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Jenna Flanagan

@jflannys.bsky.social
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Journalist - Podcaster - Creator Don't Bury the Lede soundcloud.com/dontburythelede

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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Foreign policy doesn’t stay foreign when the consequences come home. We connected the dots from Israel and Iran to the midterms on We Decide: America at the Crossroads on @wbai.org listen👂🏾👇🏾
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 14/09/2026
💰 Trump's $5,000 giveaway pledge 🪖 Iran war spiraling 🤖 AI legislation afoot? My conversation on @wbai.org with @jflannys.bsky.social @laurajedeed.bsky.social and @egbertowillies.com. 🔊 Listen: www.wbai.org/archive/prog...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Why did the ICE killing of Keith Porter never make the headlines while others dominated the news? And how did an anti-ICE campaign win over a NJ Republican stronghold? We connect the dots on We Decide. 👇 wbai.org/articles.php...
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Black History Month Erasure Plus Suburban Anti-Ice Blowback
ListenIn this week's We Decide: America at the Crossroads we look at how the Trump regime's violent mass deportation strategy that's resulted...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/02/2026
“My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos.”
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ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer
The filing aims to hold rogue federal agents accountable by linking them to a conspiracy.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Word has it ICE is heading to Ohio next to target Haitian immigrants… during Black History Month www.democracynow.org/2026/1/30/te...
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350,000 Haitians in U.S. “at Risk of Losing Everything” After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status
An estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants are set to lose their temporary protected status, or TPS, on February 3, 2026, after President Trump signed an executive order to revoke their TPS shortly after...
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Antonia Marrero @antoniamarrero.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“As she committed to do during her campaign, @govsherrillnj.bsky.social signed a series of EO’s to freeze New Jersey's runaway electric rates…Sherrill affirmed the role of the 🇺🇸 union movement in building & maintaining the middle class.” HT @jflannys.bsky.social @wbai.org @stucknation.bsky.social
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NJ Gov. Sherrill Stands Up to Trump Echoing 1776
Listen NowFRONTLINE VOICESWelcome to Frontline Voice from the WBAI News Collective, with Jenna Flannagan. This morning New Jersey Governor-elect M...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Petrodollar: oil priced in US dollars keeps global demand for our money high. BUT as BRICS nations move away from it and renewables rise the dollar’s value is at serious risk. That’s why Venezuela, Ukraine, and energy wars matter.
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The War Beneath the War
How Ukraine, Venezuela, Russia, oil, and the U.S. dollar are shaping what “peace” means?
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Authoritarian systems thrive on fear, isolation, and burnout. Organizer Daniel Hunter's work offers a guide to staying grounded in 2026 without doing their work for them. Here are 10 ways to hold it together. → open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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After the Shock of 2025: 10 Ways to Stay Grounded When Chaos Is the Strategy
Lessons I got from activist Daniel Hunter on resisting autocracy without losing yourself, or each other.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Wait, immigration judges have a union? I never realized that until I interviewed Matthew Biggs, president of @ifpte.bsky.social . While everyone watches ICE (as they should) immigration courts are being hollowed out. This is the story we’re missing. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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Everyone’s Watching ICE, No One’s Watching the Courts
While ICE agents dominate the headlines, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside immigration courts: a decimated system, manipulated judges, and a union-busting agenda reshaping justice.
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 23/12/2025
Donald Trump’s vision for America in 2026 and beyond: How realistic is it, anyway, despite his rapid-fire White House speech last week? My conversation on @wbai.org w/ @jflannys.bsky.social @laurajedeed.bsky.social & @egbertowillies.com. 🎧 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Too many of us spent 2025 nursing broken systems… and getting a vicious bite in return for our troubles. Black women felt it first - and we TRIED TO WARN YALL 2026 doesn’t have to repeat it, if we don’t let it. 🐍 open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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"You Knew Damn Well I Was A Snake": Saying Goodbye to 2025
How we were all forced to let the Year of the Snake in regardless of how much we understood its danger or not… and why no one clocked that vulnerability more clearly than Black women.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
You know how to stifle class mobility? Cut off access to nursing. Federal policy just did that. I reported on this crisis 10 years ago. We were warned. Now we’re paying for it. open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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This Is a Crisis 10 Years in the Making
How Ignoring the Nursing Shortage, and Now Undermining Nursing Education, Is Putting America’s Healthcare System at Serious Risk
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Live Updates: Reiners’ Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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Live Updates: Reiners’ Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Watching last night’s news about Rob Reiner unfold was a reminder of how thin the line is between reporting and rumor. This is the information crisis we were warned about. In the end, we shouldn't judge this moment by speed, but by how much accuracy we demand. open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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Opinion: The Problem We Were Warned About
In 2017, I interviewed Rob Reiner and David Frum on disinformation & democracy. Today, as the shocking news of Reiner’s death spreads faster than facts, that conversation feels devastatingly urgent.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Choosing yourself is hard. Two years post-layoff, this job market is brutal. It's making talented people feel humble and desperate. But I recently reread an old resignation email and remembered: I’ve been here before and I had the courage to walk away. Can I do it again?
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Choosing Myself, Again
Before anyone praised my journalism, a resignation letter proved my words had power. Now, after a layoff, I’m searching for the courage of the woman who wrote it.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
NYC receives 2.5 million packages a day but the people delivering them are getting injured at triple the average rate. Student journalists uncovered why: unsafe vans, impossible quotas, & a system that shifts liability onto small operators. This is the hidden cost of convenience.
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**You Ordered It, But At What Cost?
Why New York’s Delivery Workers Are Paying the Price for Our Holiday Convenience**
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"They think THIS is news?" if you've ever thought that, blame the assignment desk. But wait! Prof. Benjamin Davis, says before you direct your ire, assignment desk editors have corporate overlords to please... so who's really to blame for the state of our journalism? youtu.be/auEfoqqsr4U?...
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Who Makes the News?
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If journalism were a person, we’d be staging an intervention. But since it’s an industry, we made a podcast instead! 🎧 Press Pass: When The News Becomes a Joke Because at this point, you either laugh… or start a Substack. (I've got one of those too! @jflanagan.substack) youtu.be/MgeyrBqRvwQ?...
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When the News Becomes a Joke
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” Kimberly Jones That line hits even harder today and makes me think of Sojourner Truth. Her revolution was never about revenge, it was about renewal. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Sojourner Truth’s America: The Woman Who Turned the World Right Side Up
How a woman from Ulster County, NY found her voice to use her faith in defiance of white supremacy and patriarchy to reshape the soul of American democracy
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
TV news used to feel like a public service. Now it feels like a performance. This week we talk with @newsjennifer.bsky.social about how the news became just another TV show, and what it’ll take to earn trust again. youtu.be/3yVhBudH5YY?... #Journalism #LocalNews #MediaTrust
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Can TV News Be Fixed?
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The emotional cost of journalism is real. Reporter burnout isn’t just about workload, it’s about covering chaos with no time to heal. This week on Laid Off and Looking, Louisa Ortiz Pérez on the mental health crisis inside newsrooms. youtu.be/cICogTXIlAk?... #Journalism #MentalHealth
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The Emotional Toll of Journalism
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 28/10/2025
We are entering the post-blame phase of the government shutdown. My conversation of @wbai.org in New York City with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social. 🔊 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Why is it every week contains the most frightening and stupid news at the same time? We discuss this week on We Decide!
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Trump’s Versailles Moment: East Wing Demolished for Ballroom as Food Stamps Are Zeroed Out
Listen HereWe Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan 10-27-25Now, with President Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the Whi...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🛑 Government “shutdown” = services shut to you. VA nurses skipping paychecks, prisons on “augmentation,” families losing ACA support because offices are dark. Shutdowns don’t save money, they waste capacity. Read the Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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What Happens When Government Stops? Just Ask the Workers Who Keep It Running
For most Americans, the shutdown is a passive event. Life hasn’t really changed yet, but for the less than 2% employed by the government, going a month without a paycheck is a mushrooming catastrophe.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“AI can help with the grunt work. But it cannot replace an editor.” - @sisiwei.bsky.social Our podcast interview explores the promise & peril of AI in journalism.
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📰 New Post: Can AI Replace Editors? AI is racing into newsrooms just as layoffs hit the industry hard. Some outlets are even letting algorithms pump out articles under fake bylines. Journalist @Sisi...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Big outlets validate. Smaller ones dig first. Alyson McDevitt of Compliance Week broke the Epstein banks story 18 months ago, before the NYT picked it up. Support local + niche journalism, it’s how the truth survives. #SupportLocalNews open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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The Pickup Artist: When Big Papers Profit from Smaller Newsrooms Scoops
When big newspapers “validate” reporting first broken by local or niche outlets, it’s called a ‘pickup’. The practice can create reach, but risks erasing the journalists who did the hard work first.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
... as Dave reminded us all, the government shutdown is set to happen AT. THE. END. OF. THE. MONTH.
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 15/09/2025
The mystique of Charlie Kirk — and what we're not talking about. My conversation today with @jflannys.bsky.social and @laurajedeed.bsky.social on @wbai.org. davelevinthal.substack.com/p/the-mystiq...
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The mystique of Charlie Kirk — and what we're not talking about
There's much left unsaid
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I was on We Decide with @jflannys.bsky.social alongside the fabulous @davelevinthal.com this morning You can listen to me get angrier than I've ever gotten on-air here: wbai.org/archive/prog...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Season 3 of the Laid Off and Looking Podcast is HERE! As we got started, co-host Dom unloads on how journalists have to walk an increasingly precarious tight rope to get attention for their work. Like and Follow for the Laid Off and Looking Podcast: News is Changing, We're Telling the Story!
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
What happens when influencers become trusted sources over the people reporting the stories? Laid Off and Looking co-host Domenic Camia share his frustrations with the impossible demands on journalists. *WARNING: a little bit of potty mouth, but hey… he’s a journalist!
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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The conversation we’re not ready to have yet is that having empathy for a white supremacist is part of what upholds white supremacy. And by that measure alone, it fails to be empathy at all.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
An afternoon w my dad. All he needed was a brace for an arthritic hand BEFORE Labor Day weekend closures. We got: insurance drama, conspiracy theories, & one very illegal left turn. A hilarious & tender reminder of what it means to see your parents aging. 👉 jflanagan.substack.com/p/the-wrist-...
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The Wrist Brace
True Stories of my father, Bill Flanagan
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Who knew pizza orders could cause this much hope
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Over 1400 health workers dead. Gaza’s medical system is collapsing — and the global health community is too quiet. @doctorsagainstgenocide.bsky.social 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga... #MedicalNeutrality #GazaFamine #HealthCrisisGaza
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In a Hotter World, Some People Age Faster, Researchers Find Go Go Magic Melanin ✊🏾
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In a Hotter World, Some People Age Faster, Researchers Find
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
That scavenger hunt was genius on so many levels. I hope other politicians are talking note on engaging your base
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Still checking for my local news prize inside
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A dreary cool Sunday in the Hudson Valley and everything is unusually crowded. A tingling of entitlement hangs in the air… 🍁🍂 is coming 😩 Oh and the students are back
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Why are the ‘Propaniacs’ my favorite episode of King of the Hill?
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier draws sharp parallels between the U.S. treatment of Native Americans and what he sees happening now in Gaza. In this rare interview, he calls out genocide, land theft, and the failure to protect Mother Earth.
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"They're Doing the Same Thing to Them That They Did to Us"
From a house on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier draws urgent parallels between Indigenous genocide and today’s violence in Gaza.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
When 'Try Me' becomes a movement
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Is democracy really dying? Not according to @ips-dc.org it's just evolving... It's a process we can't stop, we either get on board or get out of the way! open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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A Progressive Majority? That's a Bold Idea.
From political gridlock to real solutions: The Institute for Policy Studies shows how we can defend democracy to make it work for all Americans.
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Say what NOW? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
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Goodbye, MSNBC. Hello, MS NOW.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Oklahoma's new "America First" teacher certification test will require educators from California and New York to agree with conservative curriculum www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I’m sure it’ll be fine. “Mr. Antoni, who currently serves as chief economist at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation” Seeking Friendlier Data, Trump Names New Commissioner for Statistics Bureau www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...
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Seeking Friendlier Data, Trump Names New Commissioner for Statistics Bureau
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Just from a logistical standpoint it is not feasible to conduct a "new" mid-decade census with accuracy. To give a sense of the scale of what is required, preparations are already underway for the *2030* census. This will add chaos to the Census Bureau and degrade the accuracy of the 2030 census
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Gathering Storm Over the American Dream The Trump admin fired a civil servant over a jobs report, but the real story is bigger. I spoke with @ngusdorf.bsky.social of @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social about how politicizing data & gutting public jobs is shaking the American Dream.
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The Gathering Storm Over the American Dream
How Economic Data, Politics, and Fear Are Reshaping Our Future
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Kinda curious to see if MTG was right? Senator Marsha Blackburn Will Run for Governor of Tennessee www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...
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Senator Marsha Blackburn Will Run for Governor of Tennessee
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Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Think you're middle class? You're probably ALICE. @united4alice.bsky.social has determined, even though the federal poverty rate sits at 13% the number of American's living check to check is more like 42%. ALICE is why. ALICE Isn’t Just a Waitress Anymore open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...
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ALICE Isn’t Just a Waitress Anymore
Why Nearly Half of U.S. Households Are Struggling to Stay Afloat
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