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J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 6h

Gatherer

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 6h

These people have lost their goddamn minds if they think they can rely on humans with morals and values to support them.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 6h

Some real 🤡 shit

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

Alt: Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football which is what “we’ll fix it when we get in power with a transphobe who is friends with all the shittiest people of our time” or “change is incremental” folks are. Some real clown shit.

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J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 7h

It’s the greatest city in this world

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 8h

Magical thinking is the prevalent white American mindset and it’s going to be very difficult for people to overcome.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 8h

On my 30th birthday, my friends and I stumbled into drag karaoke, where I saw a 😳 performance of this song. The two will forever be entwined in my brain. I love to think about this whenever I see dumbassery of the Mike Johnson variety.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 10h

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate.
The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 9h

Especially considering it is so helpful to brains who have experienced trauma and we live in this time.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 18h

*INSTANT this is the worst iOS update, good lord.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 18h

I’m really scared but my community is overall a good one and to be un scared we are finding ways to engage. It always helps remind me that lots of people feel the same way. ❤️

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 18h

I’m a parent of someone I’m supposed to be launching into an exciting and hopeful world and it’s… not? But it still is. Everyone except the worst people globally are annoyed with it and it’s kind of hard to ignore how much food costs. There are a lot of us. A lot of good ones.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 18h

I think so too. I am one who vents my fears but am generally fairly hopeful. I think some places and people will be okay but not all and that’s terrifying. I also think the momentum could shift in an instance. It’s just a real bummer we are tasked with living in this time.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 18h

Yes I’ll allow this as a fellow bitch about defining the Midwest.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 18h

I feel this. Does it matter? Will it matter? Should I just yolo it? My out of pocket is doubling next year so guess that’s what I’ll be doing.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 21h

Fay Wray was almost 7 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand II was assassinated and she could also have listened to the first Franz Ferdinand album.

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Jason Royal Hart @jasonroyalhart.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, you HAVE to watch this.

Steven Miller just said the president has plenary authority, then just pauses...

Plenary power is a power that has been granted to a body or person in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations.

www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

From the law community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 22h

@johnhornor.bsky.social I’m just so happy I have a new book from you for October. I’m excited to get immersed in it.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 1d

No I do not but I should!

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 1d

Well I canceled Paramount + to be as free of her as I can.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s do the fucking news”
Edward R. Murrow is rolling in his grave.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 1d

The most scariest parts of Chicago

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 2d

Good job! I laid down in my bed and ordered Taco Bell so you’re killing it on this awful Monday.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 2d

That always works.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 2d

Read it in the run on sentence format I deliberately chose to express how I feel on the inside today.

J @jennyquarx.bsky.social · 2d

Stubbed my toe bad by kicking my foot into a door by accident whilst on the phone with tech support after I got booted from teams on a Monday in October of 2025 in the United States so additionally dealing with *all this* Off to a great start this week.