BldrJanet
@bldrjanet.bsky.social
Counselor • Lifelong Feminist • UU• 🏳️🌈
Photography• Baking • Marimba • Hiking
Gathering with my community, clear eyed about the dark times ahead. Determined to find joy and beauty where I can. She/her.
Love • Reason • Justice • Compassion
Photography• Baking • Marimba • Hiking
Gathering with my community, clear eyed about the dark times ahead. Determined to find joy and beauty where I can. She/her.
Love • Reason • Justice • Compassion
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Heads up Colorado: there’s a visibility event planned on Saturday in front of the NOAA building in Boulder to show your support for NCAR
December 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Heads up Colorado: there’s a visibility event planned on Saturday in front of the NOAA building in Boulder to show your support for NCAR
This is very near my home. So windy today.
Avoid Driving today, Dec. 19 - Sheriff Fire Management on patrol today, just north of Boulder. Please do not drive.
There will be significant debris in the roads, including downed limbs and power lines, and some traffic signals will be out. If you must drive, please drive carefully today.
There will be significant debris in the roads, including downed limbs and power lines, and some traffic signals will be out. If you must drive, please drive carefully today.
December 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is very near my home. So windy today.
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
I've called my Senators @hickenlooper.bsky.social and @michaelbennet.bsky.social and asked them to HOLD THE LINE! Don't cave on ACA subsidies. Too many vulnerable people are counting on you.
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I've called my Senators @hickenlooper.bsky.social and @michaelbennet.bsky.social and asked them to HOLD THE LINE! Don't cave on ACA subsidies. Too many vulnerable people are counting on you.
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NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Just in from the ICE facility in Portland
September 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just in from the ICE facility in Portland
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Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
September 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
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Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount.
This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.
Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.
Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount.
This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.
Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.
Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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DC is our home, not a military zone. Today UUs from all over marched to demand an end to Trump’s takeover of our city, Washington, DC because we the people keep us safe.
#FreeDC
#FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
DC is our home, not a military zone. Today UUs from all over marched to demand an end to Trump’s takeover of our city, Washington, DC because we the people keep us safe.
#FreeDC
#FreeDC
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Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity
September 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity
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I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency
As Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targets the CDC with nonsense, a growing number of Senate Democrats are demanding his resignation.
www.msnbc.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
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the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off.
the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
September 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off.
the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
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This article just reminded me of this old tweet
August 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
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fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"
August 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"