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Jessica Lang
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Health policy, music, dance, garden, food, family, not in any particular order.
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
June 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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cafastfoodunion.org
This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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booker.senate.gov
Trump’s reckless and discriminatory travel ban doesn’t make us safer. All it will do is further isolate the United Statesfrom our allies and weaken our global leadership.
June 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again?

stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment
Centaurus A. A glowing orange region shines at the upper left corner, with dark brown and black dust cascading diagonally down to the lower right. Distant stars dot the hazy background of space. Bright pink regions of star formation are interspersed throughout the dust. Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout. A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
I’m an American living in Lima. Yesterday my feed blew up simultaneously with “First American pope!” and “El papa nuevo es peruano!!!”
May 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
jessica-l.bsky.social
“it is not that the international order harmed the United States. It is that the United States failed to translate its victory in the race toward global supremacy into broadly shared prosperity at home.”
April 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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booker.senate.gov
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Go Cory!!!!
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Cory Booker speech slamming Trump's agenda pushes past 20 hours
The New Jersey Senator began his time on the Senate Chamber floor by criticising the president's policies.
www.bbc.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
They aren’t mutually exclusive.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 26
I’m going with both.
A tweet from "Trump’s Lies (Commentary)" states, "BREAKING: Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton just RIPPED Pete Hegseth," followed by a quote questioning whether a secretary was incompetent or drunk. Below is a C-SPAN screenshot of Seth Moulton speaking at a podium with a group of politicians standing behind him in a press conference setting, with American flags and a congressional backdrop in the background.
March 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
Top headline on the BBC is Signalgate. But it’s nowhere on the front page of Fox. Fox has a story (only in the politics section) headlined “Walz takes responsibility for leak” which is not something anyone else has observed.

www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...
Atlantic magazine publishes attack plans editor shared in White House group chat - live updates
Atlantic magazine publishes attack plans editor says Trump aides shared in group chat
www.bbc.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
I don’t know the technical definition of ‘clean on OPSEC’ but I’m pretty sure texting someone’s cell phone while they are in the actual Kremlin, and you have no clue who else is in your chat, ain’t it.
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Mar 26
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” I declare to my group chat as I disclose operational details of an in progress airstrike to a group chat on unsecured devices that includes a journalist.

Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
But who reads their emails, they should have put the warning in a group chat
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
Someone ask him to define OPSEC, I want to hear his answer.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Mar 25
I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.
March 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Such commitment to protecting state secrets. Maybe they’ll text JG the info. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump officials refuse details on deportee flights, citing state secrets
The invocation of the state secrets privilege escalates a standoff between Trump officials and U.S. Judge James E. Boasberg over Venezuelan deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
“We are currently clean on OPSEC,” is gonna be my new slogan when I’ve royally effed up.
March 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
That didn’t take long.
permafrostee.bsky.social Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · Mar 24
Not far off 😤 bsky.app/profile/kras...
krassenstein.bsky.social Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Mar 24
BREAKING: Trump just pretended that he knows "nothing about" the leaked texts from Pete Hegseth, an hour after the White House admitted it. Then he blames The Atlantic.
March 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
I’m more careful about texts I send my kids with silly memes than these idiots were with top secret military plans.
March 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I’m betting they will claim it’s Goldberg who broke the law instead of them, and try to get him arrested.
March 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. Seriously???? www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
Live updates: Top US officials shared Yemen war plans in Signal chat with journalist
A journalist was inadvertently added to a chat with US security officials which discussed a strike against the Houthi rebel group.
www.bbc.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
jessica-l.bsky.social
cor·rup·tion
/kəˈrəpSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political Operation
Elon Musk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own super PAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on President Trump in the past, but to an outside entity.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Some folks have created a site that restores the data purged from the CDC website.
restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Yup
March 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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sundaedivine.bsky.social
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
jessica-l.bsky.social
“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” is how SpaceX describes the rocket explosion. Seems like a description of everything EM is involved in.
March 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM