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Jennifer A.

@jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social
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Editor, indexer, owner of www.manuscript-spa.com. Librarian. Likes: the Constitution, kindness, justice, the rule of law, women's rights, the Fourth Amendment, due process, organized labor, and soccer (I mean football). Californian in Boston.

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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair point. However, the majority of them were white guys. Everywhere I turn I see coddled white men, in particular, behaving very, very badly. That's what makes me feel so unsafe around that demographic. But I agree 100% that it's men, writ large, who are the problem here.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Preppy, sporty white college bros in packs are absolutely the most terrifying demographic in the United States right now to me and pretty much every woman I know. Of course they are problematic now. But they will be even worse when they are running everything in 25 years. It's exhausting.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also some of us have some phone trauma from when we were kids and our parents handed us the phone and told us to talk to the random relative we didn't know. I realize, however, this might be just a thing for kids who grew up in the times before cell phones.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
...and Kushner needs to be prosecuted and jailed.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't let a techbro's musings fool you: AI WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING LIKE THIS. We will always need real humans, and especially real human researchers from minoritized populations, to do the work that is needed to understand the history of oppression.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy birthday, Medium Man! 🎂
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NY Times: Jay Clayton will be the new "AI Czar." I am trying to not be cynical about this. But he was an M&A lawyer (helping rich white guys get richer). He also did not directly answer "Who won the 2020 election?" in his hearing to replace Tulsi Gabbard. How is he qualified to be the Czar of AI?
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly right.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That dude is a terrible human being.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What? How can this timeline possibly get even worse?
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment stories always affect me, but this one hits different for a lot of reasons. I don't even know how to process all of this.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment stories always get me in my feels, but the Christa Pike situation is completely next level. And yet, between that, the Cornell SA case, daily Trump, and the latest Ted Lasso, I slept all night, got up today, and took my car in for service. Functional adulting in 2026 is wild.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I saw it coming from the opening credits - I just felt it in my bones. What's remaining this morning is the locker-room speech rather than the later event. ?!?! I don't know if that makes me heartless or well-adjusted. *shrug*
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In addition to the international law implications, this likely will result in the T admin ramping up third-country deportations to get as many in as possible before any potential adverse ruling. Once you deport I'm guessing it's very hard to un-deport. I hate all of this very much.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Talented politician" is doing a lot of work in that sentence - clearly you do not need to be an intelligent or careful person either.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So many of us in America work so, so hard to do well at our jobs. We would get fired if we were as incompetent and/or ethically compromised as the current crop of GOP politicians. It is an outrage and an insult that people like this are given as much power as they have.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Oops, our bad." We are all so cooked.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My trainer told me that protein powder is often made with some kind of whey that is a by-product of mozzerella cheese. Now that so many people are on GLP-1 drugs, they are eating less pizza. That means less whey, and higher prices. Haven't verified but I thought that was very interesting.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My first time living abroad (in Zurich, 1991) - I was 19. A guy followed me home from work on the tram every day for weeks. I told one of my co-workers, Frau Hauser, who DID NOT PLAY. She took the tram home with me one night and ripped into him so, so hard for stalking me. I never saw him again.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow. This is a law of armed conflict (LOAC) class hypo that has come to real life. People at the highest levels of government have really stopped listening to their better angels. Terrible.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Importantly, not all states have early voting, including, perhaps unsurprisingly, ALABAMA and MISSISSIPPI. Here is a list of early voting information for each state. Make a plan and #vote as if your life depends on it (because it does). www.vote.org/early-voting... @realtexaspaul.com
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Early Voting Calendar - Vote.org
When does early voting start and end in your state? Find out now.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are planning to #vote in November (and you should be), information about early voting should be available on your Secretary of State's website. I will be teaching in Germany on election day, so I will vote before I leave. Make a plan and vote as if your life depends on it (because it does).
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That last sentence is the product of some Simone Biles-level mental gymnastics. Wow.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is a very happy day in the world of legal research because @heinonline.bsky.social now has an ATLEAST operator. HOORAY.
Screen capture of the homescreen of the HeinOnline database showing an announcement that the database recently added the ATLEAST operator.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Democrats need to run an ad with this video on Fox News. Come on, @democrats.org - they're spoon feeding this to you.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Football (soccer) is on an international break right now plus I'm on a deadline (I promise I am almost done with the brand spanking new Foreign Law Guide entry for the Netherlands) so the only sports-related content that I'm currently enjoying is what you're posting so please keep doing so.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Solidarity. Even as I read her story I was still mad when I came to the part about him asking if he can help. But this is me projecting - I hate it when my husband asks if he can help because it's just one more thing for me to manage. Don't ask, just do it. Still, I must also do better.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh, and this is why I still focus on working very hard in the gym. I'm in training for all the outliving I need to do.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Totally
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I celebrated my birthday at a restaurant a few years ago I very intentionally crafted the guest list so that it did not include any white men. I was sick of the conversation getting hijacked by those jerks and wanted the rest of us to be able to get a word in.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And the F-150 has one of those stickers on the back window that is a black and white picture of the American flag except for one stripe in the middle that is blue.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Missing Barack and Michelle, today and every day.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am a freelance editor who specializes in legal academic work. I actually had someone ask me to edit an article that AI essentially wrote for him to make it sound less like AI so that he could submit it to American law reviews. (He was not American.) I couldn't drop him as a client fast enough.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And my husband wonders why I get SO INCREDIBLY ANGRY when I read about some rich man who is completely clueless about his obscene level of privilege AND lacks the basic skills that are necessary for adulting because he intentionally offloaded that work onto women and computers. JFC.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯 Just about every man I have ever met is consistently looking for ways to offload menial, yet necessary, work onto women. They usually attempt to do this through weaponized incompetence, as they know that no one will actually call them on their BS. This is why we need to burn down the patriarchy.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whether they own it or not, that is an epic level of shithousery and trolling by the Danish government. Nice.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HE IS JUST SO GOOD.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you for showing us how government should be - it absolutely can and should work to benefit regular people and add value to their lives. All the GOP wants to do is make government smaller and less effective, which is so retro, and not in a good way. #onward
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when the world is so full of real, deep, and unsolvable problems that you have to make up a problem so that you can be "right" about one thing. The only time this guy feels normal is when he is linguistic mansplaining. OF COURSE his gf's family is going to make fun of him fo it.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a perfect response to a lot of situations and people in life and the world right now. That its use is suggested in response to the lesbian bar mask activists makes it all the more perfect. Helpful people just want to help everyone but sometimes that's just not possible.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh I was SO HOPING that someone would post on BlueSky about this article after I read it in the Globe yesterday. The commentary has not disappointed.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What. People are complaining that they can't bring iced coffee to job interviews? Gen Z is so weird. Why can't they just do what the rest of us do and drink coffee in the car on the way to the interview? Oh, and don't forget the mints after.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone who has voted MAGA over the last 10 years needs to hear this news, and not massaged into spiteful meaninglessness by the corporate overlords as Fox News. Democratic socialism is the real deal and it is entirely possible for the government to care about you and work in your interests.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I get the appeal of reality tv and I admit that I do have my own vices when it comes to that particular medium. But Big Brother seems especially lowbrow and weird to me. That's what I'm not understanding.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Deutsche Welle is standing in solidarity with MSNOW, CNN, and Politico. I am not surprised by this at all. EVERY news organization should be boycotting the White House. Publicity is like oxygen for the narcissist-in-chief and it's time to cut off his supply. corporate.dw.com/en/dw-stands...
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DW stands in solidarity with media outlets barred from the White House
Deutsche Welle (DW) stands in solidarity with the U.S. media outlets CNN, Politico and MS NOW, which have been denied access to the White House.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can someone please explain why Big Brother is so popular on this app all the time? Are all of you watching this show? I know it's a reality show, but I have never seen it and have no desire to. It is listed so often in the right-side trending bar and I can't figure out why.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Muppets Muppet Show
ALT: Muppets Muppet Show
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you ever needed a signal from the universe that it's time to stop flying, here it is. I have one more work trip to Europe planned and paid for - after that, I will think long and hard about flying again. Oh, and remember our Transportation Secretary was on The Real World and is not too bright.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love absolutely everything about this post.
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