jenn m. jackson
@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social
Political scientist and author. Researching Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them. AuDHD. Personal acct.
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Black Women Taught Us by Jenn M. Jackson: 9780593243336 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for...
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The paperback for my debut book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US will be out in a few months, nearly two years after its release. I'm so grateful folks have been supporting it even as I'm here recovering from heart surgery. Updates on the way. Stay tuned 💜
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...
For my DMV/Baltimore bookish folks, I'm excited to bring the paperback tour for BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US to @redemmas.org on Tuesday, February 17th at 7pm. I'll be in conversation with fellow tall friend Elizabeth Booker Houston 💜
Register here: redemmas.org/events/jenn-...
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#BlackSky
February 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
For my DMV/Baltimore bookish folks, I'm excited to bring the paperback tour for BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US to @redemmas.org on Tuesday, February 17th at 7pm. I'll be in conversation with fellow tall friend Elizabeth Booker Houston 💜
Register here: redemmas.org/events/jenn-...
#BlackSky
Register here: redemmas.org/events/jenn-...
#BlackSky
I think a lot about how so many atrocities and indignities will remain hidden from public sight due to the dismantling of news media. I know that's the point but it truly disturbs my spirit.
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I think a lot about how so many atrocities and indignities will remain hidden from public sight due to the dismantling of news media. I know that's the point but it truly disturbs my spirit.
Ped*philes and r*pists are two of the most protected groups in the US because so many powerful men are also ped*philes and r*pists.
February 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Ped*philes and r*pists are two of the most protected groups in the US because so many powerful men are also ped*philes and r*pists.
We didn't take "To Catch A Predator" seriously enough. Dateline NBC was doing incredible investigative journalism work identifying, catching, and humiliating (mostly) middle-aged white men for preying on children via social media.
The Epstein Files do not exist in isolation.
The Epstein Files do not exist in isolation.
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
We didn't take "To Catch A Predator" seriously enough. Dateline NBC was doing incredible investigative journalism work identifying, catching, and humiliating (mostly) middle-aged white men for preying on children via social media.
The Epstein Files do not exist in isolation.
The Epstein Files do not exist in isolation.
We can't reform our way out of this.
January 31, 2026 at 3:59 AM
We can't reform our way out of this.
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"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Senate Democrats’ ICE Proposals Are a Huge and Inexcusable Whiff
Their opening bid should have been eight or 10 bold proposals. But as usual, the Democrats start by negotiating with themselves.
newrepublic.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 PM
"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Politics is doing us.
January 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Politics is doing us.
Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
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Layoffs over the last year:
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
January 29, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Layoffs over the last year:
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
As a reminder: whiteness as a concept and organizational structure is rooted in individualism, scarcity, competition, and the outsourcing of care from communities to governments.
Moving from or through a lens of whiteness to address social problems will always fail.
Moving from or through a lens of whiteness to address social problems will always fail.
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM
As a reminder: whiteness as a concept and organizational structure is rooted in individualism, scarcity, competition, and the outsourcing of care from communities to governments.
Moving from or through a lens of whiteness to address social problems will always fail.
Moving from or through a lens of whiteness to address social problems will always fail.
Being surprised in this political climate is such a tell and a privilege.
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Being surprised in this political climate is such a tell and a privilege.
The fact that white folks are still "imagining" the brutality that Black folks have endured for two and a half centuries is FRYING ME.
January 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The fact that white folks are still "imagining" the brutality that Black folks have endured for two and a half centuries is FRYING ME.
I'm a political science professor and over the last two days, I've gotten more concerns from white people about my disinterest in cats than about the state of politics in the US.
Sit with that.
Sit with that.
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I'm a political science professor and over the last two days, I've gotten more concerns from white people about my disinterest in cats than about the state of politics in the US.
Sit with that.
Sit with that.
My question is: white people, what are you going to do to fix this? This is a uniquely white American problem that puts us all in danger.
ICE was created by white Republicans, emboldened by white Republicans, and ignored by white voters.
What. Are. You. Going. To. Do?
ICE was created by white Republicans, emboldened by white Republicans, and ignored by white voters.
What. Are. You. Going. To. Do?
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
My question is: white people, what are you going to do to fix this? This is a uniquely white American problem that puts us all in danger.
ICE was created by white Republicans, emboldened by white Republicans, and ignored by white voters.
What. Are. You. Going. To. Do?
ICE was created by white Republicans, emboldened by white Republicans, and ignored by white voters.
What. Are. You. Going. To. Do?
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.
Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.
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🚨BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
www.democracydocket.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
🚨BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
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Supporting the ICE agents
Where are the "All Lives Matter" people now?
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Supporting the ICE agents
Where are the "All Lives Matter" people now?
January 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Where are the "All Lives Matter" people now?
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It's straight from the fascist playbook to create chaos and then demand unquestioned authority to stop the chaos.
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
It's straight from the fascist playbook to create chaos and then demand unquestioned authority to stop the chaos.
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37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Abolish/defund ICE to fund health care might be a good electoral and policy position. But that is currently the stance of only a few elected Dems. The mainstream stance is saying ICE under Trump is bad and offering vague reform ideas while allowing bills to pass that keep ICE operating as is.
AOC is one of the few Dem electeds that has been explaining that cost-of-living issues are a result of kleptocracy.
Even David Shor has found her message of "Trump is stealing your healthcare money to fund ICE so Democrats must abolish ICE to claw back ACA money" is the most popular among voters
Even David Shor has found her message of "Trump is stealing your healthcare money to fund ICE so Democrats must abolish ICE to claw back ACA money" is the most popular among voters
Perhaps this latest shooting changes things. But the Dem establishment is fixated on this separation of economic vs not purely economic. If Trump somehow could unilaterally raise gas, grocery or health insurance prices, they would mobilize. But otherwise, they want to redirect to those issues.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Abolish/defund ICE to fund health care might be a good electoral and policy position. But that is currently the stance of only a few elected Dems. The mainstream stance is saying ICE under Trump is bad and offering vague reform ideas while allowing bills to pass that keep ICE operating as is.