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jennifersenior.bsky.social
Started a sublet here on 11/10. Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
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"When the limousine entered the hospital grounds, Mr. Hill removed his suit coat and placed its lining around the president’s head." I was just as moved by this tender detail as the main fact of the story: He saved Jackie Kennedy's life. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

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Sketch of a Left Hand, 1886

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Please explain

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Parents of teens: Two book recs! 1. First Love, by Lisa Phillips. A look at the life cycle of first romances, from crush to break-up. Superb book about parenting and parenthood. 2. I am the Cage, by Allison Grant. A look at love, trauma, our self-concepts—physical and otherwise. YA at its finest.

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This thread has aged depressingly well. The reporting in it was A+++

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Finally some good news

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Well, this would solve everything.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

The gold lettering on top will be the closest the guy gets to Jewish gilt.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.

submitted 21 days ago • 110 comments

If this man thinks he can quickly organize a better national response than FEMA’s in time for the next disaster, he’s dreaming. And if he thinks there should only be state responses, Heaven help us. New York had 1000 FEMA personnel in the aftermath of September 11.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

It’s been less than two weeks, and we’re already in “unknown unknowns” territory. This move seems far beyond the wildest imaginings of even the shrewdest Cassandras.

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

I live in horror of how this administration would handle another pandemic.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

For the first time, it makes me wonder whether some of them will finally get back on their hind legs and kick. The threat of being primaried is four and six years away for some of the senators, and Trump’s a lame duck.

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Never been to Newfoundland but it’s on my bucket list and boy is this beautiful

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Raise your hand if you also feel like the world is changing too rapidly for you to keep up with or wrap your head around.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Drives me nuts when I think about all the eggs I ate in my life and what they’d be worth now if I’d held onto them instead.

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments

Fat chance.

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“The combative punditry that works so well on cable TV might have helped you during your confirmation hearing, but none of that will serve you well in negotiations or discussions with our dedicated foes.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social’s advice for Secretary Hegseth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Despite the fact that every dog and goat in America voted against her www.aol.com/kristi-noem-...

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Well, this is good news for Trump, because otherwise he’d have to send his own Secretary of State back to Cuba. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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If you look at Heather Cox Richardson's letter today outlining the damage Trump II has done already you will note that 3 times she credits reporting in The Washington Post. For all of its dispiriting faults on the top, the paper still has scores of reporters doing essential & revelatory work.

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At 18, I treated Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" as a piece of feminino-comic scripture. Just got a press release saying @mollyjongfast.bsky.com has written a memoir about her mom that'll likely complicate my impression of her in both a moving and sophisticated way: bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

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I see my friend Gal's (more profound) piece about hopeful pessimism here and raise him a (dumber) piece I wrote six years ago about hopeless pessimism. www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/b...

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