Janna
@jesilverstein.bsky.social
Writer/artist/general creative, reader, traveler, film/theater lover, board gamer, Jew, she/her. Preferred cookie: chocolate chip. 💙s SPN, Who, GO, Trek, Outlander
I’ve been a fan of Stranger Things since it first premiered on Netflix in 2016. It returns for its final season on 11/26/25. That being the case, I’m rewatching season four to refresh my memory. I’d forgotten how good it is. I can’t wait to see who they are and how they look now.
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I’ve been a fan of Stranger Things since it first premiered on Netflix in 2016. It returns for its final season on 11/26/25. That being the case, I’m rewatching season four to refresh my memory. I’d forgotten how good it is. I can’t wait to see who they are and how they look now.
In Washington, Birds Are Giving ‘Yelp Reviews’ of Forest Restoration Work
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is absolutely fantastic! Tagging @lauraannegilman.bsky.social for Jewish &protest interest.
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is absolutely fantastic! Tagging @lauraannegilman.bsky.social for Jewish &protest interest.
Trump’s new ballroom will be 90,000 square feet? A football field is 57,000 square feet. What’s he building, a convention center?
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trump’s new ballroom will be 90,000 square feet? A football field is 57,000 square feet. What’s he building, a convention center?
What you can do now
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What you can do now
A baker’s dozen of important steps to fight Trump fascism
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August 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What you can do now
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It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
The fight against the Big Bad Bill isn’t over yet. Even though it passed in the Senate, it needs to pass in the House w/all of the senatorial revisions: the tax cuts for the rich, a giant loss of Medicaid & SNAP funds, so much more. Call your representatives NOW. Don’t let the phones stop ringing.
July 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The fight against the Big Bad Bill isn’t over yet. Even though it passed in the Senate, it needs to pass in the House w/all of the senatorial revisions: the tax cuts for the rich, a giant loss of Medicaid & SNAP funds, so much more. Call your representatives NOW. Don’t let the phones stop ringing.
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What's in Trump's bill:
-Adds 4 trillion to the deficit
-Kicks 11 million people off health insurance
-3 million get thrown off food stamps
-Electricity goes up by 30%
-Millions of jobs could disappear
-Wealthiest see $12K a year back
-Poorest people $1600 more a year
-Adds 4 trillion to the deficit
-Kicks 11 million people off health insurance
-3 million get thrown off food stamps
-Electricity goes up by 30%
-Millions of jobs could disappear
-Wealthiest see $12K a year back
-Poorest people $1600 more a year
What's in the latest version of Trump's big bill now before the Senate
At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.
apnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What's in Trump's bill:
-Adds 4 trillion to the deficit
-Kicks 11 million people off health insurance
-3 million get thrown off food stamps
-Electricity goes up by 30%
-Millions of jobs could disappear
-Wealthiest see $12K a year back
-Poorest people $1600 more a year
-Adds 4 trillion to the deficit
-Kicks 11 million people off health insurance
-3 million get thrown off food stamps
-Electricity goes up by 30%
-Millions of jobs could disappear
-Wealthiest see $12K a year back
-Poorest people $1600 more a year
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“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.
LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.
www.latimes.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.
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Baldwin: I remember my cross-examination of Secretary Kennedy from HHS, and he said, “We will have radical transparency.” But what they’ve actually had is radical opaqueness. They never answer a letter. They never answer a question.
It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
June 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Baldwin: I remember my cross-examination of Secretary Kennedy from HHS, and he said, “We will have radical transparency.” But what they’ve actually had is radical opaqueness. They never answer a letter. They never answer a question.
It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
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This is a huge win and it’s also a direct result of the grassroots effort. If you've made noise about this over the past few days and weeks, you have a lot to be proud of.
Sen. Mike Lee has removed the public lands provision from the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' ahead of a marathon vote Saturday night
Sen. Mike Lee withdraws public lands provision from Big, Beautiful Bill
The chairman of the Senate budget committee has released a full text of the Big, Beautiful Bill ahead of a marathon Senate vote expected Saturday, and the text includes the controversial provision …
www.abc4.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is a huge win and it’s also a direct result of the grassroots effort. If you've made noise about this over the past few days and weeks, you have a lot to be proud of.
Cat bed? Who needs a cat bed? I love my unbothered king. All hail the sleeping monarch!
June 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Cat bed? Who needs a cat bed? I love my unbothered king. All hail the sleeping monarch!
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sittin’ next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
He says, “Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order.”
The regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sittin’ next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
He says, “Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order.”
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I ain’t getting nowhere
I’m just living in a dump like this
There’s something happening somewhere
baby I just know that
“perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order."
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I ain’t getting nowhere
I’m just living in a dump like this
There’s something happening somewhere
baby I just know that
“perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order."
And the people bowed and prayed
To this neon God they'd made
And the sign flashed out its warning
I'm the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order."
To this neon God they'd made
And the sign flashed out its warning
I'm the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order."
June 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sittin’ next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
He says, “Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order.”
The regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sittin’ next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
He says, “Perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order.”
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1/2 Jewish people were set on fire in Boulder at a peaceful vigil for Israeli hostages. That’s not “activism.” That’s terrorism. Antisemitism is not hypothetical—it’s happening right now in the open. If you're still silent, you're complicit.
#JewSky
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#JewSky
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“Act of terror” during Israeli hostage demonstration leaves several injured on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall
Officers were called to an area near the intersection of 13th and Pearl streets about 2 p.m. Sunday, Boulder police department said.
coloradosun.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
1/2 Jewish people were set on fire in Boulder at a peaceful vigil for Israeli hostages. That’s not “activism.” That’s terrorism. Antisemitism is not hypothetical—it’s happening right now in the open. If you're still silent, you're complicit.
#JewSky
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#JewSky
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#SIFF2025 film #5: TINA
Choir teacher Mareta loses her daughter in an earthquake & loses her interest in life as well. She engages again when she takes a job at a private school and launches a choir there, building relationships with her students, music & life once more. Definitely recommended.
Choir teacher Mareta loses her daughter in an earthquake & loses her interest in life as well. She engages again when she takes a job at a private school and launches a choir there, building relationships with her students, music & life once more. Definitely recommended.
May 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
#SIFF2025 film #5: TINA
Choir teacher Mareta loses her daughter in an earthquake & loses her interest in life as well. She engages again when she takes a job at a private school and launches a choir there, building relationships with her students, music & life once more. Definitely recommended.
Choir teacher Mareta loses her daughter in an earthquake & loses her interest in life as well. She engages again when she takes a job at a private school and launches a choir there, building relationships with her students, music & life once more. Definitely recommended.
#SIFF2025 film 4: MEETING POL POT
Drama based on real events. Three journalists go to Cambodia to interview its leader Pol Pot amidst his regime’s decline. When they realize they’ve been taken to a bogus “ideal” village & start asking questions their situation becomes perilous. V. good, recommended.
Drama based on real events. Three journalists go to Cambodia to interview its leader Pol Pot amidst his regime’s decline. When they realize they’ve been taken to a bogus “ideal” village & start asking questions their situation becomes perilous. V. good, recommended.
May 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#SIFF2025 film 4: MEETING POL POT
Drama based on real events. Three journalists go to Cambodia to interview its leader Pol Pot amidst his regime’s decline. When they realize they’ve been taken to a bogus “ideal” village & start asking questions their situation becomes perilous. V. good, recommended.
Drama based on real events. Three journalists go to Cambodia to interview its leader Pol Pot amidst his regime’s decline. When they realize they’ve been taken to a bogus “ideal” village & start asking questions their situation becomes perilous. V. good, recommended.
#SIFF2025 film 3: WOLF LAND
Documentary about the challenges of wolf/human interaction in the northeast region of WA state and non-lethal methods to help maintain wolf populations while protecting cattle. Interesting story w/an appealing subject and some beautiful shots of the wild #PNW landscape.
Documentary about the challenges of wolf/human interaction in the northeast region of WA state and non-lethal methods to help maintain wolf populations while protecting cattle. Interesting story w/an appealing subject and some beautiful shots of the wild #PNW landscape.
May 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Second #SIFF2025 film: Secret Festival, therefore I am under NDA and can‘t tell you anything about it—which is fine because it was . . . interesting, which is what you often get with Secret Festival films.
May 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Second #SIFF2025 film: Secret Festival, therefore I am under NDA and can‘t tell you anything about it—which is fine because it was . . . interesting, which is what you often get with Secret Festival films.
First #SIFF2025 film: THE LIBRARIANS
This excellent, important documentary follows several librarians fighting book bans in TX, FL, etc. It shows how Moms for Liberty & the Repub machine are working in schools, using the vague, inflammatory language of all such propagandists. Highly recommended.
This excellent, important documentary follows several librarians fighting book bans in TX, FL, etc. It shows how Moms for Liberty & the Repub machine are working in schools, using the vague, inflammatory language of all such propagandists. Highly recommended.
May 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
First #SIFF2025 film: THE LIBRARIANS
This excellent, important documentary follows several librarians fighting book bans in TX, FL, etc. It shows how Moms for Liberty & the Repub machine are working in schools, using the vague, inflammatory language of all such propagandists. Highly recommended.
This excellent, important documentary follows several librarians fighting book bans in TX, FL, etc. It shows how Moms for Liberty & the Repub machine are working in schools, using the vague, inflammatory language of all such propagandists. Highly recommended.
The 51st Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has started and tonight’s my first film. This time of year, I wanna run down the streets yelling, “Festival! Festival!” at the top of my lungs like some demented follower of Landru. (Star Trek reference. . .) I’m so excited! #SIFF2025
May 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The 51st Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has started and tonight’s my first film. This time of year, I wanna run down the streets yelling, “Festival! Festival!” at the top of my lungs like some demented follower of Landru. (Star Trek reference. . .) I’m so excited! #SIFF2025
Timeline cleanse! All my orchids are popping. Show me yours!
May 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Timeline cleanse! All my orchids are popping. Show me yours!
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
You know the rule, friends: When Tom Holland dances, you must watch and repost.
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You know the rule, friends: When Tom Holland dances, you must watch and repost.
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
May 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
If you’re curious about the Federal workforce cuts—what’s been done and what’s planned—The NY Times has been tracking and checking. Here’s their data—and they say it’s likely an undercount. If you weren’t sure that Trump is dismantling our government, think again.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Federal Work Force Cuts So Far, Agency by Agency (Gift Article)
Here are the layoffs, buyouts taken and planned reductions, by agency, that The New York Times has confirmed.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you’re curious about the Federal workforce cuts—what’s been done and what’s planned—The NY Times has been tracking and checking. Here’s their data—and they say it’s likely an undercount. If you weren’t sure that Trump is dismantling our government, think again.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...