jessbess
@jessicabess.bsky.social
middle-aged-momcore. very california.
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Citizenship for anyone who has been living in the U.S. five years or more.
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Georgia Army veteran deported to Jamaica after 50 years in U.S., despite appeal pending
The Georgia Army veteran was deported to a country he hasn't been to in decades despite his family saying his case was never fully heard.
www.cbsnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Citizenship for anyone who has been living in the U.S. five years or more.
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Update: I showed clips from An American Tail and from Fiddler on the Roof. The Fiddler clip made a real impression!
I'm supposed to give a presentation to my kid's class about our family's immigration story and I'm wondering if just showing clips from An American Tail is cheating...
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Update: I showed clips from An American Tail and from Fiddler on the Roof. The Fiddler clip made a real impression!
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Long associated with reproductive health, estrogen also has a powerful impact on skin, kidneys, bones and more, UCSF researchers find. "We now live about three decades beyond menopause," UCSF's Holly Ingraham says. "We need to truly understand how the hormones affect us." https://ucsfh.org/4cpgspc
Rewriting the Story of Estrogen
The hormone’s role in women’s health reaches far beyond reproduction.
ucsfh.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Long associated with reproductive health, estrogen also has a powerful impact on skin, kidneys, bones and more, UCSF researchers find. "We now live about three decades beyond menopause," UCSF's Holly Ingraham says. "We need to truly understand how the hormones affect us." https://ucsfh.org/4cpgspc
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If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.
I'm supposed to give a presentation to my kid's class about our family's immigration story and I'm wondering if just showing clips from An American Tail is cheating...
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I'm supposed to give a presentation to my kid's class about our family's immigration story and I'm wondering if just showing clips from An American Tail is cheating...
In case anyone needs to watch Amber Glenn skate this a.m... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja9w...
Glenn masters her nerves in Olympic team event free skate
YouTube video by Olympics
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
In case anyone needs to watch Amber Glenn skate this a.m... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja9w...
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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
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Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So people don't necessarily like the Seahawks, but they hate the Pats. Have I got that right?
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
So people don't necessarily like the Seahawks, but they hate the Pats. Have I got that right?
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I am I used to be too cool for Green Day and now I think they’re awesome years old
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I am I used to be too cool for Green Day and now I think they’re awesome years old
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When risks, costs & benefits are clear & big; the time pd. is circumscribed; & a group (like the US X-country ski team) makes a rule they require each other to uphold, folks can mitigate risk.
Meanwhile, the Finnish women’s hockey team has noro after karaoke.
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
Meanwhile, the Finnish women’s hockey team has noro after karaoke.
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
February 8, 2026 at 4:11 AM
When risks, costs & benefits are clear & big; the time pd. is circumscribed; & a group (like the US X-country ski team) makes a rule they require each other to uphold, folks can mitigate risk.
Meanwhile, the Finnish women’s hockey team has noro after karaoke.
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
Meanwhile, the Finnish women’s hockey team has noro after karaoke.
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
Skyline cleanse ahhhhhhj
February 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Skyline cleanse ahhhhhhj
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i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
February 7, 2026 at 4:22 AM
i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
I’m definitely going to be an Italian Olympic opera note for Halloween. Who’s in?
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I’m definitely going to be an Italian Olympic opera note for Halloween. Who’s in?
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According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”
800 Google employees demand an end to any cloud contracts with ICE and CBP
The petition also called for executives to protect vulnerable Google employees, "from cafeteria workers to data center employees."
www.businessinsider.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”
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Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
What 'Less Lethal' Weapons Actually Do
Rubber bullets and tear gas are not as innocuous as they sound
www.scientificamerican.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
Somehow I missed the why of the bitcoin slide. Is there a good tl;dr out there?
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Somehow I missed the why of the bitcoin slide. Is there a good tl;dr out there?
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Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
February 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
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WE GOT PLOVERS
WE GOT SANDERLINGS
WE GOT THE COOLEST WESTERN SANDPIPER MURMATION VIDEO YOU'VE EVER SEEN (i was wrong these aren't sanderlings)
WE GOT SANDERLINGS
WE GOT THE COOLEST WESTERN SANDPIPER MURMATION VIDEO YOU'VE EVER SEEN (i was wrong these aren't sanderlings)
Jaw dropping murmuration of thousands of sanderlings tonight.
Our enemies are cowards who even at the peak of their power are bitter and joyless.
We are going to defeat them.
Together 💜
Uncompressed: youtu.be/LSpTgH2PcDc
#birds
Our enemies are cowards who even at the peak of their power are bitter and joyless.
We are going to defeat them.
Together 💜
Uncompressed: youtu.be/LSpTgH2PcDc
#birds
February 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
WE GOT PLOVERS
WE GOT SANDERLINGS
WE GOT THE COOLEST WESTERN SANDPIPER MURMATION VIDEO YOU'VE EVER SEEN (i was wrong these aren't sanderlings)
WE GOT SANDERLINGS
WE GOT THE COOLEST WESTERN SANDPIPER MURMATION VIDEO YOU'VE EVER SEEN (i was wrong these aren't sanderlings)
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"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.
variety.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
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The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, announced that they're shutting down their books section. We'd say "ironic," but...
Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓
Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓
February 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, announced that they're shutting down their books section. We'd say "ironic," but...
Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓
Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓
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The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
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Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
Facts that bear repeating.
In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
Facts that bear repeating.