Jen Southall
@soujen17.bsky.social
Ball carrier @WNFC I #18 USDWNT hockey l coffee snob l perpetual sarcasm offered upon request about the reality of society I reader of books l Deaf.
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For those who dont follow MAGA and right-wing news, it's full on "The Emperor has no clothes" right now.
Straight up cult behavior and gaslighting, praising what clearly was an unhinged, weird AF rant/speech that did nothing to help their cause or poll numbers.
Sadly this cult is the entire GOP.
Straight up cult behavior and gaslighting, praising what clearly was an unhinged, weird AF rant/speech that did nothing to help their cause or poll numbers.
Sadly this cult is the entire GOP.
December 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
For those who dont follow MAGA and right-wing news, it's full on "The Emperor has no clothes" right now.
Straight up cult behavior and gaslighting, praising what clearly was an unhinged, weird AF rant/speech that did nothing to help their cause or poll numbers.
Sadly this cult is the entire GOP.
Straight up cult behavior and gaslighting, praising what clearly was an unhinged, weird AF rant/speech that did nothing to help their cause or poll numbers.
Sadly this cult is the entire GOP.
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There’s a very dangerous illusion Europe is still living in: trying to play legal chess with russia — an enemy that is playing russian roulette with Europe itself.
December 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
There’s a very dangerous illusion Europe is still living in: trying to play legal chess with russia — an enemy that is playing russian roulette with Europe itself.
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The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
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I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has said the only solution to Israel-Palestine must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican’s position.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kaiji6
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kaiji6
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has said the only solution to Israel-Palestine must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican’s position.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kaiji6
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kaiji6
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Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
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If you think Trump saying the r-word is bad, wait 'til you see what else he's been up to the past 44 weeks.
I knew a Holocaust survivor who talked about the importance of notetaking under authoritarianism, to track what normal was and how it shifted. Here's that 🧵 with respect to disability, itself a canary in the fascist coal mine: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...
Week 1: What Happened? - Disability Rights Watch
Things are happening quickly. We'll include a weekly round up of disability-related concerns, events, and polices on this site. Removal of the "Accessibility" page, and all ASL content from the White ...
www.disability-rights-watch.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you think Trump saying the r-word is bad, wait 'til you see what else he's been up to the past 44 weeks.
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Women being attracted to RFK Jr is how you know heterosexuality is NOT a choice.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Women being attracted to RFK Jr is how you know heterosexuality is NOT a choice.
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Zelensky faces a brutal choice: swallow Trump's peace deal that hands chunks of Ukraine to Putin and shrinks its army, or bet on spineless European allies too chicken to send troops or tap frozen Russian assets. #Ukraine
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Zelensky faces a brutal choice: swallow Trump's peace deal that hands chunks of Ukraine to Putin and shrinks its army, or bet on spineless European allies too chicken to send troops or tap frozen Russian assets. #Ukraine
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A reminder that Fox News had to pay nearly $1B for basically taking part in a plot to overthrow the US government. Dems should continually remind people of this.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A reminder that Fox News had to pay nearly $1B for basically taking part in a plot to overthrow the US government. Dems should continually remind people of this.
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
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Hockey person here; baseball IS way better than hockey. Bettman refuses to have a DV/IPV or sexual violence policy.
Which is the BARE MINIMUM
Which is the BARE MINIMUM
there are people who sometimes get weird about me saying things along the lines of "baseball isn't perfect but it's still miles better than hockey" and I just want to remind people: the NHL still does not have a DV policy. they're so far behind the bare minimum and the bar is like 50 miles past hell
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Hockey person here; baseball IS way better than hockey. Bettman refuses to have a DV/IPV or sexual violence policy.
Which is the BARE MINIMUM
Which is the BARE MINIMUM
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do not buy american food...or anything
This is will be the 5th forever chemical they have approved this year, and it takes thousands of years to break down. It cannot be filtered out of water with most filtration methods, and it easily moves throughout the environment via water or in the atmosphere. It is increasingly detected in humans.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
do not buy american food...or anything
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Two months ago we were paying all federal workers, SNAP benefits were fully funded, and people could afford their health insurance premiums but a small group of Democratic senators have Stockholm Syndrome and are telling us we have to Sophie’s choice one or two of these things.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Two months ago we were paying all federal workers, SNAP benefits were fully funded, and people could afford their health insurance premiums but a small group of Democratic senators have Stockholm Syndrome and are telling us we have to Sophie’s choice one or two of these things.
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We followed a court order and worked quickly to make sure that nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who rely on FoodShare, including about 270,000 kids, had food to eat.
Now, President Trump wants to yank that money away from hungry kids, families, and seniors in Wisconsin? Hell no.
Now, President Trump wants to yank that money away from hungry kids, families, and seniors in Wisconsin? Hell no.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We followed a court order and worked quickly to make sure that nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who rely on FoodShare, including about 270,000 kids, had food to eat.
Now, President Trump wants to yank that money away from hungry kids, families, and seniors in Wisconsin? Hell no.
Now, President Trump wants to yank that money away from hungry kids, families, and seniors in Wisconsin? Hell no.
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A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
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Respectfully Senator, you need to remove Schumer as Senate minority leader or we have no chance.
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Respectfully Senator, you need to remove Schumer as Senate minority leader or we have no chance.
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Might do a quick Substack Live in 40 minutes to discuss this government shutdown. I know it's late for us folks on the East Coast, but will folks be up?
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Might do a quick Substack Live in 40 minutes to discuss this government shutdown. I know it's late for us folks on the East Coast, but will folks be up?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I look forward to dragging @schumer.senate.gov - my senator - FOR FILTH & supporting a bold primary challenger against him & any other Dems willing to toss away the pressure of the last 40 days for nothing. If they abandon the ppl they serve, the ppl need to make the rest of their terms living hell.
The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to,
not because the voters want them to,
not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…
they are caving because their DONORS want them to.
And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt
not because the voters want them to,
not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…
they are caving because their DONORS want them to.
And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I look forward to dragging @schumer.senate.gov - my senator - FOR FILTH & supporting a bold primary challenger against him & any other Dems willing to toss away the pressure of the last 40 days for nothing. If they abandon the ppl they serve, the ppl need to make the rest of their terms living hell.
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“This was a very very bad vote”
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“This was a very very bad vote”
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OK everyone, & I mean *everyone*, needs to amplify the following message to every person you know.
Ready? OK here goes.
Trump is too chickenshit to veto this bill now. It just shows that Senators ignored him because he DOESN'T MATTER. Go ahead and sign it Donnie. Taco Tuesday came early this week.
Ready? OK here goes.
Trump is too chickenshit to veto this bill now. It just shows that Senators ignored him because he DOESN'T MATTER. Go ahead and sign it Donnie. Taco Tuesday came early this week.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
OK everyone, & I mean *everyone*, needs to amplify the following message to every person you know.
Ready? OK here goes.
Trump is too chickenshit to veto this bill now. It just shows that Senators ignored him because he DOESN'T MATTER. Go ahead and sign it Donnie. Taco Tuesday came early this week.
Ready? OK here goes.
Trump is too chickenshit to veto this bill now. It just shows that Senators ignored him because he DOESN'T MATTER. Go ahead and sign it Donnie. Taco Tuesday came early this week.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.