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Political scientist and author. Researching Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them. Personal acct. 🖱: Jennmjackson.com 🔗: linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd 📚: https://tinyurl.com/blackwomentaught jennmjacksonphd.substack.com

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23h

⭐️Learn more about my book events on my website at Jennmjackson.com/books.

⭐️ Stay tuned for news about the paper back release tour in January!

Books

THE BOOK Black Women Taught Us Order Now This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us. A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is w…

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23h

I'm excited to be back in the world talking to readers about my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US with the Dayton Metro Library on Nov 6 at 6pm ET.

This event aligns with Shirley Chisholm becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress in Nov 1968.

dayton.bibliocommons.com/events/67f81...

#booksky

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Francisco De Gavman @gavman.bsky.social · 1d

IRS has 100,000 employees, a budget of 20B and collects 5T in taxes per year.

SS Admin employees about 60K, has a budget of 15B, revenues of 1.5T, and dispersed about 1.5T.

So far: Staff and SSA location cuts; largest breach of personal data; mislead shareholders re profits.

What could wrong?

Social Security chief Frank Bisignano also named CEO of the IRS

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Bisignano will continue to lead the Social Security Administration while also taking on the new IRS role.

www.cbsnews.com

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d

People have no idea how hard it is for Black women to always have to break glass ceilings, set new records, and "be the change."

It literally weathers us, kills us from the inside out.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Reminder to boycott @cbsnews.com and Paramount Plus. Bari Weiss is a transphobic anti-Black Islamophobic racist who has repeatedly accused Palestinians of faking genocide, said Islam is at war with the west, platformed and spread lies that trans people are a social contagion,

Bari Weiss Named CBS News Editor-In-Chief, Solidifying Network's Rightward Shift

The network will also acquire her publication, The Free Press, for a hefty sum.

www.huffpost.com

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2d

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried.

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

slate.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Five out of six measures of identity and solidarity with U.S. people of color are equivalent across English and Spanish interviews

As the US continues to racially diversify, researchers are increasingly investigating the prevalence of self-identification as – and feelings of solidarity with – people of color (PoC). Prior resea...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d

A friend just sent me a picture of my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US in the front section of the newest Black-woman owned lesbian bookstore in Brooklyn called Gladys Books! These pics always bring me so much joy 💜

#booksky #Blacksky

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 3d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 2d

“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“

- @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells
such that it was impossible to lie down.

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That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word “Palestine” spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it.

That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano.

I had the feeling I was in a truly barbaric place, and hoped this barbarity would soon end.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 3d

Truly. Living rent-free.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 3d

I want us to talk more about Black History and why so many Black ppl are unsurprised right now. #AddtoBlackSky #BlackSky

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 4d

Disassociation ain’t hittin' like it used to.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

Truly.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

We told y'all.

tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 4d

Trump converts the shutdown into Project 2025 in practice: $25B in projects frozen in Democratic states, threats to fire civil servants, partisan banners on agency sites, ethics rules flouted. Power turned into punishment within 24 hours.

The Project 2025 Shutdown Is Here - The Atlantic

It’s become another avenue to turn power into partisan gain.

www.theatlantic.com

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

My next book is about the ways Black Americans navigate policing in the United States. It shows how different our experiences are concerning race, gender, sexual orientation, and class.

I started writing it 7 years ago. I had no idea how relevant it would become.

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