Jen
@j-rae.bsky.social
Blue dot, red state. 💙 Feminist. Ally. 🏳️🌈Reader. 📚 Insert pretentious crap about myself here.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🧵 I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works.
You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.
You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.
April 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works.
You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.
You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.
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Advice for Democratic lawmakers:
Don't ever again put out a press release stating that you're "meeting tomorrow" in response to a five-alarm fire.
Cross that out.
Write this: "We are urgently working to address this crisis."
And then make that statement true with immediate action.
Don't ever again put out a press release stating that you're "meeting tomorrow" in response to a five-alarm fire.
Cross that out.
Write this: "We are urgently working to address this crisis."
And then make that statement true with immediate action.
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Advice for Democratic lawmakers:
Don't ever again put out a press release stating that you're "meeting tomorrow" in response to a five-alarm fire.
Cross that out.
Write this: "We are urgently working to address this crisis."
And then make that statement true with immediate action.
Don't ever again put out a press release stating that you're "meeting tomorrow" in response to a five-alarm fire.
Cross that out.
Write this: "We are urgently working to address this crisis."
And then make that statement true with immediate action.
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To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.
January 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.
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Blackhawk crashes into a plane over the Potomac? DEI.
Wife left you? DEI.
Your children hate you? DEI.
Gambled away your savings on a Trump crypto coin? DEI.
Wife left you? DEI.
Your children hate you? DEI.
Gambled away your savings on a Trump crypto coin? DEI.
January 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Blackhawk crashes into a plane over the Potomac? DEI.
Wife left you? DEI.
Your children hate you? DEI.
Gambled away your savings on a Trump crypto coin? DEI.
Wife left you? DEI.
Your children hate you? DEI.
Gambled away your savings on a Trump crypto coin? DEI.
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How to Push Back
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
How to Push Back
There is a reason Trump is afraid of the federal bureaucracy, the career civil servants he wants to replace.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
How to Push Back
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
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zero legal authority exists to do this. wapo.st/3PXucLH
White House tells federal workers they can quit now, get paid through September
The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.
wapo.st
January 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
zero legal authority exists to do this. wapo.st/3PXucLH
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1. Trump's immigration crackdown is premised on the idea that the US is experiencing a massive surge in violent crime
According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities
THIS IS A LIE
New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels
According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities
THIS IS A LIE
New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels
Trump's fake crime wave
On January 19, during a rally held in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof” and that it “was up like 40%.” He claimed that violent crime is especially...
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January 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
1. Trump's immigration crackdown is premised on the idea that the US is experiencing a massive surge in violent crime
According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities
THIS IS A LIE
New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels
According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities
THIS IS A LIE
New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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ICYMI.
The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer
A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.
sethabramson.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM
ICYMI.
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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
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November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
And all I had to do was believe in science and democracy.
November 16, 2024 at 12:49 AM
And all I had to do was believe in science and democracy.
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Risking women's lives, one way or another
November 16, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Risking women's lives, one way or another
👀 let’s hope so…
A lot of folks are saying the Gaetz ethics report will be leaked as early as today.
Make it so.
Make it so.
November 14, 2024 at 5:59 PM
👀 let’s hope so…
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UPDATE: The Onion just bought Alex Jones' Infowars after he was forced to sell it due to a defamation suit from Sandy Hook parents.
Last month Rudy Giuliani had to give his luxury apartment & all his valuables to poll workers he defamed.
Can defamation law end right-wing lies?
Last month Rudy Giuliani had to give his luxury apartment & all his valuables to poll workers he defamed.
Can defamation law end right-wing lies?
This One Thing Made Alex Jones Stop Lying | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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November 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
UPDATE: The Onion just bought Alex Jones' Infowars after he was forced to sell it due to a defamation suit from Sandy Hook parents.
Last month Rudy Giuliani had to give his luxury apartment & all his valuables to poll workers he defamed.
Can defamation law end right-wing lies?
Last month Rudy Giuliani had to give his luxury apartment & all his valuables to poll workers he defamed.
Can defamation law end right-wing lies?