Jenn Holland
@jennholland.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Oklahoma. Author of Tiny You. Research reproductive, queer, and western histories.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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“The secrets of Epstein’s inbox do not reveal an overarching conspiracy but paints a more sobering picture: a world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him
Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“The secrets of Epstein’s inbox do not reveal an overarching conspiracy but paints a more sobering picture: a world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.
California voters approve Democratic-drawn congressional map as national redistricting battle spreads
NBC News projects that a ballot measure has passed allowing California Democrats to bypass an independent redistricting commission and counter GOP efforts around the country.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
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I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
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Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
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I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
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No, Mr. President.
You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda.
This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.
You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda.
This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.
Trump moves to block public servants from loan forgiveness based on ideology
Those who work with undocumented immigrants, provide gender transition care for minors or publicly protest could be blocked from student loan forgiveness under a new rule.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
No, Mr. President.
You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda.
This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.
You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda.
This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.
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REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”
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Small bright moments to remind you that not everyone sucks: a Dallas, TX United Methodist Church responds to TX's law preventing rainbow crosswalks by painting their steps and church doors instead www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/t...
Texas church's perfect, beautiful response to state's removal of rainbow crosswalks
In response to governor Greg Abbott’s order that cities remove rainbow crosswalks, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church (OLUMC is defiantly fighting back.
www.thepinknews.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Small bright moments to remind you that not everyone sucks: a Dallas, TX United Methodist Church responds to TX's law preventing rainbow crosswalks by painting their steps and church doors instead www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/t...
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
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“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."
Kenny Loggins Demands Removal of 'Danger Zone' From AI Clip of Trump Dumping Poop on Protesters
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October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."
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Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."
Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"
This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."
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It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets
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The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
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The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
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“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
October 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
Snarky twitter posts aren’t enough.
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Snarky twitter posts aren’t enough.
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What's to weigh? It's a no.
It doesn't even matter what the proposal says. It's entirely unacceptable for the president to be cutting side-deals with universities.
Say no reflexively, and if he pulls your funds, sue him.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
It doesn't even matter what the proposal says. It's entirely unacceptable for the president to be cutting side-deals with universities.
Say no reflexively, and if he pulls your funds, sue him.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Colleges weigh whether to sign on to Trump plan or forgo federal benefits
A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What's to weigh? It's a no.
It doesn't even matter what the proposal says. It's entirely unacceptable for the president to be cutting side-deals with universities.
Say no reflexively, and if he pulls your funds, sue him.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
It doesn't even matter what the proposal says. It's entirely unacceptable for the president to be cutting side-deals with universities.
Say no reflexively, and if he pulls your funds, sue him.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.
www.thepinknews.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.