Trip Jennings
@trip-44.bsky.social
Nonprofit ED/Journalist who believes life is incomplete w/o family, friends, books, music & The Wire. Culturally adventurous. Lived all over. Seminary educated. Conflicted about religion, cool with doing justice & loving mercy.
'God bless América': Why Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show resonated far beyond the US
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'God bless América': Why Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show resonated far beyond the US
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance resonated deeply with Latino audiences. By saying “God bless America” and naming countries across the Americas, he highlighted the broader meaning of “Améri...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM
'God bless América': Why Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show resonated far beyond the US
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"The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance."
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Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
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February 10, 2026 at 4:02 AM
"The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance."
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This is the same man who years later told an interviewer that Blacks -- he used a racial slur here -- "are beasts. It says so in here in the book of Adam.”
This is the kind of bigotry that our president is trafficking in.
This is the kind of bigotry that our president is trafficking in.
February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is the same man who years later told an interviewer that Blacks -- he used a racial slur here -- "are beasts. It says so in here in the book of Adam.”
This is the kind of bigotry that our president is trafficking in.
This is the kind of bigotry that our president is trafficking in.
The man who killed Medgar Evers ran for elected office in Mississippi after an all-White jury decided not to convict him, telling crowds he believed in complete White supremacy under White Christian rule.
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The man who killed Medgar Evers ran for elected office in Mississippi after an all-White jury decided not to convict him, telling crowds he believed in complete White supremacy under White Christian rule.
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President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.
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Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates
President Donald Trump has used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Ob...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.
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"The company is laying off about 30 percent of all its employees, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. That includes people on the business side and more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom, the people said."
Damn.
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Damn.
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Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists
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February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
"The company is laying off about 30 percent of all its employees, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. That includes people on the business side and more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom, the people said."
Damn.
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Damn.
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"The cuts represent about 15% of the AJC's total workforce. Roughly half of the affected positions will come from the newsroom, which is the organization's largest department."
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution to lay off about 50 employees as it restructures for growth
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says roughly 15% of its workforce will be affected, with about half of the layoffs coming from the newsroom.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"The cuts represent about 15% of the AJC's total workforce. Roughly half of the affected positions will come from the newsroom, which is the organization's largest department."
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"A key feature of this “neoroyalist” approach is that global economic policymaking is based on personal, family and business ties rather than national interest, competitive advantage, shared prosperity or long-term growth."
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
"A key feature of this “neoroyalist” approach is that global economic policymaking is based on personal, family and business ties rather than national interest, competitive advantage, shared prosperity or long-term growth."
A new theory argues that Trump's approach to governing most closely resembles that of 16th-century royal families like the Tudors and the Hapsburgs.
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‘Neoroyalism’ and What It Says About Trump
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February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
A new theory argues that Trump's approach to governing most closely resembles that of 16th-century royal families like the Tudors and the Hapsburgs.
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Trump's border czar announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota
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Trump's border czar announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota
President Donald Trump's border czar says the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota will be seriously reduced after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arre...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Trump's border czar announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota
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Washington Post eliminates sports department and reduces overseas journalists, AP source says
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Washington Post eliminates sports department and reduces overseas journalists, AP source says
The troubled Washington Post has begun implementing large-scale cutbacks, including eliminating its sports department and shrinking the number of journalists it stations overseas.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Washington Post eliminates sports department and reduces overseas journalists, AP source says
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Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
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Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
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Catherine O’Hara, Star of ‘Best in Show,’ Honored in Westminster Dog Show Tribute www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/s...
Catherine O’Hara, Star of ‘Best in Show,’ Honored in Westminster Dog Show Tribute
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February 4, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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" “If you are so seamlessly intermixing real and fake, why should I believe anything you do?” he asked. “Where are we as an electorate when we don’t know what to believe anymore?” "
February 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
" “If you are so seamlessly intermixing real and fake, why should I believe anything you do?” he asked. “Where are we as an electorate when we don’t know what to believe anymore?” "
"Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who researches digital forensics, deepfake imagery and misinformation, said that the White House response was a troubling escalation in its use of artificial intelligence.
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‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
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February 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
"Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who researches digital forensics, deepfake imagery and misinformation, said that the White House response was a troubling escalation in its use of artificial intelligence.
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This is why you shouldn't lie all the time.
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is why you shouldn't lie all the time.
After DHS lied about Alex Pretti & the Trump admin's proclivity for spreading falsehoods, what are we to do? Accept DHS' narrative without hesitation? Believe the father no questions asked?
Not knowing when to trust your gov't or not is a rational response to gov't lying all the time.
Not knowing when to trust your gov't or not is a rational response to gov't lying all the time.
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
After DHS lied about Alex Pretti & the Trump admin's proclivity for spreading falsehoods, what are we to do? Accept DHS' narrative without hesitation? Believe the father no questions asked?
Not knowing when to trust your gov't or not is a rational response to gov't lying all the time.
Not knowing when to trust your gov't or not is a rational response to gov't lying all the time.
The father of the 5-year-old boy immortalized in a photo wearing a blue hat and a Spider-Man backpack disputes that he abandoned his son, Liam, as DHS says he did.
Who are we to believe? The father or DHS?
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Who are we to believe? The father or DHS?
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Father of 5-year-old detained in Minnesota disputes government assertion he abandoned the boy
The father of a 5-year-old boy detained by immigration officers in Texas denies abandoning his son. Adrian Conejo Arias is originally from Ecuador.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The father of the 5-year-old boy immortalized in a photo wearing a blue hat and a Spider-Man backpack disputes that he abandoned his son, Liam, as DHS says he did.
Who are we to believe? The father or DHS?
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Who are we to believe? The father or DHS?
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From George Packer at The Atlantic:
"In Minneapolis, as the scale and intensity of oppression increased, the answer to “What can I do?” evolved from protest to something riskier and more demanding: nonviolent resistance."
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"In Minneapolis, as the scale and intensity of oppression increased, the answer to “What can I do?” evolved from protest to something riskier and more demanding: nonviolent resistance."
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What Should Americans Do Now?
We need a mass movement for basic decency.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
From George Packer at The Atlantic:
"In Minneapolis, as the scale and intensity of oppression increased, the answer to “What can I do?” evolved from protest to something riskier and more demanding: nonviolent resistance."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"In Minneapolis, as the scale and intensity of oppression increased, the answer to “What can I do?” evolved from protest to something riskier and more demanding: nonviolent resistance."
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Trump said Sunday he plans to close the Kennedy Center for roughly two years for construction. The proposal comes after cancellations & internal upheaval since he took over the arts institution nearly a year ago and remade it in his name and image.
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Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July
Under a proposal by President Donald Trump, the closure could begin July 4, with construction beginning immediately.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Trump said Sunday he plans to close the Kennedy Center for roughly two years for construction. The proposal comes after cancellations & internal upheaval since he took over the arts institution nearly a year ago and remade it in his name and image.
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As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu
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As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu
The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis have followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans.
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February 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu
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