Jenny Husk
@jennyhusk.bsky.social
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (DNP)
Writer
Mother
Wonder how anyone can ignore politics
Poems appear in: Rougarou, Bangalore Review, Notre Dame Review and others
My book of poetry can be found here: https://www.uapress.com/product/vocalises/
Writer
Mother
Wonder how anyone can ignore politics
Poems appear in: Rougarou, Bangalore Review, Notre Dame Review and others
My book of poetry can be found here: https://www.uapress.com/product/vocalises/
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Columbus” - sign up now to join me! #citizensagainstyranny www.mobilize.us/citizensagai...
NO KINGS Columbus · Citizens Against Tyranny
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
October 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Columbus” - sign up now to join me! #citizensagainstyranny www.mobilize.us/citizensagai...
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The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were granted Temporary Protected Status, a type of humanitarian relief for people whose home countries are in crisis.
The Supreme Court just took legal status from 300,000 Venezuelans
Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."
www.motherjones.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were granted Temporary Protected Status, a type of humanitarian relief for people whose home countries are in crisis.
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In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
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President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign. One of Project 2025's architects is working to use the shutdown to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing Democrat-led states.
Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals
President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.
bit.ly
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign. One of Project 2025's architects is working to use the shutdown to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing Democrat-led states.
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NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
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🔺 UPDATE: The flotilla carrying aid for Gaza and activists including Greta Thunberg, the Swedish campaigner, has been “circled” by Israeli warships, according to those on board, as the ships near Port Said on the Egyptian coast
Israeli commandos prepare to board Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla
www.thetimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🔺 UPDATE: The flotilla carrying aid for Gaza and activists including Greta Thunberg, the Swedish campaigner, has been “circled” by Israeli warships, according to those on board, as the ships near Port Said on the Egyptian coast
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For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diabetes. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months after being implanted, without the need for the recipient to take any immunosuppressive drugs.
Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes
Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.
wrd.cm
September 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diabetes. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months after being implanted, without the need for the recipient to take any immunosuppressive drugs.
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Utah Governor Cox, in wake of Charlie Kirk killing, urges 'off ramp' from political hostility reut.rs/4pkwLb7
Utah Governor Cox, in wake of Charlie Kirk killing, urges 'off ramp' from political hostility
With three words, Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Friday eased Americans’ fears about the fugitive suspected of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk: “We got him.”
reut.rs
September 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Utah Governor Cox, in wake of Charlie Kirk killing, urges 'off ramp' from political hostility reut.rs/4pkwLb7
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Brené Brown’s TED Talk on vulnerability went viral in 2010. Since then, she made a conscious decision to get out of the self-help space and began studying effective leadership in the workplace. Read, watch or listen to why on “The Interview.”
Brené Brown Doesn’t Want to Be Your Self-Help Guru Anymore
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Brené Brown’s TED Talk on vulnerability went viral in 2010. Since then, she made a conscious decision to get out of the self-help space and began studying effective leadership in the workplace. Read, watch or listen to why on “The Interview.”
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Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
Six Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, their families pay tribute to men
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
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Breaking News: An Idaho House committee passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to undo the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage.
Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Breaking News: An Idaho House committee passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to undo the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage.
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I can’t help but wonder whether yesterday’s shooting had any influence on this decision… #medsky
BREAKING: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has reversed its decision to impose time limits on anesthesia coverage during surgeries after widespread public backlash.
Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNN
After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shiel...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I can’t help but wonder whether yesterday’s shooting had any influence on this decision… #medsky
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One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...
No More General Anesthesia
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM
One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...
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November 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Unfortunately, this seem an apt time to share: A group of historians annotated sections of Project 2025, contextualizing and commenting on its plans to undermine environmental protections, exacerbate inequalities, and burn, burn, burn more fossil fuels. #envhist 🌎
Project 2025 Annotation: A Summary – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Eighteen environmental historians from EDGI's Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group are annotating environmental chapters and sections from Project 2025. For all the discussions ...
envirodatagov.org
November 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Unfortunately, this seem an apt time to share: A group of historians annotated sections of Project 2025, contextualizing and commenting on its plans to undermine environmental protections, exacerbate inequalities, and burn, burn, burn more fossil fuels. #envhist 🌎
I am sad that this was the first election my son was eligible to vote. He volunteered for Youth at the Booth on election day, and didn't get home til almost 10, only to get up the next day for school and learn the results. The juxtaposition of my emotions as a mom and my emotions as a citizen, ugh
November 12, 2024 at 1:11 AM
I am sad that this was the first election my son was eligible to vote. He volunteered for Youth at the Booth on election day, and didn't get home til almost 10, only to get up the next day for school and learn the results. The juxtaposition of my emotions as a mom and my emotions as a citizen, ugh
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Hey! 👋🏽 I’m back. Is anyone still here or seeing this?
November 11, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Hey! 👋🏽 I’m back. Is anyone still here or seeing this?
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The cast of Saturday Night Live jokingly touted their support for Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk in their first episode since Trump's re-election this week.
'Saturday Night Live' cast jokingly ask Trump to keep them off his ‘enemies list’
The cast of Saturday Night Live jokingly touted their support for Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk in their first episode since Trump's re-election this past week.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2024 at 7:38 PM
The cast of Saturday Night Live jokingly touted their support for Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk in their first episode since Trump's re-election this week.
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A sobering empirical piece in JAMA.
Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.
Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.
Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
A sobering empirical piece in JAMA.
Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.
Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.
Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Black women are the most underpaid and unsupported demographics in America, and they still pay the same price as everyone else for eggs and gas. Explain why so many political analysts are claiming this election came down to the economy again. I don't get it
November 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Black women are the most underpaid and unsupported demographics in America, and they still pay the same price as everyone else for eggs and gas. Explain why so many political analysts are claiming this election came down to the economy again. I don't get it
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the trump campaign was literally bought and paid for by the wealthiest people on the planet — openly! — and dim-witted pundits are going on about how voters are tired of "elitist democrats"
November 9, 2024 at 8:35 PM
the trump campaign was literally bought and paid for by the wealthiest people on the planet — openly! — and dim-witted pundits are going on about how voters are tired of "elitist democrats"