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Morgan Jerkins

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New York Times bestselling author. Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 6h
I bought laundry detergent, Clorox 2, dishwasher soap, a box of cereal, some pasta sauces (two different varieties), and a box of cookies (Nilla wafers), and a couple of other not-expensive items I can't remember, and it was over $70.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 6h
Boneless skinless chicken thighs was sixteen cotdamn dollars alone.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 6h
This morning I bought one pack of boneless skinless chicken thighs, a hand of bananas, medium size lotion, a toothbrush, and razor. It was over $40 and I just cannot get over that.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 6h
where he at....oh there he go....
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13h
I went the NHS emergency room in London over the weekend, it was free. Free to anyone. I'd have been charged only if I was admitted to the hospital. A cart in the waiting room went by me with some nice sandwiches, and I chose one. Before I could try to pay, the cart moved on. Sandwich also free.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles: hammerandhope.org
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Hammer & Hope
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today was a beautiful day. I hope you stepped outside.
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Jaymar Thee Author @jaymarjackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey yall. Times have hit me really hard and I’m against the wall. Literally. If you can donate I would really appreciate it. gofund.me/c02aeaa55
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Donate to Help Cover Bill Payments and a Rebuilt Transmission, organized by Jamaris Jackson
Hey yall so as I’m writing this there’s a knot in my stomach but… Jamaris Jackson needs your support for Help Cover Bill Payments and a Rebuilt Transmission
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This cat is waiting for you to come home after seeing that man again.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andrew Garfield. One minute he's Spiderman and the next minute he's a troubled televangelist.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Backpack Baddie!!!
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Be weird and be quiet. That’s how careers stretch long.
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MGArtiste @mgartiste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
quietly does what needs to be done and minds his business a man
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm so glad that Alex Skarsgard said to himself one day, y'know what, being a handsome leading man is not enough. I must go odd. Because oddity sustains.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh ffs
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I spoke with the student reporters who broke the story of the "Cornell Seven" lawsuit. Our conversation for @thecut.com: www.thecut.com/article/corn...
thecut.com
How Students Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Boy, do I love being a journalist. Every day is a brand new day.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump don’t even look at his own sons like this. A mess.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He loves that man DOWN. You hear me?
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are very few celebrities who I’d freak out if I ever saw them in person but Guillermo del Toro? I’d lose my shit to the point of delirium.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Any time a fly get to getting in my face in my home that I pay rent in, I lure it into an enclosed space, shut the do’, cut the lights off, and get to spraying, Rambo style.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The next time you have a dinner party with all of your closest friends, you give them a prompt that asks: "If you were Dr. Melfi, would you have told Tony?"
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about the new wave of clown activists who are using humor and absurdity to shift the focus from dangerous, right-leaning agendas to the beauty of spectacle: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Send in the clowns: the new guard of activists combating the right
A growing cohort of performers ‘clown’ as a means to innovate traditional protest and create social change
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I haven't felt this embarrassed for Ed Sheeran since he made that cameo in "Game of Thrones."
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm not even trying with "breadth"
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All the -ization words--"romanticization," "aestheticization," and their cousin "fetishization" all jumped me in a Walmart parking lot.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
phenomenola-la
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When it comes to pronunciation, "phenomenology" is gonna tear my ass up every time.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No one: Absolutely no one: Me: Can you imagine missing Julius Caesar’s assassination by a few minutes because you were at the bathhouse or something?
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That clip is 20 seconds. Twenty seconds and a toddler almost lost their life. Y'all parents are strong, man...
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
that baby went straight towards the van, my God!
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As a writer, sometimes the sentences that come outta me can be quite bad and disjointed. But then there are other times where the sentences are so good that I wanna slap my own ass.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I consider myself an early bird and yet I refuse to book a flight earlier than 9 a.m. Maybe 10. That's too much, honey.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I still mix up Sara Bareilles and Michelle Branch.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m getting to the age where I’m mixing up people’s names. I said Neil Patrick Harris when I really meant Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dah well
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I profiled Momo Boyd of Infinity Song where we discussed her feelings about being a solo artist, the racial tensions surrounding a patriotism that's Black and female, what freedom means to her, and the midwestern roots that radicalized her thoughts on freedom: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
theguardian.com
‘I’m trying to figure out where I’m supposed to be’: singer Momo Boyd on making space for herself
The Infinity Song artist is embracing uncertainty as she launches her solo career, while challenging the assumptions placed on Black women in music
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ha!
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
God, I wish I could've experienced the 70s. All that color and glitter, so much more personality in men's wear, the Black is Beautiful movement, big hair, and paying only $200 in rent.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I love when an elder reminisces on their wild, promiscuous ways and end it with, "Well I mean, it was the 70s."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2026
Breaking News: Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern women’s movement, challenged sexist assumptions and fought for gender equality, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4cVollO
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This winter is gonna be brutal. I can feel it already. And once the weather drops to a certain temperature, that'll be the time to go and get me a hair hat. Also known as a wig.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For a certain group of students, it's because their bodies have muscle memories from being in church every Sunday. Ask me how I know.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
yeah...idk, Inde...
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yeah...I just had a moment when I was doing a long run on the treadmill and I usually watch these kinds of docs and I had to stop. I was like, wait, it isn't the run that's wearing me down, it's what I'm watching.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
now we're talking
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I couldn't finish this new Netflix documentary called "Death of a Pastor's Wife" because I think I've hit my limit with how much content I can assume about abused women. I need to watch an oceanography or antiquity special to cleanse my brain.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The first problem is that he said “undrafted.”
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