Jennifer Lunden
@jenniferlunden.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. She/her.
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I Was Always A Good Girl — Then I Met A Punk Rocker Who Changed My Life
"Skummy was feral. I couldn’t change him. And really, I didn’t want to. By his example something in me had been set free."
www.huffpost.com
When my ex-boyfriend Skummy died earlier this year, I wrote this. Glad to see it up today in HuffPost.
"I reveled in this world where anger was exulted instead of verboten. There was a freedom there, and joy."
www.huffpost.com/entry/good-g...
"I reveled in this world where anger was exulted instead of verboten. There was a freedom there, and joy."
www.huffpost.com/entry/good-g...
Professors: If you put American Breakdown on your syllabus I will happily do an online Q&A with your class. Now out in paperback!
The book is this year's Maine Humanities Council Read ME nonfiction pick, and you can read more about it on my website: jenniferlunden.com/american-bre....
Pls share!
The book is this year's Maine Humanities Council Read ME nonfiction pick, and you can read more about it on my website: jenniferlunden.com/american-bre....
Pls share!
August 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Professors: If you put American Breakdown on your syllabus I will happily do an online Q&A with your class. Now out in paperback!
The book is this year's Maine Humanities Council Read ME nonfiction pick, and you can read more about it on my website: jenniferlunden.com/american-bre....
Pls share!
The book is this year's Maine Humanities Council Read ME nonfiction pick, and you can read more about it on my website: jenniferlunden.com/american-bre....
Pls share!
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“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
TUESDAY, JULY 15 at 7 PM Eastern: Looking forward to a conversation about my book American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back To Life, this year's Read ME selection. Join us online! Register for Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Read ME Author Talk with Jennifer Lunden. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Read ME Author Talk with Jennifer Lunden. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us02web.zoom.us
July 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
TUESDAY, JULY 15 at 7 PM Eastern: Looking forward to a conversation about my book American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back To Life, this year's Read ME selection. Join us online! Register for Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Australian Journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by LAPD, collaborating with Trump regime ICE forces, live on air. The regime loyalist took aim at the press and fired. #StopICE
June 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Australian Journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by LAPD, collaborating with Trump regime ICE forces, live on air. The regime loyalist took aim at the press and fired. #StopICE
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Elon should explain to us exactly how he won the election for Trump.
June 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Elon should explain to us exactly how he won the election for Trump.
The Real Dangers Women Face
open.substack.com/pub/audacity...
open.substack.com/pub/audacity...
The Real Dangers Women Face
(Which are not at all the dangers Republicans "want" to "protect" us from
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Real Dangers Women Face
open.substack.com/pub/audacity...
open.substack.com/pub/audacity...
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Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs?
I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS.
Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal
Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...
I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS.
Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal
Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs?
I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS.
Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal
Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...
I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS.
Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal
Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...
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Wow. If you’d told me when I was a high schooler n the 1980’s that South Africa was going to divest from the United States *and they’d be in the moral right*, I’d never have believed you.
February 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Wow. If you’d told me when I was a high schooler n the 1980’s that South Africa was going to divest from the United States *and they’d be in the moral right*, I’d never have believed you.
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Let me put it into perspective: 23-year-old Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in November for posting classified info on Discord. Meanwhile, Elon Musk shares classified info, and we just shrug. This isn’t a culture war; it’s a class war.
February 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Let me put it into perspective: 23-year-old Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in November for posting classified info on Discord. Meanwhile, Elon Musk shares classified info, and we just shrug. This isn’t a culture war; it’s a class war.
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
idk why this is what has completely pushed me over the edge but I am just losing it
The State Department's "procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for armored Tesla vehicles."
February 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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idk why this is what has completely pushed me over the edge but I am just losing it
The State Department's "procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for armored Tesla vehicles."
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
idk why this is what has completely pushed me over the edge but I am just losing it
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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
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just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin
Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...
bookshop.org
January 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.
January 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.
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GOP: Abortion is murder!
What about actual murder, like with guns?
GOP: Mental illness!
What about healthcare to help treat mental illness?
GOP: Healthcare is a privilege not a right!
What about actual murder, like with guns?
GOP: Mental illness!
What about healthcare to help treat mental illness?
GOP: Healthcare is a privilege not a right!
December 30, 2024 at 11:35 AM
GOP: Abortion is murder!
What about actual murder, like with guns?
GOP: Mental illness!
What about healthcare to help treat mental illness?
GOP: Healthcare is a privilege not a right!
What about actual murder, like with guns?
GOP: Mental illness!
What about healthcare to help treat mental illness?
GOP: Healthcare is a privilege not a right!
That time I asked a D.O. to wear a mask for our appointment, when his face would be close to mine for at least 20 minutes, and he passive-aggressively asked if I have Covid, and when I said no and added that HE could have asymptomatic Covid, the way he looked at me made me never want to return.
Dr Jerome Adams tweeted this earlier today:
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High rez source for the image in next post.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18615...
High rez source for the image in next post.
December 11, 2024 at 10:28 PM
That time I asked a D.O. to wear a mask for our appointment, when his face would be close to mine for at least 20 minutes, and he passive-aggressively asked if I have Covid, and when I said no and added that HE could have asymptomatic Covid, the way he looked at me made me never want to return.
I have an essay for you, by Kate Horowitz. "Rabbit Facts" is pristinely written, propulsive, terrifying, powerful and empowering, and remarkably hopeful. This writing is fire.
Content note for trauma.
marrowmagazine.com/rabbit-facts/
Content note for trauma.
marrowmagazine.com/rabbit-facts/
Rabbit Facts – marrow magazine
marrowmagazine.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I have an essay for you, by Kate Horowitz. "Rabbit Facts" is pristinely written, propulsive, terrifying, powerful and empowering, and remarkably hopeful. This writing is fire.
Content note for trauma.
marrowmagazine.com/rabbit-facts/
Content note for trauma.
marrowmagazine.com/rabbit-facts/
Sari Botton selected my essay about my beloved late ex-boyfriend Skummy, punk rock guitar god, for Memoir Monday, "a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web"!
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Your Weekly Personal Essay Fix...
Plus: Electric Literature's fund drive, Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize, and more...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Sari Botton selected my essay about my beloved late ex-boyfriend Skummy, punk rock guitar god, for Memoir Monday, "a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web"!
memoirland.substack.com/p/your-weekl...
memoirland.substack.com/p/your-weekl...
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a Binder helped me out!
it’s “Evidence, in Track Changes” by Jennifer Lunden (@jenniferlunden.bsky.social) and DeAnna Satre:
thediagram.com/17_3/lunden....
it’s “Evidence, in Track Changes” by Jennifer Lunden (@jenniferlunden.bsky.social) and DeAnna Satre:
thediagram.com/17_3/lunden....
November 30, 2024 at 8:39 PM
a Binder helped me out!
it’s “Evidence, in Track Changes” by Jennifer Lunden (@jenniferlunden.bsky.social) and DeAnna Satre:
thediagram.com/17_3/lunden....
it’s “Evidence, in Track Changes” by Jennifer Lunden (@jenniferlunden.bsky.social) and DeAnna Satre:
thediagram.com/17_3/lunden....
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I read it. Very moving.
November 29, 2024 at 10:21 PM
I read it. Very moving.
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I loved this essay-- I found it very moving but also fun and warm. We will all experience some version of this feeling in our own lives, something I kept thinking about as I was reading it
When my ex-boyfriend Skummy died earlier this year, I wrote this. Glad to see it up today in HuffPost.
"I reveled in this world where anger was exulted instead of verboten. There was a freedom there, and joy."
www.huffpost.com/entry/good-g...
"I reveled in this world where anger was exulted instead of verboten. There was a freedom there, and joy."
www.huffpost.com/entry/good-g...
I Was Always A Good Girl — Then I Met A Punk Rocker Who Changed My Life
"Skummy was feral. I couldn’t change him. And really, I didn’t want to. By his example something in me had been set free."
www.huffpost.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:26 PM
I loved this essay-- I found it very moving but also fun and warm. We will all experience some version of this feeling in our own lives, something I kept thinking about as I was reading it