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Sarah J. Jackson

@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics. Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more. Typos and opinions both mine. Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Freud running on a floor covered in baby oil wouldn't have slipped that bad.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*going one by one on that top 100 tv list and realizing with horror Boardwalk Empire isn’t on it*
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New: The Trump administration has spent more than $1M in public funds so far to boost the president on the airwaves. Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by The Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵👇🎯 If you want to connect dots & understand why we never do elite accountability in 🇺🇸 politics & society & haven’t since at least Iran-Contra but really since Appomattox, this is a very good a place to start I learned many things as a Poor Kid at Yale & Harvard, but perhaps this lesson above all
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Brazil should ban X. In fact, every country would be better without it.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please contrast the journalism of students with the folks who seem to forget last week let alone two years ago
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The piece is rigorous, ferocious and appropriate, and people should click through and read it.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026
Marlon James' new novel chronicles the events surrounding a vicious anti-gay attack in Jamaica in the late 1980s. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Disappearers churns with passion and ideas. n.pr/4AzgUea
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'The Disappearers' is a fiercely personal novel that hits like a tidal wave
Marlon James' new novel chronicles the events surrounding a vicious anti-gay attack in Jamaica in the late 1980s. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Disappearers churns with passion and ideas.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
lol but not THEIR kids though. Tech bros want their kids to be tech-free.
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Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I expect for some folks it will feel strange that this week is the 10th anniversary of the NMAAHC because it has become so central to us, but it’s important to remember things we need can be built, they can be built now, and that building them will garner backlash but their impact will be profound.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026
a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...
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Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko
Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just gave a book talk to the folks @qplnyc.bsky.social and when I tell you I had a ball with the librarians. Man, librarians will just hype you up, ask the best questions, be fascinated by nerd stuff, and laugh at your jokes. Now add Queens to that. Love.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Okay this is so cool. I love this. Go @rude1.blacksky.team!!!!!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I tell this story all the time. When I did interviews for my book the zoom transcription had included the term "white gays" countless times. I could not for the life of me figure out what was happening because that had nothing to do with the topic. Reader, my interviewees were saying "white GAZE"
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey it's me, I'm the 'media history' in the subhead! I don't know how I got on a list that includes George Eliot and Dante, but I will absolutely take it. Thank you @drtedj.bsky.social, always lovely to be seen by writers whose writing you admire
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Opinion | ‘Totally absorbed’: Four writers pick their favorite books this year
Science fiction. Media history. An epic journey through purgatory.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This has nothing on the time I mispronounced the name of the rapper Tyga (in an attempt to use one of his songs as an example of a concept) in front of a whole lecture hall and everyone laughed
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I often learn about youthful pop culture from students and this week I had to google Sophia Bush who I had never heard of because of bi visibility day. I assumed this would go in the Gen Z celeb category only to discover Sophia bush is my age and I apparently occupy a pop culture planet without her.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
I just...I cannot read how a person can start a prison sentence at 19 and then still be there at 50. All I want to do is tear the entire system down. Start anew. Abolition is the only way forward.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New documentary "Reading the World" profiles Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator who connected literacy to critical thinking & democratic participation. It has archival footage of 1960s Brazil and interviews with farmers, students and educators who took part in Freire's culture circles. #FilmSky
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"Reading the World": New Film Spotlights Paulo Freire's Radical Literacy Experiment in 1960s Brazil
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/09/2026
What happens next could impact our civil liberties for years to come. Listen to the first episode of our new podcast, Let the Record Show, with our hosts @iammrbeat.bsky.social and Shereen Marisol Meraji at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts to learn more.
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How President Trump Attempted to Ignore a Court Order | ACLU
YouTube video by ACLU
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"...Vance not only briefed POLITICO on the state of the Iran deal talks, but spoke to a group of reporters from several news organizations. In exchange for the information, those outlets agreed to grant Vance anonymity. Status, which did not participate in the briefing, is not bound by those rules."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They’ve almost achieved the dream of Black capital without any actual Black people.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026
This week my city council voted to expand an urban highway, further destroying historically Black neighborhoods in the process. Their justifications relied on intentionally misremembering the brutality of urban renewal and urban highway projects.
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Forgetting and Mis-remembering
Charlotte is determined to repeat the bad old days
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
news consolidation is bad, of course, but the consolidation of arts and entertainment where everything is driven by the bottomline and controlled by tasteless ghouls is also bad!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. I finally read this 🥴 Folks keep wondering why this happens and I absolutely beg everyone to read bell hooks’ “Eating the Other”
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did y’all read NHJ piece, “Did I Betray My Own Child?” I talked with Dumi Lewis-McCoy & Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari about the questions it raises—and how we move from individual parental choices to the collective fight for justice in education. Full convo free on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/170273...
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Unruly Patreon Exclusive: Did I Betray My Own Child?”: Parenting, Public Schools, and the Collective Fight Justice in Education | Unruly Subjects
Unruly Patreon Exclusive Nikole Hannah-Jones’s new New York Times Magazine essay, “Did I Betray My Own Child?,” is a deeply personal reckon
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026
Silicon Valley is primarily an industry of vanity lifestyle businesses based on selection for social and cultural affinity, but which heavily propagandizes its bourgeois small-business owner class (close cousins to car dealership franchisees) as being cognitive elites and titans of industry.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Between the Jay Z and Kaepernick and Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, I am seriously considering bringing my celebrity, politics, and protest writing out of retirement. I might have to do something new.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Data centers have become a flash point in U.S. politics: Americans are sick of them, and organizers are attempting to block their construction, while a cadre of developers, financiers, tech companies, and energy producers push the deals forward, eager to reap the rewards.
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After the Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also this new documentary from @questlove.bsky.social on EWF is excellent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_...
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Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) - Wikipedia
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great story by @suhauna.bsky.social, and an important reminder of why Gavin Newsom needs to sign AB 2222 to bring back even a few local news jobs: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The fall of once-mighty McClatchy newspapers underscores California's news crisis
The union that represents McClatchy journalists said that more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications had been laid off.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A piece I knew was coming but wasn’t ready for @nhannahjones.bsky.social revisits her decade old piece now that her daughter is 16.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Why would Peter Hegseth want to purge women from combat? Look no further than his spiritual mentor, Doug Wilson, and their ideas about "biblical masculinity." Read ‪@kieraevebutler.bsky.social‬'s full story here: bit.ly/3UM5Yd4 📹: @samveep.bsky.social
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