Jen Monnier
@jenmonnier.bsky.social
Climate change & public health | Fact-checking books | she/her
"I asked chatGPT to—"
aaand i'm just gonna back on out of this conversation now
aaand i'm just gonna back on out of this conversation now
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"I asked chatGPT to—"
aaand i'm just gonna back on out of this conversation now
aaand i'm just gonna back on out of this conversation now
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Not covering trans issues like this is a choice, and one that could still be rectified at any time
After Trump's announcement about tylenol and autism, the NYT assembled a panel of experts, including an autistic person and a parent or an autistic person, to assess and debunk the claims.
It's a good model. I'd like to see them use it more often on more topics.
It's a good model. I'd like to see them use it more often on more topics.
Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Not covering trans issues like this is a choice, and one that could still be rectified at any time
it's that time again when I feel the need to remind everyone that Beyond/Impossible burgers marketed themselves as ways to get meat eaters to eat less meat. therefore they should replace a MEAT option on the menu, never the vegetarian option.
July 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
it's that time again when I feel the need to remind everyone that Beyond/Impossible burgers marketed themselves as ways to get meat eaters to eat less meat. therefore they should replace a MEAT option on the menu, never the vegetarian option.
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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
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"ICE’s data infrastructure makes misidentification permanent. Officers are supposed to document citizenship investigations, but they aren’t required to update a person’s status in ICE databases, even after confirming U.S. citizenship."
The numbers are from 2015-2020
The numbers are from 2015-2020
June 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"ICE’s data infrastructure makes misidentification permanent. Officers are supposed to document citizenship investigations, but they aren’t required to update a person’s status in ICE databases, even after confirming U.S. citizenship."
The numbers are from 2015-2020
The numbers are from 2015-2020
To quote my beloved upon seeing some of the sassy cardboard signs: "oh we really are f*cked"
Can't think of a better example of liberal hypocrisy than thousands showing up for No Kings Seattle (basically a festival) rather than the direct action at Tukwila immigration office, where about 100 protesters attempted to prevent ICE from carrying away migrants.
June 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
To quote my beloved upon seeing some of the sassy cardboard signs: "oh we really are f*cked"
Can't think of a better example of liberal hypocrisy than thousands showing up for No Kings Seattle (basically a festival) rather than the direct action at Tukwila immigration office, where about 100 protesters attempted to prevent ICE from carrying away migrants.
June 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Can't think of a better example of liberal hypocrisy than thousands showing up for No Kings Seattle (basically a festival) rather than the direct action at Tukwila immigration office, where about 100 protesters attempted to prevent ICE from carrying away migrants.
hot take: if you have the privilege to work less hard/fewer hours at your paid job, you should.
hotter take: if you are the person described above, you should use some of that reclaimed energy and time to do the work of community organizing, care work, mutual aid, direct action.
hotter take: if you are the person described above, you should use some of that reclaimed energy and time to do the work of community organizing, care work, mutual aid, direct action.
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
hot take: if you have the privilege to work less hard/fewer hours at your paid job, you should.
hotter take: if you are the person described above, you should use some of that reclaimed energy and time to do the work of community organizing, care work, mutual aid, direct action.
hotter take: if you are the person described above, you should use some of that reclaimed energy and time to do the work of community organizing, care work, mutual aid, direct action.
My suggestion: stop arguing with critics about whether and when violence/property damage is justified. Those folks aren't doing the work, their bodies & livelihoods aren't on the line, and they typically are not the ones upon whom state violence is being perpetrated, so their opinions don't matter.
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My suggestion: stop arguing with critics about whether and when violence/property damage is justified. Those folks aren't doing the work, their bodies & livelihoods aren't on the line, and they typically are not the ones upon whom state violence is being perpetrated, so their opinions don't matter.
Folks are sleeping on Parable of the Talents. If you liked Parable of the Sower you will love Talents. OCTAVIA E. (EVERLASTING) BUTLER
June 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Folks are sleeping on Parable of the Talents. If you liked Parable of the Sower you will love Talents. OCTAVIA E. (EVERLASTING) BUTLER
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"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
June 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
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This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:
Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza .رسالة مفتوحة إلى فريق بلوسكاي بشأن تعاملهم مع الفلسطينيين في غزة
Please review the open letter here and include your name below (if you are better known on Bluesky by your handle you could use that or add it to your name.) Thank you so much for caring about this co...
docs.google.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:
You ever get the Friday evening shoppies? Try: putting library books on hold; venmo-ing mutual aid groups; fulfilling classroom requests in low-income schools on Donors Choose.
May 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
You ever get the Friday evening shoppies? Try: putting library books on hold; venmo-ing mutual aid groups; fulfilling classroom requests in low-income schools on Donors Choose.
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Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
Just tried to start The Last of Us, and I'm convinced that anyone who enjoys that show has not seen the same footage I've seen in the past year of the real world we're currently living in.
May 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Just tried to start The Last of Us, and I'm convinced that anyone who enjoys that show has not seen the same footage I've seen in the past year of the real world we're currently living in.
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Here's what's happening, as far as I can tell. 🧵
-The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza.
-Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.
-The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza.
-Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.
May 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Here's what's happening, as far as I can tell. 🧵
-The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza.
-Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.
-The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza.
-Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.
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It appears Sec. Kennedy is getting ready to over-ride vaccine policy experts & scrub Covid shot recommendations for children, teens & pregnant people. Having a HHS secretary reset vaccine policy without hearings or expert advice is unprecedented, experts tell STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...
HHS to stop recommending routine Covid shots for children, pregnant people, RFK Jr. ally says
A change in recommending Covid vaccines for children and pregnant women would circumvent an expert panel but please many MAHA fans.
www.statnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
It appears Sec. Kennedy is getting ready to over-ride vaccine policy experts & scrub Covid shot recommendations for children, teens & pregnant people. Having a HHS secretary reset vaccine policy without hearings or expert advice is unprecedented, experts tell STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...
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Enough! Bluesky is now banning IP addresses of users from Gaza. We must demand they do better. See the petition at chng.it/pp46W4M82j
This campaign needs you now
Stop Bluesky's Targeting of Palestinian Accounts
chng.it
May 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Enough! Bluesky is now banning IP addresses of users from Gaza. We must demand they do better. See the petition at chng.it/pp46W4M82j
is now a good time to share that, while I *believe* chicagoans when they say they are midwesterners, chicago will always *feel* like an eastern city to me personally
May 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
is now a good time to share that, while I *believe* chicagoans when they say they are midwesterners, chicago will always *feel* like an eastern city to me personally
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing.
Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway.
FREE PALESTINE!
Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway.
FREE PALESTINE!
April 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing.
Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway.
FREE PALESTINE!
Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway.
FREE PALESTINE!
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Here's a first look at sea surface temperature data from the new NOAA ERSSTv6 dataset... this animation shows the yearly anomalies over the last 100 years.
Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...
Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...
April 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here's a first look at sea surface temperature data from the new NOAA ERSSTv6 dataset... this animation shows the yearly anomalies over the last 100 years.
Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...
Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...
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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
ICE is rounding up permanent residents. If you are a US citizen with an ounce of socioeconomic privilege, now is the time to get loud about palestine, immigrant rights, imperialism, racism, trans rights, abortion, etc. Now is the time to join progressive orgs and do mutual aid work.
March 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
ICE is rounding up permanent residents. If you are a US citizen with an ounce of socioeconomic privilege, now is the time to get loud about palestine, immigrant rights, imperialism, racism, trans rights, abortion, etc. Now is the time to join progressive orgs and do mutual aid work.