Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ms. Jen

@msjen.bsky.social

560 followers 290 following 700 posts

Creator : Maker : Photographer : Writer : MSc, PAW, PPITA, FOA TA Books: https://books2read.com/ap/RQe612/Jenifer-Hanen https://msjen.substack.com https://msjen.com

books2read.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hello New BlueSky-ers and New Followers:
My Name is Jenifer Hanen.

I have a weekly newsletter at msjen.substack.com

And I have written a humor / historical fiction book (soon to be books plural) at books2read.com/ap/RQe612/Je...

#writer #newsletter #books #WhoisMsJen

1 15

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 13h

CYMK

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 5d

New snow on the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains today, it was snowing in the high country as I drove away from Bishop, Calif. this afternoon.

#snow #October3rd #EasternSierras #California #Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen

The top half of the image is big fluffy snow clouds dropping snow on the high mountains and rain in the Owens Valley. Middle ground is the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains with new snow. Foreground is low hills and a ranch fence with sagebrush. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken just south of Big Pine, CA on Oct 3, 2025.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things I don't get about the people who want to end birthright citizenship is can they not comprehend that it could be used against them as well?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
•It
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

1 2

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 6d

Yay!

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

I had a great Laura Ashley dress modeled off an 1870s gown that was fitted, had a bustle, AND it had pockets. It was awesome. I still have it somewhere...

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

youtube.com/shorts/f_OUn...

The upcoming, successful invasion of the US by Canada. Wait for the credits at the end, best part.

Operation Goose Fury

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

youtube.com

1 1 4

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

I think we last saw each other either in Austin for SxSW or in London. I hope all is well in your life.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

I know, right? I feel seen in a good way.

1 2

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

I am not paying for reviews or promotions, nor did I send the book out any ARCs to sites where the reviewer gets the book in turn for the possibility of having their review used.

1 3

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

As a side note: What is considered best practice to ask a reviewer (if possible on Amazon) to be able to use the review on my website or book jacket? What are the best ethical practices around an Author asking to use a review?

The above review was spontaneous and I wish to respect the person.

1 3

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

I am deeply happy that a random Amazon reviewer of my book, A Quiver Full, truly in a few sentences not only sums up my book, but also about 98% of my life. Thank you, Wendy!

www.amazon.com/Quiver-Full-...

#AQuiverFull #Book #BookSky #HappyWriter

A screenshot of an Amazon.com review from Wendy on Jenifer Hanen's book, "A Quiver Full".

The text says, "Unique

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2025

Format: Kindle

This is an unusual story, odd, but, in a good way. Fantastical. Humorous. Well written, unique story. But odd.
I read it twice before leaving a review."

3 20

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 10d

#SilentSunday #Photography

Most of the photo is low lying big puffy white clouds in a dark blue sky. Foreground is the Glass Mountains, a few buildings, and stubble late summer yellow grass and sagebrush. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen of the Glass Mountains, Long Valley Caldera, California, after the rain, late September 2025.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

I am not surprised as the Reform voters strike me as more on the right Libertarian quadrant. Libertarians, right or left, don't like over reaching govt control. I would guess they consider Palatir's control grid to be in violation of their fundamental rights.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

Or my favorite meme worthy headline of the week:

Newspaper headline reads, "Disappointed Chrtians say 'God is delaying the Rapture until the Epstein Files are released. Irony is not dead.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

Once again, autocorrect has defeated me while trying to joke...

Flops back and sighs at autocorrect's prudery.

"Exotic, [pause] and erotic."

1 1

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

While we live on different continents, I was barely 5 seconds into the video before I was laughing at "exotic... and exotic."

I hope the move back home is happy and productive.

1 1

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

I have 90% of notifications turned off so for Self-Focus Protection. This drives others nuts, as sometimes it takes hours before I notice a text has come through.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 12d

Where are the stairs now? Oh this is a 666 floor building? I guess I will need water and snacks for my stair climb. I'll be back in a few days.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 13d

How exciting!

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 15d

I tried to explain the whole US evangelical rapture thing & history to a friend who was raised in the LA Scientology world today and they found the whole thing very weird.

When a former Scientologist thinks something is weird, it is weird. At least we had a good laugh.

weird.at

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 15d

After crying a lot today, I give you William Carlos Williams - The Act

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded.
They won't last, she said.
But they're so beautiful where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she said,
and cut them and gave them to me in my hand.

Yvonne, a red head with red lipstick and a red shirt on the left, and Jackie, with dark bobbed hair and red lipstick and a dark shirt, at a club somewhere in LA, sometime between 1999-2003.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 15d

Today @alritch.bsky.social dm'd me & Sandra M text'd me. It was kind of bad news that one does not want to hear of.

The unexpected death of a friend. A friend who we had great times together: shows, bands, dancing, Punk Rock Bowling. All the times before folks get married & have kids & careers.

4 8

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 16d

Ugh, so sorry, autocorrect was ... Aerin, not what my phone wrote.

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 16d

Many blessings to you, Aerun, in this High Holiday season. May you be loved and love in return. 💝💖

2 2

Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social · 16d

Lovely! Are the leaves turning in Cape Breton area?