Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on the Univ of Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
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Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
· Nov 22
Ok, there are so many new followers and I appreciate it, but you should know what you're getting into LOL so here are some things I've written or worked on to give you an idea of what I do, what I care about
I AM CRYING THE HAPPIEST TEARS
Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I AM CRYING THE HAPPIEST TEARS
It's almost time again! I gotta figure out which ones I'll make again this year and what new designs to try out.
Every year for like twenty years, I take a few days in December and do intricately decorate sugar cookies. I'm so, so happy with this year's lot.
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's almost time again! I gotta figure out which ones I'll make again this year and what new designs to try out.
We get the first new Robyn song in SEVEN (7) years on Wednesday!!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We get the first new Robyn song in SEVEN (7) years on Wednesday!!!
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Hey my news outlet @thebarbedwire.com is hiring a social media manager. Looking for someone smart who lives in Tx and loves covering our messed up state www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Social Media Manager
JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.
www.journalismjobs.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hey my news outlet @thebarbedwire.com is hiring a social media manager. Looking for someone smart who lives in Tx and loves covering our messed up state www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
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Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it.
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it.
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
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With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
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Florence + The Machine's One of the Greats is the energy I need today www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL...
Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Florence + The Machine's One of the Greats is the energy I need today www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL...
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
ESPN STOP SHOWING VOLLEYBALL FROM BEHIND THE SERVICE LINE CHALLENGE!!
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
ESPN STOP SHOWING VOLLEYBALL FROM BEHIND THE SERVICE LINE CHALLENGE!!
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New York electing its first Muslim mayor 24 years after 9/11 and rejecting the idiotic racism that would connect those events is actually a legit excuse for American triumphalism, but the people who say they love America the most hate all the best things about it.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
New York electing its first Muslim mayor 24 years after 9/11 and rejecting the idiotic racism that would connect those events is actually a legit excuse for American triumphalism, but the people who say they love America the most hate all the best things about it.
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also this would clearly be a field where the expertise of faculty from historically excluded groups would be a huge benefit, given the bias that has been consistently demonstrated in AI because of its source materials, killing two birds with one stone
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.
100!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
also this would clearly be a field where the expertise of faculty from historically excluded groups would be a huge benefit, given the bias that has been consistently demonstrated in AI because of its source materials, killing two birds with one stone
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.
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Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)
Because of travel chaos, the Texas Book Festival, one of the best things that happens every year in this city, is having to keep a running list of author cancellations on all of its social media so that can people can plan accordingly. ☹️
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Because of travel chaos, the Texas Book Festival, one of the best things that happens every year in this city, is having to keep a running list of author cancellations on all of its social media so that can people can plan accordingly. ☹️
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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OH MY GOD! THIS IS HIS FATHER!!!!
MAHMOOD MAMDANI'S "When Victims Become Killers" has informed my thoughts on human rights, genocide, & use of hate/fear in war since grad school. His writings about language has me dissecting everything for true intent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
MAHMOOD MAMDANI'S "When Victims Become Killers" has informed my thoughts on human rights, genocide, & use of hate/fear in war since grad school. His writings about language has me dissecting everything for true intent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Mahmood Mamdani · The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency: Iraq and Darfur
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
OH MY GOD! THIS IS HIS FATHER!!!!
MAHMOOD MAMDANI'S "When Victims Become Killers" has informed my thoughts on human rights, genocide, & use of hate/fear in war since grad school. His writings about language has me dissecting everything for true intent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
MAHMOOD MAMDANI'S "When Victims Become Killers" has informed my thoughts on human rights, genocide, & use of hate/fear in war since grad school. His writings about language has me dissecting everything for true intent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
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A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
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I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
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Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...