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Jen Schlief
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Wife, mom, RN, runner, bibliophile
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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What a terrible time to be a good person
December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Today is a dark day for American science and biomedicine. My comments in @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
Oregon teenager’s ICE detention sparks high school walkout
Hundreds of McMinnville High students walked out Monday, days after ICE detained Christian Jimenez, 17.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Absolutely horrific. ICE detained and abducted a minor—a high school student—who the family identified as a US citizen.

ICE is terrorizing our communities—I’m fighting for answers and accountability. This is just wrong.
ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period
Family told local news the 17-year-old is a U.S. citizen.
www.opb.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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gift link
Opinion | Cancer Patients Like Me Are Casualties of MAHA’s Hypocrisy
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Hello @support.bsky.team why has
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Breaking my social media fast to tell you that the Oregon Humane Society has slashed adoption fees 50% this weekend to offset an intake surge in the aftermath of an animal hoarding raid. Go adopt a new bestie like Miles (link below).
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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This is so dark
October 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM