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Jenna Park

@jennapark.bsky.social
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Recovering UX/product designer. Artist, writer, mom, Gen X New Yorker. Mostly here for politics. Blogging since 2000, I now write a weekly newsletter at jennapark.substack.com

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"there’s a crack forming in the system of patriarchal abuse, that what you are starting to witness is a fraying of our social order. That what was once quietly circulating in elite circles under layers of secrecy is now a giant house of cards ready to collapse." My god, I hope this is coming true.
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It probably happened to you too
Complicity as infrastructure. Every woman has a story.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
He likes to be charmed and he likes winners. Mamdani is very charming—he totally charmed him today. Still, it was bizarre. Can't wait to see this cold open on SNL this weekend.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Thinking of Virginia Giuffre today. We all should be. It's heartbreaking that she's not here.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
An American Muslim immigrant is now the mayor of NYC. A huge win for the people and a big fuck you to all the billionaires who tried to stop him. I love my city! 🎉💙🎉
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This is sad and all too suspicious. Teen Vogue had some of the best political journalism in a sea of journalism lacking moral clarity.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
One of my favorite things about Halloween in NYC. Diane Keaton, I see you doing the Thriller dance back there. Halloween this year felt special. One night to get our minds off *waves arms around* all this. Pure fun and joy.
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Thriller Dance Halloween Parade 2025 New York
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 27/10/2025
As always, Jenna Park, on point. Follow her if you aren't yet. And then subscribe to her newsletter! She's terrific.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We used to own things, but subscribe to them instead. This model of convenience over ownership benefits corporations who own our data. What’s insidious about a subscription society is the marketing of an illusion of infinite choice, but how much convenience are you willing to trade for dependence?
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America is one big subscription service
We used to own things, but now we subscribe to them instead.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Please donate to your local food bank. It's really unfathomable that in a few days time, SNAP benefits will run out and millions to go hungry. This government doesn't take care of its own, so what is left to do but for communities to look out for each other?
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The fact that an influencer gets the American flag flown at half-staff while an elected government official does not is a pretty accurate snapshot of America right now.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is an absolute shit show of a day in America. I don't wish gun violence on anyone, not even that guy. Who do we want to be as a country? Not this.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is just going to erode trust from the S. Korean govt after pledging $150B investments in the US. Why would any company want to build here. He wants to bring manufacturing to the US but then pulls this shit where workers are chained & shackled? They should pull out—foreign employees are at risk.
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US Hyundai raid: South Korea vows support for citizens detained by ICE
US immigration officials detained 475 workers on Thursday - most of them South Korean nationals - saying they were working illegally.
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Bryan @bryanuf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I did not know that survivors of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse are speaking out today until I read Jenna's piece here. Spotlight needs to be solely on them until the Trump administration quits being cowardly and releases everything relevant to the investigation. jennapark.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
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We need to believe them
The symphony of cicadas, the silencing of women, and the muse of Manhattan.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Today, I stand with the Epstein survivors. We need to listen to these women. We need to believe them. Not Ghislaine Maxwell, not Speaker Johnson or Nancy Mace, and not the president. They've been silenced for decades and need our support as they stand at the Capital steps and tell their stories.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In America, we don't protect our children. Not from pedophiles or rapists, and not from guns. Today, Minneapolis, and the school year has just begun.💔
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Every once in a while I miss being an active designer in a community where we critique the shit out of a rebrand. Holy hell this is bad. Kerning that makes it look like a feminist mag, the flag shape, lines in the tagline that read like navigation. This is supposed to look like a source we trust?
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
It's absolutely mind boggling that only 1000 new jobs were added in NYC in the first half of the year. This is compared to 66,000 jobs the same time last year. You can feel the slowdown in tourism in the city too. This is only the beginning of the fallout of his nonsense policies. It's coming.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.” We’ve been conditioned to think there's a rift between artistic intuition and scientific reasoning but they're interconnected and rooted in observation and inquiry. Art and science are just different expressions of how we see the world.
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What Nabokov’s butterflies can teach us about science and art
Butterflies, biomaterial experiments, and why the Liberal Arts matter again.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Lawyers trying to paint Ghislaine Maxwell a victim and a scapegoat who's been treated unfairly and living under terrible conditions is such a slap in the face to survivor victims.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Caught in the middle of this Epstein file drama are the survivor victims who are reliving their trauma in the news every single day. Children were raped. Powerful people covered it up. Multiple victims have already sued the FBI for failing to protect them. Why do we always protect the wrong people?
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It's gonna be weird not seeing the Late Show marquee at the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway after next May. This wasn't "purely financial," this is about media control. Hope Colbert goes scorched earth in the next 10 months. CBS doesn't deserve his show & I'm sorry for the 200 people out of a job.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Overheard in Seattle: a mom explaining to her elementary school-aged kid how Mamdani won the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor but that Cuomo might still run as an independent. 3,000 miles away and it really is the summer of Zohran.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Rich men get away with the worst shit. Full stop. And it's a signal to other men that they might be able to get away with it too. But they're still abusive assholes.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I know it's like a million degrees out in NYC, but if you are physically able in this heat, PLEASE VOTE in the mayoral primary!
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sometimes it feels trivial to write and send newsletters when the world is burning. But humans are not meant to live as digitally-herded entities and many of us are longing for more human experiences. If it has to be done through the glass of a machine, let’s figure out how to make it more human.
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What makes a newsletter worth reading?
Notes on being more human through our screens.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Brooklyn holding it down for a No Kings rally and Brooklyn Pride fest, despite the rainy weather. Vibes are good out there today!
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is truly disgusting.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
All eyes on L.A. tonight. Stay safe, everyone. And thank you for standing up for what's right and humane.
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erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
College used to open doors but it guarantees nothing now. Tech used to create jobs but it now replaces them. We pushed kids into STEM for better job outcomes for years, but it might be time for the pendulum to swing back. Critical thinking might be the only thing that matters in an automated world.
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Critical thinking might be the only thing that matters in an automated world
What's the value of a college education in the age of AI? And why are we gutting institutions still capable of teaching something AI can’t replicate?
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Many of the federal workers being forced out by Trump are Black women who spent decades building a career of government service, only to see those careers shattered in a sudden purge. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social
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Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I never want to hear that women are too emotional for politics or leadership ever again.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A piece about summer, grief, and how our bodies carry the biological memory of our cultural foods.
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Summers start with a little heartbreak, but food is the antidote
Our cultural foods hold us together.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Are we done with Elon, finally? But what about all that sensitive personal data that he stole and the backdoor malware he planted into government systems? This isn't the end. He got what he wanted.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Remembering my step father-in-law, a Vietnam vet, who passed away last yr on this Memorial Day (unlike that classless draft dodging grifter with his hate-filled rant 🙄). It's also my brother's birthday & the anniversary of his death. Went to the cemetery and paid my respects to him and my dad too.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
For anyone suffering from a chronic illness: advocate for yourself. Our bodies are remarkable vessels, wired with the instinct to survive, but stress is far more damaging than we realize.
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Stress can kill you. All the ways our body sends signals.
As we sit in the space of transitions, how do we grieve for the person we once were while accepting the person we are now?
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
In honor of World Goth Day, please enjoy this video of Siouxsie and the Banshees when Robert Smith was a member of the band, playing Sin in My Heart at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - sin in my heart live 1983
YouTube video by syrex33
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
More lawsuits incoming. But what's going to happen to existing international students? Will they have to leave?
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Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Thinking of Joe Biden and his family. Also, leave him the fuck alone already.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When a government starts making decisions to punitively revoke financial support based on ideological values that it deems "improper, divisive, or anti-American," it puts into question broader implications for cultural expression and legacy. This is where we are.
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Art matters, but nobody wants to fund it.
Is art a luxury or a necessity? Artistic freedom and the politicization of cultural legacy.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“There was concern that education might also warp a women’s body. That women would become infertile if she spent too much time with the books.” This PBS documentary about the history of public libraries was so illuminating. Libraries are a national treasure!
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How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution | Full Documentary | Independent Lens
YouTube video by PBS
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Niches are for algorithms; writing whatever you want is just being human. Can you be “successful” without pigeon-holing yourself in a niche? Algorithms reward predictability, consistency, and repetition because they’re calculated by machines, not humans. Resist the niche if that's not your thing!
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Niches are for algorithms. Writing whatever you want is just being human.
The writing process and the systems we create in.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Didn't see an American pope coming. Interesting timing. But he criticized JD Vance on X, so all good.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Elmo can "feel empathy" is Elmo firing shots at the administration.
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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I mean, this is why the Met Gala with its record $31 million raised this year was so important. It sent a statement.
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NYC cultural institutions scrambling after Trump admin guts arts funding
Dance companies, theater productions and other arts groups said the lost funding complicates shows scheduled for the summer.
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Haven't been too active here because I haven't been well, but I hope you're enjoying Spring. College kids are coming home in 9 days and I don't know where the school year went? How is it summer already?
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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is horrific.
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Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang ties
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