Jenny
@hoedeman.bsky.social
Former teacher and community builder, current bureaucrat trying to make things not worse.
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It’s great to live in a system where people make six or seven figures to explain that this messaging is too complicated for Americans to understand or will be offensive to them.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
It’s great to live in a system where people make six or seven figures to explain that this messaging is too complicated for Americans to understand or will be offensive to them.
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Once again I find myself asking the invigorating question “Is it 1933 or 1938?”
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Once again I find myself asking the invigorating question “Is it 1933 or 1938?”
“You can’t reform a concentration camp regime.”
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“You can’t reform a concentration camp regime.”
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This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
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So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro’s pick for a vacancy on the Board of Pardons is a prolific prosecution witness. He's also opposed by clemency advocates and criminal defense attorneys.
Prolific prosecution witness tapped for Board of Pardons
Shapiro’s pick is opposed by clemency advocates and criminal defense attorneys.
www.spotlightpa.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s pick for a vacancy on the Board of Pardons is a prolific prosecution witness. He's also opposed by clemency advocates and criminal defense attorneys.
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What you are seeing here from Booker is the most craven and cynical counterinsurgency designed to preserve the key structures while tricking low information liberals into thinking people in power care and are “doing something.”
January 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM
What you are seeing here from Booker is the most craven and cynical counterinsurgency designed to preserve the key structures while tricking low information liberals into thinking people in power care and are “doing something.”
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As someone who is not a radical, but believes the time has come where radical change is the only option for our survival, I try to model something for my fellow non-radicals I call "Understanding who the actual radicals are and not fucking up what they're trying to do."
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
As someone who is not a radical, but believes the time has come where radical change is the only option for our survival, I try to model something for my fellow non-radicals I call "Understanding who the actual radicals are and not fucking up what they're trying to do."
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Imagine if all our leaders were just nice people who wanted everyone to have a good life.
January 18, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Imagine if all our leaders were just nice people who wanted everyone to have a good life.
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There are good dems but Cory Booker is one of the worst of them and please do not ever be fooled by the occasional show he puts on for suckers (you - he thinks you are suckers)
January 18, 2026 at 8:23 AM
There are good dems but Cory Booker is one of the worst of them and please do not ever be fooled by the occasional show he puts on for suckers (you - he thinks you are suckers)
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a whole two generations of mobility wiped out really. which is what they wanted. and they delivered it, brutally. epically. sometimes i really do just cry.
January 17, 2026 at 8:05 PM
a whole two generations of mobility wiped out really. which is what they wanted. and they delivered it, brutally. epically. sometimes i really do just cry.
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The moral of the story is not that people are always good. It’s that people are pretty ok. And we should expect people to be pretty ok. And make policy as though people are pretty ok. And design systems that encourage & enhance people’s baseline pretty ok-ness.
January 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The moral of the story is not that people are always good. It’s that people are pretty ok. And we should expect people to be pretty ok. And make policy as though people are pretty ok. And design systems that encourage & enhance people’s baseline pretty ok-ness.
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The onus so far is entirely on the frightened and unfunded public to organize perfectly peaceful resistance and outlast an ad hoc army of thousands of untrained bigots pulling from a well of near unlimited taxpayer finances?
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The onus so far is entirely on the frightened and unfunded public to organize perfectly peaceful resistance and outlast an ad hoc army of thousands of untrained bigots pulling from a well of near unlimited taxpayer finances?
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the people who got everyone here including the tv lawyers, pathetic pundits & consultants, and feckless elected officials are the sources of "don't take the bait." So maybe don't listen to them about anything.
January 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM
the people who got everyone here including the tv lawyers, pathetic pundits & consultants, and feckless elected officials are the sources of "don't take the bait." So maybe don't listen to them about anything.
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When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 AM
When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
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Seattle City Councilmember Eddie Lin suggested, as an aside, that the city might charge more for parking if you choose to own a GIANT VEHICLE.
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Drivers sitting in the cabs of huge trucks and SUVs can't see pedestrians; this choice is a type of (IMO, sociopathic) traffic violence.
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Drivers sitting in the cabs of huge trucks and SUVs can't see pedestrians; this choice is a type of (IMO, sociopathic) traffic violence.
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Seattle City Councilmember Eddie Lin suggested, as an aside, that the city might charge more for parking if you choose to own a GIANT VEHICLE.
👏👏👏
Drivers sitting in the cabs of huge trucks and SUVs can't see pedestrians; this choice is a type of (IMO, sociopathic) traffic violence.
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Drivers sitting in the cabs of huge trucks and SUVs can't see pedestrians; this choice is a type of (IMO, sociopathic) traffic violence.
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I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
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The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
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As chair of the Pennsylvania Senate’s Philadelphia Delegation, I’m proud to share our joint letter with the Pennsylvania House’s Philadelphia Delegation denouncing ICE’s reign of terror and chaos.
pasenatorsaval.com/pa-senate-an...
pasenatorsaval.com/pa-senate-an...
January 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
As chair of the Pennsylvania Senate’s Philadelphia Delegation, I’m proud to share our joint letter with the Pennsylvania House’s Philadelphia Delegation denouncing ICE’s reign of terror and chaos.
pasenatorsaval.com/pa-senate-an...
pasenatorsaval.com/pa-senate-an...
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
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“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court
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Great, just great.
The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report finds
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Rising for the First Time in Two Years—They Could Climb Far Higher
The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report finds
www.scientificamerican.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Great, just great.
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makes me wonder how many supposedly intractable social problems could be mostly solved by just giving people money. no tax credit, no special poor person account with onerous spending restrictions, just cash in hand.
January 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
makes me wonder how many supposedly intractable social problems could be mostly solved by just giving people money. no tax credit, no special poor person account with onerous spending restrictions, just cash in hand.
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On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 PM
On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
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i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.