Priya Jain
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Priya Jain
@priyajain.bsky.social
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Tin House '21 and '23; Kenyon '24
rep: Amanda Orozco
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Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds?
They're Arresting Us for Miscarriages Now
What the hell happened to the Overton Window?
jessica.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...
Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death
Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.
www.cbsnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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welp
20 years ago.
February 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Appreciate this from @juddlegum.bsky.social. We know the corporations that flipped on their commitment to withhold contributions from elected officials who played a role in the 1/6 coup attempt. Most. But what about those corps who held fast? The “promise-keepers.”
open.substack.com/pub/populari...
10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
open.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Hi, I’m Åyïrp, a sheer, grommeted curtain.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Nivëk, a table lamp whose bulbs are only found in Lisbon.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Hello, I'm hannäh, a quickly recalled type of ladle.
November 29, 2024 at 3:56 AM
grateful to @roxanegay.bsky.social for this necessary assessment.
November 18, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around.
November 14, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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November 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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I genuinely don’t have any blame or recriminations to share, and I’m not angry at anyone who wants to stop fascism in whatever way they can. Yes, we should learn from mistakes, but the fault for the rise of fascism lies with the fascists. Always and forever.
November 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Found a dentist so nice, I thought for sure he was going to steal my kidneys.

Like, you’re offering me a massaging eye mask, a weighted blanket, AND you have access to nitrous? No sir, this does not add up.
August 15, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Me getting all the salmon skin perfectly crispy: haha fuck YEAH *cocks spatula like gun*
August 11, 2023 at 12:30 AM
Pre-internet, I had a friend who liked to tell me all the compliments other people gave her, as though delivering the news. My job was to say, “oh wow, that’s great.”

It just occurred to me she invented Instagram.
August 10, 2023 at 2:32 PM