Trailhead Jen
@thjen.bsky.social
I enjoy my (indoor) cat, butterflies, Katmai bears, native plants, and minimizing environmental collapse. Lawyer by profession, photographer by passion. Central Indiana.
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The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence
Both the calendar and the events in Minneapolis have brought the midterm...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
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“Wait until after the election” becomes “we just won, relax” becomes “if you criticize them you’re just helping the GOP” which then goes back to “wait until after the election.” Every time.
February 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
“Wait until after the election” becomes “we just won, relax” becomes “if you criticize them you’re just helping the GOP” which then goes back to “wait until after the election.” Every time.
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I think they’re trying to get Black people to the streets because shooting white people isn’t working out for them narratively.
I'd look at this as a shore up the base move, but it's just fan service for the base and does nothing in terms of getting TrumpCo out of their deepening hole. I suppose they believe they can seize control of the country by shock and awe with the support of about a third of the voters.
January 30, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I think they’re trying to get Black people to the streets because shooting white people isn’t working out for them narratively.
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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the people who are always clutching democrats like they are their relatives dont get it. these people, including the ones "on our side" work for us. they do as we tell them to. we dont beg them to come around to our way of thinking. they follow our orders.
January 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
the people who are always clutching democrats like they are their relatives dont get it. these people, including the ones "on our side" work for us. they do as we tell them to. we dont beg them to come around to our way of thinking. they follow our orders.
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.
Been waiting for this.
January 27, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Been waiting for this.
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This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
I think much of the Democratic normie class gets this on a gut level. But the bubble-wrapped elected Democrats who are suggesting funding increases in exchange for “more training” and things like body cams need to be endlessly confronted with this reality by their voters.
There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 18, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I think much of the Democratic normie class gets this on a gut level. But the bubble-wrapped elected Democrats who are suggesting funding increases in exchange for “more training” and things like body cams need to be endlessly confronted with this reality by their voters.
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Best one I've seen yet...
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Best one I've seen yet...
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"Even as King George has innocent civilians murdered on the streets of Boston, we will hold our focus on affordability because that's what our consultants find with focus groups and A/B testing on online surveys"
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"Even as King George has innocent civilians murdered on the streets of Boston, we will hold our focus on affordability because that's what our consultants find with focus groups and A/B testing on online surveys"
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"Past or present, it’s not the leaders who disappoint me. It’s the led."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
"Past or present, it’s not the leaders who disappoint me. It’s the led."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
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MAGA, a movement of cynical cruelty that is fueled by atomization, has accidentally created the conditions for in person communities to be formed around resisting their repression bsky.app/profile/aaro...
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
MAGA, a movement of cynical cruelty that is fueled by atomization, has accidentally created the conditions for in person communities to be formed around resisting their repression bsky.app/profile/aaro...
“Utmost respect” hot damn. Take a seat, cucks.
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1
January 17, 2026 at 1:21 PM
“Utmost respect” hot damn. Take a seat, cucks.
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This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
And if you think your wordle and NYT cooking addictions aren’t funding this, well.
come on man
how is this real
why are we getting quotes from random people at a small-town bar called Ye Olde Pickle Factory
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
how is this real
why are we getting quotes from random people at a small-town bar called Ye Olde Pickle Factory
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
And if you think your wordle and NYT cooking addictions aren’t funding this, well.
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I try to maintain some emotional distance while writing, which is an analytical exercise for me.
But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.
But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.
www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...
But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.
But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.
www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...
Resistance moms will save us
Renee Good's courage shows our best hope lays with ordinary people
www.salon.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I try to maintain some emotional distance while writing, which is an analytical exercise for me.
But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.
But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.
www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...
But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.
But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.
www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...
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Call me crazy, but I don't think the question of whether or not Bovino belongs in his job depends on whether or not he deletes the tweet he made calling protesters "cannon fodder." Making the tweet (along with many other things he's done) should disqualify him from any law enforcement job ever.
Rep. Lieu: “Greg Bovino last night made a post that essentially called protesters, ‘cannon fodder.’ He needs to delete that post, or he needs to resign…If Greg Bovino and the administration doesn't turn down the rhetoric, it's going to cause more people to get killed.”
January 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Call me crazy, but I don't think the question of whether or not Bovino belongs in his job depends on whether or not he deletes the tweet he made calling protesters "cannon fodder." Making the tweet (along with many other things he's done) should disqualify him from any law enforcement job ever.
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Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
January 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
No abstractions, no legalese, just blunt truth.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 2:39 AM
No abstractions, no legalese, just blunt truth.
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Kristi Noem On Renée Good Murder: ‘We Will Find The Immigrant Who Did This’
January 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Kristi Noem On Renée Good Murder: ‘We Will Find The Immigrant Who Did This’