Jane Evans-Ryan
@jevansryan.bsky.social
Entrepreneur. Calif by way of Dublin 🇮🇪. Travel, books, culture, art, history, big ideas, science, innovation.
Sliver of the huge crowds showing up for democracy, kindness & patriotism at multiple #50501 protests across Silicon Valley. #handsoff2025
April 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sliver of the huge crowds showing up for democracy, kindness & patriotism at multiple #50501 protests across Silicon Valley. #handsoff2025
Then they came for the libraries.....
President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.
Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
March 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Then they came for the libraries.....
Seems corporate America expected coherence, competence & clarity from the new Administration. 🤔
March 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Seems corporate America expected coherence, competence & clarity from the new Administration. 🤔
Trove of candid shots of the Beatles 1963/64 U.S. tour thru the lens of Paul McCartney. Portraits of fun, joy, youth, curiosity, creativity, daring, & more. DeYoung Museum #SanFrancisco
March 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trove of candid shots of the Beatles 1963/64 U.S. tour thru the lens of Paul McCartney. Portraits of fun, joy, youth, curiosity, creativity, daring, & more. DeYoung Museum #SanFrancisco
Wonderful playwright and lifelong advocate for #democracy. Importantly, for his crime of speaking truth to power, the apartheid administration in South Africa revoked his passport.
March 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Wonderful playwright and lifelong advocate for #democracy. Importantly, for his crime of speaking truth to power, the apartheid administration in South Africa revoked his passport.
Destroying anything educational, creative, engaging, uplifting, and joyful. #TrumpVandals
Young musicians' dreams were dashed when the U.S. Marine Band followed orders to cancel a concert featuring middle and high school students of color, a result of the Trump administration’s executive order banning DEI initiatives. 60 Minutes, Sunday.
March 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Destroying anything educational, creative, engaging, uplifting, and joyful. #TrumpVandals
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What was once described as ‘transactional’ now reveals itself as a protection racket.
February 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What was once described as ‘transactional’ now reveals itself as a protection racket.
Hey, @IATA, Musk-Trump & the CyberKids are wrecking your business. Ditto for you, U.S. Chamber of Commerce & U.S. Travel Assoc. Your silence is deafening.
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hey, @IATA, Musk-Trump & the CyberKids are wrecking your business. Ditto for you, U.S. Chamber of Commerce & U.S. Travel Assoc. Your silence is deafening.
Struggling to find the right word, @google. Cowardice? Oleaginous? Obsequious? Definitely, pitiful.
We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.
February 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Struggling to find the right word, @google. Cowardice? Oleaginous? Obsequious? Definitely, pitiful.
T H I S 👇
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Your move, rest of world. With Team Trump terrified of science and scientists, there's rich talent to attract. Roll out your welcome mats!
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Your move, rest of world. With Team Trump terrified of science and scientists, there's rich talent to attract. Roll out your welcome mats!
Jolt of joy @sfmoma! The brilliant Amy Sherald in splendid color. Balm for the soul. #sanfrancisco
January 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Jolt of joy @sfmoma! The brilliant Amy Sherald in splendid color. Balm for the soul. #sanfrancisco
I'm baffled by the end-game intentions, @carlbergstrom.com Aren't broligarchs and Trump voters also vulnerable to cancer, toxic air, contaminated water, and climate change like the rest of us? Why the visceral contempt for science, expertise, and our institutions? I don't get it.
1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
January 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm baffled by the end-game intentions, @carlbergstrom.com Aren't broligarchs and Trump voters also vulnerable to cancer, toxic air, contaminated water, and climate change like the rest of us? Why the visceral contempt for science, expertise, and our institutions? I don't get it.
More courage, intelligence & empathy in her little finger than the old man she addressed. Thank you, Bishop Budde. You speak for tens of millions.
Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)
1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
More courage, intelligence & empathy in her little finger than the old man she addressed. Thank you, Bishop Budde. You speak for tens of millions.
Heartbreaking news. 😢 Oddly prescient that Cecile Richards #Queen and The King share this day. Infinitely grateful for their dedication to We The People. ❤️
On a disconcerting day, this is perhaps the saddest thing. I recently interviewed her about her illness and more and she was and will always be an inspiration to me and so many others: 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Heartbreaking news. 😢 Oddly prescient that Cecile Richards #Queen and The King share this day. Infinitely grateful for their dedication to We The People. ❤️
Seems like this should be front-page news in the US, @nytimes.com, no? #disinformation
Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
US agency focused on foreign disinformation shuts down
A leading US government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department said Tuesday, after Congress failed to extend its funding following years of Repub...
www.france24.com
December 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Seems like this should be front-page news in the US, @nytimes.com, no? #disinformation
The blazing colors at the Los Gatos farmer's market this morning can't help but spark joy. These beauts were grown nearby in Hollister by a family of brothers from Mexico and trucked into town by staff who started work at 5am. #farmworkers
December 1, 2024 at 6:57 PM
The blazing colors at the Los Gatos farmer's market this morning can't help but spark joy. These beauts were grown nearby in Hollister by a family of brothers from Mexico and trucked into town by staff who started work at 5am. #farmworkers
Holiday treat from the world-class curators @deyoungmuseum. Superb collection of work by the fascinating #artdeco queen, Tamara de Lempica. Most extensive exhibition of her #art to date 80+ years after her first small show in #SanFrancisco.
November 30, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Holiday treat from the world-class curators @deyoungmuseum. Superb collection of work by the fascinating #artdeco queen, Tamara de Lempica. Most extensive exhibition of her #art to date 80+ years after her first small show in #SanFrancisco.
At the Doka Coffee Plantation in Costa Rica, the workers are mainly migrants from Nicaragua. Many come with small children. In addition to liveable wages, they enjoy on-site housing and childcare. The way it should be!
November 25, 2024 at 7:14 PM
At the Doka Coffee Plantation in Costa Rica, the workers are mainly migrants from Nicaragua. Many come with small children. In addition to liveable wages, they enjoy on-site housing and childcare. The way it should be!
Before Boring Broligarchs, Silicon Valley had Roy Kepler of Keplers Books. At last night's 70th celebration of the local institution, @johnmarkoff and Michael Doyle shared vignettes from their interactions w/the bookseller & other pieces from "Radical Chapters", Doyle's book about Kepler.
November 15, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Before Boring Broligarchs, Silicon Valley had Roy Kepler of Keplers Books. At last night's 70th celebration of the local institution, @johnmarkoff and Michael Doyle shared vignettes from their interactions w/the bookseller & other pieces from "Radical Chapters", Doyle's book about Kepler.