Jess Douglas
@jessdouglas.bsky.social
Archivist, Baltimore, fast walker. I'm not mad, I'm just probably listening to a book. UMD, MLIS '23.
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Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.
The problem I'm seeing with leftists is they want others to hate America as much as they do but I'm sorry that's not going to happen and also that's no way to improve politics. We need people to love this country and want to make it better. This era has actually made me more patriotic.
Speaker talking about how
Trump is the natural conclusion of America’s founding and, like, the crowd full of moms with “Follow the Constitution!” signs is obviously ready for him to go
Trump is the natural conclusion of America’s founding and, like, the crowd full of moms with “Follow the Constitution!” signs is obviously ready for him to go
April 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.
“Don’t tread on me,” except when it’s about giving benefits to low income people living in food deserts surrounded by ultra-processed food options, with limited public transportation options and ever-increasing inflation. Then they want you to tread all over and shame them for eating a doughnut.
Laying the groundwork to deny people Medicaid and/or Medicare because they drink/smoke/eat the kind of food that all Americans eat www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.: If you eat doughnuts or smoke, should society pay for your health care?
Kennedy went on to say that it is an American’s choice to “eat donuts all day” or drink sodas, and he promised not to take those choices away.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Don’t tread on me,” except when it’s about giving benefits to low income people living in food deserts surrounded by ultra-processed food options, with limited public transportation options and ever-increasing inflation. Then they want you to tread all over and shame them for eating a doughnut.
No big deal, just me casually running into my favorite and Baltimore’s best first grade teacher, MRS. NONA PORTER! I look terrible and she hasn’t aged a day.
March 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
No big deal, just me casually running into my favorite and Baltimore’s best first grade teacher, MRS. NONA PORTER! I look terrible and she hasn’t aged a day.
Today is the first day of the rest of your… 2025.
March 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today is the first day of the rest of your… 2025.
The worst thing about this form of censorship and public erasure is that it exposes institutional priorities that are wholly anathema to their stated missions and ethics.
This would have been an amazing exhibition, and this is a pathetic concession to tyranny.
hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
This would have been an amazing exhibition, and this is a pathetic concession to tyranny.
hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
Show on Artists of African Descent Loses Funding Amid Trump DEI Crackdown
The exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, would have featured works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists.
hyperallergic.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The worst thing about this form of censorship and public erasure is that it exposes institutional priorities that are wholly anathema to their stated missions and ethics.
This would have been an amazing exhibition, and this is a pathetic concession to tyranny.
hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
This would have been an amazing exhibition, and this is a pathetic concession to tyranny.
hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
Jury duty movie: Avatar 2, which took me about 15 minutes to figure out because the screen wasn’t on (but the sound was) for the first 10 minutes.
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Jury duty movie: Avatar 2, which took me about 15 minutes to figure out because the screen wasn’t on (but the sound was) for the first 10 minutes.
Jasmine Vaughn-Hall *did* mention Neopol (✅), but *didn’t* mention Sal & Sons (also ✅ because that place is a local treasure with some of the best, most affordable seafood in Baltimore and it must remain a unpublicized not-so-secret spot) www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/thin...
Where to reel in Baltimore’s delicious fish sandwiches
As a seafood city, it’s only right that Baltimore has some fish sandwich gems.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Jasmine Vaughn-Hall *did* mention Neopol (✅), but *didn’t* mention Sal & Sons (also ✅ because that place is a local treasure with some of the best, most affordable seafood in Baltimore and it must remain a unpublicized not-so-secret spot) www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/thin...
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I really just cannot brag enough about how good this new @indivisible.org resource on next week's congressional recess is. If you're looking for practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus
Musk or Us Congressional Recess Toolkit
REACH OUT TO INDIVISIBLE ON REGISTER YOUR EVENT ON MOBILIZE NOW Members of the House of Representatives will be back on your home turf from Friday, February 14th, through Sunday, February 23rd, a...
indivisi.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I really just cannot brag enough about how good this new @indivisible.org resource on next week's congressional recess is. If you're looking for practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus
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hey by the way a fake right wing consumer group named "Consumer's Research" is pushing the Supreme Court to kill an $8 billion program that brings affordable broadband to schools and poor people
Universal Service Fund a ‘Nightmare’, Says Litigation Foe
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether the $8 billion-per-year fund is constitutional.
broadbandbreakfast.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
hey by the way a fake right wing consumer group named "Consumer's Research" is pushing the Supreme Court to kill an $8 billion program that brings affordable broadband to schools and poor people
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It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.
January 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.
Larry is a “fully immersed” Ravens fan, especially when Derrick Henry’s on the field.
January 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Larry is a “fully immersed” Ravens fan, especially when Derrick Henry’s on the field.
I went to school with Luigi’s sisters and if you had told me that little dude would become 2024’s anti capitalist vigilante of the year, I would have… okay honestly, I don’t know where I was going because what the fuck
December 9, 2024 at 8:32 PM
I went to school with Luigi’s sisters and if you had told me that little dude would become 2024’s anti capitalist vigilante of the year, I would have… okay honestly, I don’t know where I was going because what the fuck
Seeing the Best (and Worst) of Baltimore list brought back to life by the Baltimore Beat is one of the best things to happen in 2024 😭
Issue 52 of Baltimore Beat is our Best (and Worst) list. Cover and editorial support made in collaboration with Wide Angle Youth Media junior designer Deshaun Fortune and intern designers Aleeia Townes, Liliana Kim, and Matt Vogel with design direction by Dan Talib Latif Flounders.
December 6, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Seeing the Best (and Worst) of Baltimore list brought back to life by the Baltimore Beat is one of the best things to happen in 2024 😭
Hyperlocal analogy:
Elon Musk : Twitter as Desmond Stinnie : Baltimore City Voters.
Elon Musk : Twitter as Desmond Stinnie : Baltimore City Voters.
This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Hyperlocal analogy:
Elon Musk : Twitter as Desmond Stinnie : Baltimore City Voters.
Elon Musk : Twitter as Desmond Stinnie : Baltimore City Voters.
Too many people are excited about Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk's rumored consideration of ending Daylight Saving Time because they have lived their whole lives not knowing whether "sad, short days" or "long, sunny, happy days" is Daylight Saving Time.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
No more daylight saving time? Musk, Ramaswamy muse on ending clock changes.
The “Department of Government Efficiency” may target the century-old practice, the men suggested on social media. It was not immediately clear whether they were serious.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Too many people are excited about Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk's rumored consideration of ending Daylight Saving Time because they have lived their whole lives not knowing whether "sad, short days" or "long, sunny, happy days" is Daylight Saving Time.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
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Archives have power because of the information they contain. Maintaining trust in that information is paramount.
www2.archivists.org/news/2024/ar...
www2.archivists.org/news/2024/ar...
Archives Must Be Allowed to Operate Without Political Interference | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
www2.archivists.org
December 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Archives have power because of the information they contain. Maintaining trust in that information is paramount.
www2.archivists.org/news/2024/ar...
www2.archivists.org/news/2024/ar...
Baltimore tried to "borrow" The Philadelphia Portal, but we accidentally turned it on and livestreamed the whole thing, so we just ditched The Portal and took the cones.
SUCK IT, PHILLY*
*I'm just playing, I love Philly
SUCK IT, PHILLY*
*I'm just playing, I love Philly
December 3, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Baltimore tried to "borrow" The Philadelphia Portal, but we accidentally turned it on and livestreamed the whole thing, so we just ditched The Portal and took the cones.
SUCK IT, PHILLY*
*I'm just playing, I love Philly
SUCK IT, PHILLY*
*I'm just playing, I love Philly
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This is going to be great, don't miss it! ✊
BALTIMORE:
This Thursday, December 5, at 7 pm at @redemmas.org, I'll be talking about my book and the labor movement with the great labor journalist Max Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. Come through!
redemmas.org/events/hamil...
This Thursday, December 5, at 7 pm at @redemmas.org, I'll be talking about my book and the labor movement with the great labor journalist Max Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. Come through!
redemmas.org/events/hamil...
Hamilton Nolan presents "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" in conversation w/Maximillian Alvarez
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan.
redemmas.org
December 2, 2024 at 8:05 PM
This is going to be great, don't miss it! ✊
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Oh hey! I wrote a thing
"What might happen if we held Maryland (or the city of Baltimore) to its treaty obligations?"
The latest piece in our Hometown Histories series, from @actualkatherine.bsky.social.
The latest piece in our Hometown Histories series, from @actualkatherine.bsky.social.
The Treaty on the Severn River
Baltimore is Native American land — that's the first thing I want you to know.
contingentmagazine.org
November 30, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Oh hey! I wrote a thing
On this Black Friday, let’s think about domestic economics!
Rachel Slade’s book, “Making It in America,” follows a small business based in Maine called American Roots. Pro-union, pro-fair wages, pro-immigrant, pro-domestic manufacturing AND domestic supply chain.
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/o...
Rachel Slade’s book, “Making It in America,” follows a small business based in Maine called American Roots. Pro-union, pro-fair wages, pro-immigrant, pro-domestic manufacturing AND domestic supply chain.
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/o...
Opinion | A Factory in Maine Proves ‘Made in America’ Is Still Possible
What happened to manufacturing in America is a story we think we know but do not.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:14 PM
On this Black Friday, let’s think about domestic economics!
Rachel Slade’s book, “Making It in America,” follows a small business based in Maine called American Roots. Pro-union, pro-fair wages, pro-immigrant, pro-domestic manufacturing AND domestic supply chain.
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/o...
Rachel Slade’s book, “Making It in America,” follows a small business based in Maine called American Roots. Pro-union, pro-fair wages, pro-immigrant, pro-domestic manufacturing AND domestic supply chain.
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/o...
Bluesky is the new Twitter.
Twitter is the new Facebook.
Facebook is the new MySpace.
MySpace is a litmus test for millennials and Gen X to gauge whether the youth will understand your references to Little Scotty Mouthbreather.
Twitter is the new Facebook.
Facebook is the new MySpace.
MySpace is a litmus test for millennials and Gen X to gauge whether the youth will understand your references to Little Scotty Mouthbreather.
November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Bluesky is the new Twitter.
Twitter is the new Facebook.
Facebook is the new MySpace.
MySpace is a litmus test for millennials and Gen X to gauge whether the youth will understand your references to Little Scotty Mouthbreather.
Twitter is the new Facebook.
Facebook is the new MySpace.
MySpace is a litmus test for millennials and Gen X to gauge whether the youth will understand your references to Little Scotty Mouthbreather.
I hear of someone supporting the impending tariff plans, and I simply start shouting,
"THE 👏🏾 HAWLEY-SMOOT 👏🏾 TARIFF 👏🏾 ACT 👏🏾 Which. Anyone? Raised or lowered? RAISED tariffs. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects?
IT DID NOT WORK, AND THE UNITED STATES SANK DEEPER INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION."
"THE 👏🏾 HAWLEY-SMOOT 👏🏾 TARIFF 👏🏾 ACT 👏🏾 Which. Anyone? Raised or lowered? RAISED tariffs. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects?
IT DID NOT WORK, AND THE UNITED STATES SANK DEEPER INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION."
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 27, 2024 at 3:53 AM
I hear of someone supporting the impending tariff plans, and I simply start shouting,
"THE 👏🏾 HAWLEY-SMOOT 👏🏾 TARIFF 👏🏾 ACT 👏🏾 Which. Anyone? Raised or lowered? RAISED tariffs. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects?
IT DID NOT WORK, AND THE UNITED STATES SANK DEEPER INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION."
"THE 👏🏾 HAWLEY-SMOOT 👏🏾 TARIFF 👏🏾 ACT 👏🏾 Which. Anyone? Raised or lowered? RAISED tariffs. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects?
IT DID NOT WORK, AND THE UNITED STATES SANK DEEPER INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION."
Libraries are literally one of the most wonderfully, equitably, inherently intellectually socialist public services that one could possibly imagine and I'm honestly amazed that those on the Far Right have, to this point, focused mainly on banning books and not tried to fully ban public libraries.
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 27, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Libraries are literally one of the most wonderfully, equitably, inherently intellectually socialist public services that one could possibly imagine and I'm honestly amazed that those on the Far Right have, to this point, focused mainly on banning books and not tried to fully ban public libraries.