Dr. Jenny Morber

Hello to all my new followers! I am a former nanomaterials researcher turned science and solutions journalist living and working in the US. I care about: free press, evidence-based science, accurate info, climate and environment, human rights, democracy, healthcare, poop, death, weird science

Street Art Utopia FB #streetart 🌿 Nature Portrait By El Decertor in Imbabura, Ecuador 🇪🇨 El Decertor brilliantly steps back & lets the natural landscape complete the portrait. The lush greenery seamlessly becomes part of the painted figure’s body. It creates an incredible flow of art & energy

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"My daughter is also incapable of describing good things about herself."

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

I am proud to be part of The Rule of Law Project, launched today, which deploys former federal civil rights and corruption prosecutors and investigators to create a nonpartisan organization to restore criminal accountability for US officials who break the law. ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

I'm old enough to remember the time when two men were convicted of felling a tree and were each sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison. A single tree. Don't let Google get away with this.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

The narrative could use a good reckoning

Often when I am talking with a tech worker, they will say something like, well, look, no one will die from my work. But was that ever true? Is it true now? https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/we-cannot-under-any-circumstances (My doctor clients know better.)

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw ​the authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent 2 years protesting against his government www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Smoking is so gross. Someone pops a smoking device in their mouth and it’s automatic revulsion.

Any parent should be effing embarrassed to admit this in public.

I couldn’t believe this was true. I looked it up. This is true. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

When you start feeling nostalgic about the Vanderbilts

He resigned from CDC leadership. Now he’s fighting RFK Jr. from the outside. wapo.st/4yLBbeK (GIFT link) #RFKjr #CDC #vaccines #publichealth

We get shit done

Alternatively, we can just tax the living hell out of them

I voted. Please join me. If your vote didn’t matter they wouldn’t be working so hard to block it.

Love this for them. Want this for me.

Another interesting thing that happened in Brazil and might be worth considering in the U.S.: a triumph of the liberal field was to detach Bolsonarism from the right. It wasn’t about left or right anymore; it was both left and right, liberals and centrists, fighting against far-right extremism.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

I love the writing process. I think lots of people who do writing like the act of writing, but I think this is so important and under-appreciated by a lot of people. Revision processes (including asking others for input, revising oneself) is thinking, crafting, strengthening.

In Gaza, "I see children without parents. I see children without arms and legs. How senseless does the world feel when you’re confronting these things? When you go to the power holders & they tell you that there’s nothing that they can do, you just don’t understand" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/m...

for the first time, my team at @nytimes.com is hiring a fellow. come work with me!

Despite declaring the 1-year-old's shooting death "justified," Mississippi officials have released none of the video surveillance of the shooting of Kohen Wiley, neither the body-cam footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot where the officer shot him. buff.ly/EqW7n8c

Is....is this real?

I hate this narrative that planetary vandalism will "dismay environmental campaigners" I'm an environmental campaigner because I want to stand up for the millions of other species we share our home with Campaigners aren't doing it for themselves - we're a voice for the voiceless

I wrote about Joel Kaplan's long, successful project to push Meta to the right www.platformer.news/meta-joel-ka...

Mid-age-fem-rage poem I see you have noticed my crime of living past 40 in public Of confronting you with my mortal face, Of posessing neither desire nor money to hide the drag of time. I apologize I look less fuckable than I used to. Let me fix that for you Or maybe, helpfully, I can die.

Et tu, Guardian? Disappointing to see this given their generally great climate coverage. (fixed it for them)

Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the men whose 911 calls landed them there — the boyfriends or husbands who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation. “I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”