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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 1d

“Booming investor appetite for military startups has helped make [Trae] Stephens the latest entrant to a group of billionaires who have built fortunes selling weapons systems to the government.” — Such a good Christian!

www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

Anduril Cofounder Trae Stephens Is Now A Billionaire

The recent funding round led by Founders Fund valued the hot military startup at $30 billion – and made its chairman Trae Stephens the latest defense tech billionaire.

www.forbes.com

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 1d

“Religious” — sure they are. “Acts17” — 2 rich women started… one of them married to a close associate of Thiel: “Stephens’ husband, Trae, was an early employee at Thiel’s software company Palantir and is currently a partner at his venture capital fund”

www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/mich...

‘Wouldn’t It Be Funny if We Tricked a Bunch of People into Going to Church?’ - Christianity Today

Michelle Stephens of Silicon Valley evangelism organization ACTS 17 talks caviar bumps, Peter Thiel, and Christianity.

www.christianitytoday.com

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a disgrace these “lectures” were allowed to happen in the heart of San Francisco. I resigned my Commonwealth Club membership over it. 👎

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 3d

Deeply satisfying to cancel my Amazon Prime membership today, and I wanted you to be the first to know. I have already been boycotting them, but this removes me from their captive audience. I won’t be needing any more notices about Prime Day, thanks. Still have my Wired subscription for now.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 4d

Reported the post as misleading and urge others to do the same.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 4d

Reported this post as misleading. It is irresponsible and unacceptable to use a 30+ year-old photo from a different city and you know it.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 5d

Fog rolls into the sunny valley between San Francisco and San Bruno Mountain.

Big stream of puffy fog rolling into a valley toward the east (right to left, looking south) from the Pacific Ocean contrasts with sunlit neighborhoods below it and a sunlit mountaintop behind it.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 5d

I really loathe the one who comes to our neighborhood!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 6d

Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.

We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 6d

Appalling and unacceptable.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 6d

Yes my scientist friends have lost grants and are all generally in upheaval. It’s insane.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 6d

This is so good!

From astrophysicist @adamfrank4.bsky.social here. Thank you, Dr. Frank. The best explanation I’ve seen yet for something that is hard to understand. And he tells us how to fix it: Scientists are hardworking heroes!

Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 6d

Pensacola Beach sky

Beach scene with white sand, green and turquoise water, and blue sky with dramatic clouds

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 8d

We are not alone. We know it is not right when masked men drag working people away from their work, throwing people to the ground like jackbooted thugs. Join us on October 18 to peacefully protest and loudly say: “No Kings.” This country belongs to us, We The People.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 9d

Do not block driveway. 🌺

Lovely bougainvilleas of two different colors, reddish and purplish, climbing up and meeting over a gated driveway between two small apartment buildings in the Haight, San Francisco

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 10d

Love this so much! Thank you.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 10d

“Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.” - Wired

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 10d

And yet he continues to deliver these Nazi AntiChrist lectures at the @cwclub.bsky.social Commonwealth Club in San Francisco! Why is he being allowed to proselytize his Nazi views? He needs to be shut down!

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 11d

Amazing. Love your painterly photographs.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 11d

Batalá SF at Maker Faire Bay Area this past weekend (sound up!). Brazil style drumming. With photo bomb from a little train going by. https://batalasanfrancisco.com #Batala #SanFrancisco #MakerFaire #MareIsland

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 12d

Increases immune response 4x! My husband came home from a week’s trip. 1.5 days later he had a cough & tested positive for Covid. We then isolated him from me. I’d had the booster 5 days before he returned. I did not get it. I believe the vax is the reason. 😷💉

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for your important work.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 12d

A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon.

The marchers held flowers. 💐

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 12d

Sunlight above the fog line, itself above the building skyline of downtown San Francisco. Yesterday evening on the Bay Bridge.

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Jennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 13d

The Balclutha, a sailing ship built in 1886, part of the National Maritime Museum. Currently at Mare Island while the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco is being renovated.

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Large 3-masted square rigged ship at dock

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