@artbyjeannettej.bsky.social
1.Painter/photographer/unpublished writer
2.Married to an author/photographer
3. Big fan of Democracy
4. Not what you'd call "a morning person"
2.Married to an author/photographer
3. Big fan of Democracy
4. Not what you'd call "a morning person"
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I’ll be talking about this tonight.
“A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep”
About 10:30 ET
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
“A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep”
About 10:30 ET
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I’ll be talking about this tonight.
“A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep”
About 10:30 ET
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
“A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep”
About 10:30 ET
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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February 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"
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NEW: The filing, which shreds the logic behind the raid, marks the county’s latest effort to reclaim the materials seized by the FBI during the raid, including the original — and only — copy of Fulton County’s 2020 election records. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘Flagrant Constitutional Violation’: Fulton County blasts affidavit that backed FBI’s 2020 election raid
“The Fourth Amendment demands ‘probable cause’—not ‘possible cause.'"
www.democracydocket.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
NEW: The filing, which shreds the logic behind the raid, marks the county’s latest effort to reclaim the materials seized by the FBI during the raid, including the original — and only — copy of Fulton County’s 2020 election records. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children.
Now, what are we going to do about it?!
Now, what are we going to do about it?!
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children.
Now, what are we going to do about it?!
Now, what are we going to do about it?!
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The level of graft and corruption we have in Washington right now is egregious, and Kristi Noem deserves prison for many things, and there is no way she (or really anyone) needs or deserves such a plane, especially one we paid for. Also, really, bidets are amazing and every plane should have them.
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:26 AM
The level of graft and corruption we have in Washington right now is egregious, and Kristi Noem deserves prison for many things, and there is no way she (or really anyone) needs or deserves such a plane, especially one we paid for. Also, really, bidets are amazing and every plane should have them.
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Classic rock, too
The Beatles, "Get Back"
The Kinks, "Lola"
Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side"
The Beatles, "Get Back"
The Kinks, "Lola"
Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side"
every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"
February 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Classic rock, too
The Beatles, "Get Back"
The Kinks, "Lola"
Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side"
The Beatles, "Get Back"
The Kinks, "Lola"
Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side"
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Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say
Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.
www.cbsnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
February 16, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
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Man, are they scared.
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Man, are they scared.
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As just such a journalism professor, I invite Chris here to lay out his own pedagogical vision for the only private profession mentioned by name in the Constitution. If it’s “let the machine write for you” then I further invite him to resign and make room for real journalists
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 2:24 PM
As just such a journalism professor, I invite Chris here to lay out his own pedagogical vision for the only private profession mentioned by name in the Constitution. If it’s “let the machine write for you” then I further invite him to resign and make room for real journalists
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Heartbroken to see this tragic news.
Ofelia never should have had to fight so hard just so she could be with her father during her brave battle with cancer.
My thoughts go out to her family and loved ones as they struggle with this difficult loss.
Ofelia never should have had to fight so hard just so she could be with her father during her brave battle with cancer.
My thoughts go out to her family and loved ones as they struggle with this difficult loss.
A Chicago family is heartbroken after 16-year-old Ofelia Torres tragically lost her battle with a rare form of cancer. She spent her final days fighting for her dad's release from ICE custody after he was arrested during Operation Midway Blitz.
MORE: https://tinyurl.com/4zb8kwws
MORE: https://tinyurl.com/4zb8kwws
February 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Heartbroken to see this tragic news.
Ofelia never should have had to fight so hard just so she could be with her father during her brave battle with cancer.
My thoughts go out to her family and loved ones as they struggle with this difficult loss.
Ofelia never should have had to fight so hard just so she could be with her father during her brave battle with cancer.
My thoughts go out to her family and loved ones as they struggle with this difficult loss.
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I think this is part of my generation's confusion about AI.
We were raised on a culture that warned about these dangers repeatedly -- from WarGames to the Terminator films to the Matrix, and countless other dystopian futures in between -- and now those cautionary tales are being celebrated.
We were raised on a culture that warned about these dangers repeatedly -- from WarGames to the Terminator films to the Matrix, and countless other dystopian futures in between -- and now those cautionary tales are being celebrated.
Imagine when The Terminator came out if you told someone that in 40 years the world’s richest weirdo would fill the sky with a communications net, embrace AI, and now promise to build an army of robots, and nobody seems inclined to stop him.
February 15, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I think this is part of my generation's confusion about AI.
We were raised on a culture that warned about these dangers repeatedly -- from WarGames to the Terminator films to the Matrix, and countless other dystopian futures in between -- and now those cautionary tales are being celebrated.
We were raised on a culture that warned about these dangers repeatedly -- from WarGames to the Terminator films to the Matrix, and countless other dystopian futures in between -- and now those cautionary tales are being celebrated.
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February 14, 2026
February 14, 2026
On Valentine’s Day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his wife and his mother.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 AM
February 14, 2026
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February 13, 2026
February 13, 2026
At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Im...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 AM
February 13, 2026
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Kipos Greek Taverna in Chapel Hill, which has been closed since last July due to flooding across the Eastgate, will officially reopen for business Saturday, Feb. 21.
Here are the details:
Here are the details:
Chapel Hill's Kipos Greek Taverna Sets Saturday, Feb. 21 as Reopening Date - Chapelboro.com
Kipos Greek Taverna in Chapel Hill's Eastgate Crossing shopping center will officially reopen for business Saturday, Feb. 21.
chapelboro.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Kipos Greek Taverna in Chapel Hill, which has been closed since last July due to flooding across the Eastgate, will officially reopen for business Saturday, Feb. 21.
Here are the details:
Here are the details:
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The New York Times just launched a new "newsletter about the law and the courts." They are calling it "The Docket."
The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might.
More on this tomorrow.
The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might.
More on this tomorrow.
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The New York Times just launched a new "newsletter about the law and the courts." They are calling it "The Docket."
The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might.
More on this tomorrow.
The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might.
More on this tomorrow.
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When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
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Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive.
It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.
Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.
Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive.
It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.
Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.
Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash