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Jennifer Kretchmer

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Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️. DM/Dungeoneer. Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines. Art Description: Draw Steel. twitch.tv/dreamwispjen linktr.ee/dreamwisp Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · Nov 16

I know I need to do a “Hi, I’m Jen” intro post (and a more thorough one with links to stuff is coming), but…
Hi! I’m Jen! I make TV, video games, TTRPGs and actual plays, Shakespearean nerdiness, and also work in disability spaces, which means my work overlaps in MANY spaces.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1h

Who needs con crud when you can get T. Ocellus hugs?

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2h

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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Yes *that* Matt Trumpets @mattpt55.bsky.social · 2h

This judge is seriously not having it from the DOJ wankfuckery dept today

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2h

Perry:"What troubles me about that reading of the statute is, if the executive branch chose to deploy one ICE agent to the Chicagoland area, and then that person was unable to solve all crime," then that could trigger the National Guard.

Hamilton says that's a "very different situation."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3h

Perry turns to the fact that drugs have been dealt in Chicago for decades in violation of federal law.

Perry asks if that means "the president has had the authority for decades to deploy the National Guard here?"

(I also believe she prefaced this hypothetical with "riddle me this.")

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

Full thread of the hearing starts here.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4h

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 5h

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you so much for this thread and commentary!!!

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

The DOJ’s opinion:

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2h

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

Wells represents IL in this hearing. This is from closing statements.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2h

Wells: The Trump administration has asserted a “limitless power that violates the constitution.”
We have proven “a pattern of conduct that is terrifying.”
“The president’s power is not unlimited. This court can check that power.”

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

This is from the hearing about the National Guard deployment in IL. Perry is the judge in the case, Hamilton is from the DOJ.

This whole thread is INCREDIBLY important and worth starting from the beginning.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3h

Perry asks whether the “petty acts of vandalism” including "slashed tires" and "keyed cars” is significant enough to impede the execution of federal laws even if it does not make it as “quick and easy” as they would like.

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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hijade2madre.bsky.social @hijade2madre.bsky.social · 2h

Hey all! @teepublic.bsky.social is currently having a sale! My shop is up to 35% off!

Get on it before it’s gone! ♿️

hijade2madre.bsky.social @hijade2madre.bsky.social · 22d

Hi friends! My shop is back up! Please support the art of a Disabled queer woman of color 💖

Every purchase means the world to me ✨

Link: tee.pub/lic/DissentC...

An accessibility symbol of a person in motion, stylized in rainbow colors. Inside the wheelchair circle is a heart filled with the Progress Pride Flag, including Black, Brown, Pink, Blue, White stripes, and the yellow Intersex circle.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll add to the sexist point:
-It’s also misogynistic: The implication is that men’s neurotype is connected to their genitals being “intact,” “whole,” and larger, despite RFK’s ultimate point being about Tylenol use for neonates)

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

Just to be clear, the circumcision “link” to autism RFK announced is:
-Antisemitic
-Anti-Muslim
-Ableist and Neuroableist
-Sexist (implies that women can’t be autistic)
-Rooted in conspiracy theories
-Medically unsound

…I could go on. Like his Tylenol assertion, it’s total BS.

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 2h

NO SERIOUSLY I DIDN'T NEED YOU TO SO OBVIOUSLY DEMONSTRATE THE LINK BETWEEN ANTI-JUDAISM AND NEUROABLEISM. AT LEAST LEAVE ME A *LITTLE* WORK TO DO.

nb: there is actually a serious conversation to be had re: circumcision and bodily autonomy (that I DON'T WANT in my relplies). This...ain't it.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2h

Regardless of affiliation, this call is heartbreaking —a mother terrified for the lives of her children, innocent victims of political theater.

What’s striking, too, is how she calls out the class divide and pay disparity.

Her recognition that the wealth gap is part of his nonchalance matters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3h

Ready. Fire. Aim!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 3h

It’s like the airport scans. You do NOT have to submit to the biometric scans, and have a person do the evaluation instead. But people are afraid to ask for that.

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 3h

By law, they are required to get everyone’s consent for it to be AI recorded/noted at the beginning of the meeting, so you absolutely are within your legal rights to do so. But your job may not be happy about it.

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 3h

I get that, but this is literally in a room with only me and my doctor. It’s literally not replacing or supplementing anything—it’s recording a session that never has been, nor should it be, recorded. It would be sharing MORE info with any other person in contact with the file.

I hate it so much.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 13h

This is the only proper way to watch Beckett. This person understands Beckett on a level you and I cannot even hope to.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 23h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations!!!

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 12h

Just remind me and I will. 🙂

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

There are truly few things better than new David Mack lore.

David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 17h

just met a woman at a party & asked her what she did for work. could barely understand her because she was so soft spoken & had an accent so i just nodded a bunch.

“she’s in culture,” her friend said.

i finally realised that i was talking to
ANNA DELVEY

I ASKED ANNA DELVEY WHAT SHE DID FOR WORK

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 19h

Finally, they are starting saying the important, true things out loud. FINALLY.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 19h

I had to tell my doctor today that no, they certainly may not run AI transcription for my HIPAA-protected, confidential appointment and feed it into the new system I’ve never heard of that they are using.

Even doctor-patient confidentiality is being corroded by AI rot.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 19h

I’m so sorry you are both going through this. (She should be able to eat as soon as they rule out any sort of emergency surgery, so hopefully, soon.) Hope the tiny brave one feels better quickly!!!

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