Jackie
@jackiesock.bsky.social
childless cat lady (Minerva's mom)🐈⬛ jaded veteran journalist 📰 ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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UNC-CH alumna 🐏👣 #GDTBATH 🩵🤍
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
No lies detected here.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
No lies detected here.
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Excellent.
How a Philly Mag Journalist Sued an Angry Facebook Commenter — and Won
Allow me, the journalist, to explain.
www.phillymag.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excellent.
This Post Should Have Been Shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This Post Should Have Been Shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
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As a journalist who began her career at UNC's The Daily Tar Heel, this story sets off all my alarm bells.
Update: IU fires adviser of student media, stops printing Daily Student
Editors at the Indiana Daily Student said Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush refused to tell students to remove news from an upcoming special print edition.
www.ipm.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
As a journalist who began her career at UNC's The Daily Tar Heel, this story sets off all my alarm bells.
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I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
September 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
It was the honor of a lifetime to have met this icon of courage.
Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil of Legendary A&T Four Passes Away at 83
The civil rights icon, who at the age of 17 devised the plan for a sit-in that captivated America, was a beloved A&T alumnus and an inspiration to generations of Aggies.
www.ncat.edu
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It was the honor of a lifetime to have met this icon of courage.
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“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
August 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
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They’re rewriting history.
August 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
They’re rewriting history.
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
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Let them eat cake.
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Let them eat cake.
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Giving this speech while adjourning the house to cover-up the Epstein files belongs on the Mount Rushmore of hypocrisy.
Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson
Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson
July 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Giving this speech while adjourning the house to cover-up the Epstein files belongs on the Mount Rushmore of hypocrisy.
Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson
Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson
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If the man you continue to support fears the release of a list of pedophiles, you are *not* against pedophilia.
July 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
If the man you continue to support fears the release of a list of pedophiles, you are *not* against pedophilia.
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I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately.
He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately.
He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
"Countless studies have shown that outcomes for citizens improve when members of the media ask probing questions of politicians. Press freedom correlates with less corruption in many countries."
We Should, in Fact, Politicize the Tragedy
Holding people and policies accountable for disasters is essential.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Countless studies have shown that outcomes for citizens improve when members of the media ask probing questions of politicians. Press freedom correlates with less corruption in many countries."
Plato the Cat's back in his Greensboro home after being missing for 11 years greensboro.com/news/local/a...
Plato the Cat's back in his Greensboro home after being missing for 11 years
Seeing Plato as an elder cat "was like I'd gone through a time tunnel,'' Forest Skilbred said. "His eyes had a little more age, and the pink spot on his
greensboro.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Plato the Cat's back in his Greensboro home after being missing for 11 years greensboro.com/news/local/a...
"They heard 'kindness' and interpreted it as an attack. They heard 'immigrant' and reached for gang references. What does it say about your worldview when someone suggesting we should be nice to each other feels like a personal assault?"
They're Literally Angry at Superman for Being Nice
How James Gunn's comments about "basic human kindness" triggered a predictable right-wing media meltdown.
www.readtpa.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"They heard 'kindness' and interpreted it as an attack. They heard 'immigrant' and reached for gang references. What does it say about your worldview when someone suggesting we should be nice to each other feels like a personal assault?"
Tax the churches, then.
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Tax the churches, then.