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All Things Jennifer
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she/her | Blogger | Collector of Chronic Illnesses | Community Connector & Nonprofit Do-Gooder | Empath | Homesteader | Quinquagenarian "With fear for our democracy, I #dissent.” -Justice Sonia Sotomayor https://allthingsjennifer.com/
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Meredith Blake shares a guide to “free and cheaper-than-your-cup-of-coffee at-home entertainment options for the politically conscious cord-cutter” in this week’s culture recs.
Culture recs: The best free (and almost free) apps for movies, TV, books, and music
How to stay entertained without feeling like you're part of the problem
contrarian.substack.com
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INSANE INFLATION: Average ACA premiums will rise ⬆️ 30% next year. The higher premiums, along with the likely expiration of subsidies, mean millions of people will see their health insurance payments double or even triple in 2026.

Gift 🎁 link 🔗
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Amazon sells a lot of garbage. One of the types of refuse peddled there are books about “herbal remedies”.

Some new work has shown that 82% of these books may have been written by AI.

Many quote Barbara O’Neill, an Aussie naturopath who has been banned from practicing medicine for life.
Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI
Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September
www.theguardian.com
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say it with me: it’s a Kavanaugh Stop
ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.

"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.

"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.

Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
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If you are wondering how to help people in your community, financial donations to food banks are incredibly important right now.

The USDA has instructed states to deny SNAP nutrition benefits.

As we have said repeatedly at Defend Public Health, MAHA is a joke when kids in the U.S. are hungry.
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I need to take my meds. You should go take your meds. Join me. Drink some water. Sound your barbaric yawp.
Pay. Attention.
Mark Zuckerberg's net worth is up over $50 billion since January 1.
Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit
They own the FBI.
Steve Bannon has confirmed that there is a secret plot afoot to end our democracy and install Trump as a permanent dictator.

If this were untrue, he’d be getting a visit from the FBI, as what he’s describing is a criminal conspiracy.

He won’t get an FBI visit.
Steve Bannon says ‘there is a plan’ for Trump to be president in 2028
Former Trump advisor claims winning a third term could be easier than Trump’s previous electoral victories
www.independent.co.uk
Àaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggggh
“…taking a different approach.”?????

You guys.

Come the F on

Do better
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Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.

It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.

It corrupts our political system every day.
"The authors conclude with “moderate to high confidence” that the US is moving toward what scholars call “competitive authoritarianism”, a system in which elections and courts continue to function, but are “systematically manipulated” to consolidate executive power and weaken checks and balances."
Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
www.theguardian.com
"In Nazi Germany people kept living their everyday lives while fascism swallowed their country. Bread was bought, children played, people dated, movies played in theaters. This is how fascism thrives. It does not interrupt normal life, it depends on it."
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
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The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.
"The pardon of Zhao came two months after The WSJ reported that the Trump family’s own crypto venture, which has generated about $4.5 billion since the 2024 election, has been helped by “a partnership with an under-the-radar trading platform quietly administered by Binance.”
Donald Trump's pardon of the founder of Binance, which has invested hugely in Trump's own crypto company, from which Trump personally profits, is a breathtaking example of the kind of everyday corruption that characterizes this administration.
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
The pardon of the former Binance CEO came nearly a week after President Trump commuted the 87-month prison sentence of former New York Rep. George Santos.
www.cnbc.com
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The no new wars guy seems to be trying real hard to get us into a new war

There is zero reason to send CSG-12 to the Caribbean.
"We’ve got extremely lucky we’ve not had any bigger disasters than we’ve already had this year. We are basically sitting ducks for when the next major disaster hits.”
Major disasters caused $101 billion in damages in the first half of 2025 — the costliest six month period on record.

How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted.

What else doesn’t he want us to know?
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com
Yep.
NEW: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it will send election monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey — a move that Democrats and democracy advocates warned may be a potential step toward the Trump administration seizing control of voting.
Trump Administration To Monitor Voting in California and New Jersey
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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The U.S. military spends about $7.5 billion total on paychecks for service members every two weeks.

The supposed $130 million the Trump admin claims was anonymously donated for military pay would cover about two percent of that.