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Jess Grose

@jessgrose.bsky.social
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Opinion writer @ NYT, author of three books: Screaming on the Inside, Soulmates and Sad Desk Salad. Posts delete weeklyish, takes are ephemeral.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Excellent article by @jessgrose.bsky.social underscoring that private school choice works a lot like “man choice.” Everyone is welcome to “choose” Bad Bunny, but he has to choose you back. And in the end, someone is stuck with the school equivalent of a dude with no job who lives in mom’s basement
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not surprising @jessgrose.bsky.social opens on how pissed off Republcians are about vouchers starts at a high school football game. Vouchers transfer money from rural schools to suburban ones and that drains money from high school football and Friday Night lights. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Opinion | Billionaires Love This School Policy. Many Regular Parents Hate It. (Gift Article)
In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NYT: Kennedy Keeps Finding New Ways to Undermine Trust in Vaccines by Jessica Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social @nytimes.com nyti.ms/4rsTqmT
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Opinion | Kennedy Keeps Finding New Ways to Undermine Trust in Vaccines (Gift Article)
Four are dead in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak. But the C.D.C. isn’t yet convinced.
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Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Woo! Thank you @jessgrose.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
much thanks to @jessgrose.bsky.social for highlighting scienceimpacts.org in her column, which documents the regional economic impacts that result from the deliberate defunding of American science, led by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and @asinclair.bsky.social
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In which I ask Speaker Mike Johnson about why Republicans continue to let Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and Max Miller (R-Ohio) serve when they face investigations for domestic violence. "The the key word there is allegation. We have a process here. The House Ethics Committee works on those things."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Having interviewed so many teachers over the past few years, I think it’s also because we have given teachers a lot of unpaid responsibilities in terms of communication and tracking. They’re spending a ton of time answering parent and student emails and other admin tasks created by tech.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I wrote a long piece about America’s first A.I. focused public school, and what is lost when we look at all of education through the lens of tech. TLDR: 1st graders don’t need to learn the term user experience. Gift link, please read and share! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...
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Opinion | America’s First A.I. High School Is Great. But Not Because of A.I.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Maybe, instead of yelling at young men and women for making the wrong choices [about work, family, & childbearing], we should be listening to them talk about how they want to live, and try to figure out the kind of society that would best support them." @jessgrose.bsky.social gets it.
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Opinion | Maybe Men Don’t Want to Be Boy Bosses Anymore
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Great point! It’s all connected.…
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Haha I wish. I’m nowhere near that ripped
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21/02/2026
Glad @jessgrose.bsky.social wrote this. Scott Galloway is very confidently wrong about parental leave messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
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New dads aren’t a “waste of time and space”
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This was not the main point in this article about using AI in college admissions, but it stood out to me for so many reasons including the impulse to have the chatbot mediate all experiences including telling you what you do for fun. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/s...
A senior at a public school in Pittsburgh asked Microsoft Copilot to trawl her message history in order to help her brainstorm topics in response to an essay question: What do you do for fun?
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Troublemaker is my middle name.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Thanks as always for boosting ❤️
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
@jessgrose.bsky.social connects use of the RW outrage machine in the OU paper-grading case to the culture of student as consumer. In wealthier areas, this culture has long existed in K-12. Some of what's worsened it is also the result of RW crusades: "school choice" & "parents' rights." #GiftLink
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Opinion | How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Over 100 childcare programs in Indiana have closed after the state froze voucher enrollment and deeply cut reimbursement rates www.the74million.org/zero2eight/i...
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Indiana Child Care Providers Struggle to Stay Open After State Slashes Rates
With a freeze on child care voucher applications and cuts to reimbursement rates, Indiana child care providers are left reeling.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A shout-out to @jessgrose.bsky.social, who gave voice to these concerns early in this groundswell:
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Opinion | Screens Are Everywhere in Schools. Do They Actually Help Kids Learn? (Published 2024)
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I mean, ideally. But I’m also hoping to inform people who care about vaccines to organize on a state level to close vaccine exemptions. Only four states do not allow religious exemptions. The only way to get back above heard immunity imho is to have these laws.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Definitely true. But more and more people are becoming vaccine hesitant and I want to at least try reaching them, even if I think they’re morons. Because their kids don’t deserve to get polio even if their parents are cranks.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Yeah I have been writing about them all. But to change state laws to get rid of vaccine exemptions we need to convince regular people to support that. So I think politicians should listen to people who are still angry.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Some people can be convinced to vaccinate their kids. Pediatricians convince them every day. Hesitation is on the rise so we still need to do that work. I answer every DM a skeptic sends to me as long as it’s not a personal attack.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Inconsistent messaging from public health — schools closed but people have to go to work anyway in person. That was the reality for a lot of people and led to loss of trust
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Yeah i don’t get it either. I don’t think they still talk about it often but I do think it animates their distrust.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Yeah I agree! But we can’t force them to vote how we want or to not be angry, we have to convince them. And a lot of people were essential workers without family caregivers just generally — without the disability aspect.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Why are you making this personal? Did I say I personally felt this way? This is what my reporting and polling suggest.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Like what? The school had been providing her kid with an aide. That stopped. She had to go to work because her job was essential. What kind of alternatives was she ignoring? How could set backs and pain for her been avoided by her individual actions?
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Some of their kids still have longterm learning and mental health issues. I think saying screw their feelings isn’t that productive if anybody actually wants to change their minds or get policy passed that is pro vaccine
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It’s not extreme. It’s the law in four state — five before West Virginia changed its law but that’s still tied up in litigation and confusion. California passed a law outlawing exemptions after the Disneyland outbreak in 2019.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It is infuriating—no religion is against vaccination. Catholic schools don’t give exemptions because they believe vaccines protect life. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...
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Opinion | Who Will Prevent More Measles Deaths?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I deleted the post because I do not want to be misunderstood. The original post was meant to be about decades of under resourcing poor communities and when there are short word counts sometimes you cannot get in all the nuance.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I think people have every right to be mad about a ton of stuff health related and I write about it all the time.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Ok so men are in crisis or they’re not? It sounds like they’re doing roughly the same!! Some women are doing poorly and some men are too. I don’t know what you want from me atp
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
They’re not prioritizing “happiness” they’re prioritizing caregiving— and the gap now is 3 hours a week, not enormous. Women consistently have far less leisure than men do.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
But just looking at education is fine? Men and women in this country are struggling — possibly in different ways. Buy the idea that men are the only ones in crisis is incorrect. Mental health overall among young women is worse, for example.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
These stats are based on working the same number of hours — they’re comparing apples to apples.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It depends on who you are talking about. Single moms in their teens and 20s are doing very poorly — they tend to be the lowest earners overall. College educated middle and upper class people of both genders are doing well. Men in the bottom ten percent are also doing very poorly.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I don’t object to boys being helped at all — when have I ever said that?? I object to the narrative that girls are all doing great because more of them graduate from college now.
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Again — see the fact that this topic is constantly published in every left leaning magazine and newspaper under the sun. I can’t name one it *hasn’t* appeared in
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Jess Grose @jessgrose.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
No one is talking about an issue that is literally in every opinion section constantly and the subject of a book that propelled our VP elect into national prominence?! The idea that no one is talking about the struggles of boys right now is just not true
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