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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 16/04/2026

Yes please! I hope you can make it, but if not we'll gladly accept any amount you can chip in. We're in the process of raising $800k to engage and register 50,000 new voters in advance of the midterms. Thank you so much for the support! 🙏 I'd love to see you there. secure.actblue.com/donate/fvsf

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 16/04/2026

Y'all, come to this @thecomedyresistance.com benefit show in San Diego on 4/24! We're raising $ to fight fascism via voter registration. @heathergtv.bsky.social is headlining! The night is co-hosted by Hera Hub & the Smith College Club of San Diego. 💥💪🎤 🎟️ www.thecomedyresistance.com/events/femin...

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 14/02/2026

Every day I think we've plumbed the absolute depths of human stupidity, and somehow every day this sentient slime mold manages to move the bar closer to the planet'd nickel-iron core. 🤦 Volcanoes with plugs in the vent are how you get MOUNT ST. HELENS, you ignoramus.

A Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump with a diagram of a volcano with cement plugging the vent. The caption reads "Why has no one ever experimented with placing cement in the mouth of volcanoes considlered (sic) active, as in the image, or heavy metal rocks. And when erupting the lava would be blocked, preventing deaths and accidents."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 30/01/2026

They arrested 4 Black people for doing journalism...apparently under the Ku Klux Klan Act. @donlemonofficial.bsky.social

Screenshot of a post from White House official social media with a black and white image of journalist Don Lemon holding a microphone. Image text reads, "Don Lemon arrested for involvement in the St. Paul church riots." The White House's caption reads, "When life gives you lemons...⛓️

Aaron Rupar writes, "the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

Ryan Goodman writes, "White House with an image of a Black man and an emoji of chains. And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 25/01/2026

I didn't give her enough hair ties to play with.

A black and white cat looks annoyed while reclining on a tan carpeted floor. Several hair ties are on the floor near her.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 24/01/2026

Great night raising money for IATSE Local 800 members and The Comedy Resistance tonight! Huge thanks to The Comedy Store and the brilliant comedians. And of course, it was great to see @pattonoswalt.bsky.social again. 💙

A picture of two white people smiling at the camera in front of a green background. One is Patton Oswalt, and one is Jess Phoenix.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 21/01/2026

Big news! I'm the new Executive Chair for The Comedy Resistance, a 501(c)4 org using comedy to mobilize and engage voters! @pattonoswalt.bsky.social & a ton of other incredible folks are part of it, so check it out & donate, sign up to volunteer, & share. 💪🗳️🌋 secure.actblue.com/donate/laugh...

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 07/01/2026

The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. -Orwell, 1984

A screenshot of a Trump post on Truth Social reading "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job if MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!"

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 18/12/2025

Tadpoles! They are growing legs and it's thrilling.

A small brown tadpole with partially developed legs sits on some multicolored aquarium rocks.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 06/12/2025

From the people who called younger generations "snowflakes" who need "participation trophies," we now have the President Snowflake Participation Trophy, courtesy of FIFA.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 25/11/2025

Apparently I made the front page of my friend's Reddit for an unfortunately evergreen tweet. Same as it ever was, unless WE change it, folks.

A tweet from the Jess Phoenix Twitter account that reads: "They want us to work hard every day to run their system, but they won't uphold the bargain by funding public schools, public healthcare, public childcare, public retirement...or anything "public" at all. If you get desperate & act out of line, go to prison...for their profits."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 06/11/2025

Cool, time for COVID again. Went to a horse show last week. Been fully vaccinated every time a new vx is available & hadn't had a chance to get the latest one this go around. 4 days of feeling like ass so far, plus being able to think only marginally. GET YOUR COVID VACCINE IF YOU CAN, PEOPLE.

A Covid antigen test showing a positive result.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 02/11/2025

If you love baseball like I do, then you know you just witnessed the greatest World Series of our lifetimes. Hats off to a phenomenal series, Toronto. You all were spectacular. And now... ¡Vamos, Doyers! I LOVE LA.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 11/10/2025

Seismic data showing vertical ground motion during the 15th inning of last night's ALDS game between the @mariners.com and the @tigers.bsky.social. Yes, the place was really rockin'...and that's a geologic fact.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 22/09/2025

Drop an old pic you still love.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 01/08/2025

🗣️ Psst...coming soon to a podcast platform near you! 🌋⚒️🌏 Field Day wth Jess Phoenix, a new podcast featuring tales of exploration & science from the ends of the earth.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 27/06/2025

My contribution to the discourse was: "Caught in a Bad Romance? Challenges Facing Women Geoscientists in the 21st Century." 2016. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting - Denver, Colorado, USA

A screenshot of a post from Michael McCullough that reads "Stop using pop culture references as the first half of the title of your journal article." A response below from Spirit, PhD, LPC, NCC, CPCS reads, "Who Gon Check Me, Boo: A Phenomenological Study of Entitled Gate Keeping of Scholarly Contributions."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 25/06/2025

These folks left 6 garbage bags full of alcohol containers all over the house. They didn't clean anything for the month they had the place. They broke our custom kid/pet-safe pool cover. They broke our saltillo tile STAIRS, for crying out loud. You have to TRY to fuck things up this much.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 25/06/2025

They also destroyed a brand new dining room set. It had one small scratch from being moved (it's heavy), and that was minimal with furniture touch-up pen. Now the table and chairs look like this. Again, none of this was there beforehand and it definitely isn't normal wear and tear.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 25/06/2025

They literally HUNG CURTAINS on windows that didn't have curtains. They tried to replaster and in one case, painted over with a shade of red that obviously didn't match. The walls are smooth & painted in semi-gloss. 🤦 I was not born yesterday, unfortunately for them.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 09/06/2025

We also wear hard hats to work near actively erupting volcanic vents, and head protection can be helpful with other forms of projectiles, too. Home Depot carries hard hats! Who would've thought?

A redhead in a yellow hard hat, sunglasses, respirator, and orange safety vest stands in front of an SUV and a cloud of volcanic gases.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 09/06/2025

🌋 Important volcanology tip: the respirators we use for protection from acid gases on volcanoes are effective against inhaling tear gas, and available at your local Home Depot. 💪

Photo of a redhead with a bandana and respirator on standing on a slope in front of an opaque gas cloud pointing at a sign overhead that says "Awas berbahaya gas beracun" and "Beware toxic gas."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 16/05/2025

Thinking of my cousin Joey who died 11 years ago today due to a drug overdose. RFK Jr & Trump are cutting $1 BILLION from SAMSA, which played a massive role in reducing overdose deaths by 27% last year. Yes, you read that right: they're defunding what is actually saving lives. Miss you, Joey. 💔

A bald white man with tattoos flexes his triceps while wearing a white tank top. He is in a basement with workout equipment.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 14/05/2025

AI is killing higher ed. How many people here have seen its destruction of critical thinking skills evidenced in young employees or interns?

Screenshot of text from Intelligencer article that reads: It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process..."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 23/04/2025

This is where I mention Terry Tempest-Williams' Refuge, and also suggest you grab a copy of my book Ms. Adventure.

Jess Phoenix holds a paperback copy of Ms. Adventure. She is in a bookstore.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 17/04/2025

I suppose Voodoo being cute yesterday makes up for it a little, right?

A reddish-brown horse with two diamond-shaped white markings on his face lies propped up on his breastbone in deep sand. His legs are tucked up underneath his body, and he is giving the camera a quizzical look.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 17/04/2025

Running a farm is being excited when you have a little money and then your well booster pump dies and oh, by the way you also need a new pressure tank to go with the new booster pump. Farewell, $7400. We hardly knew ye. 🥲 Pic of the old booster pump that gave up the ghost.

A cylindrical blue Flint & Walking booster pump with a background of leaves and dirt.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 03/04/2025

That's a lot of red, y'all. Are we great yet?

A screenshot showing 10 stock prices. All are down, and the corresponding numbers are framed in red, indicating losses.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 22/03/2025

Almost everything is terrible, but our pony who had cancer is now cancer-free after treatment and back in work! Yay for Midnight Storm, a.k.a. Stormy! She is a 6yo formerly wild Morgan pony, and she is the cutest. So glad I could get her the care she needed to be healthy. 💙

A small, shiny dark brown pony with a poofy forelock poses for the camera with a smiling white person in the saddle. It's a lovely sunny day.

A view from in the saddle of the dark brown pony. Beyond her neck, tousled mane, and ears, a dirt path with farm buildings, grass, and trees are visible.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 20/03/2025

"Honest to God, I've never seen anything like it," is a hell of a statement from Steven Levitsky, the Harvard political scientist who literally wrote the books on Democratic backsliding and authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

A screenshot of an excerpt from a NY Times article titled, "This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook." The text of the excerpt is, "President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his power.

“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.”

“We look at these comparative cases in the 21st century, like Hungary and Poland and Turkey. And in a lot of respects, this is worse,” he said. “These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.”

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 14/03/2025

Nope. Fortunately the opening narrowed quite a bit, so it wasn't super hard to stay in a good spot. The visuals were still pretty great, though.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 14/03/2025

Just a reminder that somewhere, a group of scientists is conducting research about our planet that will change our understanding of our home world forever. That doesn't mean we always look sane doing it, but we're out there working to advance #science for everyone.

A group of 4 scientists with hiking backpacks on poses with arms and legs akimbo over a dark grey basalt rock amidst a sea of basalt. There is a basalt cliff behind them.

A redheaded scientist smiles up from inside a volcanic vent. The basalt on the walls of the vent is oxidized a reddish color. The vent has no visible bottom.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 09/03/2025

A screenshot from my IG feed showing I follow @nowthisimpact.bsky.social, @standupforscience.bsky.social & then this unbiased app suggests both a badass Member of Congress (yes please @repjasmine.bsky.social ) & a convicted felon wannabe dictator (hell no). Ah, the carefully curated algorithm.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 07/03/2025

About to speak at the Los Angeles #standupforscience rally! Science will not be silent!

A redhead with long hair and sunglasses stands in front of a crowd waving signs about defending science on the corner in front of the Los Angeles Federal Building.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 23/02/2025

Cybertruck Man by artist Zez Vaz. Poignant.

A black and white cartoon of a single figure standing in front of a line of cybertrucks, reminiscent of the famous photograph of the man standing in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 22/02/2025

We need the Department of Education to be strong and well-funded so we can work on our national geometry skills.

A picture of two slices of pizza on a colorful plate. The pieces are cut wildly unevenly.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 14/02/2025

Happy anti-Valentine's Day to all who celebrate.

A Valentine's card with saguaro cacti in the foreground and mountains in the background. The text reads, "I miss you like the desert misses the rain...I've adapted to existence without you, and prolonged exposure would be disastrous." The bottom of the card has the words "To" and "From."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 04/02/2025

Lots of <5.1 magnitude earthquake activity in the volcanic field northeast of Santorini, which is one of my favorite volcanoes. It's possible that magmatic movement is causing the quake swarm, which means it's being monitored by local experts.

A screenshot featuring the island of Santorini in the southwest corner, with a cluster of yellow, orange and red circles indicating earthquakes to the northeast of Santorini.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 01/02/2025

Waiting to see who, exactly, decides to show their patriotism this way...

A stylized cartoon poster of a white man in blue coveralls wearing a red wide-brimmed hat and a red and white-striped shirt holding a bushel basket and reaching into a row of vegetables. The text reads "Make America Great Again...Patriots Wanted...Civic Duty... Volunteers Needed To Pick Crops... Patriots Wanted... Volunteer To Pick Crops"

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 27/01/2025

3) This volcano has erupted 4 times since the 1970s (and plenty of times before then). All eruptions have registered at a ZERO on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI scale). For reference, Hawaiian eruptions are usually a 0-1, Mt. St. Helens in 1980 was a 5. Big difference. /

USGS graphic showing the VEI scale. VEI ranges from 0-8, with erupted tephra volume ranging from 0.0001km^3 to 1,000km^3. Examples of various eruptions are included.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 27/01/2025

2) This volcano is along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, an area where 2 tectonic plates are pulling apart and volcanic activity adds new material to the plate edges. Eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges are NORMAL. They happen on the daily. They're happening right now. /

Image by Dawn J. Wright. A cartoon map illustrating the location of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Axial Seamount relative to North America.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 27/01/2025

In case you're wondering about the scary headlines claiming the Axial Seamount off the coast of OR will erupt this year, here are some #volcano facts. 🌋 1) We CANNOT predict eruptions. Increased seismic activity, gas emissions, etc. can indicate eruption is likely, but not certain. /

A screenshot of a map showing the location of the Axial Seamount off the coast of Oregon. The volcano's status is listed as dormant.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 27/01/2025

Having an old dog means routinely holding stock-still better than a 2nd-grader playing Freeze Tag to stare at said old dog until I'm certain he's still breathing. Always relieved when he's running or barking in his sleep, since I know he's dreaming of chasing things & is happy.

A scruffy black dog sleeps with his muzzle facing the camera and his head across one paw. The other paw rests atop a green and tan toy. The dog's muzzle is grey, and he has grey hairs around his eyes.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 24/01/2025

Trump wants to overhaul (but likely get rid of) FEMA. Which states have gotten the most FEMA money? Florida, Texas, and Louisiana. Now FEMA isn't perfect, but scrapping it isn't the answer.

Screencap of an Axios.com article with the headline "Where FEMA's direct relief money is going," a map of the United States and the subheading "Florida, Louisiana and Texas residents have received the lion's share of FEMA direct assistance since 2015, per newly gathered data."

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 21/01/2025

Ok, it's not retroactive. It still does irreparable harm to countless people like Carlos...the future of our country, which is and has always been a nation of immigrants.

Text of the EO: (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.

(c) Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children of lawful permanent residents, to obtain documentation of their United States citizenship.

Sec. 3. Enforcement. (a) The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commissioner of Social Security shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the regulations and policies of their respective departments and agencies are consistent with this order, and that no officers, employees, or agents of their respective departments and agencies act, or forbear from acting, in any manner inconsistent with this order.

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Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com · 21/01/2025

Ok, looked at the text. It's going forward. Seriously though, how many people who would grow up to be like Carlos do they want to stop?

Text of the order as follows: (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.

(c) Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children of lawful permanent residents, to obtain documentation of their United States citizenship.

Sec. 3. Enforcement. (a) The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commissioner of Social Security shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the regulations and policies of their respective departments and agencies are consistent with this order, and that no officers, employees, or agents of their respective departments and agencies act, or forbear from acting, in any manner inconsistent with this order.

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