Jennifer Oko
jencoko.bsky.social
Jennifer Oko
@jencoko.bsky.social
I like telling stories. Some are true, some are made up. Some become documentary films. Some become novels.
JUST EMILIA, coming June 2025
www.jenniferoko.com
www.because.media
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SHAME
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower.

Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Something is happening! I’ve been seeing more and more posts like this.
February 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The USAID stuff is just preposterously dark. A tiny sliver of the government’s budget, literally saving thousands of lives, pulled from one day to the next out of pure indifferent cruelty.
February 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Thank you!!!
Oh nothing, just over here excitedly pre-ordering some writer pal’s books. And you can too.

@marthaannetoll.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Poynter calls bullshit on Zuckerberg’s “censorship” claims, explaining that fact-checking is speech, not censorship.
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Glimpse of reviewers for 100 Notable Small Press Bks. Writers, editors, librarians. Bioarcheologists! See full bios (w more to come) www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress.

Want to join? Spots in: horror, lit in translation, comics/graphic novels. Always: BIPOC folx in any genre.

DM for details.
January 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
December 21, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Gilbert cites the study I mentioned in my column re: hegemonic masculinity and it really is a good explanatory lens for *gestures at all of this*. (Also not the same as toxic masculinity.) This column is great and everyone should take a look at the study, too. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
December 4, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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@regalhouse.bsky.social made their way to Bluesky! Great time to reshare the Regal House starter pack. Support independent presses! And their authors! And their books! go.bsky.app/JbK7MoF
November 26, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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I don’t mean to brag, but my book just got compared to bacon.
November 18, 2024 at 4:00 AM
For my first Bluesky post, here’s a photo of what my dog did to my son’s pillows while channeling all the house humans’ post-election feelings last week.
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM