Jess Phoenix 🌋

@volcanojess.com

10093 Followers 520 Following

That volcanologist you saw on TV. Executive Chair of The Comedy Resistance. Ran for Congress, wrote MS. ADVENTURE, did the world's longest horse race. Podcasts, mohawks, punk rock, WFR, super into protecting democracy.

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A Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump with a diagram of a volcano with cement plugging the vent. The caption reads "Why has no one ever experimented with placing cement in the mouth of volcanoes considlered (sic) active, as in the image, or heavy metal rocks. And when erupting the lava would be blocked, preventing deaths and accidents."
Screenshot of a post from White House official social media with a black and white image of journalist Don Lemon holding a microphone. Image text reads, "Don Lemon arrested for involvement in the St. Paul church riots." The White House's caption reads, "When life gives you lemons...⛓️ Aaron Rupar writes, "the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji Ryan Goodman writes, "White House with an image of a Black man and an emoji of chains. And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.
A black and white cat looks annoyed while reclining on a tan carpeted floor. Several hair ties are on the floor near her.
A picture of two white people smiling at the camera in front of a green background. One is Patton Oswalt, and one is Jess Phoenix.
A screenshot of a Trump post on Truth Social reading "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job if MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!"
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A tweet from the Jess Phoenix Twitter account that reads: "They want us to work hard every day to run their system, but they won't uphold the bargain by funding public schools, public healthcare, public childcare, public retirement...or anything "public" at all. If you get desperate & act out of line, go to prison...for their profits."
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A yellow field notebook with the logo for Field Day with Jess Phoenix at the top. The text reads "A new podcast featuring tales of exploration and science from the ends of the earth. September 2025."
A screenshot of a post from Michael McCullough that reads "Stop using pop culture references as the first half of the title of your journal article." A response below from Spirit, PhD, LPC, NCC, CPCS reads, "Who Gon Check Me, Boo: A Phenomenological Study of Entitled Gate Keeping of Scholarly Contributions."
A redhead in a yellow hard hat, sunglasses, respirator, and orange safety vest stands in front of an SUV and a cloud of volcanic gases.
Photo of a redhead with a bandana and respirator on standing on a slope in front of an opaque gas cloud pointing at a sign overhead that says "Awas berbahaya gas beracun" and "Beware toxic gas."
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Screenshot of text from Intelligencer article that reads: It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process..."
Jess Phoenix holds a paperback copy of Ms. Adventure. She is in a bookstore.
A reddish-brown horse with two diamond-shaped white markings on his face lies propped up on his breastbone in deep sand. His legs are tucked up underneath his body, and he is giving the camera a quizzical look.
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A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel graphic showing Susan Crawford ahead of Brad Schimel in the WI State Supreme Court election 56% to 44%.
A small, shiny dark brown pony with a poofy forelock poses for the camera with a smiling white person in the saddle. It's a lovely sunny day.
A screenshot of an excerpt from a NY Times article titled, "This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook." The text of the excerpt is, "President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his power. “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.” “We look at these comparative cases in the 21st century, like Hungary and Poland and Turkey. And in a lot of respects, this is worse,” he said. “These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.”
A picture of a redhead wearing a rappelling helmet with GoPro mounted on top, blue safety sunglasses, and smiling at the camera. In the background is a very tall cliff face with a pool of dark blue water at the bottom. The text reads, "I am a scientist. Here I am rappelling into the world's third-largest sinkhole to collect data. Elon Musk hates science. Why else would someone kill scientific research?"
A group of 4 scientists with hiking backpacks on poses with arms and legs akimbo over a dark grey basalt rock amidst a sea of basalt. There is a basalt cliff behind them.
A redhead with long hair and sunglasses stands in front of a crowd waving signs about defending science on the corner in front of the Los Angeles Federal Building.
A black and white cartoon of a single figure standing in front of a line of cybertrucks, reminiscent of the famous photograph of the man standing in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square.
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A Valentine's card with saguaro cacti in the foreground and mountains in the background. The text reads, "I miss you like the desert misses the rain...I've adapted to existence without you, and prolonged exposure would be disastrous." The bottom of the card has the words "To" and "From."
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A stylized cartoon poster of a white man in blue coveralls wearing a red wide-brimmed hat and a red and white-striped shirt holding a bushel basket and reaching into a row of vegetables. The text reads "Make America Great Again...Patriots Wanted...Civic Duty... Volunteers Needed To Pick Crops... Patriots Wanted... Volunteer To Pick Crops"
A cartoon illustration of an eagle with wings outstretched over the US Capitol building with the phrase "We Will Not Resign" below, and the words "Federal Employees United" beneath.
USGS graphic showing the VEI scale. VEI ranges from 0-8, with erupted tephra volume ranging from 0.0001km^3 to 1,000km^3. Examples of various eruptions are included.
Image by Dawn J. Wright. A cartoon map illustrating the location of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Axial Seamount relative to North America.
A screenshot of a map showing the location of the Axial Seamount off the coast of Oregon. The volcano's status is listed as dormant.
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Screencap of an Axios.com article with the headline "Where FEMA's direct relief money is going," a map of the United States and the subheading "Florida, Louisiana and Texas residents have received the lion's share of FEMA direct assistance since 2015, per newly gathered data."
Text of the EO: (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order. (c) Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children of lawful permanent residents, to obtain documentation of their United States citizenship. Sec. 3. Enforcement. (a) The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commissioner of Social Security shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the regulations and policies of their respective departments and agencies are consistent with this order, and that no officers, employees, or agents of their respective departments and agencies act, or forbear from acting, in any manner inconsistent with this order.
Text of the order as follows: (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order. (c) Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children of lawful permanent residents, to obtain documentation of their United States citizenship. Sec. 3. Enforcement. (a) The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commissioner of Social Security shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the regulations and policies of their respective departments and agencies are consistent with this order, and that no officers, employees, or agents of their respective departments and agencies act, or forbear from acting, in any manner inconsistent with this order.
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An image of downtown Los Angeles taken from the west, during the late afternoon. The San Gabriel Mountains behind the city are snow-capped. It is beautiful.
A video looking down a mountain slope with a fire burning in the distance and houses in the mid-ground. Towards the end of the video the fire rapidly advances upslope and flames are visible. The houses disappear in the smoke.
Video footage of dark and light smoke billowing up from behind a mountain peak. The sun and clouds progress across the sky, and the smoke is constant. There is white scientific equipment on a tower in the foreground.
A screenshot of the Watch Duty app showing fires and evacuation zones spanning the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
A graphic featuring three smiling people (Jess Phoenix, Angel Fernandez-Bou, and Vivian Yang) overlaid on an image of corn. The text reads: "Episode 40: Greening Our Growing," and "This Is Science with Jess Phoenix," and small text at the bottom reading "Union of Concerned Scientists."