jill (she/her)
@jillmwebb.bsky.social
now @ wnyc/gothamist. journalist & audio producer mainly covering mental health, the environment, labor & justice www.jillmwebb.com
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new from me on the connection btwn artmaking and mutual aid in Lebanon: www.impulsemagazine.com/articles/in-...
In Conversation with Artists for Lebanon
Jun 16, 2026, Jill Webb
impulsemagazine.com
This university system is getting rid of programs they deem to be centred on sexual orientation and gender identity.
‘Like a dystopian novel:’ U.S. universities are slashing gender studies programs | Xtra Magazine
A Texas university system is getting rid of programs they deem to be centred on sexual orientation and gender identity
xtramagazine.com
wrote about the academic censorship issues happening across u.s. universities around gender and sexuality studies for @xtramagazine.com the situation at Texas Tech is one of the most stark examples: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
‘Like a dystopian novel:’ U.S. universities are slashing gender studies programs | Xtra Magazine
A Texas university system is getting rid of programs they deem to be centred on sexual orientation and gender identity
xtramagazine.com
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
my first for @currentaffairs.bsky.social! we can learn valuable lessons and tactics from two centuries of labor struggles on the islands: www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-haw...
How Hawaiʻi Became the Most Unionized State
We can learn valuable lessons and tactics from two centuries of labor struggles on the islands.
currentaffairs.org
also met registered nurse and protest medic Norma Bowe yesterday at Delaney Hall. She was sporting an eye bruise she said was from being shoved by an ICE agent earlier this week while attempting to help an injured protestor
jill (she/her)@jillmwebb.bsky.social · 2mo agoreported from Delaney Hall yesterday:
“[Anti-transgender discrimination] was in the bedrock of the country. It might not be super apparent. But it didn’t get excised from the American political body.” At least 10 states have imposed new misdemeanor or felony penalties to target trans people & their support networks, Kae Petrin reports.
State laws are ‘leveraging criminalization against trans people’
10 states have imposed new misdemeanor or felony penalties since 2022—a stark increase in the use of criminal law to target trans people
prismreports.org
since yall are talking about data centers: earlier this month i wrote about how residents across the U.S. are pushing back against the data center plans in their communities bluedotliving.com/fighting-bac...
Fighting Back Against Data Center Sprawl
Communities are organizing to push back against data center development in their neighborhoods. Here are their strategies for countering proposals and getting locals onboard.
bluedotliving.com
I cannot imagine anything sadder than going to write a post on LinkedIn and then clicking the “rewrite with AI” button. If you aren’t confident you can meet the baseline tone of LinkedIn? I dont know, man.
“There is not a single bit of closure." Epstein survivors, in their own words:
‘We Will Not Be Sidelined Again’: Survivors Respond After DOJ Releases Epstein Files With Unredacted Names and Personal Details
‘We Will Not Be Sidelined Again’: Survivors Respond After DOJ Releases Epstein Files With Unredacted Names and Personal Details
msmagazine.com
in Maine:
Dylan Tusinski@dylantus.bsky.social · 6mo agoVideo shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
wrote about the possibility of a U.S. general strike friday, the current history of general strike organizing & what's going on in MN: verystrangeweather.substack.com/p/about-that... #generalstrike #minneapolis
About that general strike...
it's coming, the question is whether that means this week or this decade
verystrangeweather.substack.com
‘Does that mean my friends are gonna get taken?’: The children of Minneapolis grapple with ICE separating families, @meghnadbose.bsky.social & Rana Roudi report. Some immigrant parents are avoiding seeking medical care for sick children, while other kids worry about their friends’ safety.
The children of Minneapolis grapple with ICE separating families
Some immigrant parents in Minneapolis are avoiding seeking medical care for sick children, while other kids worry about their friends’ safety
prismreports.org
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
theverge.com
wrote about the possibility of a U.S. general strike friday, the current history of general strike organizing & what's going on in MN: verystrangeweather.substack.com/p/about-that... #generalstrike #minneapolis
About that general strike...
it's coming, the question is whether that means this week or this decade
verystrangeweather.substack.com
#JOURNOREQUEST For those protesting and observing in Minnesota, how are you handling childcare? Are you organizing child-watching duties with other families? I want to hear about it -- DM or email me at jillmargotwebb@gmail.com #minneapolis
Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis, walks through a cloud of tear gas during protests that rocked the city on January 24 in the wake of the shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE agents. A video of the bookseller has since gone viral. (Theia Chatelle)
"When the world is hurting and people have been harmed, hold on to this," writes Adrianne Wright in a letter to her daughter. "Remember why we must take care of one another." https://bit.ly/4pVRnFP
If Something Happens to Me: A Letter to My Daughter
I want you to know why I chose to keep fighting for the world you deserve.
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The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · 8mo agoAnalysis by The Marshall Project of ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found that the Trump administration’s revival of family detention has swept thousands of children into ICE custody. At least 3,800 children under 18, including 20 infants, have been booked since Trump took office.
Wrote about the intersection of art and birth control for my latest: impulsemagazine.com/symposium/th...
The Birth Control Tapestry: In Conversation with Alexandria Masse — IMPULSE Magazine
As access to reproductive healthcare unravels, Alexandria Masse crochets her birth control information sheet.
impulsemagazine.com
NY’s offshore wind project resumes after Trump’s stop work order https://gothamist.com/news/nys-offshore-wind-projects-resume-after-trumps-stop-work-order
NY’s offshore wind project resumes after Trump’s stop work order
A 2017 photograph of an offshore wind farm operated by Equinor in England. Empire 1 can resume construction off the coast of Long Island after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated
Arkansas set to impose nation’s strictest ban on sending books, magazines to prisons | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcer...
arkansasonline.com
“The most wealthy and powerful tech CEOs are still staying silent as ICE floods America’s streets, but now some researchers and engineers working for them have chosen to break rank.” Great @laurengoode.bsky.social story:
Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.
wired.com
Men don’t call a woman a fucking bitch when they’re afraid for their lives—they say it when they hate us. They say it when they’re punishing us. jessica.substack.com/p/ice-shooti...
From One Fucking Bitch to Another
These two words made Renee Nicole Good’s murder undeniable
jessica.substack.com
“A plover without habitat cannot exist. A plover doesn’t just go to another beach…” – @allieri.bsky.social, Executive Director, @nycploverproject.bsky.social Read @jillmwebb.bsky.social @therevelator.org: therevelator.org/piping-plove... #HabitatLoss #EndangeredSpeciesAct #PipingPlover #Shorebirds
Piping Plovers Inspire Volunteer Conservationists Despite New Threats From the Trump Administration • The Revelator
Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act and park staffing cuts are putting the endangered coastal bird in danger.
therevelator.org
NYC Council employee detained by immigration officials in Nassau County, speaker says https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-council-employee-detained-by-immigration-officials-in-nassau-county-speaker-says
NYC Council employee detained by immigration officials in Nassau County, speaker says
Councilmembers Sandy Nurse, left, and Julie Menin during a hearing in City Hall. Menin called the detention an “apparent overreach." [ more › ]
gothamist.com
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Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications
Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications
Dr. Janell Green Smith, a South Carolina midwife and advocate for Black maternal health, has died due to complications during childbirth.
thegrio.com
