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Jean Kiernan Detjen

@jeankiernan.bsky.social
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Poet, writer & constant gardener 🌿 Wisconsin-based, Midwest-rooted. Poetry and essays shaped by close attention to landscape and the living world we belong to. www.jeankiernandetjen.com

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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think of some of the poets I love almost spatially: Emily Dickinson is the window. Lorine Niedecker is the yard. Camille T. Dungy is the garden plot. Mary Oliver is the neighborhood. Wendell Berry is the fence line. And W. S. Merwin is the horizon. #ecopoets #naturepoetry 🌿
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My debut poetry collection, Salt and Soil, is coming soon from Kelsay Books. Rooted in my Wisconsin prairie garden and Mud Creek. Two more (Earth and Echo, River and Root) follow in 2027/28. More at jeankiernandetjen.com #Salt&Soil #KelsayBooks #EcoPoetry #WisconsinPoet #Poetry #JeanKiernanDetjen
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Earth Day 2026 arrives at fraught climate moment wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/04/22/e... #EarthDay #Wisconsin “The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” ― Gaylord Nelson
wisconsinexaminer.com
Earth Day 2026 arrives at fraught climate moment • Wisconsin Examiner
Elected officials and environmental advocates are celebrating Earth Day this week by noting the threats to the state's climate.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
After a forced confession and a death sentence, a Kurdish poet spent 30 years in jail, where he discovered his voice. (Gift Article) #NationalPoetryMonth
nytimes.com
A Turkish Love Story, With Prison, Poetry and an Airplane Exploit
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
fear not depth— quiet earth blooms, light returns. ~ JKD 🌿 www.jeankiernandetjen.com
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” Toni Morrison
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/01/2026
A group of Epstein survivors just formally demanded that the DOJ Inspector General open an investigation into how the heavily redacted Epstein files were released. They’re demanding action now to release the files and we stand with them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
#NotGreat
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
"In Wisconsin, narrow margins make disinformation a real threat to democracy itself."
dairylandpatriot.com
How disinformation threatens Wisconsin's democracy
Coordinated campaigns, including foreign and domestic actors, are using bots, trolls and fake accounts to target voters, institutions and public trust
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.
nytimes.com
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wisconsin’s hospital system is under real strain - and the impact is already reaching families, EMS crews, and rural regions. Closures, staffing shortages, and rising uncompensated care are reducing access to services people depend on. Here’s what you need to know, and what 2026 may bring.
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Wisconsin hospitals face both rising strain and financial risk
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) closed Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls in 2024. Labor and delivery units have shuttered in multiple rural counties...
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This should never be okay with anyone. Please read. www.dairylandpatriot.com/inhumane-con...
dairylandpatriot.com
Inhumane conditions ripple from federal detention to Wisconsin communities, straining courts
In Wisconsin, legal aid organizations report a surge in calls from family members trying to locate loved ones in custody.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/12/2025
Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I've been digging into the impact of the new federal loan rules, and what I found is troubling. www.dairylandpatriot.com/critical-pro...
dairylandpatriot.com
Critical professions at risk after new federal rules limit loans for advanced degrees nationwide
Federal borrowing limits for graduate students now depend on whether their program is designated a 'professional degree.' Students in approved fields can borrow up to $50,500 per year with a $200,000 ...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/11/2025
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear. If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way. Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Despicable
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/10/2025
To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Unkown creator, but smart political art:
Diagram of a slave ship with people packed on their backs for the middle passage with the text "I don't remember Southern states complaining when undocumented workers came over like this."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Emotional collision alert: From the dystopia of The Handmaid’s Tale, to the apocalypse of The Last of Us, to the doomsday prepping of Joe Pera… all I want is Somebody Somewhere with bottomless teeny 'tinis and every noshable delight from The Bear.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Abe Lincoln: the original punk - anti-slavery, tore up the playbook… and yes, technically a Republican. ~ Confused Americans, 2025
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
When the POPE (!) calls their actions "inhuman," the White House’s denial is the confession. Their "prayers" are propaganda.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
He wanted a rally, they gave him a morgue. May their oath be stronger than his threats.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So let me get this straight… 47's pushing Bibles missing half the Constitution, slashing drug prices by 1600%, and hawking miracle MedBeds. Next up: MedRx - because reality is now out of network.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Give every opinion a mic, and suddenly your science fair features flat-earthers, lizard-people fan clubs, and a booth teaching how to sun your bum hole for cosmic energy.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silence isn’t a shield; it’s a surrender.
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They support free speech the way hangmen support gravity.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 12/09/2025
So Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s killer, is neither a Democrat, nor transgender, nor an immigrant, but instead a 22-year-old white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loves guns and wore a Donald Trump costume on Halloween. — Did I get that right?
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Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
47's promise to "liberate" DC is a grotesque lie - a fear-mongering stunt from a man who thrives on cruelty, ignores facts, and treats American cities like warzones for his own political theater. "Crime, savagery, filth, and scum will disappear," he says. Does that mean he's leaving?
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 20/05/2025
An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
washingtonpost.com
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
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Rocco Palmo
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Apr 14
As Trump & Bukele use Oval to 🤣 Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident (https://bit.ly/3ROMjnP), once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC Aux +Evelio asks, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” https://bit.ly/4j700KN

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Synod.va
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Feb 25
We continue praying together the Holy Rosary for the health of #PopeFrancis  this evening at 9 PM in St. Peter’s Square, The prayer today will be presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization. #pope #PopeFrancis
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@Synod_va
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Feb 15
#PrayForThePope #GoodNews: The Holy See Press Office has announced that Pope Francis' health is improving. Let us pray together for his full recovery 
@franciscus
  Be strong, We are looking forward to seeing you again soon at St. Peter's Square.
#WeLoveOurPope
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Feb 13
Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration
From americamagazine.org
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Feb 3
JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others https://ncronline.org/node/292716 via 
@NCRonline
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Dr Kat, Epidemiologist @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s a $1.6 trillion regulated industry. But hang on…the $6.3 trillion wellness industry sells you mushroom tea, dewormers, crash diets, and alkaline water—no regulations, no oversight. But hey, it’s ‘natural,’ right?
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump’s 2nd term has shattered every norm citizen children deported, judges arrested, student activists raided, Musk’s DOGE collapsing services and the economy in freefall His approval’s already in historic decline This is authoritarianism in real time. Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Aa5...
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Oh how I miss not having an insane, evil idiot for a president.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
They didn’t just send Abrego Garcia “back to El Salvador”, they sent him to a fucking torture prison. They didn’t send him “back to where he was from.” They sent him to his death. They cannot prove he was a “terrorist”. They took him by “mistake.” And they do not fucking care.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
cbsnews.com
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I did not think this was real but it is
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx
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