Joy Engel
joyengel.bsky.social
Joy Engel
@joyengel.bsky.social
Tea connoisseur, book enthusiast.

Views are my own.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if the second child doesn’t sleep NOBODY SLEEPS.
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
More than 20% of kids in Maine receive SNAP benefits. Those benefits won’t renew in November.

I’m collecting donations for @southportlandfoodcupboard Now through 8pm Sunday.

I’ll match all donations, up to $300, for anyone who donates before midnight.

Venmo is @joy-engel
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Graham Platner fans today.
I met this guy an hour and a half ago and he is my best friend and I gave him power of attorney. I am very smart.
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Mother’s Day was first conceived of by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe – it was a protest promoting peace and justice.

Use your Mother’s Day as a call to action (and give the mom in your life what she really wants: a night by herself in a hotel).
May 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If I’ve learned one thing from multiple seasons of Below Deck (and also These, The Dark Times) it’s that when a white dude from South Africa approaches you, you should RUN.
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
POV: you’re trying to cheer up a friend who has worked for the federal government for decades.
January 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:

"It does nothing"

"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"

Will not comply.
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is the worst one. I've seen lots of bad RFK videos but this is the worst.

I don't know what is more awful, the fact that the guy who might run HHS is casually talking about his belief in eugenics or that he won't look her in the eye when he pitches this racist madness
ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant?

RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ...

ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?
January 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Democrats are getting smoked in this information environment and they keep doing the same stupid things, every cycle stancilculture.substack.com/p/volume-var...
January 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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“When women are free to make their own decisions about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable.”

Cecile was a force of nature. May her memory be a blessing.

19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Remember when we thought Howard Dean’s “yeah!” was too weird for a President?
January 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Me: hi! I’m looking my son’s water bottle. Do you have a blue water bottle with [child’s name] on it?
After school program: no. We *do* have a green water bottle with the name Dan on it.
Me: ah.
After school program: doesn’t help you, but if you know who Dan is let him know!
January 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Leaving Twitter in the autumn of 2024 is no act of moral courage and I refuse to give people points for doing less than the bare minimum. Xoxo
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM