Jen
@jericks1.bsky.social
anthropologist, professor, mother, feminist, lover of the outdoors, hiking, traveling, writing, and science.
All views are my own and do not represent my employer or anyone else.
All views are my own and do not represent my employer or anyone else.
It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...
"All you care about is dividing us by saying words that are true and sentences that are also true." hilarious
"All you care about is dividing us by saying words that are true and sentences that are also true." hilarious
It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth
Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based in fact...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...
"All you care about is dividing us by saying words that are true and sentences that are also true." hilarious
"All you care about is dividing us by saying words that are true and sentences that are also true." hilarious
Keep watching what is happening in Serbia. #studentprotests #policeviolence #fightfascism
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vreme.com/en/vesti/pre...
A carrier whose company was destroyed for supporting students tried to burn himself in protest - Vreme
The driver Milomir Jaćimović, who was driving the students, is still suffering the consequences. He was once again the target of thugs, who punctured his tires and broke his windows.
vreme.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Keep watching what is happening in Serbia. #studentprotests #policeviolence #fightfascism
vreme.com/en/vesti/pre...
vreme.com/en/vesti/pre...
Read my most recent article, open access, “Imperial Entanglements: Afghan Refugees and the Reimagining of Midwestern Identity in Muncie, Indiana”: www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...
www.mdpi.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Read my most recent article, open access, “Imperial Entanglements: Afghan Refugees and the Reimagining of Midwestern Identity in Muncie, Indiana”: www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...
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The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.
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August 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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Right now, @psabortionfund.bsky.social is raising money to help with this woman's legal fees and living costs. If you can swing it, please consider helping: donorbox.org/legal-fees
NEW: A South Carolina woman has been arrested for “desecration of human remains” after losing her pregnancy and placing fetal remains in the trash. The 31-year-old is facing up to ten years in prison for the felony charge.
For her pregnancy.
For her pregnancy.
Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
A South Carolina woman has been charged for “desecration of human remains”
jessica.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Right now, @psabortionfund.bsky.social is raising money to help with this woman's legal fees and living costs. If you can swing it, please consider helping: donorbox.org/legal-fees
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FREED POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER delivers a powerful message on immigration in the new Tom Morello directed video for Morello’s latest single “PRETEND YOU REMEMBER ME”, available everywhere now!
tommorello.lnk.to/PretendYouRe...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FREED POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER delivers a powerful message on immigration in the new Tom Morello directed video for Morello’s latest single “PRETEND YOU REMEMBER ME”, available everywhere now!
tommorello.lnk.to/PretendYouRe...
tommorello.lnk.to/PretendYouRe...
What happens in another time and place matters for us here and now. #Srebrenica #nationalism #war #Yugoslavia
Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What happens in another time and place matters for us here and now. #Srebrenica #nationalism #war #Yugoslavia
Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
This is a call for migration scholars to join a Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network.
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Migration Scholars Mobilize
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June 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is a call for migration scholars to join a Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network.
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chng.it/J2LqdZr2tS
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EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates that the 16 states with total or near-total abortion bans have sustained more than $64 billion in economic losses annually since the fall of Roe.
Check out @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's latest:
Check out @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's latest:
The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year.
A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.
www.motherjones.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates that the 16 states with total or near-total abortion bans have sustained more than $64 billion in economic losses annually since the fall of Roe.
Check out @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's latest:
Check out @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's latest:
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What are we doing?
June 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What are we doing?
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
I got a #Fulbright in 2020 & 2021 but couldn't go b/c Covid-19 and my university's travel policies. This year, my application was caught in Trump's anti-DEI BS. I was planning to study the relationship between women & the city of Sarajevo. #Politburo
I got a #Fulbright in 2020 & 2021 but couldn't go b/c Covid-19 and my university's travel policies. This year, my application was caught in Trump's anti-DEI BS. I was planning to study the relationship between women & the city of Sarajevo. #Politburo
Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
www.insidehighered.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
I got a #Fulbright in 2020 & 2021 but couldn't go b/c Covid-19 and my university's travel policies. This year, my application was caught in Trump's anti-DEI BS. I was planning to study the relationship between women & the city of Sarajevo. #Politburo
I got a #Fulbright in 2020 & 2021 but couldn't go b/c Covid-19 and my university's travel policies. This year, my application was caught in Trump's anti-DEI BS. I was planning to study the relationship between women & the city of Sarajevo. #Politburo
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
"If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Did the ding dongs in the administration simply borrow an idea from the Third Reich playbook? Please listen to The Man Who Calculated Death for a microcosm of WW2 Germany and how slippery is the slope we are sliding down now… #history #ancestry #ww2 #podcast #politics #nevertrump
April 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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My latest at Joy's House: a warning from the media world as fascism tries to grab hold of our country open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
The Daily Reid: A 60 Minutes warning
The departure of the head of CBS' long-running news magazine is a very bad sign
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My latest at Joy's House: a warning from the media world as fascism tries to grab hold of our country open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
"If we radically reduce the accrued historical functions of the academy, involving athletics, parietal supervision, mental health, identity warring, and neoliberal job training, what are we left with?"
"If we radically reduce the accrued historical functions of the academy, involving athletics, parietal supervision, mental health, identity warring, and neoliberal job training, what are we left with?"
Opinion | The University is a Hostage. But There’s Hope.
Where can we go from here?
www.chronicle.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
"If we radically reduce the accrued historical functions of the academy, involving athletics, parietal supervision, mental health, identity warring, and neoliberal job training, what are we left with?"
"If we radically reduce the accrued historical functions of the academy, involving athletics, parietal supervision, mental health, identity warring, and neoliberal job training, what are we left with?"
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is everything right now
For the Trump regime, their ability to disappear the humanity of one Maryland dad is central toward a project of establishing American dictatorship
It's why we must fight for Kilmar's freedom...and our own. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...
For the Trump regime, their ability to disappear the humanity of one Maryland dad is central toward a project of establishing American dictatorship
It's why we must fight for Kilmar's freedom...and our own. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...
Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the Jenga piece that could topple the American Experiment | Will Bunch
The Trump regime lies about a Salvadoran laborer and dad because the truth of his humanity could unravel its dream of autocracy.
www.inquirer.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is everything right now
For the Trump regime, their ability to disappear the humanity of one Maryland dad is central toward a project of establishing American dictatorship
It's why we must fight for Kilmar's freedom...and our own. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...
For the Trump regime, their ability to disappear the humanity of one Maryland dad is central toward a project of establishing American dictatorship
It's why we must fight for Kilmar's freedom...and our own. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...
"There is no appeasing an openly fascist Trump administration, for we know that no one is safe under fascism. When we keep our heads down and stay the course, the fascists continue to lie, extort...humiliate and attack whoever they add to their list of enemies."
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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
lithub.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"There is no appeasing an openly fascist Trump administration, for we know that no one is safe under fascism. When we keep our heads down and stay the course, the fascists continue to lie, extort...humiliate and attack whoever they add to their list of enemies."
lithub.com/silence-is-c...
lithub.com/silence-is-c...
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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Statement from the family of the late Medgar Evers.
My family issued the following after Medgar Evers was partially removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website under the direction of the Department of the Army.
“It is a spit in the face to all who have served, honored, and fought for this country,” said Myrlie Evers.
Full statement below:
“It is a spit in the face to all who have served, honored, and fought for this country,” said Myrlie Evers.
Full statement below:
March 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Statement from the family of the late Medgar Evers.