Jennifer
@openbookjen.bsky.social
Stuff I love: my family, Jack (our black lab), books, movies, WVU, travel, food, and life, generally. 💙 Nonprofit founder serving older neighbors in our community.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Wish someone had told me this 5,643 hours of my life ago.
“Eating one hot dog and bun results in the loss of 27-36 minutes of healthy life.” www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/h...
July 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Wish someone had told me this 5,643 hours of my life ago.
Got a little creative today. ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Got a little creative today. ❤️
Jesus. Cruel and unusual, anyone? This is maddening.
Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
I Watched a Woman Nearly Die in a Cell Across From Mine. Texas Prisons Need Air Conditioning.
More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.
thebarbedwire.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Jesus. Cruel and unusual, anyone? This is maddening.
This day is looking up with every passing hour. So many little God winks have paved the way for smooth sailing today. Might even kick out a little early and prepare to enjoy a lovely weekend with my favorite boys (one human, one dog).
TGIF!
TGIF!
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This day is looking up with every passing hour. So many little God winks have paved the way for smooth sailing today. Might even kick out a little early and prepare to enjoy a lovely weekend with my favorite boys (one human, one dog).
TGIF!
TGIF!
Anyway…we did a special thing this week. ❤️🌺🌸🌼
Charleston's West Side is about to get a little brighter with a brand new park that an Ohio youth mission group is helping Faith in Action create in Charleston.https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/kanawha-county-wv/youth-mission-group-helps-faith-in-action-create-park-in-charleston/
July 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Anyway…we did a special thing this week. ❤️🌺🌸🌼
It's trying, is what I'm struggling to say. What I mean is, I'm exhausted.
I run a nonprofit trying to do good works in our community every single day of the week. It feels like swimming upstream in the best of times. Since January, there are a lot more soul sucking days in the mix. We're still doing good, but the need overwhelms and it feels like eating an elephant whole.
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's trying, is what I'm struggling to say. What I mean is, I'm exhausted.
I run a nonprofit trying to do good works in our community every single day of the week. It feels like swimming upstream in the best of times. Since January, there are a lot more soul sucking days in the mix. We're still doing good, but the need overwhelms and it feels like eating an elephant whole.
July 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I run a nonprofit trying to do good works in our community every single day of the week. It feels like swimming upstream in the best of times. Since January, there are a lot more soul sucking days in the mix. We're still doing good, but the need overwhelms and it feels like eating an elephant whole.
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but with all the over-access we have to national and global news, is it too much to ask that our local news outlets actually report...local news?
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but with all the over-access we have to national and global news, is it too much to ask that our local news outlets actually report...local news?
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It’s 1994. A time traveller from the future warns you that someday an actor from the Flintstones movie will be deemed an enemy of the state. Who’s your first guess?
July 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s 1994. A time traveller from the future warns you that someday an actor from the Flintstones movie will be deemed an enemy of the state. Who’s your first guess?
Living his best life!!
This is Sausage. His humans got him his very own swimming pool and he's obsessed with it. We asked them if he swims every day and they said, ”Every single day. He follows us around the house until we take him outside AND sit and watch him. If we’re not there he won’t swim." 14/10 good for him
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Living his best life!!
FFS
CNN: INTEL ASSESSMENT CONTRDICTS TRUMP
MSNBC: CEASEFIRE HANGING BY A THREAD
FOX NEWS:
MSNBC: CEASEFIRE HANGING BY A THREAD
FOX NEWS:
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
FFS
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sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad
June 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad
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So government compelled speech? Do I have that right?
In order to approve a major ad merger, the FTC is suggesting that the ad firms sign a deal agreeing not to boycott or withhold ad dollars from conservative platforms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/b...
F.T.C. May Hit a Mega Ad Merger With an Unusual Rule: No Boycotting
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
So government compelled speech? Do I have that right?
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The last living grandson of President John Tyler has died.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025.
His grandfather, the 10th President of the United States, was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025.
His grandfather, the 10th President of the United States, was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
May 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The last living grandson of President John Tyler has died.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025.
His grandfather, the 10th President of the United States, was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025.
His grandfather, the 10th President of the United States, was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
Today makes me want to re-up my commitment to be a positive force for change. I do not like who I become when I allow other people's inanities to bog me down. I can't change the world, but I can continue to improve my little corner of it and let it ripple outward.
May 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today makes me want to re-up my commitment to be a positive force for change. I do not like who I become when I allow other people's inanities to bog me down. I can't change the world, but I can continue to improve my little corner of it and let it ripple outward.
The nonprofit I founded just surpassed $1,000,000 in value benefit provided to our community. Took us 11 years, but honestly? It's more than I ever dreamed possible upon receiving our IRS determination letter in August 2014. 😍
May 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The nonprofit I founded just surpassed $1,000,000 in value benefit provided to our community. Took us 11 years, but honestly? It's more than I ever dreamed possible upon receiving our IRS determination letter in August 2014. 😍
What happened to BUY AMERICAN!?!
May 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What happened to BUY AMERICAN!?!
< SCREAMING INTO THE VOID >
May 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
< SCREAMING INTO THE VOID >
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what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
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100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.
1362 Days to go...
1362 Days to go...
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.
1362 Days to go...
1362 Days to go...
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TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-- Signed something
-- Signed more things
-- Wrecked the economy
-- Signed something
-- Signed more things
-- Wrecked the economy
April 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-- Signed something
-- Signed more things
-- Wrecked the economy
-- Signed something
-- Signed more things
-- Wrecked the economy
It’s as if they are deliberately targeting our most vulnerable. On purpose and with no small measure of glee. It’s sickening.
‘Needs will go unmet:’ DOGE AmeriCorps cuts expected to affect WV housing construction organization westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/25/n...
‘Needs will go unmet:’ DOGE AmeriCorps cuts expected to affect WV housing construction organization • West Virginia Watch
AmeriCorps is a “substantial part” of the work a West Virginia housing construction organization does in Kanawha and Putnam counties.
westvirginiawatch.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It’s as if they are deliberately targeting our most vulnerable. On purpose and with no small measure of glee. It’s sickening.