Jen Bourey
@jbourey.bsky.social
Techie queer mom. Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google, making code more secure. She/her. Views are mine.
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
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The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time
September 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time
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Disney: produces Andor, a show about the hard-fought resistance to a dictatorial, authoritarian regime.
Also Disney: cancels a comedian/late show hosts’ show because it’s what an authoritarian dictator has wanted for years.
Also Disney: cancels a comedian/late show hosts’ show because it’s what an authoritarian dictator has wanted for years.
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Disney: produces Andor, a show about the hard-fought resistance to a dictatorial, authoritarian regime.
Also Disney: cancels a comedian/late show hosts’ show because it’s what an authoritarian dictator has wanted for years.
Also Disney: cancels a comedian/late show hosts’ show because it’s what an authoritarian dictator has wanted for years.
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if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
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Remember if you are angry and you wanna do something, one really important thing you can do is vote, I’m not talking about 2026. I’m talking about this week, next week, and the week after there are elections every single week multiple times a week that is where it change begins.
August 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Remember if you are angry and you wanna do something, one really important thing you can do is vote, I’m not talking about 2026. I’m talking about this week, next week, and the week after there are elections every single week multiple times a week that is where it change begins.
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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
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This is infuriatingly stupid and a devastating loss to health research across the globe. Our tax dollars paid for that, and they just broke it for no fucking reason
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is infuriatingly stupid and a devastating loss to health research across the globe. Our tax dollars paid for that, and they just broke it for no fucking reason
I dunno, I was awake during hand surgery this week and it was better than *gestures at world*
at this point 2025 feels like being awake during surgery
April 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I dunno, I was awake during hand surgery this week and it was better than *gestures at world*
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but more than anything else, lesbians want THESE FUCKING CREEPS TO STOP CONSTANTLY WATCHING US ALL IN PUBLIC AND TRYING TO GUESS BASED PURELY ON VIBES WHETHER OR NOT GOD GAVE US A VAGINA IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHAT ROOMS WE’RE ALLOWED INTO
April 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
but more than anything else, lesbians want THESE FUCKING CREEPS TO STOP CONSTANTLY WATCHING US ALL IN PUBLIC AND TRYING TO GUESS BASED PURELY ON VIBES WHETHER OR NOT GOD GAVE US A VAGINA IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHAT ROOMS WE’RE ALLOWED INTO
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Every state should do this, this is fantastic!!
Minnesota has launched a new tool to track federal funding cuts that affect services ranging from heating assistance and flood mitigation to tracking diseases.
Track Trump administration cuts in real time with new Minnesota tool
Gov. Tim Walz announced the state dashboard on Wednesday. It will be updated every weekday.
www.startribune.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Every state should do this, this is fantastic!!
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
March 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
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The White House did not *obey.* That is the more relevant verb, given that this is about flouting a court order, separation of powers, and the Constitutional crisis we are in. This kind of word choice is critical.
March 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The White House did not *obey.* That is the more relevant verb, given that this is about flouting a court order, separation of powers, and the Constitutional crisis we are in. This kind of word choice is critical.
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
I got the Covid vaccine at 19 + 21 weeks of pregnancy, and 20 more weeks later my baby was born healthy with Covid antibodies. I know that because a scientist tested her blood. Vaccines work.
RFK Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
March 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I got the Covid vaccine at 19 + 21 weeks of pregnancy, and 20 more weeks later my baby was born healthy with Covid antibodies. I know that because a scientist tested her blood. Vaccines work.
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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN.
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
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Columbia University sold out to fascists and brutally cracked down on kids whose only sin was opposing genocide.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
March 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Columbia University sold out to fascists and brutally cracked down on kids whose only sin was opposing genocide.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
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This is about making an example out of Columbia to scare the rest of academia. There's nothing Columbia could have done to stop this. It's an ideological war to destroy universities.
New: The administration—through DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA—says it has canceled ~$400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University.
March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is about making an example out of Columbia to scare the rest of academia. There's nothing Columbia could have done to stop this. It's an ideological war to destroy universities.
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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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For people that work in tech *only*.
An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period."
In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.
An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period."
In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.
February 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
For people that work in tech *only*.
An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period."
In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.
An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period."
In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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