Cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times and elsewhere, formerly seen on The Nib. Herblock Prize, Pulitzer finalist, RFK journalism award, 2023 Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation. She/her
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Last Notes npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1nve…7hth Yep, that's good. Gotta say, even with a gift link, they make you jump through a lot of hoops to read the article these days. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Lowering the temperature npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: A second Revolution? npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: A "curated experience" npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1yvr…tm6h I'm not normally one to defend chain restaurants, but a lot of people lost their jobs with little to no notice, and this transferred even more wealth to the already wealthy. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1ntu…60a2 After they sold off the real estate assets, the PE firm sold the company to the shrimp supplier, which was a whole 'nother disaster npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1vhz…cgaf The private equity firm sold Red Lobster off to a seafood supplier in 2020, who then monopolized the shrimp sales to the restaurant. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1m4t…7zym Thank you! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on the looting of Red Lobster by private equity npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Where's the crisis? npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1trj…tewe I don't know for sure, but it seems any publicly funded university or community library would be vulnerable. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen For more info: https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/ npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: If media talked about the donor class the way it talks about college students npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on microplastics and PFAS getting into food. Yum! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen This week's comic: What can we do about a Supreme Court packed with corrupt extremists? npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1qsr…rr3d Aw, thanks!! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1k0g…fz06 Thank you (and thanks for the Patreon support!) npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid? npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Electric vehicles gone wrong npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Floored npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen My speech has been posted to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWjA1zHQgS0 npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1jc2…ww0z Yes, thanks for asking. I'm not on Threads, but if you can give some sort of credit, that would be great. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Using the First Amendment to end the First Amendment npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on prison labor in the US food supply chain npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen When a government attempts to discredit The Hague, it's a sign something has gone terribly wrong in that country. My latest: npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on pundits still making excuses for Trump npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on billionaires bullying universities npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1uul…dkn7 I usually share here a few days after a strip goes up on DK, but I've been a little casual about posting to social media over the holidays. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Looks like this strip is already making the rounds. Fun with ethno-nationalist dog whistles! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest cartoon: Holiday harangue npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest cartoon: Fossil fuel CEOs are very worried about "polarization" npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Last week's comic on Kissinger npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub17ss…76l0 Thank you! Yes, you may post some comics and translations with credit. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on Trump calling his political enemies "vermin" npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen This week's comic: The things Mike Johnson has said are so over the top that I thought I might place him in the role of my flaming conservative character (hence the flames, in case anyone was wondering about that). It’s almost impossible to exaggerate this man’s theocratic worldview, so I tried to use actual quotes where I could. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Drew this one just before an insurrectionist was elected Speaker of the House npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen I want to add that this comic is intended not so much as a statement on centrist Democrats vs. the Left in the US, but how the media always blames the Dems/progressives/left for Republican misbehavior and Trumpism. As another commenter mentioned here, this phenomenon is known as Murc's Law. https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/ npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Neglected to post this cartoon from a couple weeks ago: Always blame the left! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest cartoon: Doom Spiral npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub14gh…66nc I found his apology slippery too, as he referred to himself as "an upper middle class journalist having a bourbon at an airport." It seems highly unlikely that he's merely upper middle class, and by all accounts he had more than a bourbon! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen I believe that the economy still feels tough for many people because the cost of living is still high relative their incomes, even if inflation is trending down. But what Brooks did here appears to be intellectually dishonest, a lapse of journalistic ethics in the service of a political cheap shot. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on a certain pundit's infamous $78 airport meal npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1hdq…n0vm Thank you! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest cartoon on the right's plans to destroy the "administrative state" and replace government workers with cronies under the next Republican president npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: The Labor Channel npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1ufy…9wl4 The last panel is about the Florida educational curriculum under Gov. DeSantis teaching the "positives" of slavery npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1ufy…9wl4 I'm not saying the goal of the left is power, I'm talking about charlatans on the right npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1zx6…pjhq The Nib is shutting down due to long-term sustainability issues. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Farewell to the Nib, which I've loved being a part of these past ten years or so. This week's comic was my last to appear on the site, though I'll continue plodding on through the media doomscape. https://thenib.com/tuned-in/ npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen This week's comic: Makeover for a Takeover npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub17ss…76l0 Cool! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1mgu…dju9 It is interesting that we don't hear about the Koch family as much as we used to, even though they're very active in politics. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub1lnj…ltjm Interesting, was not aware of that history. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Tech billionaires just want to save humanity! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest cartoon: Quackery Quotas npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen I drew this 22 years ago when the letter "X" was getting commercially played out. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen @npub10yr…4rgj Oh, I've seen that comic and I've actually met Toby. He's great. npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic: Pick your social network! npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen A comic on #AffirmativeAction that I drew some 20 years ago npub1mamef4rzrzvkqfaj0c3nswegqj5gh0c773cdy6wea60xyxhxeaesx3lgzl Jen Sorensen Latest comic on a Delaware town's bill that would allow LLCs and other corporations to vote in local elections:
