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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Back when I was a book critic, I noticed how many reminiscences obscure as much as they reveal. But not this stunning piece by George Packer. He's skinless here. He's written the perfect memoir in miniature. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Sons and Mothers

My mother devoted her life to teaching writers. Becoming one meant escaping the story she had written for me.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/09/2026

Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the September 11 attacks. In 2021, Jennifer Senior wrote about grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the decades since 9/11. Revisit the Pulitzer Prize–winning story: theatln.tc/lUQH2ThM

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An exceptional column from @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, even by his exceptional column-writing standards. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o...

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I don’t know this for sure, but I would *think* that being trans in the military requires a lot of courage, which makes this crusade all the more baffling (as well ugly, which goes without saying) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

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Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate

The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Don’t think this is what he had in mind when he said drain the swamp www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...

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Trump Says Reflecting Pool Will Likely Need to Be Drained

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I keep thinking about Brunson’s interview with Salters after game 1. He spoke like a man whose team had *lost*. “It wasn’t really our night, wasn’t really my night for most of the night … there a lot of things we could do better.” THAT is why they won. We got the whole explanation right there.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

On the table of our local sports bar, perfect for the Knicks fans craving a bottle of Sancerre

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Barney Frank wasn’t just the funniest and most intellectually formidable member of Congress in his day; he was also the most exacting of the press, never hesitating to say (including to yours truly), "That is THE dumbest question I've ever heard" if we came unprepared or asked something vague.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Damn, Barney Frank. It's in no small part that thanks to him, some kids of my son's generation (by no means all, alas, but still, some) have no clue what the closet *even is*.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Two thoughts came immediately to mind after reading this: 1. Oh my God, this is appalling, are we irremediably broken? And 2. Jesus is @jodikantor.bsky.social a badass. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is how far gone I am when it comes to The Pitt: I had a dream last night that when I came to work (at some generic magazine office) Dr. Santos was there and told me she hated my sweater so I went home and immediately changed

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I love when I get opportunities to remind people that @jennifersenior.bsky.social is responsible for the best-ever bit of SCOTUS reporting nymag.com/news/feature...

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I don’t understand why the markets are still yoked to what the President says when the only throughline is incoherence and erraticism.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

More proof that Sarah Lyall has the best gig at the NYT and does most with it. This story…! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/t...

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No Lines, No ‘Regular’ People: Flying Ultra-Luxury From Paris

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today seems like a good day to remind people that “In the Shadow of the Moon” is a spectacular and exhilarating documentary: youtu.be/BkvPs6LakHw “I felt like I was literally standing on God’s front porch.”

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In the Shadow of the Moon - Official Trailer

YouTube video by Madman Films

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Brilliant op-ed today by @jacobweisberg.bsky.social—an irresistible read and a genuinely original framing of a subject about which I thought nothing more could be said. Crystallizes an enduring cultural phenomenon we should all think about. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o... via @NYTOpinion

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Opinion | The Epstein Class Had a Signature Weakness

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In which Barbra Streisand makes a Redford tribute about her.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Trump admin is really crushing it with their midterm strategy

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Of course @bstaples.bsky.social, who at the NYT produced one gem after another about forgotten histories of African Americans, writes a sharp review here, about the cynical deployment of Black Americans to Vietnam and the grotesque internal discrimination they faced. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...

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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Watched the pilot of ER last night because I’m such a fan of The Pitt and cannot get over these two.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In which @peterbakernyt.bsky.social ‬⁩ slyly uses Trump’s favorite phrase in the (finally) accurate context.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

So basically only Silicon Valley and pharmaceutical companies could afford spots during the Super Bowl this year

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Still outraged that a bunch of toilets ruined a really good Phil Collins song.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I watch football once a year and each time my husband and son have to re-explain to me what a down is

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I’m showing up tonight for Bad Bunny and good commercials.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The normalization of this kind of discourse and imagery and stunt is one of the most insidious poisons to have seeped into modern GOP politics.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Raise your hand if you've worked with Book World's @johnwilliams.bsky.social and found him to be one of the most casually erudite, perceptive, and nimble editors you've ever known. 🙋‍♀️

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

They’ve gotten DOGE’d, essentially. It’s a deliberate tactic. Gut until the institution doesn’t work. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

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Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Given how volatile and terrifying these situations are, I am blown away by the bravery of the citizens who continue to film them at close range.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Anecdata: —Life in DC in recent months has been shadowed by omnipresence of National Guard. But almost no one "hates" the NG members, or blames them. They're doing their best, mostly ramping down rather than amping up tensions. —People around the US fear and *hate* ICE and CBP cowards. For cause.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Nice little country you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Tfw your childhood pediatricians reunite to tell you that you have osteoporosis

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

No better metaphor for this man’s narcissism than the two gilded mirrors he’s put in there — mirrors! — each the size of the framed Declaration of Independence. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office

Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered a third of the wall space with gold.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

And now, your moment of zen. From the divine @seremony.bsky.social. (The images really are spectacular.) A December Photo Essay open.substack.com/pub/sarahmur...

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A December Photo Essay

’Tis the Season—letting nature tell the story

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yes, and: While not advancing the ball can be a legitimate argument, can there *ever* be enough stories about the US committing torture right now? And isn’t TV the far more powerful medium to tell them?

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Google AI just told me that Jennifer Senior wrote “Let’s Pretend We’re Married”. When I followed up, asking why it thought so when I’d written absolutely nothing by this name, it basically said, Oops, our mistake, turns out that’s a Prince song. We are so doomed

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

the best student gifts I ever get, bar none, are signed copies of work they did long after leaving me class like senior theses, law review articles, etc. Gives you the hope and energy to keep going in a draining profession when you know you're equipping them to do great work in the future.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Setting aside all speculation about Wiles’ motives (conscious or un-), I think what we’re now witnessing is that moment when chunks of the White House staff start to realize that Trump’s narcissism can’t be contained and say it out loud.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia

Filmography
1986 - Stand By zme
1987 - The Princess Bride
1989 - When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Misery
1992 - A Few Good Men

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

An observation about the Oliver Sacks story that’s morally neutral (though I, like everyone, am horrified): I am once again struck by how many peoples’ professional lives are really about the psychodynamics of self-cure.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It will also be the highest full moon in the sky until 2042, so really, there's no excuse for any of you to be indoors

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Everyone should do themselves a big fat favor right now and go outside and stare at the supermoon.

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