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Jessica Luther

@jessicawluther.com

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Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on the Univ of Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · Nov 22

Ok, there are so many new followers and I appreciate it, but you should know what you're getting into LOL so here are some things I've written or worked on to give you an idea of what I do, what I care about

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 12h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 9h

We‘re rewatching Stranger Things from the beginning in preparation for the final season and I fully forgot how great and funny these kids are from the jump.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 16h

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Adrian Ashford @adrianashford.bsky.social · 18h

Want to learn more about trans Texans? We surveyed 90 of them to learn how they're dealing with an increasingly-hostile political climate. Almost everyone said they're feeling more anxious and less safe in public. @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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natthedem @natthedem.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody ain't for everybody, I get that.

I'm certainly not everyone's cup of tea.

But if you can't appreciate what we're seeing from A'ja Wilson, you don't love the game like me.

#wnba

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Douglas Reyes-Ceroñ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 1d

Kid is FLOORED at what the WNBA Finals are doing right now

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

Oh, I know all about Road Rules, I had no idea he was on it! Maybe I’d stopped watching by then??? Shoot.

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

LOL

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

JJ, he is only a few months older than me, how??????

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

I had no idea he was on Road Rules

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

OMG WHAT

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

I’m glad Aaron has figured out how to move through this world in such a way that he definitely doesn’t know who Theo Von is. But sad that I cannot tell him that he is the same age as Theo Von to see how he’d melt down at that knowledge.

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

Between this and Weiss heading up CBS News, it’s too much to handle

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

I had it as 25 originally but I don’t even know what I thought, maybe even like 22, just out of college?????

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

Im sorry but not because if I know this, y’all have to know it, too

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

I know, I don’t even know what to say

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

Because of this post, I found out yesterday that Theo Von is 45 and I cannot stop thinking about that because it was embarrassing enough when I thought he was like 28. That’s a 45yo man LOL. Some men really do the least and still thrive.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

I know the labeling of their enemies as “Antifa” is a cynical move to justify punishment under some abstract collective, but it’s also very funny that they are positioning themselves as anti-antifa, or, you know, as fascists.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 1d

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 1d

What. The. Fuck.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Abigail Segel @abigailsegel.bsky.social · 1d

For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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