Cindy Marie Jenkins (she/her)
@cindyoutthinksmdia.bsky.social
*Story Strategist. YouTube Historian. General Nerd.
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*Read This Moment in Media History to learn what Families need to know: https://patreon.com/OutThinkMedia
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Too often, censorship activists skip reading the full book (or its context) and instead spotlight specific dramatic excerpts at school board meetings to spark fear and outrage. But books are meant to be experienced as a whole, not reduced to a few cherry-picked pages.
#FreedomToRead
#FreedomToRead
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Too often, censorship activists skip reading the full book (or its context) and instead spotlight specific dramatic excerpts at school board meetings to spark fear and outrage. But books are meant to be experienced as a whole, not reduced to a few cherry-picked pages.
#FreedomToRead
#FreedomToRead
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
I sent my husband this meme and his response is that Wesley formed a huge part of his idea of masculinity.
#HowToBeEvenSexierAfterTwentyYears
#HowToBeEvenSexierAfterTwentyYears
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I sent my husband this meme and his response is that Wesley formed a huge part of his idea of masculinity.
#HowToBeEvenSexierAfterTwentyYears
#HowToBeEvenSexierAfterTwentyYears
Writing about relocation and finding community sometimes makes it really clear where you don't belong.
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Writing about relocation and finding community sometimes makes it really clear where you don't belong.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
What's your favorite children's story that starts with "once upon a time they were bombing London so my [younger sibling] and I got shipped off to the country"?
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What's your favorite children's story that starts with "once upon a time they were bombing London so my [younger sibling] and I got shipped off to the country"?
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Barely half what's on my mind but I'm learning to share in smaller chunks: McCarthy rebranded, Memoir strips a Prince, and Teen Vogue Writers left homeless (This Moment in Media History 11/5/25) www.patreon.com/posts/mccart...
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Barely half what's on my mind but I'm learning to share in smaller chunks: McCarthy rebranded, Memoir strips a Prince, and Teen Vogue Writers left homeless (This Moment in Media History 11/5/25) www.patreon.com/posts/mccart...
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"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight led by an immigrant." - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight led by an immigrant." - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
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Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
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A piece really worth sharing, esp. w those who don’t consume much news.
We don’t focus enough on children’s trauma in times when the world around us is on fire. There were many young Anne Franks during WWII, noticing & being shaped by their real-life nightmares. Goes for every conflict & horror.
We don’t focus enough on children’s trauma in times when the world around us is on fire. There were many young Anne Franks during WWII, noticing & being shaped by their real-life nightmares. Goes for every conflict & horror.
"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
apnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A piece really worth sharing, esp. w those who don’t consume much news.
We don’t focus enough on children’s trauma in times when the world around us is on fire. There were many young Anne Franks during WWII, noticing & being shaped by their real-life nightmares. Goes for every conflict & horror.
We don’t focus enough on children’s trauma in times when the world around us is on fire. There were many young Anne Franks during WWII, noticing & being shaped by their real-life nightmares. Goes for every conflict & horror.
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15 or so years ago a nursing assistant at the hospital where I worked was arrested for leaving her baby in a baby carrier in the parking deck of our hospital while she worked her shift. I will never forget that stark, horrific view into the child care crisis that affects the working poor.
The shutdown is shuttering Head Start centers--including 24 that support the migrant farmworkers who form the backbone of our agricultural economy.
Which means that, by refusing to fund healthcare, the GOP is not only hurting kids but also raising prices at the store.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Which means that, by refusing to fund healthcare, the GOP is not only hurting kids but also raising prices at the store.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of presch...
abcnews.go.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
15 or so years ago a nursing assistant at the hospital where I worked was arrested for leaving her baby in a baby carrier in the parking deck of our hospital while she worked her shift. I will never forget that stark, horrific view into the child care crisis that affects the working poor.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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From safe havens to centers of protest, Black-owned bookstores have long shaped movements. Alumna Char Adams uncovers their revolutionary legacy in her new book “Black-Owned” www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumna-...
And join her talk on 11/21 at 5p!
And join her talk on 11/21 at 5p!
Alumna Reveals the Powerful Role of Black-Owned Bookstores
In a new book, alumna Char Adams brings to light histories of violence, surveillance, and community-building, exploring how the shops became important centers of culture, protest, and solidarity.
www.gc.cuny.edu
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From safe havens to centers of protest, Black-owned bookstores have long shaped movements. Alumna Char Adams uncovers their revolutionary legacy in her new book “Black-Owned” www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumna-...
And join her talk on 11/21 at 5p!
And join her talk on 11/21 at 5p!
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It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
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This is the kind of coverage that Teen Vogue just decided to stop doing.
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is the kind of coverage that Teen Vogue just decided to stop doing.
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The EFA recognizes that freelancers are among those who might be at risk of losing their federal food assistance benefits if the government does not reopen. We have put together a list of resources you can consult in anticipation of a SNAP shortfall. https://twp.ai/4irY5D
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The EFA recognizes that freelancers are among those who might be at risk of losing their federal food assistance benefits if the government does not reopen. We have put together a list of resources you can consult in anticipation of a SNAP shortfall. https://twp.ai/4irY5D
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In Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite,” Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
In Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack. Does the movie reflect reality?
Experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago analyze the risks, both as they’re depicted in the movie and in the real world.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite,” Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
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Hello, I wrote about Mortal Kombat and moral panic to celebrate the release of the very good Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection!
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
How Mortal Kombat (and moral panic) changed the gaming world
On its release in 1993, Midway’s fighting game ushered in a new era of hyperviolent gaming that continues to influence the industry to this day
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hello, I wrote about Mortal Kombat and moral panic to celebrate the release of the very good Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection!
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...