Jessica
@jessicasilvana.bsky.social
Professional Story Collector
Lover of cats, books, psychology, oak trees and good coffee. Former conflict analyst, current trauma therapist.
📍Southern California
Lover of cats, books, psychology, oak trees and good coffee. Former conflict analyst, current trauma therapist.
📍Southern California
Anyone heard from Jill Stein lately?
June 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Anyone heard from Jill Stein lately?
Did I get hit over the head and wake up in 2002? We’re back to WMD hunting. My god. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Did I get hit over the head and wake up in 2002? We’re back to WMD hunting. My god. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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"A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891
May 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891
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Here’s what Trump's America looks like:
Cuts to federal grants for school counselors and psychologists. Cuts to HHS funding targeting suicide prevention, overdose response & youth mental health programs. Most significantly, they want deep cuts to Medicaid—the nation’s largest mental health payer.
Cuts to federal grants for school counselors and psychologists. Cuts to HHS funding targeting suicide prevention, overdose response & youth mental health programs. Most significantly, they want deep cuts to Medicaid—the nation’s largest mental health payer.
May Is Mental Health Awareness Month. Guess How Trump Is Marking It?
Mental health is in crisis. We need more resources, not fewer. But what the Trump administration is doing amounts to targeted sabotage.
newrepublic.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Here’s what Trump's America looks like:
Cuts to federal grants for school counselors and psychologists. Cuts to HHS funding targeting suicide prevention, overdose response & youth mental health programs. Most significantly, they want deep cuts to Medicaid—the nation’s largest mental health payer.
Cuts to federal grants for school counselors and psychologists. Cuts to HHS funding targeting suicide prevention, overdose response & youth mental health programs. Most significantly, they want deep cuts to Medicaid—the nation’s largest mental health payer.
I get sad and then listen to anti-fascist songs from our history. Woody warned us about the Trumps. We should’ve listened. open.spotify.com/track/649Zk1...
Tear The Facists Down
Woody Guthrie · My Dusty Road · Song · 2009
open.spotify.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I get sad and then listen to anti-fascist songs from our history. Woody warned us about the Trumps. We should’ve listened. open.spotify.com/track/649Zk1...
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Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States
April 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States
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He’s so good at this.
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
He’s so good at this.
I don’t want to be an asshole but… I’m feeling a really strong impulse to ask my leftist friends if they still think both parties are equally bad.
April 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I don’t want to be an asshole but… I’m feeling a really strong impulse to ask my leftist friends if they still think both parties are equally bad.
Heartbroken.
Civil rights-era government agency in Justice Department to be purged
www.cbsnews.com/news/civil-r...
www.cbsnews.com/news/civil-r...
Civil rights-era government agency in Justice Department to be purged
A memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
www.cbsnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Heartbroken.
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When I was a little 20-something graduate student living in DC, I met a Bush DOJ appointee at a party. It was just the start of the Obama administration and while it was clear this dude and I had our differences (lol) we had a deep conversation that ended with him asking me to send over my resume ⬇️
April 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
When I was a little 20-something graduate student living in DC, I met a Bush DOJ appointee at a party. It was just the start of the Obama administration and while it was clear this dude and I had our differences (lol) we had a deep conversation that ended with him asking me to send over my resume ⬇️
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Hour 6 of the marathon speech by US Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) in Congress, a very emotional moment as he reads a letter from a constituent with Parkinson's Disease.
April 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Hour 6 of the marathon speech by US Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) in Congress, a very emotional moment as he reads a letter from a constituent with Parkinson's Disease.
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Cody is on his way to trade in this Cybertruck. Any recommendations on what he should get next?
March 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Cody is on his way to trade in this Cybertruck. Any recommendations on what he should get next?
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Was at the dentist this morning.
Dentist: How's it going?
Me: Eh, haven't been added to any confidential Signal chats!
Dentist: ...what?
Neither dentist nor her assistants had any idea about the top headline on every single news site yesterday.
Talk about it. GET PEOPLE to follow the news.
Dentist: How's it going?
Me: Eh, haven't been added to any confidential Signal chats!
Dentist: ...what?
Neither dentist nor her assistants had any idea about the top headline on every single news site yesterday.
Talk about it. GET PEOPLE to follow the news.
March 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Was at the dentist this morning.
Dentist: How's it going?
Me: Eh, haven't been added to any confidential Signal chats!
Dentist: ...what?
Neither dentist nor her assistants had any idea about the top headline on every single news site yesterday.
Talk about it. GET PEOPLE to follow the news.
Dentist: How's it going?
Me: Eh, haven't been added to any confidential Signal chats!
Dentist: ...what?
Neither dentist nor her assistants had any idea about the top headline on every single news site yesterday.
Talk about it. GET PEOPLE to follow the news.
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California is providing $2.5B+ in immediate support for our firestorm response and recovery efforts in Southern California.
We’re eliminating roadblocks to rebuilding and directing millions to help local governments expedite new building approvals.
We’re eliminating roadblocks to rebuilding and directing millions to help local governments expedite new building approvals.
January 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
California is providing $2.5B+ in immediate support for our firestorm response and recovery efforts in Southern California.
We’re eliminating roadblocks to rebuilding and directing millions to help local governments expedite new building approvals.
We’re eliminating roadblocks to rebuilding and directing millions to help local governments expedite new building approvals.
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“But her emails”
Get ready for higher food prices...
"California Farm Bureau says fears in the Central Valley have led to migrant farmworkers not showing up for work, which has virtually halted the area's citrus harvest"
www-nbcbayarea-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcb...
"California Farm Bureau says fears in the Central Valley have led to migrant farmworkers not showing up for work, which has virtually halted the area's citrus harvest"
www-nbcbayarea-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcb...
Central Valley farmworkers scared to show up to work over deportation fear
The California Farm Bureau says fears in the Central Valley have led to migrant farmworkers not showing up for work, which has virtually halted the area’s citrus harvest.
www-nbcbayarea-com.cdn.ampproject.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“But her emails”
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I got the same response. WHAT is going on @googlesearch.bsky.social???
If you Google “US presidents in order,” it steadfastly excludes Joe Biden.
Try it yourself.
WTF?
(if it’s fixed by the time you read this, good; but — Google Search now *sucks*)
Try it yourself.
WTF?
(if it’s fixed by the time you read this, good; but — Google Search now *sucks*)
January 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I got the same response. WHAT is going on @googlesearch.bsky.social???
Book club rec!
How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde: 9780593539217 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Dioces...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Book club rec!
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Yesterday, executive order “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California" was signed. What's with the fishy focus? Read about the political coherence of Delta Smelt scapegoating in sociologist @calebscoville.bsky.social's @contexts.org piece!
Once again, Trump takes on “That Tiny, Tiny Little Fish,” blaming Delta Smelt protections for water shortages in fighting the #LAFires. Sociologist @calebscoville.bsky.social wrote about the political coherence behind such fishy rhetoric back in Sept: contexts.org/blog/tiny-little-fish/
January 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yesterday, executive order “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California" was signed. What's with the fishy focus? Read about the political coherence of Delta Smelt scapegoating in sociologist @calebscoville.bsky.social's @contexts.org piece!
Just gonna drop this here: www.wehaverights.us
We Have Rights
www.wehaverights.us
January 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Just gonna drop this here: www.wehaverights.us
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"And to Musk, Zuckerberg and company, in Europe we have a market of millions of users that provide money to your companies, yes. But we also love protecting our citizens and democracies by making laws. [...] You can always take your Nazi salutes and your masculine energy and go back home."
January 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"And to Musk, Zuckerberg and company, in Europe we have a market of millions of users that provide money to your companies, yes. But we also love protecting our citizens and democracies by making laws. [...] You can always take your Nazi salutes and your masculine energy and go back home."
Wow talk about bravery! Especially considering this administration’s contempt of women, im sure they *loved* hearing this a female bishop.
youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?...
youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?...
1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
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January 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Wow talk about bravery! Especially considering this administration’s contempt of women, im sure they *loved* hearing this a female bishop.
youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?...
youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?...