Jen Olin-Hitt
jolinhitt.bsky.social
Jen Olin-Hitt
@jolinhitt.bsky.social
Living in hope...still. Finding magic...in surprising places. Believing that the people I love (and struggle to love) will find promise.
Always
June 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
Keep making art.
March 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A most amazing felled tree and root system
March 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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More of what Walz and Sanders are doing!
Walz's first stops will be in Republican districts in Iowa and Nebraska this weekend. Coming up soon: Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio.

“I understand now my responsibility. I have a little more of a national voice, so I should bring it to them." www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...
www.cnn.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I guess it's Women's History Month, for what that's currently worth.
March 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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March 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
February 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In Northeast Ohio, what are the coalitions to join? What groups are mobilizing effectively to speak truth to power?
February 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
February 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
No spend Friday - 2/28/25. No fast food. No chains. No corporations. No restaurants.
February 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
February 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"If you make people believe that something is true you make it more likely that it becomes true...
If we believe that he is already king, if we believe he already has all that power, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. We will then give him that power..
Don't believe him." ~ Ezra Klein
February 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"The essence of Trump's failure of leadership is not that he chose one set of policies over another, not only that he divided rather than united Americans, nor even that he behaved vindictively..."
How not to describe the Trump presidency
Friends,
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
No one can take away winter sunshine
February 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” - Jane Austen
January 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Today the most political action I can do is sleep, eat, laugh. Maybe I’ll go full-on woo woo and elevate my vibrations as high as I can. Whatever it takes to resist believing that darkness has won.
January 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
January 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Following the light
January 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Joined Meta in the baby days of social media. Feeling strong and grown up to leave the world of playground bullies.
January 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM