Jen
@jenelaina.bsky.social
She/Her Michigander with narcolepsy. Environmental non-profit comms etc., equivalent of tweets here my own.
Team #GreatLakes #MIvoting #FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #ImmigrantsWelcome #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Speramus meliora resurgent cineribus.
Team #GreatLakes #MIvoting #FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #ImmigrantsWelcome #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Speramus meliora resurgent cineribus.
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Jen
@jenelaina.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Don't mind me, just pinning a Bluesky post.
Take care of yourself and each other, fight the good fights as best you're able, build community, and keep on keeping on. ❤️💧
PS please follow @cleanwatermi.bsky.social, thank you.
PPS guess where this is and I'll mail you a cool sticker why not.
Take care of yourself and each other, fight the good fights as best you're able, build community, and keep on keeping on. ❤️💧
PS please follow @cleanwatermi.bsky.social, thank you.
PPS guess where this is and I'll mail you a cool sticker why not.
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
This account is sus AF. I've blocked them for sigh idk half a decade maybe what is time.
Call this nonsense out if you see it and highly recommend just blocking them across the board. Plenty of other much better places to find the same "BREAKING" info 1st.
Billionaire sex trafficker is enough?!
Call this nonsense out if you see it and highly recommend just blocking them across the board. Plenty of other much better places to find the same "BREAKING" info 1st.
Billionaire sex trafficker is enough?!
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
This account is sus AF. I've blocked them for sigh idk half a decade maybe what is time.
Call this nonsense out if you see it and highly recommend just blocking them across the board. Plenty of other much better places to find the same "BREAKING" info 1st.
Billionaire sex trafficker is enough?!
Call this nonsense out if you see it and highly recommend just blocking them across the board. Plenty of other much better places to find the same "BREAKING" info 1st.
Billionaire sex trafficker is enough?!
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Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.
Brad Lander: To build a just and safe future for Israelis and Palestinians, and to move toward a US foreign policy that aligns with our principles and our interests, it’s time to block the bombs.
https://bit.ly/3LZNZfe
https://bit.ly/3LZNZfe
To Build Bridges, We Must Block the Bombs
Brad Lander in The Nation: “When I am elected to Congress, I will support the Block the Bombs Act to protect more Palestinians from being killed by Israel.”
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.
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I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 AM
I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.
Like I said, I was pulling a technically card. We have them but again, as I said, Greenland is laughable.
I just like tracking big boats sometimes. You could've looked at my maps though, those are two Pacific/Arctic. I didn't even include the Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaker bc, um. Ocean.
I just like tracking big boats sometimes. You could've looked at my maps though, those are two Pacific/Arctic. I didn't even include the Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaker bc, um. Ocean.
February 11, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Like I said, I was pulling a technically card. We have them but again, as I said, Greenland is laughable.
I just like tracking big boats sometimes. You could've looked at my maps though, those are two Pacific/Arctic. I didn't even include the Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaker bc, um. Ocean.
I just like tracking big boats sometimes. You could've looked at my maps though, those are two Pacific/Arctic. I didn't even include the Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaker bc, um. Ocean.
So many of us tried. Screaming into a rainstorm and being told if we don't say it's sunny maybe we're the problem.
Sigh.
Appreciate you both.
Sigh.
Appreciate you both.
February 11, 2026 at 4:03 AM
So many of us tried. Screaming into a rainstorm and being told if we don't say it's sunny maybe we're the problem.
Sigh.
Appreciate you both.
Sigh.
Appreciate you both.
ps PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING MURDERED IN GAZA EVERY DAMN DAY. You can't forgive what hasn't ended!
The campaign lost in very large part bc they decided to chase mythical independents and support Biden/Israel/genocide. No response to, I quote, "I can't afford groceries but we buy bombs for children?".
The campaign lost in very large part bc they decided to chase mythical independents and support Biden/Israel/genocide. No response to, I quote, "I can't afford groceries but we buy bombs for children?".
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
ps PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING MURDERED IN GAZA EVERY DAMN DAY. You can't forgive what hasn't ended!
The campaign lost in very large part bc they decided to chase mythical independents and support Biden/Israel/genocide. No response to, I quote, "I can't afford groceries but we buy bombs for children?".
The campaign lost in very large part bc they decided to chase mythical independents and support Biden/Israel/genocide. No response to, I quote, "I can't afford groceries but we buy bombs for children?".
A Michigander was murdered by Israel in Lebanon. Michiganders lost family members in Palestine including Justin Amash's cousins.
The Arab-American community made the difference electing Biden in MI. And Biden, then Harris, acted like they were an irrelevant nuisance. She lost her own damn campaign.
The Arab-American community made the difference electing Biden in MI. And Biden, then Harris, acted like they were an irrelevant nuisance. She lost her own damn campaign.
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
A Michigander was murdered by Israel in Lebanon. Michiganders lost family members in Palestine including Justin Amash's cousins.
The Arab-American community made the difference electing Biden in MI. And Biden, then Harris, acted like they were an irrelevant nuisance. She lost her own damn campaign.
The Arab-American community made the difference electing Biden in MI. And Biden, then Harris, acted like they were an irrelevant nuisance. She lost her own damn campaign.
The person in question has extensive knowledge of American politics and MENA communities as part of their paying job. Which is as much as I'm saying since our conversation was private.
So yeah. Not a low information voter whatsoever.
So yeah. Not a low information voter whatsoever.
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 AM
The person in question has extensive knowledge of American politics and MENA communities as part of their paying job. Which is as much as I'm saying since our conversation was private.
So yeah. Not a low information voter whatsoever.
So yeah. Not a low information voter whatsoever.
They're targeting anyone brown and speaking Spanish, citizens or no. He's deciding to protect his fans from being fish in a barrel for fascists. The fuck don't you understand about that.
February 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM
They're targeting anyone brown and speaking Spanish, citizens or no. He's deciding to protect his fans from being fish in a barrel for fascists. The fuck don't you understand about that.
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they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
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JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM
JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):
Early doors of the Gaza genocide, someone messaged me privately who had convinced his Mom to vote for Biden in Michigan in 2020. A conversation that happened in a lot of SE MI between 2016 and 2020.
She said she would never forgive him.
Harris could've condemned. She didn't. We tried to tell her.
She said she would never forgive him.
Harris could've condemned. She didn't. We tried to tell her.
February 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Early doors of the Gaza genocide, someone messaged me privately who had convinced his Mom to vote for Biden in Michigan in 2020. A conversation that happened in a lot of SE MI between 2016 and 2020.
She said she would never forgive him.
Harris could've condemned. She didn't. We tried to tell her.
She said she would never forgive him.
Harris could've condemned. She didn't. We tried to tell her.
We've got 2, and one that is capable of being turned into an icebreaker.
But those 2 are old, meant for scientific research, and nowhere fuckin near Greenland.
bsky.app/profile/jene...
But those 2 are old, meant for scientific research, and nowhere fuckin near Greenland.
bsky.app/profile/jene...
Don't support this bullshit AT ALL
But America does have 2 icebreakers.
To be fair to your point, they are as far from Greenland as you possibly could be. And meant for scientific research, as they damn well should be.
But America does have 2 icebreakers.
To be fair to your point, they are as far from Greenland as you possibly could be. And meant for scientific research, as they damn well should be.
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
We've got 2, and one that is capable of being turned into an icebreaker.
But those 2 are old, meant for scientific research, and nowhere fuckin near Greenland.
bsky.app/profile/jene...
But those 2 are old, meant for scientific research, and nowhere fuckin near Greenland.
bsky.app/profile/jene...
Don't support this bullshit AT ALL
But America does have 2 icebreakers.
To be fair to your point, they are as far from Greenland as you possibly could be. And meant for scientific research, as they damn well should be.
But America does have 2 icebreakers.
To be fair to your point, they are as far from Greenland as you possibly could be. And meant for scientific research, as they damn well should be.
February 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Don't support this bullshit AT ALL
But America does have 2 icebreakers.
To be fair to your point, they are as far from Greenland as you possibly could be. And meant for scientific research, as they damn well should be.
But America does have 2 icebreakers.
To be fair to your point, they are as far from Greenland as you possibly could be. And meant for scientific research, as they damn well should be.
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'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them.
LOL. Hear yourself.
LOL. Hear yourself.
February 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them.
LOL. Hear yourself.
LOL. Hear yourself.
It really helps! I told her it would be cool if she said no but she said it wasn't a problem. I just kept one ear open for the like "tilt your head this way, open your mouth a bit more" etc. and all was good.
February 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
It really helps! I told her it would be cool if she said no but she said it wasn't a problem. I just kept one ear open for the like "tilt your head this way, open your mouth a bit more" etc. and all was good.
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My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere.
(Plus resources and my must-reads list!)
(Plus resources and my must-reads list!)
When the Headlines Change but the Violence Doesn’t
“This is not a cruel novelty project. It’s infrastructure, designed for permanence and expansion.”
organizingmythoughts.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere.
(Plus resources and my must-reads list!)
(Plus resources and my must-reads list!)
Probably cause the requests to change the channel would be exhausting lol.
I just cue up podcasts and play em in one ear, my dentist is cool with it
I just cue up podcasts and play em in one ear, my dentist is cool with it
February 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Probably cause the requests to change the channel would be exhausting lol.
I just cue up podcasts and play em in one ear, my dentist is cool with it
I just cue up podcasts and play em in one ear, my dentist is cool with it
God I hope this is satire
as a proud graduate of Princeton Law, I am so glad that our law review is publishing this provocative yet indispensable scholarship
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
God I hope this is satire
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The fact that they’re running the full Kilmer Abrego Garcia playbook on a fucking five year old in a bunny hat…it was outrageous when they did it to Abrego Garcia. It’s monstrous here
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:50 AM
The fact that they’re running the full Kilmer Abrego Garcia playbook on a fucking five year old in a bunny hat…it was outrageous when they did it to Abrego Garcia. It’s monstrous here
"ICE repression is already alive and well in Michigan. It is now up to our community to follow in Minneapolis’ footsteps." 💯
@michigandaily.bsky.social
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/edit...
@michigandaily.bsky.social
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/edit...
From The Daily: Michigan must be ready for ICE
What happened there can happen anywhere, and the threat of Trump’s militia inciting unwelcome violence should be on our city’s radar. But there are ways to protect ourselves and those ICE seeks to det...
www.michigandaily.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:49 AM
"ICE repression is already alive and well in Michigan. It is now up to our community to follow in Minneapolis’ footsteps." 💯
@michigandaily.bsky.social
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/edit...
@michigandaily.bsky.social
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/edit...
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
OMG these pictures of ICE trying to change a tire!! www.instagram.com/p/DUZbC-EkVb...
stephen_pix on Instagram: "A bizarre scene this afternoon in North Minneapolis as ICE agents threatened to arrest onlookers and press for impeding a federal i…"
A bizarre scene this afternoon in North Minneapolis as ICE agents threatened to arrest onlookers and press for impeding a federal investigation as they attempted to change a flat tire of one of their vehicles on the side of Penn Avenue. For @gettyimages
www.instagram.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:41 AM
When the march forwards full blown fascism seems inevitable, just remember that our communities contain multitudes of resources, knowledge, can-do spirit, and compassion and they... are idiots
Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for “impeding a federal investigation.” These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.
February 6, 2026 at 3:40 AM