A. Jinnie McManus
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A. Jinnie McManus
@imjinnie.bsky.social
Hi. I love my cat.
Life update
February 5, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I’ve lost 170 pounds and my body has done nothing but be difficult ever since.

My hot take is that sometimes I think I was happier before I did all this work and lost all that weight.
February 5, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I would smile SO MUCH if he resigned. I’d even consider smiling AT HIM. That’s how much I’d smile.

Also, if a man ever berated me about smiling like the President did today to a longtime reporter, I’d be hitting him with my very tiny fists before I even realized I was doing so.
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Reposted by A. Jinnie McManus
ICYMI amidst all of the other dumpster fires, $14 million was stolen from libraries and funneled to Hillsdale College and PragerU to fund white supremacist revisionist history and pro-regime propaganda. Cuts to IMLS funding will impact small public libraries the hardest.
The IMLS Propaganda Machine Is In Full Swing
The agency overseeing U.S. libraries and museums is now full-on regime propaganda.
buttondown.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The Kennedy Center was going to host Hamilton. Then Trump put his name on it and lost that and countless other performances.

Everything that man touches dies.
February 2, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I’ve been off Mounjaro now for nearly 3 weeks. I stopped Phentermine about a week and a half ago. And I’ve laid around like a lump now for over a week and shamelessly eaten cake whenever I wanted to.

Weighed myself today for the first time since pre-surgery and I’ve gained exactly 1 pound. 🤡
January 31, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The interesting thing about recovering from abdominal-located surgery is that I do see a progression in healing after a little over a week, but it still hurts just as badly as day 1 did whenever I move. I’m still not standing fully upright.
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Mom made me my childhood on a (delicious) plate! Look at this magnificent Midwest masterpiece casserole ❤️
January 31, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Look, CNN and Anderson Cooper have not been perfect covering the corrupt Trump administration and their deliberate incitement of violence to punish MN for not being loyal to the president. Even this week. But his interview with “pink jacket lady” (Stella Carlson) is a master class of journalism.
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Reposted by A. Jinnie McManus
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

They did not have a warrant
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Granted, up and down the stairs. Still counts!!!
January 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I was feeling pretty good today. But then I sneezed and I’m pretty sure my vision went white. I don’t think I’ve ever felt that level of physical pain before. It’s been half an hour and it still feels like I’m on fire. Ouuuuuuch

Also, I normally sneeze in 2s…
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I’m a gun owner. Former member of the NRA. Lifelong Republican. Evangelical Christian, my grandfather was a pastor in the Lutheran Missouri synod.

Alex Pretti was murdered. There is no ambiguity here.
January 26, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Took my next dose of painkillers and I feel so weird just lying around. I want to work out! But that is a very hard not-allowed thing for 6 weeks. Imma eat cake instead.
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I think I’m finding that painkillers make me loopy for the first 40 minutes or so and then I’m normal and a hair sleepy. Great.
January 26, 2026 at 6:57 AM
We took off the bandages today and I saw my new body for the first time. Now, I’m really puffed up still. It’s only day 4. Plus, all the swelling is headed down to my hips and I look like a Kardashian.

Still though, I looked in the mirror and couldn’t believe it was me.
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It’s time to start marking my post-surgery achievements!
January 25, 2026 at 10:11 PM
It’s not an exaggeration to say that @squirrelydoc.bsky.social saved my life and sanity yesterday. Love you, big sister. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Sydney and I are on the mend after intense surgeries. Beyond grateful to my mom for basically moving in with me for 2 weeks to take care of both of us.
January 25, 2026 at 5:35 AM
As a former longtime member of the NRA, Alex Pretti was the fabled ‘good guy with a gun’ (that he never even brandished) that members claim exists and vow to be.

One single now-executed nurse was more of a hero than any member of ICE.

I pray his family finds peace and his murderers face justice.
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
We increased my painkillers last night and things got much better very quickly. Today I want to sleep BUT ALSO I could like do some cleaning maybe because I feel very bouncy but don’t worry I’m not going to use my jump rope or anything. I don’t know where it is tbh. Maybe I should find it!
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Hello from the finish line of a project that started in 8/22. Today, I had surgery for an abdominoplasty, panniculectomy and mons lift. My excess torso skin/overhang is gone.

But I’m having mixed feelings.
January 23, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Surgery went well and I’m heading home.
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I could write a book on what it’s like to care for a cat who had bilateral extracapsular stabilization on both back legs due to rupturing her cranial cruciate ligaments (CCL)—basically the human ACLs.
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 AM
She was a surly donut this morning but a purring one tonight.

Warning: shows one of her new scars
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 AM