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Jennifer Senior

@jennifersenior.bsky.social

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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Didn’t know that. Well, my ER friend and ICU nurse friend vacation together, so maybe there’s still a common bond? (Different hospitals,maybe that helps.) You know that the handsome, gray-haired nurse on the show is an actual ER nurse, right?

15.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am obsessed with doc and nurse responses to the Pitt. Am dear pals with both a ER doc AND an ICU nurse and am always searching for their feedback. So fascinating to hear you say…

15.02.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

Of course @bstaples.bsky.social, who at the NYT produced one gem after another about forgotten histories of African Americans, writes a sharp review here, about the cynical deployment of Black Americans to Vietnam and the grotesque internal discrimination they faced. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...

15.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watched the pilot of ER last night because I’m such a fan of The Pitt and cannot get over these two.

15.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In which @peterbakernyt.bsky.social ‬⁩ slyly uses Trump’s favorite phrase in the (finally) accurate context.

15.02.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, and while we’re at it, energy drinks and cars. But seriously, every other ad seemed to be about AI companies, some of which I’d never heard of, and Ubereats and Seamless and Alexa and Instacart and and and and …

Plus GLP-1s

09.02.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder.

09.02.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So basically only Silicon Valley and pharmaceutical companies could afford spots during the Super Bowl this year

09.02.2026 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Still outraged that a bunch of toilets ruined a really good Phil Collins song.

09.02.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I watch football once a year and each time my husband and son have to re-explain to me what a down is

09.02.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m showing up tonight for Bad Bunny and good commercials.

08.02.2026 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

The normalization of this kind of discourse and imagery and stunt is one of the most insidious poisons to have seeped into modern GOP politics.

06.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

xoxo

05.02.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Raise your hand if you've worked with Book World's @johnwilliams.bsky.social and found him to be one of the most casually erudite, perceptive, and nimble editors you've ever known.

πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ

05.02.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

They’ve gotten DOGE’d, essentially. It’s a deliberate tactic. Gut until the institution doesn’t work. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

04.02.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given how volatile and terrifying these situations are, I am blown away by the bravery of the citizens who continue to film them at close range.

24.01.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anecdata:

β€”Life in DC in recent months has been shadowed by omnipresence of National Guard. But almost no one "hates" the NG members, or blames them. They're doing their best, mostly ramping down rather than amping up tensions.

β€”People around the US fear and *hate* ICE and CBP cowards. For cause.

24.01.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 858    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 3
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Nice little country you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

21.01.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Barry Blitt, Air Mail.

18.01.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tfw your childhood pediatricians reunite to tell you that you have osteoporosis

11.01.2026 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3620    πŸ” 475    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 37

Yes. And Johnny Cochran a bit. But deleted bec I realized it sounded too much like β€œlook at me coining a new term” rather than what you describe. My mind *reflexively* rhymes when I think about this stuff, precisely because I came of age w Jackson, Cochran, Clinton (β€œMend it don’t end it”) etc

09.01.2026 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently the Reflecting Pool was too inconveniently located.

07.01.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant. Maybe moldering on one of the nonexistent floors of the Trump tower

06.01.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered a third of the wall space with gold.

No better metaphor for this man’s narcissism than the two gilded mirrors he’s put in there β€” mirrors! β€” each the size of the framed Declaration of Independence. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

06.01.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 9
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A December Photo Essay ’Tis the Seasonβ€”letting nature tell the story

And now, your moment of zen. From the divine @seremony.bsky.social.

(The images really are spectacular.)

A December Photo Essay
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23.12.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, and: While not advancing the ball can be a legitimate argument, can there *ever* be enough stories about the US committing torture right now? And isn’t TV the far more powerful medium to tell them?

22.12.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, the Venn diagram there must be impressive

19.12.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, who knew I had 7 Grammys

19.12.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Google AI just told me that Jennifer Senior wrote β€œLet’s Pretend We’re Married”. When I followed up, asking why it thought so when I’d written absolutely nothing by this name, it basically said, Oops, our mistake, turns out that’s a Prince song.

We are so doomed

19.12.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

the best student gifts I ever get, bar none, are signed copies of work they did long after leaving me class like senior theses, law review articles, etc. Gives you the hope and energy to keep going in a draining profession when you know you're equipping them to do great work in the future.

19.12.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0