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Creator : Maker : Photographer : Writer : MSc, PAW, PPITA, FOA TA Books: https://books2read.com/ap/RQe612/Jenifer-Hanen https://msjen.substack.com https://msjen.com

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hello New BlueSky-ers and New Followers:
My Name is Jenifer Hanen.

I have a weekly newsletter at msjen.substack.com

And I have written a humor / historical fiction book (soon to be books plural) at books2read.com/ap/RQe612/Je...

#writer #newsletter #books #WhoisMsJen

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 21h

And yes, insomnia came around knocking on my brain a few of hours ago and now I am doing my best to try to sleep again, but failing.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 21h

It would be a delight to have a good rain / snow year for the Western US give the otherwise complete & utter manic crap of a year that 2025 has been.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 22h

Various media outlets called yesterday's rain / snow storm a rare October rain for California... But this used to be, pre-2000, normal for California (South & Central) to have its first big rain storm in October. The rainy season used to run October to April, not December to March.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday's snowstorm.

Photo by Jenifer Hanen, October 14, 2025, Silver Lake Campground, June Lake, California.

#Snow #Autumn #JuneLake #EasternSierras #Mountains #California #Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen

Mountain campground scene in the snow. Foreground is a cement USFS picnic table and a brown metal bear box covered in a few inches of new snow. Middle ground is autumnal yellow aspen trees with a stand of dark green pine trees. The background is two rocky, craggy mountains. The whole scene is covered with new snow. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on Oct 14, 2025 at Silver Lake USFS Campground in June Lake, California.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 3d

#SilentSunday

This afternoon at Convict Lake: Autumnal bright golden aspen trees in the foreground and middle ground reflecting all of their golden glory into the varied teal azure blues of the Lake. Photo by Jenifer Hanen on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at Convict Lake, Mono County, California.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 3d

#SilentSunday #Photography #Cooper

Walking up a lane with Cooper the mini Aussie, a black, white and brown dog. Yellow rabbit brush just past peak flower lines both sides of the lane. Big blue skies at the top of the photo. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 4d

I love the starting line to each short, "Once upon a lane,"

I particularly like that you kitty found you out and about.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 5d

White listed, not white washed. See yet another reason to prefer my computer... My phone's autocorrect has a life of its own

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 5d

Also not rendering when logged in on Chrome 141 for Mac.

Nor Safari 18.6.

Does this mean Blue Sky is mobile app only or are their servers having a bad day in the neighborhood?

#BlueSky #WebBrowsers

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 5d

The bsky.app website is no longer rendering when logged in on Firefox for Mac since the 143.0.4 update.

My 57 year old eyes would much rather look at Blue Sky on my laptop's monitor than on my phone. Yes, I whitewashed it on all the things plus did the hard rest. Still no go.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 5d

It is Friday! Yay! Time for another Story from me, more tales of Caroline Bingley, Vampire:

#ShortStory #SpookySeason #StorybyJeniferHanen #JAFF #JaneAustenFanFiction #vampire #fae #SpeculativeFiction

msjen.substack.com/p/story-time...

Story Time: Lousy Threat

For Spooky Season - The Next Installment of Tales of Caroline Bingley, Vampire

msjen.substack.com

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 6d

The First Brands auto supply failure has really shaken the markets, now the investors are looking at AI companires without their rose colored glasses on.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 7d

CYMK

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

New snow on the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains today, it was snowing in the high country as I drove away from Bishop, Calif. this afternoon.

#snow #October3rd #EasternSierras #California #Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen

The top half of the image is big fluffy snow clouds dropping snow on the high mountains and rain in the Owens Valley. Middle ground is the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains with new snow. Foreground is low hills and a ranch fence with sagebrush. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken just south of Big Pine, CA on Oct 3, 2025.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

One of the things I don't get about the people who want to end birthright citizenship is can they not comprehend that it could be used against them as well?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 13d

Yay!

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

I had a great Laura Ashley dress modeled off an 1870s gown that was fitted, had a bustle, AND it had pockets. It was awesome. I still have it somewhere...

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

youtube.com/shorts/f_OUn...

The upcoming, successful invasion of the US by Canada. Wait for the credits at the end, best part.

Operation Goose Fury

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

I think we last saw each other either in Austin for SxSW or in London. I hope all is well in your life.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

I know, right? I feel seen in a good way.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

I am not paying for reviews or promotions, nor did I send the book out any ARCs to sites where the reviewer gets the book in turn for the possibility of having their review used.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

As a side note: What is considered best practice to ask a reviewer (if possible on Amazon) to be able to use the review on my website or book jacket? What are the best ethical practices around an Author asking to use a review?

The above review was spontaneous and I wish to respect the person.

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

I am deeply happy that a random Amazon reviewer of my book, A Quiver Full, truly in a few sentences not only sums up my book, but also about 98% of my life. Thank you, Wendy!

www.amazon.com/Quiver-Full-...

#AQuiverFull #Book #BookSky #HappyWriter

A screenshot of an Amazon.com review from Wendy on Jenifer Hanen's book, "A Quiver Full".

The text says, "Unique

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2025

Format: Kindle

This is an unusual story, odd, but, in a good way. Fantastical. Humorous. Well written, unique story. But odd.
I read it twice before leaving a review."

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Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 17d

#SilentSunday #Photography

Most of the photo is low lying big puffy white clouds in a dark blue sky. Foreground is the Glass Mountains, a few buildings, and stubble late summer yellow grass and sagebrush. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen of the Glass Mountains, Long Valley Caldera, California, after the rain, late September 2025.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 19d

I am not surprised as the Reform voters strike me as more on the right Libertarian quadrant. Libertarians, right or left, don't like over reaching govt control. I would guess they consider Palatir's control grid to be in violation of their fundamental rights.