Jenny Morgan

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“Fairy tales are important; not because they tell us that monsters exist, but because they teach us that monsters can be defeated.”
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Jenny MorganFeb 18, 2023
LaffyFeb 17, 2023

100+ #children—some as young as 13—were employed in hazardous jobs cleaning equipment like skull splitters, brisket saws, & bone cutters in #meatpacking plants in 8 states over 3 yrs

Children were employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., #Wisconsin-based staffing agency that fills open jobs in food-services & agricultural industries on contract basis. PSSI is owned by Blackstone Group, and paid $1.5 million in penalties for the violations

https://time.com/6256728/meatpacking-child-labor/

Over 100 Kids Were Illegally Employed in Dangerous Meat-Packing Plant Jobs

A Department of Labor investigation found that more than 100 children were illegally employed in hazardous jobs in the agricultural industry.

Time
Jenny MorganFeb 14, 2023
Rami IsmailFeb 14, 2023
I have made myself promise to stay out of US politics on Twitter, but as someone close to this topic, I am going to hop in once to say it is unbelievably fucked up that someone would have to go through a mass shooting twice in a decade just because she wants an education.
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RT @shannonrwatts
A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second…
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1625500964429123584
Shannon Watts on Twitter

“A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.””

Twitter
Jenny MorganFeb 14, 2023
Dan GillmorFeb 14, 2023
With only a few exceptions, male journalists have little understanding of what female journalists routinely face in doing their jobs. This story, from @taylorlorenz, is must-reading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/
These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them targets.

A Forbidden Stories consortium: Female reporters are often pushed out of their jobs as global news organizations struggle to respond to disinformation campaigns

The Washington Post
Jenny MorganDec 29, 2022
Ken WhiteDec 29, 2022
The stupider the defamation threat letter, the more fun the response.
Jenny MorganDec 29, 2022
Marci HarrisDec 28, 2022

*Tip of the hat* to @RepDonBeyer who has been moonlighting as a George Mason student to get a master’s degree in #machinelearning

(Sir, you are totally messing with CW & preconceived notions of congressional tech capabilities... this is going to be very confusing 😉 )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/28/beyer-student-artificial-intelligence-degree/

A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI

The U.S. congressman aims to apply his artificial-intelligence knowledge to his legislative work as the technology evolves further.

The Washington Post
Jenny MorganDec 23, 2022
Ken WhiteDec 22, 2022
Now that all three kids are home for the holidays, the silverware is disappearing at an unsustainable rate. What do they do with it? Sell it for drugs? All I want is a spoon. It’s my house. Why can’t I have one spoon in my own house?
Jenny MorganDec 23, 2022
Taylor LorenzDec 22, 2022
Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and the Dark Path to Extremism: Twitter’s billionaire owner seems set to follow Ford into the abyss. https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-henry-ford-extremism/ #twitter #twittermigration #twitterexodus #technology #twitter #elonmusk #news
Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and the Dark Path to Extremism

Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk seems set to follow business magnate Henry Ford into the abyss.

The Intercept
Jenny MorganDec 23, 2022
Taylor LorenzDec 22, 2022
Maybe he can get it down to $4.20! 🤣 #twitter #elonmusk
Jenny MorganDec 23, 2022
Brooke BinkowskiDec 23, 2022
Hi everybody! I seem to be using the account I created to be my shitposting account almost exclusively on here, so if you're so inclined to find me, I'm over at @brooklynmarie.
Jenny MorganDec 21, 2022
Neil GaimanDec 19, 2022
A little BBC Radio 4 news: You can hear the audio adaptation of my story The Sleeper and the Spindle in the UK on the radio on the 24th and the 26th, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qm49, and hear me with the BBC Symphony on Friday & Friday Week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cl2r and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cp2b. And after broadcast they will be available anywhere in the world using the websites or the BBC Sounds App.
BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle

Neil Gaiman’s fairytale comes to Radio 4 starring Penelope Wilton and Gwendoline Christie.

BBC