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JenniferJames100

@femmenoire.bsky.social

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Politically engaged literature professor. I write about Black environmental literature, war, and African Americans in the 19th century. President of C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. DC.

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · Nov 11

go.bsky.app/L1iEbVX

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 1d

A photograph from Chicago

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They are just different. Being read to aloud helps with memory for some, as in many cultures with oral traditions.

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Read aloud to a listener. The key word there is read. Listening and reading are two distinct processes, each with its benefits. I don't understand why people need to say that listening is reading?

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A more pure distillation of itself

JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 2d

I don't do "I wonder who she's talking about" but it's clearly Blake Lively

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 8d

You can't be serious

JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 8d

He really walked out there and said, you're too fat, too Black, too brown, too female and too gay! And told them it gives him the sads 🤡

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 8d

Actually all of their faces say it

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Ornery Old Lady @orneryoldlady.bsky.social · 8d

The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States.”

Not surprised but terrifying.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 14d

Being a pedestrian in LA is quite a feat

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14d

People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 15d

National Guard on my campus. Maybe they are here to protect us all from Marxist commie feminist DEI professors! Oh wait, that's me
#freedc

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 16d

It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein.
www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...

Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats

It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein.

www.jezebel.com

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 16d

I don't typically repost the $%!+ that flows from that sewage pipe he calls a mouth but here you go

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "I think it has -- I think it's very bad. They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. 80 different blends. And they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."

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Black space force @w98thla.blacksky.app · 19d

"This isn't the America I know"

Black People:

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20d

A month from today, we will gather for the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Join your local event to make it clear there are still NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 21d

If you know, you know. And if you can catch them Wednesday night in DC, do yourself that favor.

JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 22d

Non politicians the flags should have been at half-mast for. My first would be Ms. Morrison.

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 23d

That scene was one of the best things I have ever seen on television. It lives in my head.

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 23d

What an undertaking!! Kudos!!