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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

thank you my dear. hope to meet you someday. stepdaughter in SF has two kids (!) and we go quite often. the kolkers said you were there...?

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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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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It means everything. Thank you for telling me. (It also means a lot that you took the time out of your day to tell me this.)

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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 · 24/08/2026

Wait. So you’re saying reality television is…not real??? (Nice catch.)

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

(This said, I do wish that, every time he brought up inflation in 2021, she’d noted that inflation was pretty much *inevitable* post-Covid.)

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

It’s a hard job. I think it takes a few years to settle into, tbh, just as most jobs do. The unfortunate part in her case is that she has to do it publicly week after week.

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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 · 23/08/2026

I was so impressed with her in that exchange. Holding firm and pushing back without being pugnacious…that’s very hard to do. And she did it LIVE, essentially.

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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

No clue. Was decades ago. But yeah, if *every* dumb q was the dumbest he’d ever heard, they weren’t equally dumb. So hopefully mine ranked better among the dumb questions he’d heard.

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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 · 18/04/2026

She’d have been fine so long as I was willing to eat ramen in it, I think

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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

Didn’t know that. Well, my ER friend and ICU nurse friend vacation together, so maybe there’s still a common bond? (Different hospitals,maybe that helps.) You know that the handsome, gray-haired nurse on the show is an actual ER nurse, right?

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

I am obsessed with doc and nurse responses to the Pitt. Am dear pals with both a ER doc AND an ICU nurse and am always searching for their feedback. So fascinating to hear you say…

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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

Yes, and while we’re at it, energy drinks and cars. But seriously, every other ad seemed to be about AI companies, some of which I’d never heard of, and Ubereats and Seamless and Alexa and Instacart and and and and … Plus GLP-1s

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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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