Janet H
@jehscribbler.bsky.social
Still evolving Boomer, cat mom & grandma, addicted to reading, gardening, chocolate, coffee. Retired editor, school counselor.
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Republicans are openly Nazis now.
The NY Young GOP had their annual gala Saturday that featured White nationalist leaders, a person who had posted a video depicting Jews as cockroaches and members of Germany's far right party AfD. This demands FAR more coverage. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/if-you-thi...
If you think Trump is vile wait until you see what the young Republicans just did at their gala
This is the future of the GOP!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Republicans are openly Nazis now.
Horrible. Noticing, regarding the claim crime is down due to the fed presence, the mention in passing that a lg # of guns have been confiscated. How much has that been the real reason for fewer crimes, rather than rounding up immigrants?
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Horrible. Noticing, regarding the claim crime is down due to the fed presence, the mention in passing that a lg # of guns have been confiscated. How much has that been the real reason for fewer crimes, rather than rounding up immigrants?
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If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now
December 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
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Ragú Unveils Sensory Deprivation Marinara Tank https://theonion.com/ragu-unveils-sensory-deprivation-marinara-tank/
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ragú Unveils Sensory Deprivation Marinara Tank https://theonion.com/ragu-unveils-sensory-deprivation-marinara-tank/
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@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com
So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com
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December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our Block Club gift subscriptions make the perfect gift. 🎁
When you purchase or gift a subscription, you can choose from one of 75 prints celebrating Chicago’s neighborhoods. It’s a win-win: Support your favorite news org & get a FREE neighborhood print!
SUBSCRIBE NOW: blockclubchi.co/4rofWx0
When you purchase or gift a subscription, you can choose from one of 75 prints celebrating Chicago’s neighborhoods. It’s a win-win: Support your favorite news org & get a FREE neighborhood print!
SUBSCRIBE NOW: blockclubchi.co/4rofWx0
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Oh my God. This is incredible. Stephen Miller's ancestors did ultimately succeed in Johnstown, PA. But this was after his great-great-grandfather was a street peddler. These were the same people who were smeared as unfit to partake in the fruits of western civilization when they first arrived here.
Essential reading via @gregsargent.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Side note on Greg's gripping opening anecdote about Miller's family: in 2016 I saw Miller open a Trump rally in Johnstown, PA, boasting about their successful business there, portraying them as the "good" immigrants.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Side note on Greg's gripping opening anecdote about Miller's family: in 2016 I saw Miller open a Trump rally in Johnstown, PA, boasting about their successful business there, portraying them as the "good" immigrants.
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh my God. This is incredible. Stephen Miller's ancestors did ultimately succeed in Johnstown, PA. But this was after his great-great-grandfather was a street peddler. These were the same people who were smeared as unfit to partake in the fruits of western civilization when they first arrived here.
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Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the controversial immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among the city’s immigrant communities and led to thousands of arrests.
Bovino’s back: Border Patrol chief leads agents in fresh round of raids throughout Chicago area
www.wbez.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the controversial immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among the city’s immigrant communities and led to thousands of arrests.
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“When I was turning 13, and realizing that my own father didn’t care about me, that my mother didn’t see me as a son, but as a thing she could put to work, Rob Reiner made me feel loved, valued, seen, and respected.”
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“When I was turning 13, and realizing that my own father didn’t care about me, that my mother didn’t see me as a son, but as a thing she could put to work, Rob Reiner made me feel loved, valued, seen, and respected.”
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An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
May 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
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ICE agents violently detained another disabled person, causing severe injuries.
Arturo Ruvalcaba lives in Utah and is deaf.
Three ICE agents grabbed him at a bus stop.
He tried to use sign language to communicate his disability to them, and they interpreted that as “resisting arrest”.
Arturo Ruvalcaba lives in Utah and is deaf.
Three ICE agents grabbed him at a bus stop.
He tried to use sign language to communicate his disability to them, and they interpreted that as “resisting arrest”.
A deaf Utah man says ICE agents injured him months ago and he’s still in pain. Now he’s suing.
A Utah man who is deaf says ICE agents discriminated against him and injured him, in what he says in a lawsuit was an unconstitutional search.
www.sltrib.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
ICE agents violently detained another disabled person, causing severe injuries.
Arturo Ruvalcaba lives in Utah and is deaf.
Three ICE agents grabbed him at a bus stop.
He tried to use sign language to communicate his disability to them, and they interpreted that as “resisting arrest”.
Arturo Ruvalcaba lives in Utah and is deaf.
Three ICE agents grabbed him at a bus stop.
He tried to use sign language to communicate his disability to them, and they interpreted that as “resisting arrest”.
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Thanks to @katieturnerphd.com for the idea!
just in time! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social did a small medievalist gift guide (sourced from Bluesky) for the holidays.
other suggestions? put it here in the comments! MORE IS MORE!
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
other suggestions? put it here in the comments! MORE IS MORE!
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
The (Late) Medievalist Gift Guide
Some medieval-y stuff for the end of the year
buttondown.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to @katieturnerphd.com for the idea!
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Terrific story about Rob Reiner being as much of a mensch in real life as he seemed.
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Terrific story about Rob Reiner being as much of a mensch in real life as he seemed.
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Come for the malort, stay for the sobbing into your coffee
Today’s That’s Marvelous newsletter is up featuring some thoughts about Judaism and community and nü-metal and Malört. Lots of umlauts this week. Read it all: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/162-malort-a...
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Come for the malort, stay for the sobbing into your coffee
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
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I'll post some related things later, but this is kind of a big story: religionnews.com/2025/12/12/d...
DHS threatens Sister Norma Pimentel's migrant aid with 6-year funding ban
(RNS) — 'I take very seriously every single dollar entrusted to us,' said Pimentel in a statement responding to the DHS accusations, which included providing migrant services beyond the federal limit.
religionnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'll post some related things later, but this is kind of a big story: religionnews.com/2025/12/12/d...
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THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
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“ICE or migra watch is a practice that grew out of the community defense strategies developed by the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, which inspired cop-watching across the country. It is most visible on the streets, where pairs or teams document law enforcement in their own neighborhoods.”
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“ICE or migra watch is a practice that grew out of the community defense strategies developed by the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, which inspired cop-watching across the country. It is most visible on the streets, where pairs or teams document law enforcement in their own neighborhoods.”
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My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
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