Jess Jess
@jesscoffeecakes.bsky.social
She/her. Visual artist (oil painting and printmaking). High School Ultimate Frisbee coach
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Just watched Home Alone for the first time in at least 20 yrs. Apparently it’s now a tear jerker for me. Hello middle age
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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If accessibility disappears after a snowstorm then there was never really accessibility to begin with. Winter reveals so much about who our cities prioritize.
Snowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Snowstorms are hell for wheelchair users—but they don't have to be
"You can't physically move. You can't do anything."
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 PM
If accessibility disappears after a snowstorm then there was never really accessibility to begin with. Winter reveals so much about who our cities prioritize.
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NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY.
Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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The fact that the three ICE/CBP agents involved in the two Minnesota shootings have nearly 40 years of combined experience should be the nail in the coffin of any "training" rhetoric
February 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The fact that the three ICE/CBP agents involved in the two Minnesota shootings have nearly 40 years of combined experience should be the nail in the coffin of any "training" rhetoric
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WTF NYTimes:
Courts Find Trump Deportation Policy Unlawful
A strategy to detain immigrants indefinitely violated federal law, triggering widespread lawsuits and forcing courts to order releases
Courts Find Trump Deportation Policy Unlawful
A strategy to detain immigrants indefinitely violated federal law, triggering widespread lawsuits and forcing courts to order releases
February 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
WTF NYTimes:
Courts Find Trump Deportation Policy Unlawful
A strategy to detain immigrants indefinitely violated federal law, triggering widespread lawsuits and forcing courts to order releases
Courts Find Trump Deportation Policy Unlawful
A strategy to detain immigrants indefinitely violated federal law, triggering widespread lawsuits and forcing courts to order releases
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It’s common sense to proactively address/mitigate climate change.
It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities.
It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities.
It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.
It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities.
It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities.
It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM
It’s common sense to proactively address/mitigate climate change.
It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities.
It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities.
It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.
It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities.
It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities.
It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.
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Seeing some replies about how the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are distractions, but targeting journalists is straight out of the fascism playbook. It's not to distract from other issues -- the regime wants to chill critical coverage because they know they're unpopular.
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Seeing some replies about how the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are distractions, but targeting journalists is straight out of the fascism playbook. It's not to distract from other issues -- the regime wants to chill critical coverage because they know they're unpopular.
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Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
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“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org
Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
usa.streetsblog.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 PM
“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org
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Come for the Trinity Rodman goal, stay for the Trinity Rodman x Emma Hayes celly 😂
🎥 USWNT
🎥 USWNT
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Come for the Trinity Rodman goal, stay for the Trinity Rodman x Emma Hayes celly 😂
🎥 USWNT
🎥 USWNT
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Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Nothing makes me as mad as this: perfectly cleared side walk with no thought to clear access to the crosswalks. All sides of this corner were like this
January 26, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Nothing makes me as mad as this: perfectly cleared side walk with no thought to clear access to the crosswalks. All sides of this corner were like this
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ICE agents act like it’s live-action Call of Duty, but they’re not the heroes. They’re the terrorists.
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
ICE agents act like it’s live-action Call of Duty, but they’re not the heroes. They’re the terrorists.
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With a nod to Maya Angelou: when a system shows you what it is, believe it.
Systems show you what they are by how they behave not how they are described or explained.
And when something happens over and over across multiple domains over a long time, that's a feature not a bug.
Systems show you what they are by how they behave not how they are described or explained.
And when something happens over and over across multiple domains over a long time, that's a feature not a bug.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 PM
With a nod to Maya Angelou: when a system shows you what it is, believe it.
Systems show you what they are by how they behave not how they are described or explained.
And when something happens over and over across multiple domains over a long time, that's a feature not a bug.
Systems show you what they are by how they behave not how they are described or explained.
And when something happens over and over across multiple domains over a long time, that's a feature not a bug.
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It’s not enough to say Abolish ICE. It’s not enough to vote no on ICE funding. It’s not enough to confront Kristi Noem or Greg Bovino with Stern Words.
If you are a leader, what are you doing to protect your community? How are you using your power, privilege, and position to confront this threat?
If you are a leader, what are you doing to protect your community? How are you using your power, privilege, and position to confront this threat?
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It’s not enough to say Abolish ICE. It’s not enough to vote no on ICE funding. It’s not enough to confront Kristi Noem or Greg Bovino with Stern Words.
If you are a leader, what are you doing to protect your community? How are you using your power, privilege, and position to confront this threat?
If you are a leader, what are you doing to protect your community? How are you using your power, privilege, and position to confront this threat?
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What the fuck. I would like to know if people talking about training and reform think that you can change people who are this depraved. If they think a person who says this should hold a gun or have any power at all.
Source: apnews.com/article/immi...
Source: apnews.com/article/immi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
What the fuck. I would like to know if people talking about training and reform think that you can change people who are this depraved. If they think a person who says this should hold a gun or have any power at all.
Source: apnews.com/article/immi...
Source: apnews.com/article/immi...
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The terrorists are from the state
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The terrorists are from the state
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I don't want to hear Walz, Frey or any other elected official say "this has to stop." I want to hear them say "I will stop this."
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I don't want to hear Walz, Frey or any other elected official say "this has to stop." I want to hear them say "I will stop this."
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Honestly a weird way to say, "ICE has decided the Constitution no longer applies to them."
January 24, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Honestly a weird way to say, "ICE has decided the Constitution no longer applies to them."
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“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution
Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.
theprogressplaybook.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:13 AM
“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
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There's an understandable instinct to clarify that someone kidnapped by ICE has legal status or no criminal record, but the thing is, it doesn't matter at this point. Every ICE abduction is an abomination. This is an illegitimate state terror organization and should be treated as such.
January 22, 2026 at 11:31 PM
There's an understandable instinct to clarify that someone kidnapped by ICE has legal status or no criminal record, but the thing is, it doesn't matter at this point. Every ICE abduction is an abomination. This is an illegitimate state terror organization and should be treated as such.
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To say that The Met alone shouldn’t receive 10% of New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs budget is not to say that its funding should be cut. It is to say that the budget must be massively expanded so that these types of investments in the public good can be available to all New Yorkers.
Dear Zohran, Don’t Let Art Workers Down
Those of us in the cultural sector need you to enact a bold vision for the role of city government in fostering the arts and helping our communities thrive.
hyperallergic.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
To say that The Met alone shouldn’t receive 10% of New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs budget is not to say that its funding should be cut. It is to say that the budget must be massively expanded so that these types of investments in the public good can be available to all New Yorkers.
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Cars get many lanes. Bicyclists, wheelchair users, scooter users, walkers, kids on strider bikes, and unicyclists all get one little path.
January 20, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Cars get many lanes. Bicyclists, wheelchair users, scooter users, walkers, kids on strider bikes, and unicyclists all get one little path.