Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonArif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026Freud running on a floor covered in baby oil wouldn't have slipped that bad. 226296
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’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.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour 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. 122101872628
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* 9394
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonBayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026New: 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...nytimes.comA 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. 816158
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonMark 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 313234
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The 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. 37931243
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3149292694
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Brazil should ban X. In fact, every country would be better without it. 11577170
Reposted by Sarah J. Jackson🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Please contrast the journalism of students with the folks who seem to forget last week let alone two years ago 011735
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The piece is rigorous, ferocious and appropriate, and people should click through and read it. 16218
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A 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. 6359148
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonNPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026Marlon 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/4AzgUean.pr'The Disappearers' is a fiercely personal novel that hits like a tidal waveMarlon 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. 28110
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026lol but not THEIR kids though. Tech bros want their kids to be tech-free.nytimes.comSilicon 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. 322590
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonJonathan 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.socialnbcnews.comAmerica 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. 23535642005
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33672901085
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never 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. 685248885501
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over 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 6336761439
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I 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. 112438
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonJeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 362974913
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonHector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026a 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...gofundme.comDonate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria RudenkoOur 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 4254218
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh. 322235585
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just 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. 21255
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Okay this is so cool. I love this. Go @rude1.blacksky.team!!!!! 1304
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I 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" 29212
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hey 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 admirewashingtonpost.comOpinion | ‘Totally absorbed’: Four writers pick their favorite books this yearScience fiction. Media history. An epic journey through purgatory. 0181
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This 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 2360
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I 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. 6351
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonJennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026I 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. 26213
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comGlobal release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZATheatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website 3322173
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New 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. #FilmSkyyoutu.be"Reading the World": New Film Spotlights Paulo Freire's Radical Literacy Experiment in 1960s BrazilYouTube video by Democracy Now! 34023
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonACLU @aclu.org · 23/09/2026What 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.youtu.beHow President Trump Attempted to Ignore a Court Order | ACLUYouTube video by ACLU 19422
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026Five 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 12652551583
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonDominique 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." 4453181
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It 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. 8488138
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They’ve almost achieved the dream of Black capital without any actual Black people. 1025158
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonGreg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026This 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.gregjarrell.beehiiv.comForgetting and Mis-rememberingCharlotte is determined to repeat the bad old days 05414
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026news 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! 48521
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Welp. I finally read this 🥴 Folks keep wondering why this happens and I absolutely beg everyone to read bell hooks’ “Eating the Other” 19320
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonChenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Did 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...patreon.comUnruly Patreon Exclusive: Did I Betray My Own Child?”: Parenting, Public Schools, and the Collective Fight Justice in Education | Unruly SubjectsUnruly Patreon Exclusive Nikole Hannah-Jones’s new New York Times Magazine essay, “Did I Betray My Own Child?,” is a deeply personal reckon 0255
Reposted by Sarah J. Jacksonvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026Silicon 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. 410223
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This 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-... 6226691081
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Between 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. 422512
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonDissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Data 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.dissentmagazine.orgAfter the Data Centers - Dissent MagazineData 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. 04417
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @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.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.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... 18945902945
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also this new documentary from @questlove.bsky.social on EWF is excellent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_...en.wikipedia.orgEarth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) - Wikipedia 06920
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Good morning, it’s the 21st day of Septemberyoutu.beEarth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO 17806367
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Great 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...latimes.comThe fall of once-mighty McClatchy newspapers underscores California's news crisisThe union that represents McClatchy journalists said that more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications had been laid off. 13916
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A piece I knew was coming but wasn’t ready for @nhannahjones.bsky.social revisits her decade old piece now that her daughter is 16. 413644
Reposted by Sarah J. JacksonMother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026Why 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 43562237