Jill C Jones
@jcjonexez.bsky.social
Books coffee democracy friends family - things I care about. I post about books on TikTok, I do other things elsewhere. I’m an English professor and I’m not dead yet. https://www.tiktok.com/@jillc.jones?_t=8sR9N5Jgtqw&_r=1. Or am I?
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There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov
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Because y'all liked the other bot farm I posted about, here's another.
Remember 60-75% of the internet is fake. You're arguing with no one and you're boosting the algorithm towards hate when you do.
Don't let bots continue to control you.
#Resist
Remember 60-75% of the internet is fake. You're arguing with no one and you're boosting the algorithm towards hate when you do.
Don't let bots continue to control you.
#Resist
September 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Because y'all liked the other bot farm I posted about, here's another.
Remember 60-75% of the internet is fake. You're arguing with no one and you're boosting the algorithm towards hate when you do.
Don't let bots continue to control you.
#Resist
Remember 60-75% of the internet is fake. You're arguing with no one and you're boosting the algorithm towards hate when you do.
Don't let bots continue to control you.
#Resist
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
War-ravaged Portland
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DOJ has sued 8 states for protecting their citizens' sensitive voter registration data. My law firm has intervened to oppose DOJ's efforts in the first two states -- Maine and Oregon.
Six more to go...
Six more to go...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
DOJ has sued 8 states for protecting their citizens' sensitive voter registration data. My law firm has intervened to oppose DOJ's efforts in the first two states -- Maine and Oregon.
Six more to go...
Six more to go...
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Removing To Kill a Mockingbird and The House on Mango Street from Texas classrooms does not protect Texas kids. The Texas GOP and Governor Abbott need to answer for this. Shameful.
www.fox7austin.com/news/leander...
www.fox7austin.com/news/leander...
Leander ISD pauses dozens of books in classrooms in response to state law
www.fox7austin.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Removing To Kill a Mockingbird and The House on Mango Street from Texas classrooms does not protect Texas kids. The Texas GOP and Governor Abbott need to answer for this. Shameful.
www.fox7austin.com/news/leander...
www.fox7austin.com/news/leander...
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R. F. Kuang’s Babel was, at its heart, a critique of imperialism and 19th-century academia’s role in it.
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
R. F. Kuang’s Babel was, at its heart, a critique of imperialism and 19th-century academia’s role in it.
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
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BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.
FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
bit.ly
September 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.
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Last night in Portland I went to an event where a guy read poems from his second story window at sundown. Last week a crowd gathered to watch birds nest in a chimney. Today there's a big family-friendly picnic and a river cleanup event. By all means, send in the troops to this war torn hellhole
September 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Last night in Portland I went to an event where a guy read poems from his second story window at sundown. Last week a crowd gathered to watch birds nest in a chimney. Today there's a big family-friendly picnic and a river cleanup event. By all means, send in the troops to this war torn hellhole
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just sipping on my coffee in my city of portland, and thinking about this post
yeah someone here was like "sarah go on tv!! how often does history happen on your doorstep!!" and I counted on my fingers and went "hmmm... like once every two to four years?"
a coup breaking out in South Korea while she's (I assume) visiting family in Seoul for the holidays and specifically at that exact moment very drunk does in fact track perfectly with Sarah Jeong's career tbh lol, this does seem to be the kind of shit that just happens to her
September 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
just sipping on my coffee in my city of portland, and thinking about this post
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If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.
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Comey: My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. But I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.
September 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Comey: My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. But I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.
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Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies.
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies.
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
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This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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When prosecutors stand up in court, they represent the United States, not the president.
We need the Attorney General to stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution—not fold to the president’s tweets.
We need the Attorney General to stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution—not fold to the president’s tweets.
September 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
When prosecutors stand up in court, they represent the United States, not the president.
We need the Attorney General to stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution—not fold to the president’s tweets.
We need the Attorney General to stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution—not fold to the president’s tweets.
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This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.
Dr. Jane Goodall’s Take On Sustainability In Trying Times: ‘Have Courage’
This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.
www.forbes.com
September 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.
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This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming
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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday sued six states — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — over their refusal to hand over sensitive voter registration data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six States, Escalating Campaign to Seize Private Voter Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday sued six states — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — over their refusal to hand over sensitive voter registration data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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James Comey's indictment for 'serious crimes related to the disclosure of sensitive information' comes just days after the US president called for swift prosecution of his opponents on.ft.com/4gJuuCj
September 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
James Comey's indictment for 'serious crimes related to the disclosure of sensitive information' comes just days after the US president called for swift prosecution of his opponents on.ft.com/4gJuuCj
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This weak, brazen attempt by Stephen Miller both to chill free speech and to set up a premise to criminalize it — and, to be clear, this is the very type of speech most central to First Amendment protections — would be laughably embarrassing if this man did not have the power that he has.
September 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This weak, brazen attempt by Stephen Miller both to chill free speech and to set up a premise to criminalize it — and, to be clear, this is the very type of speech most central to First Amendment protections — would be laughably embarrassing if this man did not have the power that he has.
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Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
n.pr
September 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.