Jenna Flanagan
@jflannys.bsky.social
Journalist - Podcaster - Creator
Laid Off and Looking Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/laidoffandlooking-podcast
Laid Off and Looking Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/laidoffandlooking-podcast
Why did the ICE killing of Keith Porter never make the headlines while others dominated the news? And how did an anti-ICE campaign win over a NJ Republican stronghold? We connect the dots on We Decide. 👇 wbai.org/articles.php...
Black History Month Erasure Plus Suburban Anti-Ice Blowback
ListenIn this week's We Decide: America at the Crossroads we look at how the Trump regime's violent mass deportation strategy that's resulted...
wbai.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Why did the ICE killing of Keith Porter never make the headlines while others dominated the news? And how did an anti-ICE campaign win over a NJ Republican stronghold? We connect the dots on We Decide. 👇 wbai.org/articles.php...
Reposted by Jenna Flanagan
“My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos.”
ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer
The filing aims to hold rogue federal agents accountable by linking them to a conspiracy.
www.motherjones.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos.”
Word has it ICE is heading to Ohio next to target Haitian immigrants…
during Black History Month
www.democracynow.org/2026/1/30/te...
during Black History Month
www.democracynow.org/2026/1/30/te...
350,000 Haitians in U.S. “at Risk of Losing Everything” After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status
An estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants are set to lose their temporary protected status, or TPS, on February 3, 2026, after President Trump signed an executive order to revoke their TPS shortly after...
www.democracynow.org
January 31, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Word has it ICE is heading to Ohio next to target Haitian immigrants…
during Black History Month
www.democracynow.org/2026/1/30/te...
during Black History Month
www.democracynow.org/2026/1/30/te...
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“As she committed to do during her campaign, @govsherrillnj.bsky.social signed a series of EO’s to freeze New Jersey's runaway electric rates…Sherrill affirmed the role of the 🇺🇸 union movement in building & maintaining the middle class.”
HT
@jflannys.bsky.social
@wbai.org
@stucknation.bsky.social
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@wbai.org
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NJ Gov. Sherrill Stands Up to Trump Echoing 1776
Listen NowFRONTLINE VOICESWelcome to Frontline Voice from the WBAI News Collective, with Jenna Flannagan. This morning New Jersey Governor-elect M...
wbai.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:01 AM
“As she committed to do during her campaign, @govsherrillnj.bsky.social signed a series of EO’s to freeze New Jersey's runaway electric rates…Sherrill affirmed the role of the 🇺🇸 union movement in building & maintaining the middle class.”
HT
@jflannys.bsky.social
@wbai.org
@stucknation.bsky.social
HT
@jflannys.bsky.social
@wbai.org
@stucknation.bsky.social
Petrodollar: oil priced in US dollars keeps global demand for our money high.
BUT as BRICS nations move away from it and renewables rise the dollar’s value is at serious risk.
That’s why Venezuela, Ukraine, and energy wars matter.
BUT as BRICS nations move away from it and renewables rise the dollar’s value is at serious risk.
That’s why Venezuela, Ukraine, and energy wars matter.
The War Beneath the War
How Ukraine, Venezuela, Russia, oil, and the U.S. dollar are shaping what “peace” means?
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Petrodollar: oil priced in US dollars keeps global demand for our money high.
BUT as BRICS nations move away from it and renewables rise the dollar’s value is at serious risk.
That’s why Venezuela, Ukraine, and energy wars matter.
BUT as BRICS nations move away from it and renewables rise the dollar’s value is at serious risk.
That’s why Venezuela, Ukraine, and energy wars matter.
Authoritarian systems thrive on fear, isolation, and burnout. Organizer Daniel Hunter's work offers a guide to staying grounded in 2026 without doing their work for them.
Here are 10 ways to hold it together. →
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Here are 10 ways to hold it together. →
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
After the Shock of 2025: 10 Ways to Stay Grounded When Chaos Is the Strategy
Lessons I got from activist Daniel Hunter on resisting autocracy without losing yourself, or each other.
open.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Authoritarian systems thrive on fear, isolation, and burnout. Organizer Daniel Hunter's work offers a guide to staying grounded in 2026 without doing their work for them.
Here are 10 ways to hold it together. →
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Here are 10 ways to hold it together. →
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Wait, immigration judges have a union? I never realized that until I interviewed Matthew Biggs, president of
@ifpte.bsky.social
. While everyone watches ICE (as they should) immigration courts are being hollowed out. This is the story we’re missing. 🔗
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@ifpte.bsky.social
. While everyone watches ICE (as they should) immigration courts are being hollowed out. This is the story we’re missing. 🔗
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Everyone’s Watching ICE, No One’s Watching the Courts
While ICE agents dominate the headlines, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside immigration courts: a decimated system, manipulated judges, and a union-busting agenda reshaping justice.
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Wait, immigration judges have a union? I never realized that until I interviewed Matthew Biggs, president of
@ifpte.bsky.social
. While everyone watches ICE (as they should) immigration courts are being hollowed out. This is the story we’re missing. 🔗
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
@ifpte.bsky.social
. While everyone watches ICE (as they should) immigration courts are being hollowed out. This is the story we’re missing. 🔗
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Reposted by Jenna Flanagan
Donald Trump’s vision for America in 2026 and beyond: How realistic is it, anyway, despite his rapid-fire White House speech last week?
My conversation on @wbai.org w/ @jflannys.bsky.social @laurajedeed.bsky.social & @egbertowillies.com.
🎧 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
My conversation on @wbai.org w/ @jflannys.bsky.social @laurajedeed.bsky.social & @egbertowillies.com.
🎧 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
WBAI Radio Archives
wbai.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Donald Trump’s vision for America in 2026 and beyond: How realistic is it, anyway, despite his rapid-fire White House speech last week?
My conversation on @wbai.org w/ @jflannys.bsky.social @laurajedeed.bsky.social & @egbertowillies.com.
🎧 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
My conversation on @wbai.org w/ @jflannys.bsky.social @laurajedeed.bsky.social & @egbertowillies.com.
🎧 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
Too many of us spent 2025 nursing broken systems… and getting a vicious bite in return for our troubles.
Black women felt it first - and we TRIED TO WARN YALL
2026 doesn’t have to repeat it, if we don’t let it. 🐍
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Black women felt it first - and we TRIED TO WARN YALL
2026 doesn’t have to repeat it, if we don’t let it. 🐍
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
"You Knew Damn Well I Was A Snake": Saying Goodbye to 2025
How we were all forced to let the Year of the Snake in regardless of how much we understood its danger or not… and why no one clocked that vulnerability more clearly than Black women.
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Too many of us spent 2025 nursing broken systems… and getting a vicious bite in return for our troubles.
Black women felt it first - and we TRIED TO WARN YALL
2026 doesn’t have to repeat it, if we don’t let it. 🐍
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Black women felt it first - and we TRIED TO WARN YALL
2026 doesn’t have to repeat it, if we don’t let it. 🐍
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
You know how to stifle class mobility?
Cut off access to nursing.
Federal policy just did that.
I reported on this crisis 10 years ago.
We were warned.
Now we’re paying for it.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Cut off access to nursing.
Federal policy just did that.
I reported on this crisis 10 years ago.
We were warned.
Now we’re paying for it.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
This Is a Crisis 10 Years in the Making
How Ignoring the Nursing Shortage, and Now Undermining Nursing Education, Is Putting America’s Healthcare System at Serious Risk
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You know how to stifle class mobility?
Cut off access to nursing.
Federal policy just did that.
I reported on this crisis 10 years ago.
We were warned.
Now we’re paying for it.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Cut off access to nursing.
Federal policy just did that.
I reported on this crisis 10 years ago.
We were warned.
Now we’re paying for it.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Live Updates: Reiners’ Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Reiners’ Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Live Updates: Reiners’ Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Watching last night’s news about Rob Reiner unfold was a reminder of how thin the line is between reporting and rumor.
This is the information crisis we were warned about.
In the end, we shouldn't judge this moment by speed, but by how much accuracy we demand.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
This is the information crisis we were warned about.
In the end, we shouldn't judge this moment by speed, but by how much accuracy we demand.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Opinion: The Problem We Were Warned About
In 2017, I interviewed Rob Reiner and David Frum on disinformation & democracy. Today, as the shocking news of Reiner’s death spreads faster than facts, that conversation feels devastatingly urgent.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Watching last night’s news about Rob Reiner unfold was a reminder of how thin the line is between reporting and rumor.
This is the information crisis we were warned about.
In the end, we shouldn't judge this moment by speed, but by how much accuracy we demand.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
This is the information crisis we were warned about.
In the end, we shouldn't judge this moment by speed, but by how much accuracy we demand.
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Choosing yourself is hard.
Two years post-layoff, this job market is brutal. It's making talented people feel humble and desperate.
But I recently reread an old resignation email and remembered:
I’ve been here before
and I had the courage to walk away.
Can I do it again?
Two years post-layoff, this job market is brutal. It's making talented people feel humble and desperate.
But I recently reread an old resignation email and remembered:
I’ve been here before
and I had the courage to walk away.
Can I do it again?
Choosing Myself, Again
Before anyone praised my journalism, a resignation letter proved my words had power. Now, after a layoff, I’m searching for the courage of the woman who wrote it.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Choosing yourself is hard.
Two years post-layoff, this job market is brutal. It's making talented people feel humble and desperate.
But I recently reread an old resignation email and remembered:
I’ve been here before
and I had the courage to walk away.
Can I do it again?
Two years post-layoff, this job market is brutal. It's making talented people feel humble and desperate.
But I recently reread an old resignation email and remembered:
I’ve been here before
and I had the courage to walk away.
Can I do it again?
NYC receives 2.5 million packages a day but the people delivering them are getting injured at triple the average rate.
Student journalists uncovered why: unsafe vans, impossible quotas, & a system that shifts liability onto small operators.
This is the hidden cost of convenience.
Student journalists uncovered why: unsafe vans, impossible quotas, & a system that shifts liability onto small operators.
This is the hidden cost of convenience.
**You Ordered It, But At What Cost?
Why New York’s Delivery Workers Are Paying the Price for Our Holiday Convenience**
jflanagan.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NYC receives 2.5 million packages a day but the people delivering them are getting injured at triple the average rate.
Student journalists uncovered why: unsafe vans, impossible quotas, & a system that shifts liability onto small operators.
This is the hidden cost of convenience.
Student journalists uncovered why: unsafe vans, impossible quotas, & a system that shifts liability onto small operators.
This is the hidden cost of convenience.
"They think THIS is news?" if you've ever thought that, blame the assignment desk.
But wait! Prof. Benjamin Davis, says before you direct your ire, assignment desk editors have corporate overlords to please... so who's really to blame for the state of our journalism?
youtu.be/auEfoqqsr4U?...
But wait! Prof. Benjamin Davis, says before you direct your ire, assignment desk editors have corporate overlords to please... so who's really to blame for the state of our journalism?
youtu.be/auEfoqqsr4U?...
Who Makes the News?
YouTube video by Laid Off and Looking Podcast
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"They think THIS is news?" if you've ever thought that, blame the assignment desk.
But wait! Prof. Benjamin Davis, says before you direct your ire, assignment desk editors have corporate overlords to please... so who's really to blame for the state of our journalism?
youtu.be/auEfoqqsr4U?...
But wait! Prof. Benjamin Davis, says before you direct your ire, assignment desk editors have corporate overlords to please... so who's really to blame for the state of our journalism?
youtu.be/auEfoqqsr4U?...
If journalism were a person, we’d be staging an intervention.
But since it’s an industry, we made a podcast instead!
🎧 Press Pass: When The News Becomes a Joke
Because at this point, you either laugh… or start a Substack. (I've got one of those too! @jflanagan.substack)
youtu.be/MgeyrBqRvwQ?...
But since it’s an industry, we made a podcast instead!
🎧 Press Pass: When The News Becomes a Joke
Because at this point, you either laugh… or start a Substack. (I've got one of those too! @jflanagan.substack)
youtu.be/MgeyrBqRvwQ?...
When the News Becomes a Joke
YouTube video by Laid Off and Looking Podcast
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If journalism were a person, we’d be staging an intervention.
But since it’s an industry, we made a podcast instead!
🎧 Press Pass: When The News Becomes a Joke
Because at this point, you either laugh… or start a Substack. (I've got one of those too! @jflanagan.substack)
youtu.be/MgeyrBqRvwQ?...
But since it’s an industry, we made a podcast instead!
🎧 Press Pass: When The News Becomes a Joke
Because at this point, you either laugh… or start a Substack. (I've got one of those too! @jflanagan.substack)
youtu.be/MgeyrBqRvwQ?...
“They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” Kimberly Jones
That line hits even harder today and makes me think of Sojourner Truth.
Her revolution was never about revenge, it was about renewal.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
That line hits even harder today and makes me think of Sojourner Truth.
Her revolution was never about revenge, it was about renewal.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Sojourner Truth’s America: The Woman Who Turned the World Right Side Up
How a woman from Ulster County, NY found her voice to use her faith in defiance of white supremacy and patriarchy to reshape the soul of American democracy
substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” Kimberly Jones
That line hits even harder today and makes me think of Sojourner Truth.
Her revolution was never about revenge, it was about renewal.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
That line hits even harder today and makes me think of Sojourner Truth.
Her revolution was never about revenge, it was about renewal.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
TV news used to feel like a public service.
Now it feels like a performance.
This week we talk with @newsjennifer.bsky.social about how the news became just another TV show, and what it’ll take to earn trust again.
youtu.be/3yVhBudH5YY?...
#Journalism #LocalNews #MediaTrust
Now it feels like a performance.
This week we talk with @newsjennifer.bsky.social about how the news became just another TV show, and what it’ll take to earn trust again.
youtu.be/3yVhBudH5YY?...
#Journalism #LocalNews #MediaTrust
Can TV News Be Fixed?
YouTube video by Laid Off and Looking Podcast
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
TV news used to feel like a public service.
Now it feels like a performance.
This week we talk with @newsjennifer.bsky.social about how the news became just another TV show, and what it’ll take to earn trust again.
youtu.be/3yVhBudH5YY?...
#Journalism #LocalNews #MediaTrust
Now it feels like a performance.
This week we talk with @newsjennifer.bsky.social about how the news became just another TV show, and what it’ll take to earn trust again.
youtu.be/3yVhBudH5YY?...
#Journalism #LocalNews #MediaTrust
The emotional cost of journalism is real.
Reporter burnout isn’t just about workload, it’s about covering chaos with no time to heal.
This week on Laid Off and Looking, Louisa Ortiz Pérez on the mental health crisis inside newsrooms.
youtu.be/cICogTXIlAk?...
#Journalism #MentalHealth
Reporter burnout isn’t just about workload, it’s about covering chaos with no time to heal.
This week on Laid Off and Looking, Louisa Ortiz Pérez on the mental health crisis inside newsrooms.
youtu.be/cICogTXIlAk?...
#Journalism #MentalHealth
The Emotional Toll of Journalism
YouTube video by Laid Off and Looking Podcast
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The emotional cost of journalism is real.
Reporter burnout isn’t just about workload, it’s about covering chaos with no time to heal.
This week on Laid Off and Looking, Louisa Ortiz Pérez on the mental health crisis inside newsrooms.
youtu.be/cICogTXIlAk?...
#Journalism #MentalHealth
Reporter burnout isn’t just about workload, it’s about covering chaos with no time to heal.
This week on Laid Off and Looking, Louisa Ortiz Pérez on the mental health crisis inside newsrooms.
youtu.be/cICogTXIlAk?...
#Journalism #MentalHealth
Reposted by Jenna Flanagan
We are entering the post-blame phase of the government shutdown.
My conversation of @wbai.org in New York City with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social.
🔊 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
My conversation of @wbai.org in New York City with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social.
🔊 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
WBAI Radio Archives
wbai.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We are entering the post-blame phase of the government shutdown.
My conversation of @wbai.org in New York City with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social.
🔊 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
My conversation of @wbai.org in New York City with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social.
🔊 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
Why is it every week contains the most frightening and stupid news at the same time?
We discuss this week on We Decide!
We discuss this week on We Decide!
Trump’s Versailles Moment: East Wing Demolished for Ballroom as Food Stamps Are Zeroed Out
Listen HereWe Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan 10-27-25Now, with President Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the Whi...
wbai.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Why is it every week contains the most frightening and stupid news at the same time?
We discuss this week on We Decide!
We discuss this week on We Decide!
🛑 Government “shutdown” = services shut to you.
VA nurses skipping paychecks, prisons on “augmentation,” families losing ACA support because offices are dark. Shutdowns don’t save money, they waste capacity.
Read the Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
VA nurses skipping paychecks, prisons on “augmentation,” families losing ACA support because offices are dark. Shutdowns don’t save money, they waste capacity.
Read the Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
What Happens When Government Stops? Just Ask the Workers Who Keep It Running
For most Americans, the shutdown is a passive event. Life hasn’t really changed yet, but for the less than 2% employed by the government, going a month without a paycheck is a mushrooming catastrophe.
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
🛑 Government “shutdown” = services shut to you.
VA nurses skipping paychecks, prisons on “augmentation,” families losing ACA support because offices are dark. Shutdowns don’t save money, they waste capacity.
Read the Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
VA nurses skipping paychecks, prisons on “augmentation,” families losing ACA support because offices are dark. Shutdowns don’t save money, they waste capacity.
Read the Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
“AI can help with the grunt work. But it cannot replace an editor.” - @sisiwei.bsky.social
Our podcast interview explores the promise & peril of AI in journalism.
Our podcast interview explores the promise & peril of AI in journalism.
Jenna Flanagan (@jflanagan)
📰 New Post: Can AI Replace Editors?
AI is racing into newsrooms just as layoffs hit the industry hard. Some outlets are even letting algorithms pump out articles under fake bylines.
Journalist @Sisi...
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“AI can help with the grunt work. But it cannot replace an editor.” - @sisiwei.bsky.social
Our podcast interview explores the promise & peril of AI in journalism.
Our podcast interview explores the promise & peril of AI in journalism.
Big outlets validate. Smaller ones dig first.
Alyson McDevitt of Compliance Week broke the Epstein banks story 18 months ago, before the NYT picked it up.
Support local + niche journalism, it’s how the truth survives.
#SupportLocalNews
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Alyson McDevitt of Compliance Week broke the Epstein banks story 18 months ago, before the NYT picked it up.
Support local + niche journalism, it’s how the truth survives.
#SupportLocalNews
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
The Pickup Artist: When Big Papers Profit from Smaller Newsrooms Scoops
When big newspapers “validate” reporting first broken by local or niche outlets, it’s called a ‘pickup’. The practice can create reach, but risks erasing the journalists who did the hard work first.
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Big outlets validate. Smaller ones dig first.
Alyson McDevitt of Compliance Week broke the Epstein banks story 18 months ago, before the NYT picked it up.
Support local + niche journalism, it’s how the truth survives.
#SupportLocalNews
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
Alyson McDevitt of Compliance Week broke the Epstein banks story 18 months ago, before the NYT picked it up.
Support local + niche journalism, it’s how the truth survives.
#SupportLocalNews
open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
... as Dave reminded us all, the government shutdown is set to happen AT. THE. END. OF. THE. MONTH.
The mystique of Charlie Kirk — and what we're not talking about.
My conversation today with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social on @wbai.org. davelevinthal.substack.com/p/the-mystiq...
My conversation today with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social on @wbai.org. davelevinthal.substack.com/p/the-mystiq...
The mystique of Charlie Kirk — and what we're not talking about
There's much left unsaid
davelevinthal.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
... as Dave reminded us all, the government shutdown is set to happen AT. THE. END. OF. THE. MONTH.