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Does anybody else freeze in place and just stand stock still when the street view rig strapped to a car goes by? It’s just me, isn’t it…

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Uh huh. And all those years ago when it happened and we said “Well that’s not going to end up anywhere good, given the on the nose ass naming convention and the folks who did it and the context of the day...” we were tagged as “alarmist”…I mean. Clearly not.

Thank you. Now if we could somehow get this VERY OBVIOUS THING to sink in on a major scale…(not sure how anybody is failing to get it at this point.)

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could manage to get this message in the addled brains of our pathetic corporate overlords in the ”opposition” party?

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Some of us spent 2015, 16, 17, 18 telling our well meaning “Our Institutions are strong!” friends that nobody needs to spend years training a “Deportsion Force” because we have the neighbors and the whole point of a “Deportation Force” is that they’re hardly trained at all. Just sayin.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

@edzitron.com and anybody else who might enjoy this. Happy Friday to all who celebrate a 5 day work week! www.facebook.com/share/r/17Wr...

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Mine too! Me too! Yup! (Also I am now a person who knows an awful lot about precisely which nerves in my mouth are getting stabbed during a given visit and why, but that’s just because I have a rad dentist who answers all my pesky anatomy questions.)

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It’s almost as if generations of pathological institutionalized selfishness and unmitigated greed might cause an issue for most of the population. Hmmm. Yup. Shocker.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Agreed! A gift at the exact right moment. Yaknow?

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

How are all these presumably well educated people on TV saying “Sososecurity” over and over again?!? This makes NuQueLur feel like a friggin vacation! Gahhhhhh!!

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My “doorman” hasn’t been to Manhattan in two years.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Agreed. Just talking about this…After an extra disturbing trip to a couple public high school English classes last week. Which were, well, deeply and tragically disturbing. Not being a curmudgeon I promise.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social You’re doing a GREAT and brave job. May I humbly suggest that we all get explicit and tell the youth that “stand up/fight back” means “in person”?…occurs to me that many might think they’re doing it already, and posting isn’t enough for this mess. Thanks!!

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Every. Single. East village bodega has HUGE mountains of prominently displayed Zyn. They were not here a few weeks ago.

Tins of Zyn in a crowded NYC bodega window.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@edzitron.com just kicked off my trianual Tool binge. Thank you good sir! Perfect timing.

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These same people have been failing us my entire life in just this way, while Sen. Sanders has been out there being The Actual Good Guys for just as long. The fact that he’s still an utter anomaly slash tiny minority is grotesquely depressing. And now, bonus, dangerous.

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Very. In an interesting way though.

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Signs screaming “no”…

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Exactly. The sheer volume of shame to go around here is astounding.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Remember when all those Greek people killed themselves because Austerity? I do.

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social really did his part last night by trying (hard) to talk some sense into this truly delusional husk of a throwback, who in no way lives on the same planet as the rest of us and who is fully leaning in to an obviously huge mistake. I truly appreciate the effort.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Thank you Ed, for saying what needs to be said, over and over until (hopefully) those who need to listen hear you. You keep saying it, I’ll keep telling everybody I know about your work!

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It was pretty fascist over there from the get go.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Agreed. I watched the ad for the new new new phone (Cheaper, but still too expensive, only now with more GeneratedBullshit™️) the other day and thought “I miss the Nano.”

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Jesus. Screaming at the TV while @maddow.msnbc.com interviews Jeffries. These people are living on an entirely different PLANET from the rest of us. Nightmare. Utter nightmare. Why can’t the democrats find ONE person who can JUST TALK LIKE A PERSON?!?! (And who maybe knows an actual American?)

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ok. So the democrats can’t or won’t do actual civil disobedience why now? Every single one of them should be on tape being arrested for attempting a citizens’ arrest of every tiny Nazi in the servers. Let the cops haul them away. On TV. The failure of imagination here is stunning.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ohhhhhh Hakeem. Oh god. Hakeem. Oh dear Jesus, how is this a real person?!? Yup. Confident. Firey. Engaging. Clearly down with the cause. Obviously knows people with jobs. This is all going to be just fine. The guy with the beige personality has a memo plan. All good now. Phew.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Me too. They’re truly the cultural deep dive I didn’t know I needed.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I think it’s because substack isn’t video in a nation with terrible literacy. It’s not entertainment. It doesn’t feel “personal” in the same way. It can’t.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Don’t mind them. They’re in no way Rising Again all over the place. It’s fine. Plus they’re not at all disappearing all the people who took the Black Jobs so American can be Great Again as quickly as possible over here. Nope. Not at all. Fun times.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This, right here, is why you stop teaching phonics and civics decades prior. This moment right now. An echo of things that already happened.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have an actual question for people who can stomach much more BroPod than I can… How often does the phrase “I think that’s right…” appear in 3.8 hours of Rogan? Or 2.5 hours of PBD? Or whatever the thing of the day is? Like, ever?

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“Sorry your grandma might starve but we have to eradicate THE WOKE-EI!” … Dems: “Look who is REALLY defunding the police now! Also, tell everyone about how much you followed the rules some more. That’ll fix it. Or maybe a condemnation of something that happened a week ago? Yeah. Do that more.”

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Precisely. (And yours is a very gracious interpretation of what this is, and what they are.)

How economic inequality controls your life | Gary Stevenson | Full interview

I’ll believe that the Democratic Party Folks are serious when they start sounding more like @garyseconomics.bsky.social and less like 1994 Republicans. (Y’all shluld follow Gary on all platforms right now. And this shoukd be in every middle school in america.) youtu.be/m5yfbWyHPac?...

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YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Useless is a kind way to describe what this is. Or… what they are. Whatever. I keep hearing Sarah Palin sneer about “that hopey changey stuff”…she called it.

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Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Dude. I remember Reagan. I’m just waiting for Richard Attenborough to have the bright idea to release my dedicated DNA from amber so I can chase unsuspecting tourists and not eat Jeff Goldblum.

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I left after they sold us to the fascists again. Still? Again? Yeah.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Also it’s polite and “shows its work” which makes me feel just slightly less “dirty” while playing with it.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

😂 exactly! They’re going to find a use case. They are. Just give them a little time. You’ll want it eventually. You will. It’s going to Change the World. It is. They promise. Just hang on while they figure it out. It’s going to be great. It totally is. Uh huh. Yup.