Jess Schomberg
@schomj.bsky.social
Librarian, disability, union member 🏳️🌈
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Contact info and various socials: https://linktr.ee/schomj
(they/them)
Contact info and various socials: https://linktr.ee/schomj
And this is the end of my allowed social media time for today. I will leave you with a Betty
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
And this is the end of my allowed social media time for today. I will leave you with a Betty
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Jennifer has already paid one rent!
Enter for your chance to win an adorable pet portrait.
Enter for your chance to win an adorable pet portrait.
Win an 8x8” Custom Pet Portrait!
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$10/chance ($20 two chances...so on)
- 100% of funds will go DIRECTLY to people in need via
Adopt-A-Rent Program by Stand With MN.
- Donate via my Venmo @JenniferDavisArt
account.venmo.com/u/jenniferda...
- PUT A GIFT (🎁) EMOJI IN THE NOTES when paying!!!
February 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Jennifer has already paid one rent!
Enter for your chance to win an adorable pet portrait.
Enter for your chance to win an adorable pet portrait.
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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minnesota is still being terrorized by ICE. it hasn’t stopped and from local reports has gotten way worse. it isn’t making major headlines anymore and we know why. ABOLISH ICE !!!
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM
minnesota is still being terrorized by ICE. it hasn’t stopped and from local reports has gotten way worse. it isn’t making major headlines anymore and we know why. ABOLISH ICE !!!
Why do all the "embedded in AI companies" in-depth reports read like the same marketing hype as embedded reporters in the second gulf war 20 years ago?
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Why do all the "embedded in AI companies" in-depth reports read like the same marketing hype as embedded reporters in the second gulf war 20 years ago?
why does 2025 feel like 5 years ago already?
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
why does 2025 feel like 5 years ago already?
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I’ve been saying this over and over since 2016 (responding to personal and collective threats)
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I’ve been saying this over and over since 2016 (responding to personal and collective threats)
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
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ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
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Age verification? Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless? Tom was here before the river and trees; Tom remember the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wigh
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Age verification? Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless? Tom was here before the river and trees; Tom remember the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wigh
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see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going
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The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing.
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing.
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”
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“The claim that Republican anti-trans ads and rhetoric are winning over Democratic and independent voters is simply not true. Moreover, the assumption that abandoning trans rights will have no negative ramifications for Democrats is mistaken.” @juliaserano.bsky.social
Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.
Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
www.bostonreview.net
February 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“The claim that Republican anti-trans ads and rhetoric are winning over Democratic and independent voters is simply not true. Moreover, the assumption that abandoning trans rights will have no negative ramifications for Democrats is mistaken.” @juliaserano.bsky.social
So I was browsing through my library's physical audiobook collection looking for some non-streaming listening options during my commute, and saw a Faulkner anthology and thought "perfect!"
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
So I was browsing through my library's physical audiobook collection looking for some non-streaming listening options during my commute, and saw a Faulkner anthology and thought "perfect!"
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Check out this list! Based on how much I valued Unkindness of Ghosts, Chain-gang All-stars and No Gods, No Monsters I can not wait to dig into the rest of these titles.
28 Black Speculative Fiction Books For Black History Month
What is Black Speculative Fiction, anyway? For me, speculative fiction has two definitions. One overarching definition includes texts that use unreal elements in a story. This includes fantasy, alternative histories, magical realism,…
What is Black Speculative Fiction, anyway? For me, speculative fiction has two definitions. One overarching definition includes texts that use unreal elements in a story. This includes fantasy, alternative histories, magical realism,…
28 Black Speculative Fiction Books For Black History Month
What is Black Speculative Fiction, anyway? For me, speculative fiction has two definitions. One overarching definition includes texts that use unreal elements in a story. This includes fantasy, alternative histories, magical realism, science fiction, some mysteries, and some horror. The second definition is more genre-specific and involves texts that propose a "what-if" scenario. I typically think of it as a literary experiment in which the author poses a question to society and uses variables to conduct the experiment.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Check out this list! Based on how much I valued Unkindness of Ghosts, Chain-gang All-stars and No Gods, No Monsters I can not wait to dig into the rest of these titles.
I am learning how to crochet and it is both humbling and encouraging to watch my own progress. You don't get to self-efficacy without frogging an entire project
Do not make art if you don't enjoy the process of slowly getting better at making art. That is the gate. Consider yourself kept.
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I am learning how to crochet and it is both humbling and encouraging to watch my own progress. You don't get to self-efficacy without frogging an entire project
I really hate the moving goalposts GFM uses. I know their reasoning, but if I see a sm post saying they're trying to raise $15k and by the time I click on it the bar has been raised to $45k? My kneejerk reaction is not positive.
February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I really hate the moving goalposts GFM uses. I know their reasoning, but if I see a sm post saying they're trying to raise $15k and by the time I click on it the bar has been raised to $45k? My kneejerk reaction is not positive.
Going through environmentalist children's books from the early 1990s and being reminded of how completely co-opted that movement had become by that time.
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Going through environmentalist children's books from the early 1990s and being reminded of how completely co-opted that movement had become by that time.
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again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
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Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
(Yes, I know, the horrors, but the horrors will be easier to deal with once I get some of this other stuff dealt with as well.)
February 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
(Yes, I know, the horrors, but the horrors will be easier to deal with once I get some of this other stuff dealt with as well.)
In PT for reasons and one of my assignments is to walk regularly, so it was a real delight to be able to go outside for a short walk in the sun this afternoon. I'm ready to shake off seasonal depression and get back to a regular walking routine.
February 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
In PT for reasons and one of my assignments is to walk regularly, so it was a real delight to be able to go outside for a short walk in the sun this afternoon. I'm ready to shake off seasonal depression and get back to a regular walking routine.
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I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
February 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵