Jen Bluestein
@jenblue190.bsky.social
Mom, daughter, sister, fighter, advocate, reader, consultant. Learn more about me, my love for Dunks & the Oxford Comma, & the work I do to help women & families thrive at athenastrat.com. She/her. New England.
They're always looking for any opportunity to take away women's autonomy and force them into pregnancy and parenting:
The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars designated for certain family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood.
The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars designated for certain family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood.
March 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
They're always looking for any opportunity to take away women's autonomy and force them into pregnancy and parenting:
The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars designated for certain family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood.
The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars designated for certain family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood.
So on this here #internationalwomensday I'm reading political takes on why MAGA is pissed at Amy Coney Barrett, for whom i have exactly zero love lost, but wooo boy. First: her face. "She looks bitter." Man, you can't win. Smile, you're a lightweight. Don't smile the right way: you're bitter.
March 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So on this here #internationalwomensday I'm reading political takes on why MAGA is pissed at Amy Coney Barrett, for whom i have exactly zero love lost, but wooo boy. First: her face. "She looks bitter." Man, you can't win. Smile, you're a lightweight. Don't smile the right way: you're bitter.
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personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad
March 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad
Polling shows 63% of Americans disapprove of Trump/Musks plan to eliminate the Department of Education, teachers among them.
If McMahon Really Wants to ‘Invest in Teachers,’ She Should Listen to Them
Stone: Survey of educators show they value the exact programs and initiatives that the new secretary is prepared to cut.
www.the74million.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Polling shows 63% of Americans disapprove of Trump/Musks plan to eliminate the Department of Education, teachers among them.
I mean you could cancel your town halls OR you could stop doing things that hurt your constituents 🤷🏻♀️
March 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I mean you could cancel your town halls OR you could stop doing things that hurt your constituents 🤷🏻♀️
I’m giving myself a break from politics for a few days so I don’t have to get worked up about the @nytimes.com having 3 Dems on to critique the party & none of them Black or Brown, the voters most loyal to our party. PASS THE EGGNOG PLS.
December 23, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I’m giving myself a break from politics for a few days so I don’t have to get worked up about the @nytimes.com having 3 Dems on to critique the party & none of them Black or Brown, the voters most loyal to our party. PASS THE EGGNOG PLS.
And we’re off to the races.
Texas Sues New York Doctor for Mailing Abortion Pills
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, appeared to be among the first attempts to stop doctors from mailing the medication to states that ban abortions.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:09 PM
And we’re off to the races.
Great piece by Jessica Grose about the impact of more men in caring industry jobs on society and the economy: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
Opinion | Men in Caring Jobs Will Make Society More Equal
Less stigma against male caregivers is all to the good.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Great piece by Jessica Grose about the impact of more men in caring industry jobs on society and the economy: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
This piece by my friend Alex Abramovich is must read - beautifully bringing together what insurance denials, vaccine denying, abortion vigilantism have in common. A gorgeous, terrifying, invigorating five minute read:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...
Alex Abramovich | Bodies
Security footage showed the suspect stopping at a Starbucks before the shooting. He’d worn surgical gloves to handle...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 7:28 PM
This piece by my friend Alex Abramovich is must read - beautifully bringing together what insurance denials, vaccine denying, abortion vigilantism have in common. A gorgeous, terrifying, invigorating five minute read:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...
In a sense, Blake Masters’ campaigns were a success then: demonstrated loyalty to Trump & showed willingness to be rubber stamp for the corporate gun lobby:
December 9, 2024 at 3:40 PM
In a sense, Blake Masters’ campaigns were a success then: demonstrated loyalty to Trump & showed willingness to be rubber stamp for the corporate gun lobby:
A phrase I absolutely hate: “support for traditional families” (for example, used in todays NYT). It’s as bad as “pro-life.” I support traditional families & non trad ones. If you only support traditional fams, you should be described as “anti-families that are different from yours.”
December 1, 2024 at 11:08 PM
A phrase I absolutely hate: “support for traditional families” (for example, used in todays NYT). It’s as bad as “pro-life.” I support traditional families & non trad ones. If you only support traditional fams, you should be described as “anti-families that are different from yours.”
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You can criticize this appointment all you want but who among you has never set up your own brother-in-law with a hooker, recorded the interaction in a seedy hotel room and sent the video to your own sister in order to penalize her for taking your other brother's side in a business dispute?
NEW: Trump intends to nominate Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s dad, as Ambassador to France.
November 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM
You can criticize this appointment all you want but who among you has never set up your own brother-in-law with a hooker, recorded the interaction in a seedy hotel room and sent the video to your own sister in order to penalize her for taking your other brother's side in a business dispute?
This is just so amazing
Disbarred and jailed
But you pay your money and you take your ride in the Trump administration
Disbarred and jailed
But you pay your money and you take your ride in the Trump administration
NEW: Trump intends to nominate Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s dad, as Ambassador to France.
November 30, 2024 at 7:11 PM
This is just so amazing
Disbarred and jailed
But you pay your money and you take your ride in the Trump administration
Disbarred and jailed
But you pay your money and you take your ride in the Trump administration
This is what his MOM thinks of him:
November 30, 2024 at 3:06 PM
This is what his MOM thinks of him:
Real normal employee stuff
November 25, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Real normal employee stuff
My friend Sarah Wildman has an extraordinary ability to face the hardest truths and tease out meaning. I am so grateful for her. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
Opinion | If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
A bereaved mother’s case against our grief-phobic culture.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:16 PM
My friend Sarah Wildman has an extraordinary ability to face the hardest truths and tease out meaning. I am so grateful for her. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
Trump’s abortion bans are killing women.
She had two little boys. She needed a d&c. Instead, she died in the hospital.
She had two little boys. She needed a d&c. Instead, she died in the hospital.
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Trump’s abortion bans are killing women.
She had two little boys. She needed a d&c. Instead, she died in the hospital.
She had two little boys. She needed a d&c. Instead, she died in the hospital.
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“I worried that the heart of this country wasn’t big enough to love someone like me” Congresswoman-elect McBride looks back on her journey and offers hope for a better future.
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
“I worried that the heart of this country wasn’t big enough to love someone like me” Congresswoman-elect McBride looks back on her journey and offers hope for a better future.