Jen Yarrington 🦃
@curiousjen.bsky.social
Widowed mom of 1 teen boy and 1 adult-ish fellow. Missourian.
THE FIRST STOP IS ALWAYS ISTANBUL
THE FIRST STOP IS ALWAYS ISTANBUL
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AIPAC spends hundreds of millions buying primaries across the country.
Now they’re trying to buy mine.
Now they’re trying to buy mine.
January 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
AIPAC spends hundreds of millions buying primaries across the country.
Now they’re trying to buy mine.
Now they’re trying to buy mine.
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Y’all already forgot about the bomb threats at polling places in heavily Dem districts already? What about the ballot boxes targeted by arsonists and all the mailboxes DeJoy ripped out? Stop blaming voters for the election interference *we all saw* happening.
Close to 90 million people did NOT vote in the 2024 election.
90 million.
It bears repeating over and over and over.
90 million.
It bears repeating over and over and over.
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Y’all already forgot about the bomb threats at polling places in heavily Dem districts already? What about the ballot boxes targeted by arsonists and all the mailboxes DeJoy ripped out? Stop blaming voters for the election interference *we all saw* happening.
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The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran
January 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran
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The last thing white America wants to hear is that they created Trump. But they did. He is quintessential white America. He is everything white America is in its ugliness. So look upon him well, white America.
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The last thing white America wants to hear is that they created Trump. But they did. He is quintessential white America. He is everything white America is in its ugliness. So look upon him well, white America.
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What’s about to happen at SCOTUS is why I’ve opposed premature declarations of Trumpism’s collapse. Drumbeat since ‘15. Just like Christian fundamentalism has been declared dead every 5-10 years since 1925. When I pub’d The Family in ‘08, interviewers asked why, since Obama was ending Right forever.
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What’s about to happen at SCOTUS is why I’ve opposed premature declarations of Trumpism’s collapse. Drumbeat since ‘15. Just like Christian fundamentalism has been declared dead every 5-10 years since 1925. When I pub’d The Family in ‘08, interviewers asked why, since Obama was ending Right forever.
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we're stronger stronger together ✊ we want Starbucks to succeed. our livelihoods depend on it! we want to fix what’s broken and get customers coming back.
are you a barista that wants to join us? head to sbworkersunited.org to connect with a local organizer. let's ACTUALLY turn Starbucks around.
are you a barista that wants to join us? head to sbworkersunited.org to connect with a local organizer. let's ACTUALLY turn Starbucks around.
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
we're stronger stronger together ✊ we want Starbucks to succeed. our livelihoods depend on it! we want to fix what’s broken and get customers coming back.
are you a barista that wants to join us? head to sbworkersunited.org to connect with a local organizer. let's ACTUALLY turn Starbucks around.
are you a barista that wants to join us? head to sbworkersunited.org to connect with a local organizer. let's ACTUALLY turn Starbucks around.
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“The President was involved in a teen rape club for many years in some capacity” remains a fact that disappears from coverage for weeks at a time
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“The President was involved in a teen rape club for many years in some capacity” remains a fact that disappears from coverage for weeks at a time
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Behind every Starbucks drink are baristas who are struggling.
While workers are striking nationwide, support us and DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location ✊💚
#NoContractNoCoffee
While workers are striking nationwide, support us and DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location ✊💚
#NoContractNoCoffee
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Behind every Starbucks drink are baristas who are struggling.
While workers are striking nationwide, support us and DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location ✊💚
#NoContractNoCoffee
While workers are striking nationwide, support us and DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location ✊💚
#NoContractNoCoffee
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We’re 👏 Not 👏 Going 👏 Anywhere 👏
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike
Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We’re 👏 Not 👏 Going 👏 Anywhere 👏
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear and consistent on what we need to succeed: more take-home pay, better hours, resolving legal issues. Until then, you’ll see us and our allies on the picket line.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start.
“Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.”
Nope.
We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours.
You work for us.
“Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.”
Nope.
We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours.
You work for us.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start.
“Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.”
Nope.
We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours.
You work for us.
“Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.”
Nope.
We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours.
You work for us.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social I was at the Art Institute in Chicago today and I told Max you say hello
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social I was at the Art Institute in Chicago today and I told Max you say hello
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david of course said it better bsky.app/profile/davi...
I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
david of course said it better bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Tonight should remind everyone: As destructive and dangerous as Trump is, he's a trust fund kid who inherited a fortune and went bankrupt six times. He's going to crash and burn. A new generation of strong bold leaders will rise from the ashes. Tonight is only the beginning if we work for it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Tonight should remind everyone: As destructive and dangerous as Trump is, he's a trust fund kid who inherited a fortune and went bankrupt six times. He's going to crash and burn. A new generation of strong bold leaders will rise from the ashes. Tonight is only the beginning if we work for it.
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OK. Let's fucking go. Kat next.
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
OK. Let's fucking go. Kat next.
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“If I want 40 hours a week, that’s not guaranteed. Rent keeps going up, and a lot of us have to have roommates just to stay in the city,” Andersen said, adding that her pay has remained around $16 an hour for the past three years.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2...
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2...
Kentucky Starbucks baristas rally as union vote could pave way for strike
Unionized Starbucks workers rallied at Louisville’s Baxter Avenue store Nov. 1 as baristas nationwide voted on whether to authorize a strike.
www.courier-journal.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“If I want 40 hours a week, that’s not guaranteed. Rent keeps going up, and a lot of us have to have roommates just to stay in the city,” Andersen said, adding that her pay has remained around $16 an hour for the past three years.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2...
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2...
That is my fucking high school
ICE is hanging around Budlong Woods according to ICIRR, down the street from Mather. 5600 N Washtenaw.
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
That is my fucking high school
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Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .
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the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
October 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
Thats the real real
They'd have impeached him for his black skin if they could have
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Thats the real real
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I really wish the major media outlets would adopt @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's "Vichy Dems" when talking about the Democrats in Congress. It really is just a perfect descriptor.
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I really wish the major media outlets would adopt @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's "Vichy Dems" when talking about the Democrats in Congress. It really is just a perfect descriptor.
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NEW: In a new letter, Starbucks investors are expressing concern over the company's sustainability, "as evidenced by more than one hundred Unfair Labor Practice complaints filed this year, worker protests, and threats to strike."
Read their letter to the board:
sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
Read their letter to the board:
sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
Starbucks Investors Call on Company to Restart Negotiations with Union Baristas - Starbucks Workers United
“We write as long-term shareholders of Starbucks Corporation to express our concern regarding the current state of Starbucks’ labor relations and urge the company to restart negotiations and promptly ...
sbworkersunited.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
NEW: In a new letter, Starbucks investors are expressing concern over the company's sustainability, "as evidenced by more than one hundred Unfair Labor Practice complaints filed this year, worker protests, and threats to strike."
Read their letter to the board:
sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
Read their letter to the board:
sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
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October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.
Dr. Demento
drdemento.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.