Jen Uner
@jenuner.bsky.social
Instigator, storyteller, connector of dots. Work history in fashion, media, tech, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development. Married to a brand new member of The Academy.🥂
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This is exactly right
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is exactly right
Add to the reading list!
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Lake effect and a little thunder snow in Chicago! ❄️❄️❄️❄️
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Lake effect and a little thunder snow in Chicago! ❄️❄️❄️❄️
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
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“The establishment will irritate you to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
- John Lennon
- John Lennon
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
“The establishment will irritate you to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
- John Lennon
- John Lennon
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Administration officials are calling peaceful protesters "antifa" and "paid." This is a classic authoritarian tactic: delegitimize dissent. The truth: we are millions of everyday Americans—your neighbors—standing up for democracy. Don't fall for the lies. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Administration officials are calling peaceful protesters "antifa" and "paid." This is a classic authoritarian tactic: delegitimize dissent. The truth: we are millions of everyday Americans—your neighbors—standing up for democracy. Don't fall for the lies. #NoKings
News you can use.
NEW: It's kind of amazing how many stupid things people are saying about Antifa. (My favorites from this list are #8 and #9.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/9-stupid-t...
www.thebulwark.com/p/9-stupid-t...
9 Stupid Things People Are Saying About Antifa
A terrorist organization? A fiction? All Democrats? None of the above.
www.thebulwark.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
News you can use.
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
If the federal government shuts down, will ICE stop ripping apart families on the street and at pre-scheduled court hearings?
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If the federal government shuts down, will ICE stop ripping apart families on the street and at pre-scheduled court hearings?
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WHATEVER could have caused this??? It's a MYSTERY.
Brooke Rollins: "Soybean, corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton farmers are facing very difficult times. We are currently in conversations here at the White House, across the government, on a farmer aid package."
September 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
WHATEVER could have caused this??? It's a MYSTERY.
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It’s really all we should be talking about today.
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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Weird right? He used to support the first amendment
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Weird right? He used to support the first amendment
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So, I thought that this meant they were going to just fire all the statisticians. But now I think he means that tens or hundreds of thousands of people are quitting their jobs just to make the stats look bad. I'm not sure which is more insane.
Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"
September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
So, I thought that this meant they were going to just fire all the statisticians. But now I think he means that tens or hundreds of thousands of people are quitting their jobs just to make the stats look bad. I'm not sure which is more insane.
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wrote about John Bolton and how you need to extend solidarity to the targets of fascist attacks even when they are (like Bolton) terrible. www.publicnotice.co/p/john-bolto...
Then they came for John Bolton
And we need to speak out.
www.publicnotice.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
wrote about John Bolton and how you need to extend solidarity to the targets of fascist attacks even when they are (like Bolton) terrible. www.publicnotice.co/p/john-bolto...
She’s not wrong.
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines.
I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
August 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
She’s not wrong.
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The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
n.pr
August 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
Wait. What? You don’t choose a seat when you purchase? Just a fare class and then get a seat assigned at check in? Sounds like the worst of both worlds now at Southwest Airlines. I hope I am reading this wrong. www.fastcompany.com/91371774/sou...
Southwest Airlines' open seating is ending: Here's what the new 8-group boarding process will look like
Tickets for assigned seating will go on sale next week as the airline continues to shed the features that once made its brand stand out.
www.fastcompany.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Wait. What? You don’t choose a seat when you purchase? Just a fare class and then get a seat assigned at check in? Sounds like the worst of both worlds now at Southwest Airlines. I hope I am reading this wrong. www.fastcompany.com/91371774/sou...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The UN's top court in a landmark climate decision says a 'clean, healthy and sustainable environment' is a human right.
July 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The UN's top court in a landmark climate decision says a 'clean, healthy and sustainable environment' is a human right.
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Jeff Daniels, “We’ve lost everything…”
July 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Jeff Daniels, “We’ve lost everything…”
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Andry José Hernandez Romero, I hope you have space to heal & I hope you find your way home. We did not forget you & we will not forget you.
July 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Andry José Hernandez Romero, I hope you have space to heal & I hope you find your way home. We did not forget you & we will not forget you.