Professors: If you put American Breakdown on your syllabus I will happily do an online Q&A with your class. Now out in paperback! The book is this year's Maine Humanities Council Read ME nonfiction pick, and you can read more about it on my website: jenniferlunden.com/american-bre.... Pls share!

“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.” The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

TUESDAY, JULY 15 at 7 PM Eastern: Looking forward to a conversation about my book American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back To Life, this year's Read ME selection. Join us online! Register for Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Australian Journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by LAPD, collaborating with Trump regime ICE forces, live on air. The regime loyalist took aim at the press and fired. #StopICE

Elon should explain to us exactly how he won the election for Trump.

The Real Dangers Women Face open.substack.com/pub/audacity...

Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...

Wow. If you’d told me when I was a high schooler n the 1980’s that South Africa was going to divest from the United States *and they’d be in the moral right*, I’d never have believed you.

Let me put it into perspective: 23-year-old Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in November for posting classified info on Discord. Meanwhile, Elon Musk shares classified info, and we just shrug. This isn’t a culture war; it’s a class war.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

idk why this is what has completely pushed me over the edge but I am just losing it

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes: bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.

GOP: Abortion is murder! What about actual murder, like with guns? GOP: Mental illness! What about healthcare to help treat mental illness? GOP: Healthcare is a privilege not a right!

That time I asked a D.O. to wear a mask for our appointment, when his face would be close to mine for at least 20 minutes, and he passive-aggressively asked if I have Covid, and when I said no and added that HE could have asymptomatic Covid, the way he looked at me made me never want to return.

I have an essay for you, by Kate Horowitz. "Rabbit Facts" is pristinely written, propulsive, terrifying, powerful and empowering, and remarkably hopeful. This writing is fire. Content note for trauma. marrowmagazine.com/rabbit-facts/

Sari Botton selected my essay about my beloved late ex-boyfriend Skummy, punk rock guitar god, for Memoir Monday, "a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web"! memoirland.substack.com/p/your-weekl...

a Binder helped me out! it’s “Evidence, in Track Changes” by Jennifer Lunden (@jenniferlunden.bsky.social) and DeAnna Satre: thediagram.com/17_3/lunden....

I read it. Very moving.

I loved this essay-- I found it very moving but also fun and warm. We will all experience some version of this feeling in our own lives, something I kept thinking about as I was reading it

When my ex-boyfriend Skummy died earlier this year, I wrote this. Glad to see it up today in HuffPost. "I reveled in this world where anger was exulted instead of verboten. There was a freedom there, and joy." www.huffpost.com/entry/good-g...

Hi all this is my first post. Introducing myself and look forward to kinder conversations. I am a journalist, author, filmmaker and want to be here not there. I have not posted my cover yet anywhere. Here's my new narrative nonfiction book about Amelia Earhart coming out July 15 via Viking Books.

Happy to see this up in Sari Botton's Memoir Land! "For twenty years, researching and writing this book became my raison d'être."

Happy to see this review up in the Maine Sunday Telegram! "A gripping and hopeful read, 'American Breakdown' is a vital addition to the literature on health." www.pressherald.com?p=7333693&uu...

New from Canada: Persistent fatigue in post-acute COVID syndrome is associated with altered T1 MRI texture in subcortical structures: a preliminary investigation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #LongCovid #PwLC #PASC #COVIDBrain

So looking forward to discussing American Breakdown online with Megan Moodie-Brasoveanu, PhD, this Fri., May 3, 3PM ET/ 12PM PT, at UC Santa Cruz. Free and open to the public, registrants receive a complimentary excerpt from the book. Register here! Spread the word! thi.ucsc.edu/event/conver...

"Alice’s symptoms and mine were so similar I wondered if our illnesses might be one and the same, and I wondered if anyone else had made that connection." www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/03/25/t...

If you're going to AWP or live in Kansas City, Missouri, come out to Social Justice Storytime, an offsite event at 5PM on Thursday, Feb. 8! I'm excited to be telling with these four fabulous authors and thinkers. It's free! And wheelchair accessible. Register here: www.facebook.com/events/70132...

This is so good.

"Investing US$1 billion every year for the next ten years into long COVID research could improve the lives of millions and save trillions in economic costs." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Paxlovid may reduce the chance of long Covid. Why don’t doctors prescribe it more? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... The most important health news, in one place, at Canada Healthwatch 🍁 canadahealthwatch.ca?utm_source=c... 🔗

People minimize the arts and humanities and then wonder why so many are falling for fascism.

So, there's actually a place I can share articles again now? This is a gift link. Good news about good research coming from Maine. www.pressherald.com?p=7204861&uu...

Disability is a possible & common outcome of all forms of oppression. Capitalism will disable you. Pollution will disable you. Covid will disable you. White supremacy, misogyny, transphobia, etc. Anti-ableist organizing & a disability justice framework is necessary for resistance & revolution. 😷❤️♿️

I ❤️ everything that Kate Horowitz writes. Check out her Substack! It makes me happy.

Thanks, Julie! Such a compliment from the author of Through the Shadowlands!

Hello, Bluesky world.... I am here!