence and must act.
It is unacceptable we keep finding ourselves here as a country. We have the power to end this horrific cycle of gun violence and must act.
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Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches!
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches!
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
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URGENT: I need a Minneapolis immigration attorney for a client in the hospital and likely detained by ICE. If anyone here has contacts with someone, or better yet practices in this area, please reach out to me via DM.
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
URGENT: I need a Minneapolis immigration attorney for a client in the hospital and likely detained by ICE. If anyone here has contacts with someone, or better yet practices in this area, please reach out to me via DM.
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We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the univ...
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
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The beginning
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The beginning
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Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Next year, Americans are expected to see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Next year, Americans are expected to see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
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TODAY! 4PM!
CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School!
• SUSPEND “realignment” measures
• RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements”
• CAP on salaries over $200,000
• CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community
Livestream link below.
CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School!
• SUSPEND “realignment” measures
• RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements”
• CAP on salaries over $200,000
• CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community
Livestream link below.
December 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
TODAY! 4PM!
CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School!
• SUSPEND “realignment” measures
• RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements”
• CAP on salaries over $200,000
• CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community
Livestream link below.
CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School!
• SUSPEND “realignment” measures
• RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements”
• CAP on salaries over $200,000
• CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community
Livestream link below.
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Yes. We must extend the ACA tax credits so that over 20 million Americans don't see a doubling in their health premiums, on average. But we must do more. We cannot remain the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right.
We must pass Medicare for All.
We must pass Medicare for All.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yes. We must extend the ACA tax credits so that over 20 million Americans don't see a doubling in their health premiums, on average. But we must do more. We cannot remain the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right.
We must pass Medicare for All.
We must pass Medicare for All.