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Jenna Beacom
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Sensitivity/ authenticity reader, writer in various ways, v deaf. Repped by Marcy Posner at Folio Literary Management
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Yes, but who knows, it could be (just imagine all the straws are similarly labeled)
A simple black white and gray image of a man adding one straw to a stack already on a camel’s back as the camel’s legs buckle.
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The cropping provides a better headline for a better article. "No, she did. Seriously."
Cropped version of the cover image and headline that just says "Olivia Nuzzi Did."
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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screenshot of the victory speech transcript. "Turn the volume up" appears, and then the next section is highlighted in yellow: "We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks. We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed. New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them."
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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I read this several hours ago now and I can't get it out of my head. We're talking about Tyler Robinson like he's the shooter and it's just technicalities from here. But what if he's not?

"Implied"? The certified shitposter *implied* that he did this?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
Screenshot with the word "implied" highlighted. The whole thing is: "The police said that Mr. Robinson had implied or confessed that he committed the crime, and that he was then encouraged by a family member and family friend to turn himself in, which he did. He surrendered to the police in Southwestern Utah, where he lived, more than a three hours’ drive from the campus where the shooting took place."
September 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Screenshot of the ad, showing Zohran Mamdani peeking out from behind a branch of a flowering tree with a smile and palms up. The captions on that screen are, "He refuses to say."
August 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Did you know he had his own inflammatory tweet that (last I checked) was still up?
Screenshot of horrible tweet by Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno. It QT’s one from Corey A. DeAngelis that says, “a Minnesota lawmaker was shot and killed today. These flyers were in the suspect’s car. Randi Weinstein and the teachers unions promoted “No Kings Day” as a “nationwide day of defiance.” They need to call it off.” Then there’s a photo of the homemade “no kings” xeroxes from the MN shooter. Bernie Moreno in his own tweet says: “The degree to which the extreme left has become radical, violent, and intolerant is both stunning and terrifying.”
June 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Obama looms over Putin and is clearly angry at him as Putin looks up with a weaselly little half-smile circa September 2016.
April 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I’m not finding news coverage of it yet but there was a very similar one in Columbus, Ohio yesterday with great turnout. (Not my photo, just shared in the Indivisible Central Ohio FB group.)
Photo of a ballroom showing a full house of people attending an “empty chair” Town Hall in Columbus, Ohio.
March 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Well how's this for a gut-punch. I just re-read the Bradbury story "A Sound of Thunder." The horror of it is that feckless Eckels causes the monstrous Deutscher to win the presidency. Below is the "before" description of Deutscher. The horrible end is: "We got an iron man now, a man with guts!"
Screenshot of this text: "Unbelievable." Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. "A real Time Machine." He shook his head. "Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States." "Yes," said the man behind the desk. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti­Christ, anti­human, anti­intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now. All you got to worry about is-­" "Shooting my dinosaur," Eckels finished it for him.
March 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Here’s the sign I made to yell at Husted outside of a fundraiser a couple of days ago
A cardboard sign propped up against a plant (interior) is hand-lettered and says, “SEN. HUSTED, YOU ARE A PUBLIC SERVANT. ACT LIKE ONE!”
February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Screenshot of an email to HR7@opm.gov. Subject: Seriously? Body: What is wrong with you? Never mind, I know. Ketamine and megalomania. Can you please just leave us out of it? Thanks.
February 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Photo of odious former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis. In front of some flags of course.
February 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Better indication of crowd size, but this still isn’t everyone. I’d guess 1.5K-2K total?
Black and white photo showing a large crowd in front of the Ohio Statehouse.
February 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Would you like me to forward it to you?
Similar screenshot but includes the fact that it's from Indivisible Central Ohio
February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Here's an email I received from them this morning. (I had asked them on the Facebook group on Monday, and the flyer here is the one I shared when I was asking about it.)
American flag background and a flyer that says "50 Protests, 50 states, 1 day. Your state capitol. We the People reject Project 20024." Then a pic of a capitol-esque building and the reddit logo with "R/50501" Text of email: 50501 Protests Today You have probably seen the posters about these marches, and some discussion wondering whether or not they are suspicious. To the best of our knowledge, these are protests put together in every state by individuals, not organizations. It seems sensible to be cautious, but also, this is the energy and action we need to fight Elon’s coup and the threat of Project 2025! If you go, stay with a friend, be alert, and have your eye on an exit. It would be a good idea to check out these protest safety tips from Greenpeace. FYI there was a Newsweek article about the protests. It says the organizers have partnered with "Political Revolution, a group initially created to support Senator Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential bid."
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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My Whole Foods yesterday. I went there for eggs. Not an egg to be found.
Empty shelves with apologetic signs that are hard to read
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Just seeing this! I do not own a cat, regretfully, but this is a pic I took of a cat I visit frequently! He is very sweet if not that bright.
A gray tabby with a white muzzle and white legs is photographed in portrait mode, so his face is in focus but the soft pink, brown and cream colors behind him are fuzzy. He is snuggled on a light turquoise bathrobe. He clearly knows his picture is being taken and is okay with this but slightly annoyed and isn't making eye contact, instead looking off to the side. He looks very soft (which he is!)
November 20, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Yep. This too, from @roxanegay.bsky.social
Screenshot of an article by Roxane Gay. The text is: "Mr. Trump's voters are granted a level of care and coddling that defies credulity and that is afforded to no other voting bloc. Many of them believe the most ludicrous things: babies being aborted after birth and children going to school as one gender and returning home surgically altered as another gender even though these things simply do not happen. Time and again, we hear the wild lies these voters believe and we act as if they are sharing the same reality as ours, as if they are making informed decisions about legitimate issues. We act as if they get to dictate the terms of political engagement on a foundation of fevered mendacity. We must refuse to participate in a mass delusion. We must refuse to accept that the ignorance on display is a congenital condition rather than a choice. All of us should refuse to pretend that any of this is normal and that these voters are just woefully misunderstood and that if only the Democrats addressed their economic anxiety, they might vote differently. While they are numerous, that does not make them right."
November 18, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Hey @hankgreen.bsky.social wanna save democracy? This seems up your alley. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"The most ambitious plan to get Americans to show up in the same room and argue with one another in the nineteen-thirties came out of Des Moines, Iowa, from a one-eyed former bricklayer named John W. Studebaker, who had become the superintendent of the city’s schools. Studebaker, who after the Second World War helped create the G.I. Bill, had the idea of opening those schools up at night, so that citizens could hold debates. In 1933, with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation and support from the American Association for Adult Education, he started a five-year experiment in civic education. The meetings began at a quarter to eight, with a fifteen-minute news update, followed by a forty-five-minute lecture, and thirty minutes of debate. The idea was that “the people of the community of every political affiliation, creed, and economic view have an opportunity to participate freely.” When Senator Guy Gillette, a Democrat from Iowa, talked about “Why I Support the New Deal,” Senator Lester Dickinson, a Republican from Iowa, talked about “Why I Oppose the New Deal.” Speakers defended Fascism. They attacked capitalism. They attacked Fascism. They defended capitalism. Within the first nine months of the program, thirteen thousand of Des Moines’s seventy-six thousand adults had attended a forum. The program got so popular that in 1934 F.D.R. appointed Studebaker the U.S. Commissioner of Education and, with the eventual help of Eleanor Roosevelt, the program became a part of the New Deal, and received federal funding. The federal forum program started out in ten test sites—from Orange County, California, to Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Pulaski County, Arkansas. It came to include almost five hundred forums in forty-three states and involved two and a half million Americans. Even people who had steadfastly predicted the demise of democracy participated. “It seems to me the only method by which we are going to achieve democracy in the United States,” Du Bois wrote, in 1937." Another screenshot from the same article. The text is: "The federal government paid for it, but everything else fell under local control, and ordinary people made it work, by showing up and participating. Usually, school districts found the speakers and decided on the topics after collecting ballots from the community. In some parts of the country, even in rural areas, meetings were held four and five times a week. They started in schools and spread to Y.M.C.A.s and Y.W.C.A.s, labor halls, libraries, settlement houses, and businesses, during lunch hours. Many of the meetings were broadcast by radio. People who went to those meetings debated all sorts of things: Should the Power of the Supreme Court Be Altered? Do Company Unions Help Labor? Do Machines Oust Men? Must the West Get Out of the East? Can We Conquer Poverty? Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished? Is Propaganda a Menace? Do We Need a New Constitution? Should Women Work? Is America a Good Neighbor? Can It Happen Here?"
November 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Also tax plan, deportation, and abortion. The timing of these searches kills me. Like actually murders me.
A screenshot showing google searches for "Trump tariffs," "Trump tax plan," "Trump deportation," and "Trump abortion plan." These searches appear as blue, red, yellow, and green lines and show the dates/ times. They all start flat on Nov 1 at 8PM, then spike on November 6th, then remain high but wavering through the end of the chart on November 8th or so.
November 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Not all boomers but damned if it isn’t predictable that if it’s a boomer, getting appropriate accommodations will be like pulling teeth.
Screenshot of an iMessage convo: “Jenna-it’s extremely difficult for me to estimate my legal fees until I know exactly what services I will perform. I try to keep my legal fees reasonable and encourage you to read all my Google Reviews. And I do not charge a legal fee for my initial consultation again until I know what I will be doing. Also due to the complexity of estate planning I think it would be best to have an ASL interpreter present & I hope you can find an interpreter who would volunteer their services “ I say, “Oh, that’s too bad. That’s your legal responsibility and it’s disappointing that you don’t know that. I thank you very much for your time, though!” He says: “Do you want me to send you the POA or will you seek out another attorney. Please let me know. Thank you” I say, “If you won’t be providing an ASL interpreter as legally mandated under the ADA, I will be seeking another attorney, yes.” Then I add: “Honestly, I am disappointed enough that it’s not something you a
February 4, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Not my screenshot
Screenshot with the header “deactivate your Threads profile.” It has various info then at the bottom, highlighted in yellow, it says “you can also wags delete individual posts. To delete your Threads profile and data, you’ll need to delete your Instagram account.”
July 6, 2023 at 3:50 AM