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Jennifer A.

@jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social

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Editor, indexer, owner of https://www.manuscript-spa.com/. Librarian. Likes: the Constitution, kindness, justice, the rule of law, women's rights, the Fourth Amendment, due process, organized labor, and soccer (I mean football). Californian in Boston.

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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · Mar 24

Evergreen.

hillary clinton is sitting at a podium with her hand on her chin and looking at the camera .

ALT: hillary clinton is sitting at a podium with her hand on her chin and looking at the camera .

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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 16h

And it says everything you need to know about 21st century American culture that this guy is a heartbeat away from becoming the president of our country.

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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 16h

We're doing our taxes and nothing makes me feel dumber than bank statements and spreadsheets. But then my husband (the CPA) reminded me that he can't Bluebook legal citations and that doesn't make him dumb. While I appreciate the sentiment, I still feel like an idiot. Everything has me so tired.

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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 23h

I am trying to take Pema Chodron's advice to breathe in all the darkness and suffering and breathe out all the light and goodness, just to try to make the world a little bit better and open up my heart a little more when I would otherwise shield it. But that is so damn hard these days.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 23h

I've just been thinking a lot lately about how much women, especially those in service jobs, have to put up with at work, especially from angry men, so the situation moved me. He was so mean, and my heart broke for her.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 23h

Aw. ❤️ The point of the comment I was making is that the pharmacy is awful and can really bring out the worst in people but I didn't mean you! When the (older) man I saw was yelling at the (young, female) pharmacy tech, I felt so badly for both of them. He was so angry and she had to just take it.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

I was at the pharmacy today. A man was yelling at the pharmacy tech about his asthma medicine. She kept saying his insurance limited how much he could get, and he was screaming about how he needed the medicine to breathe and she was depriving him of it.

The pharmacy is not a fun place.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

I am so tired of this man being the president of the United States.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

Does she really need more money or fame? She is exhausting.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, he's like an angry old white guy who spends 15 hours a day "owning the libs" through Facebook comments. His lack of basic intelligence and dignity should preclude him from assuming the presidency.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

WAIT WHAT

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

He is so infuriating. It is literally this man's job to keep up with what the U.S. government is doing. Either he needs a better staff, he needs to stop lying, or he needs to quit his work as a congressman because he's neither suited for, nor good at, this job. (Probably all three of these.)

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

And frankly, even if you are working for yourself, do your best to curb your workaholism, or at least use it to gain a better understanding of yourself.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

Ooof.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 1d

487-8358. She died in 1991.

The kids today are just adorable.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

💯 SCOTUS Justice is one of the cushiest jobs in America, and once you get it it's yours for life (since we will obviously never impeach any of them). They can even issue judgments without having to show any of their work or reasoning. Any normal person who perfomed like that at work would get fired.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

That horse left the barn a long time ago.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

They're taking a 3-month recess so they can write books and speak to sympathetic audiences. It's complete nonsense. People at the highest levels of the federal government should have to work as long and as hard, with just as little vacation, as normal Americans do.

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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

Holy hell. Read the room, lady. Maybe they shouldn't take and decide on the case if they don't have time to write a detailed, reasoned opinion on it then. And if they get too many "emergency petitions" in the summer then maybe they shouldn't take a 3-month recess. SCOTUS justices are so soft. 😡

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

I was just at a conference in Salt Lake City. On Thursday night, at a bar near the arena where their new NHL team, the Utah Mammoth, plays, I had to ask the bartender to switch 1 of the 20 TVs from football to the Mammoth's 1st game of the season in Colorado. That made me miss Boston a lot. #hockey

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 7d

Feeling this in my whole soul tonight.

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 10d

The "I would never be at peace" part is really telling. Work addiction has always been encouraged by capitalists as a way of productively weaponizing our own misery and loneliness for their profit. Don't fall for it

Fortune @fortune.com · 11d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 7d

I just watched some hockey and ate some pizza and drank some wine for about 30 minutes, and now I am back at my desk, working. I am just recording this moment in time so that I can remember what this feels like. It's time to make some changes in which I work a lot less and enjoy life more.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 8d

So I am flying to Salt Lake City for a conference on Wednesday, with a layover in Chicago. Is it weird of me to feel slightly uneasy about that? I mean, we're all kind of still going about our business like everything is normal, right? But things sure don't feel normal right now.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 8d

I deliberately skipped it when I saw that he was the one who wrote it. That guy has absolutely nothing to say that could possibly be helpful at this point in time.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 9d

THAT PART RIGHT THERE.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9d

Allowing POTUS a couple of bad-faith bites at the apple with the armed forces on American soil before we determine the constitutionality of his conduct is anathema to our constitutional tradition. Prof. Wurman is wrong about the judicial power, but he's also abandoning our most cherished values.

Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 9d

Any possible explanation of what he is trying or intends to argue is nothing more than a reason for reasonable people to hate law and lawyers even more. The specific precedent says the president has to act in good faith. If courts cannot determine that, or, I guess, if only SCOTUS can, we're cooked.