Jen Graham
@jengraham.bsky.social
Books, dogs, birds, cooking, and gardening are my thing. Lots of silly pics of our two Biewer Terriers, Merlin & Sonny.
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An really important thing a lot of people don't realize about Trump is that he doesn't bully people he doesn't think he can bully.
Let’s be clear.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
An really important thing a lot of people don't realize about Trump is that he doesn't bully people he doesn't think he can bully.
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Heartbreaking stuff. And more good journalism from @charlotteobserver.com which has been a part of an incredible effort from local media to cover this past week’s attack on our city.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Heartbreaking stuff. And more good journalism from @charlotteobserver.com which has been a part of an incredible effort from local media to cover this past week’s attack on our city.
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Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
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He's not scared, he's smitten. Mamdani probably talked about CATS and Phantom with him.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
He's not scared, he's smitten. Mamdani probably talked about CATS and Phantom with him.
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"Just Two Sectors Account for 100% of US Job Growth in 2025" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Health care/social assistance + leisure/hospitality: +690,000
All others: -6,000
Health care/social assistance + leisure/hospitality: +690,000
All others: -6,000
Just Two Sectors Account for 100% of US Job Growth in 2025
If you’re looking for a job in health care or hospitality, the good news is US companies are hiring. But employers across the rest of the economy are scaling back.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Just Two Sectors Account for 100% of US Job Growth in 2025" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Health care/social assistance + leisure/hospitality: +690,000
All others: -6,000
Health care/social assistance + leisure/hospitality: +690,000
All others: -6,000
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
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Extremely good long read on how prisons shape local economies and politics. So many moments of clarity where the absurdity of the prison-as-industry proposition just slaps you in the face
The construction of prisons in rural areas can create relationships in which residents ultimately become engulfed by incarceration. “The prison almost begins to imprison the community in a way,” says a prison researcher.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Extremely good long read on how prisons shape local economies and politics. So many moments of clarity where the absurdity of the prison-as-industry proposition just slaps you in the face
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Lovely replies. Good job, humans
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Lovely replies. Good job, humans
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Putative leftists encouraging people not to vote D no longer upsets me. I assume they're working for troll farm, foreign or domestic, and that after everything that's happened, they couldn't possibly be that stupid.
If I'm wrong about the latter, there's nothing lost.
If I'm wrong about the latter, there's nothing lost.
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Putative leftists encouraging people not to vote D no longer upsets me. I assume they're working for troll farm, foreign or domestic, and that after everything that's happened, they couldn't possibly be that stupid.
If I'm wrong about the latter, there's nothing lost.
If I'm wrong about the latter, there's nothing lost.
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“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
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Get your flu shots people. Last year was the worst flu season in 10 years and don't love even a small regional slice like this looking much worse already.
For reference national data for last season: bsky.app/profile/pear...
For reference national data for last season: bsky.app/profile/pear...
In Texas' public health region 6/5S, which includes Houston, the number of emergency department visits for influenza is already almost on par with the *peak* of last year.
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Get your flu shots people. Last year was the worst flu season in 10 years and don't love even a small regional slice like this looking much worse already.
For reference national data for last season: bsky.app/profile/pear...
For reference national data for last season: bsky.app/profile/pear...
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I think it’s good that Dems are competing re how aggressively they can denounce Trump
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think it’s good that Dems are competing re how aggressively they can denounce Trump
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This has to be done. We have to have a reckoning with unaccountable police violence
theres no coming back from this without prosecuting everyone up and down the chain of command
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This has to be done. We have to have a reckoning with unaccountable police violence
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When the market goes down hard, it’s never because investors got too bullish, too levered, and too far out over their skis.
It is always because the Fed did it to them.
It is always because the Fed did it to them.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
When the market goes down hard, it’s never because investors got too bullish, too levered, and too far out over their skis.
It is always because the Fed did it to them.
It is always because the Fed did it to them.
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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Huh, I wonder why
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Huh, I wonder why
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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Yes, peasants, your life has gotten worse but the Trump family and his buddies are getting rich AF.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Yes, peasants, your life has gotten worse but the Trump family and his buddies are getting rich AF.
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“ warns that for every success story touted by Border Patrol, there are far more innocent people who don’t realize they’ve become ensnared in a technology-driven enforcement operation.”
The border continues expanding inward
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“ warns that for every success story touted by Border Patrol, there are far more innocent people who don’t realize they’ve become ensnared in a technology-driven enforcement operation.”
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$2,000 "tariff dividend"
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
$2,000 "tariff dividend"
Lutnick’s sons, the Saudis, shake downs of the UAE and South Korea, even a Rick Perry start-up 🙄, the self dealing grift just keeps rolling on.
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Lutnick’s sons, the Saudis, shake downs of the UAE and South Korea, even a Rick Perry start-up 🙄, the self dealing grift just keeps rolling on.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.