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@missjupiter1957.bsky.social
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Independent photojournalist/protest documenter, bird watcher, gardener, wheelchair user with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
she/her
Granite City, IL (St Louis Metro East)
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Aurora borealis
Granite City, Illinois
Photo of pink aurora in dark sky with road in foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Inflatable Antifa
Edwardsville, IL Division
#NoKings
Inflatable orange T-Rex among protesters with signs like "Democracy only dies if we let it." Inflatable brown chipmunk, grey hippo with pink tutu, & green dinosaur among other protesters. Chipmunk sign: "nobody is a bystander. There's resistance & collaborators." Hippo sign: "No HIPPO-cracy, more democracy." Inflatable green unicorn with rainbow horn & mane next to person holding a "warning signs of fascism" sign. Inflatable bald eagle dancing on street corner with protester carrying sign: "No Kings, no führers, no fascists"
October 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Despite the rain, I estimate at least a couple hundred people showed up for #NoKings in Edwardsville, Illinois this afternoon.
Older white man at No Kings rally in Edwardsville, IL holds sign that says "we stand with Chicago / U.S. military out of cities!" Rainy scene of dozens of protesters holding signs along sidewalk at intersection. A man walks towards them across the crosswalk carrying a sign with a crown crossed out. Sign with pride flags & resistance symbols "we the people / all people" behind an umbrella with variations of "no kings" on each panel including one with the Portland Frog & the word "resist." Person in red rain poncho holding a hand-drawn sign of the Portland Frog kicking a crown with " no kings" text at bottom.
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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🙄
A Black woman stands under a large billboard-sized black LED board with orange lit letters for the "approve[d] assembly area" in Ferguson, MO in August 2014. The protesters taped a cardboard sign with a letter "d" at the end of "approve" because the police's sign was grammatically incorrect.
October 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Ferguson & St Louis activists have been using what's known as the 'Assata Chant' for over a decade.
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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💔 Rest in power, Dorian
2 photos of a young Black man with medium-length hair twists, Dorian Johnson, releasing a dove in Ferguson, MO on August 9, 2022; the 8th anniversary of his friend Mike Brown's death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.
September 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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🌈🌈
#stlwx #ilwx
Double rainbow over large roadway at dawn in Granite City, Illinois.
September 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I have an 80ft pumpkin vine that has had just had one big pumpkin growing on one end, but there's finally some other babies starting to form now.
Large green pumpkin on vine starting to turn orange, partially covered by leaves. Baby pumpkin starting form under yellow flower on vine. Baby pumpkin starting form under yellow flower on vine.
August 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Rest in Power, Miss Tonja
(6/8/1965 - 8/25/2023)
Black & white photo of Ferguson activist Miss Tonja Bulley —a Black woman with short blonde hair & black square-framed glasses— in Selma, AL for the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in March 2015.
August 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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🌹
Bassem Masri with cigarette in mouth & iphone in hand filming cop in foreground with American flag behind him. October 2018 Sepia photo of Bassem livestreaming with iphone & wearing keyfiah. Bassem wearing tshirt with red hand prints & names of people killed by police leaning against the Mike Brown Mobile. Dismiss Bassem Masri livestreaming & holding a crumpled American flag while a young Black teen known as Low Key leans on his shoulders.
August 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Michael Brown Jr's family & supporters gathered at the memorial site on Canfield Dr this morning to commemorate the 11th anniversary of his killing by a Ferguson, MO police officer.
Former U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush addresses a gathering of Mike Brown's family & supporters at the Michael Brown Jr. Memorial on Canfield Dr in Ferguson, MO on the 11th anniversary of his death. Mike Brown Sr. with supporters beside his son's memorial which is decorated with stuffed animals, blue roses, & a Black Lives Matter banner. Lezley McSpadden greets supporters at the Michael Brown Jr Memorial site, AKA Ground Zero, on the 11th anniversary of her son's death. Text of plaque mounted at the new permanent Michael Brown Jr Memorial that was installed on Canfield Dr in Ferguson, MO earlier this year: "August 9, 2014, near high noon, marked a pivotal moment in my journey. As I walked down Canfield Drive with Dorian Johnson, Officer Darren Wilson's harsh words and actions, ignited a chain of events that would forever change how the world viewed policing. Despite our compliance, he aggressively pulled me into his vehicle, and a shot rang out, taking my thumb. Fear propelled me forward, but I chose to surrender, hands raised high. Though brutally wounded, I found strength in resilience. As I lay in the street for 4 1/2 hours, my family's pleas for justice and my community's outcry against injustice fueled a movement. My mother's unwavering dedication, my father's unrelenting advocacy, and Bro. Anthony Shahid's powerful chant, 'Hands Up Don't Shoot,' echoed through the streets. In death, I found purpose - to heal, to inspire, and to bring change. My legacy lives on, a testament to the transformative power of courage and conviction. I Am Chosen for Change"
August 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I'm old enough to remember the FBI & police saying our defensive gas masks in Ferguson showed "intent to incite and engage in violence" back in 2014.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi...
Within hours of the FBI issuing its bulletin, some police departments across the country issued their own internal memos urging officers to review procedures and protocols for responding to mass demonstrations. Still, the bulletin's conclusions were blunt: *The FBI assesses those infiltrating and exploiting otherwise legitimate public demonstrations with the intent to incite and engage in violence could be armed with bladed weapons or firearms, equipped with tactical gear/gas masks, or bulletproof vests to mitigate law enforcement measures."
June 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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It's after noon, but still wanted to share my first successful pea harvest. 🫛🐶
Tan & white pitbull smiling & sitting on wooden deck next to 3 steel mixing bowls full of freshly picked pea pods.
June 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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My peas are starting to pop up. 🫛
Small pea plant seedings emerging at base of swing set trellis.
April 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Lunar Eclipse
Granite City, Illinois
Full moon appearing red & more spherical than typical due to lunar eclipse.
March 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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"...autopsy revealed Mansur’s body had a severed spine. It’s a critical fact because Chandler’s version of events was that he shot Mansur in the backyard and then Mansur, with a hollow-point bullet that hit his spine and also went through his aorta, somehow continued running into the front yard."
My tweet from August 26, 2015, one week after Mansur Ball-Bey was killed by St Louis Metro Police Officer Kyle Chandler, about Medical Examiner Michael Graham making shit up to match the cops' obvious lies, because we've known for nearly a decade that you can't run 85 feet with a severed spine & a pierced aorta: Heather @MissJupiter1957 #MansurBallBey No such thing as "unraveling spine." Graham even said he was "conceptualizing" it, but never seen it. Photo of Mansur Ball-Bey's killer, Kyle Chandler, that I took on September 29, 2017 during the Stockley Protests, where he & his partner, Ronald Vaughn, were sent by SLMPD to try to incite a riot. A short time after this photo, they Tasered a protester & one of their buddies maced me as I approached to livestream.
February 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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2 years 💔
Black & white high school senior photo of Mom, a white woman with long dark hair smiling slightly. Color photo circa 1973 of Mom, a white woman with long dark hair & glasses holding me, a small white girl with long dark hair. Color photo of Mom circa 1982, wearing straw hat & patchwork skirt & peasant blouse while holding a rubber chicken.
November 11, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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R.I.P. Mercie
You were the best girl 😢💔
Collage of 16 photos of an American Pit Bull Terrier with a black & white Holstein cow fur pattern.
May 5, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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I don't see this fake IG account when I search now, but it was apparently DMing some of my friends last week. My real IG account has a dot btwn my first & last names.
If anyone claiming to be me DMs you & starts talking about prayer, that's a dead giveaway b/c I'm an atheist.
DM from a fake IG account "heatherdemian" claiming to be me talking about prayer to my skeptical friend who asked them a question to sus out if it was really me.
January 12, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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A year ago tonight I received the most devastating call of my life telling me you were gone.
You cared & fought for me, & for so many others, & you encouraged my free thought & creativity & search for knowledge while anchoring me with your moral guidance.
I love you, Mom 💔
Photo of my mom, an older white woman with shoulder-length grey hair & glasses, wearing a blue St Louis University sweatshirt with a black & white keffiyah around her neck, leaning on a wooden walking stick in front of the Kajieme Powell memorial covered in stuffed animals, in St Louis on January 31, 2016.
November 11, 2023 at 1:36 AM