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Jen

@jenelaina.bsky.social

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She/Her Michigander with narcolepsy. Environmental non-profit comms etc., equivalent of tweets here my own. Team #GreatLakes #MIvoting #FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #ImmigrantsWelcome #TransRightsAreHumanRights. Speramus meliora resurgent cineribus.

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · Nov 28

Don't mind me, just pinning a Bluesky post.

Take care of yourself and each other, fight the good fights as best you're able, build community, and keep on keeping on. ❤️💧

PS please follow @cleanwatermi.bsky.social, thank you.
PPS guess where this is and I'll mail you a cool sticker why not.

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 4h

I needed this effin a!

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 10h

🎶Here Comes the Gar🎵

Hope this starts your week off well!

Reminder #GarWeek is coming November 3-7!

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 14h

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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Nick Rhodes 🇵🇸 @nickrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

This bit is key, too.
No land border with Egypt means Israel controls everything that enters or leaves.

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 13h

67,869

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LSAClassOf2000 @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social · 13h

TODAY: I make a reference to, of all things, "Paint Your Wagon", but we also talk about straw men

LSAClassOf2000 @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social · 13h

TODAY: How when some people talk to you, they aren't talking to you actually, and why you should ignore them: democracybesieged.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/i...

“I Talk To The Trees, But They Never Listen To Me…”

I want to address the investment of the right and indeed many outlets in the legacy press in the straw man fallacy as it relates to how they address different perspectives on events, such as the re…

democracybesieged.wordpress.com

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 16h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 16h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13h

Gaza death toll rises to 67,869 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-67869

Gaza death toll rises to 67,869

<article data-history-node-id="430100" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-67869" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-67869" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll rises to 67,869</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Palestinian Health Ministry on Monday said that 63 Palestinians have been confirmed dead over the past 24 hours in Gaza.</p> <p>The number included 60 people whose bodies were recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings and in the streets, the ministry said, adding that ambulance and civil defence crews continue to face difficulties reaching them.</p> <p>Since 7 October 2023, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed 67,869 people and wounded 170,105, the ministry added. </p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 14h

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Its out of control that they want to get rid of Columbus Day!!

YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 14h

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

The tell is when the "free speech" warrior's argument equates to "the people criticizing me are silencing me and should therefore be made to shut up."

It's a pretty obvious tell; makes you wonder about those who keep falling for it time after time after time. Or maybe not wonder so much.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 14h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 14h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 15h

JFC I can't even.

Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 1d

"I kinda want to edit the sculpt we’ve been using and put “Chinga La Migra” on the side tho"

Please do this tysm

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 1d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, you're in a business to make a profit, so you have to sell it for more than you paid. Typical mark-up for a brand is 2x (some can be 2.5x). This will help cover your other costs, such as design, warehousing, worker benefits, etc.

So you sell this shirt to a store for $90.

A bunch of plaid flannel shirts from Gitman Vintage. They were made in the USA.

Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 1d

Feel like that would be more the corn maze

So much corn entertainment

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely it's the best massage ever, me and one of the growing humans have been looking forward to it for weeks.

Not this one. This one just enjoys the corn chaos.