Jennifer
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Jennifer
@jbontrager78.bsky.social
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To be clear, we’re especially here if you’re avoiding a toxic or unsafe situation - let us feed you!
Friends! Thanksgiving is, somehow, three weeks away! The Casa Bontrevers open house returns - stop by for a drink and snack on your way to or from your other obligations, or join us for dinner or dessert. We’ll have appetizers out around noon, and dinner at 6-6:30 or so. Hope to see you! 🥂
Right? Don’t threaten me with a good time
Could leafblowers just … not exist? Please?
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This feels like the start of a horror movie I don't want to be in...
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Between the tariffs, the immigration crackdown, and cuts to SNAP, Trump is creating a mass crisis in U.S. farming. And a lot of this stuff can't be walked back. Chinese markets for Argentine soybeans won't just switch back when Trump TACOs again. Bankrupt farmers can't just bounce back next year.
Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
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i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal
Oh no!! I’m so sorry! 💔
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Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.
The hell are IDOC officers doing out there?!
every time we’re out here we see new types of cops.

looks like the illinois department of correction’s tactical team is also here on site.

background: www.chicagoreporter.com/new-uniforms...
Husband: I can’t believe they’re making a new Highlander movie
Me: I thought there could be only one?
Husband: OMG
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STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN

OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.”

ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.
“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief
“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...
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Outstanding piece-please take the time to read it. So many points to quote, this one seems helpful for White America to understand exactly how we got here:

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
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Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.
Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."
Literally lost my dad in the grocery store 🙄 he was looking at wine bottles
Hosted my parents unexpectedly overnight and, wow, it’s like having toddlers in my house. Where did you go? What are you getting into? Are you about to fall down the stairs?! Sigh