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Jennifer Van Goethem

@jennvg.bsky.social

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · May 7

Hello, Hollywood folks. I'm looking for editing work. I've cut picture on drama, comedy, sci-fi, action, you name it. From ABC and FOX to Netflix, Apple and Paramount, I've run the gamut. If you know of any shows looking, message me and I'll send a current resume. Thank ya, friends!

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 44m

Amphipha

Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 1h

You just need to find your own nucleation point, Professor.

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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 4h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h

Finally, a good explainer of Dems' other shutdown demand, via @citizencohn.bsky.social. It's about trying to make it harder for the Trump admin to continue unilaterally (and illegally) cutting funding for government programs substack.com/home/post/p-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

substack.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 8h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 6h

I sincerely thought this was a sketch at first.

Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 9h

The phrase "necessary but insufficient" comes to mind.

Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 9h

LOL. She blocked us. 🤷‍♀️

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 11h

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 9h

See! Both sides do it!!

Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 10h

He won reelection because a lot of people didn’t hold him responsible for the deaths and blamed Biden for “lockdowns.” Clearly “we all” didn’t get it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 10h

A lot of mealy-mouthed lies here. Republicans wanted to repeal the ACA with no replacement—they failed. This summer, they cut $1 trillion from health care, gutting Medicaid & sabotaging the ACA.

They have no health care plan and they want to let your premiums more than double.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 12h

He does get in the Dems didn't rein in Biden either bothsides, so...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15h

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 13h

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

José Andrés really is one of the absolute best Americans.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 12h

Nuanced thinking is hard and emotionally unsatisfying. Smug sanctimonious, Manichean dialectics feels sooooo good.

Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 12h

Right? If he weren't so stupid, one might think it was on purpose.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 12h

We collectively can't recall who was President during Covid, or during 1/6, or during the Afghan negotiations, so, yeah everyone just remembers what strokes their priors.

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