J. Nicole Jones

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writer & editor // author of LOW COUNTRY (2021) and THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS (May 14, 2024) // formerly VanityFair, VICE // lolsob.substack.com // jnicjones.com

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Fantastic, difficult, important review, definitely worth reading

#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them

Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"

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I am struggling to understand why we have prisons and jails if not for the Amazon executives who made the decision to purchase a Medicare advantage program and staff the hotline with people who had no medical training.

Amazon's One Care triages all patient phone calls through a call center staffed with people with no medical training or experience, and who have two weeks' training total. Patients have died. Gift link: wapo.st/4cq019f

Leaked documents reveal patient safety issues at Amazon’s One Medicalwapo.st After One Medical began using a call center staffed by contractors with minimal training, patients with urgent symptoms failed to receive immediate help.

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There's no paywall to this WaPo article detailing how Jim Jordan, Steven Miller, and their pals succeeded in shutting down Stanford's research into online disinformation.

Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressurewapo.st The Stanford Internet Observatory provided real-time analysis on viral election falsehoods, but has struggled amid attacks from conservative politicians and activists.

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NYC libraries are facing a $58 million budget cut that could force most branches to reduce service to just 5 days a week. DON'T LET IT HAPPEN! @NYCMayor & @NYCCouncil: #NoCutsToLibraries investinlibraries.org/dayofaction

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The Washington Post's new publisher offered NPR an exclusive interview if they agreed to kill a story about his legal troubles. NPR refused. Absolutely outrageous, disqualifying behavior. www.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

Shelf Awareness has named THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS one of its best books of the week! 📚❤️🧙‍♀️ www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.ht...

Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, May 17, 2024www.shelf-awareness.com

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Happy pub day to @jnicolejones.bsky.social! THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS is on shelves now! ✨ "Like the eerie technicolor lovechild of Midsommar and Rebecca. I loved being inside Tansy's mind." —Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson An unforgettable debut novel! books.catapult.co/books/the-wi...

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~// tomorrow

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"A dystopia where individual thought is extinguished for the art colony’s harmony. . . . [Her] power as a storyteller burns fire-hot." A fantastic look at @jnicolejones.bsky.social's harrowing novel THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS from Lorraine Berry for @latimes.com! www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Seeking community but finding a cult in the tense, compelling 'The Witches of Bellinas'www.latimes.com In her debut novel, J. Nicole Jones draws from our chaotic reality to create a dystopia where a woman awaits judgment for refusing to conform.

Somehow on a list with @stephenking.bsky.social and these horror all-stars! Thank you for including THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS on this amazing May roundup 😱📚🧙‍♀️

featuring books by Kira Peikoff, @stephenking.bsky.social, @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social, @jnicolejones.bsky.social, Crystal J Bell, and Nour Abi-Nakhoul! 💀🖤

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I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. The Columbia Spectator is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money.

General Donation — Spectator Publishing Companywww.specpublishing.com

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Thanks @willbunch.bsky.social for the shout out to our students whose campus coverage has been outstanding. (If the Columbia Spectator doesn’t sweep student news awards too I will be shocked) www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

In Columbia chaos, student journalists stand tall | Will Bunch Newsletterwww.inquirer.com Plus, why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now a bigger threat to Trump than to Biden.

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It is a good time to remember that we are in the midst of an organized, targeted manipulative campaign prosecuted against academic freedom and press freedom . It is happening in many countries around the world and it is happening in the US too.

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THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS comes out May 14, and @barnesandnoble.bsky.social is doing a preorder discount: Today and tomorrow, get 25% off preorders with code PREORDER25—so many great summer reads on sale! 🏖️📚🍦😎 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-witche...

Hardbacks IRL!!! 😍😍😍 Out May 14!

Early finished copies of @jnicolejones.bsky.social’s THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS are here! This is Northern California Gothic at its best. (Has anyone coined that phrase? If not, I’m doing it now.)

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LOW COUNTRY— @jnicolejones.bsky.social's gorgeous memoir of family history, no-account men, the draw of Nashville, hurricanes, dark secrets and so much more—is out in paperback now! Folks whose understanding of Southern Gothic runs a bit deeper—this one's for you. books.catapult.co/books/low-co...

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🎉🎂🥳To celebrate my birthday I raised over $10,000 for @RIPMedicalDebt which equals over $1,000,000 in medical debt! Let’s keep it going until the end of March! ripmedicaldebt.org/campaign/ber...

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Using an epipen was the scariest moment of my life followed by awestruck relief at how fast it worked. Epinephrine is a fucking miracle, and it breaks my heart how inaccessible it is. Here’s your chance for lazy online activism to nudge your congresscritter:

Ask Congress to Support the Bill to Cap the Cost of Epinephrinecommunity.kidswithfoodallergies.org Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and Doris Matsui (D-CA) have introduced a bill to Congress called the “Epinephrine’s Pharma Inflated Price Ends Now Act,” also called the “EPIPEN Act” (H.R.6965). It is a bill that would cap the out-of-pocket costs for all brands of epinephrine auto-injectors to $60 per two-pack. This bill would apply to people with private insurance. Private insurance includes plans through an employer or individually purchased health insurance. The EPIPEN Act addresses the high...

My novel THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS got a ⭐ starred ⭐ review in Publishers Weekly! Floating with joy over these quotes ❤️

"Ominous prose affects a bewitching vibe of its own . . . this haunting tale is tough to shake." A Publishers Weekly ⭐️ for THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS by @jnicolejones.bsky.social! www.publishersweekly.com/9781646221806

The Witches of Bellinas by J Nicole Joneswww.publishersweekly.com Jones (Low Country: A Memoir) conjures a Northern California cult in her beautiful and eerie debut novel. The story takes the fo...

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The He Gets Us campaign is run by The Servant Foundation, which has been waging lawfare on gay and trans people through tens of millions in donations to the far-right legal activist group The Alliance Defending Freedom since 2018

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I'm really going to need us to be reporting executive salaries every time we report layoffs

UPS plans to cut 12,000 jobs as a part of a plan to save $1 billion in costs, executives said Tuesday. The layoffs will eliminate around 2.4 percent of its global workforce of roughly 495,000, with about 75 percent of the job reductions coming in the first half of 2024.

UPS to cut 12,000 jobs, citing softer demand and higher labor costswww.washingtonpost.com The shipping giant is cutting more than 2 percent of its workforce after reporting a decline in fourth-quarter revenue.

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spotted at trump international hotel just now

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Friendly reminder that Condé Nast workers are on strike until midnight EST tonight. Don't click on or share links from Condé Nast pubs! This includes -Vogue/Teen Vogue -Them -GQ -Bon Appétit -Vanity Fair -Self -Architectural Digest -Glamour -Epicurious -Allure (Wired & New Yorker are a diff union)

when you're trying to buy a book, but the algorithm is buffalo bill from silence of the lambs

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In Twitter/X news, our Special Investigative Correspondent Steven Monacelli has been suspended with no warning or explanation, along with numerous other journalism accounts such as Ken Klippenstein, Rob Rousseau and others.

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Palmetto State Abortion Fund is trying to get 150 recurring donors by New Year's Eve as a goal. If affordable for you supporting this abortion fund tangibly gives pregnant people traveling from all across the south as abortion is increasingly criminalized access to this care.

We have 125 recurring donors and our goal by NYE is to get that to 150! Going into 2024 not having to fundraise around the clock would be MONUMENTAL for us as an all volunteer fund. www.DonorBox.org/support-the-fund

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)www.donorbox.org Right now, abortion is only legal in South Carolina through 6 weeks of pregnancy, before most people even know they are pregnant.How Much Does an Abortion Cost?A medication abortion in South Carolina...

oh, nbd, just THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS on this extremely cool 2024 horror list!!! thank you, emily! <3

the 2024 new horror list is live!!!!! please share widely, and if I missed anything, hit the button at the very bottom of the page to tell me about it: readjumpscares.com/2024-new-hor...

2024’s New Horror Booksreadjumpscares.com All the new horror books coming in 2024, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.