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Jennifer Selwyn

@jensel.bsky.social
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Part-time history professor, music fanatic, Boomer-X, L.A. native, and poetry lover. Fighting white supremacy and fascism for the duration. 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10…

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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Btw, I do know how “Hell bent” is written 😆.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Yawn! These right wingers are such cliches, time after time. Monstrous people he’ll vent on making everyone else’s life hellish, too.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Wow, this is stunning!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Terrible news. When I first read the headline, though, without checking the lede, I thought that the singer Morrissey of The Smiths fame was weighing in…it would track…😂
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I get this! While the film gas not aged well, in my view, you can’t beat the edgy sexiness quotient, or weirdness of Bowie, Denice and Sarandon, combined with “Bela Lugosi is dead” 80s vibing.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Inquiring minds might enjoy more details. Hyperbole much? 😂
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Totally agree with your analysis, but I gave to smile at the notion that Kristi Noem, or any of these clowns have even heard of the Paris Commune.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Standing with you, Senator Padilla, as I know so many millions of my fellow Californians—your constituents-are. We implore must hold this Administration accountable for its vile mistreatment of you and of the many activists and everyday citizens who have been exercising their democratic rights.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Yup!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Absolutely, the two things are intimately related and it goes without saying that it is far from coincidental that these two officials are African-American and Latino, respectively. They are striving for a white supremacist national. We say no.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Yes, even with his own family! I remember in 2016/17 reading about how his views on immigration…alienated much of his family. He’s been a p.o.s. from the get-go it seems.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Of course not! Those rhymes…It’s the rare, truly bad song that makes tunes like the Pina Colada song look like masterpieces.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you know SaMo High (and as an Angelena, I know that you do), Miller was so out of step with the culture of that place and from what I remember reading, embattled with fellow students.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Was he even with the band when that abomination was released? I thought he had long since parted ways (for the most part)?
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is excellent! Great reporting.🙏
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Oh, absolutely! And I would not be the least surprised if they have planted agents provocateur in the crowds to amp up the appearance of “insurrection.”
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
True, but L.A. is where Trump wants to test his suppression of all dissent and repression of state-level power, so even if it’s quiet in many parts of the city, it’s global news and extremely serious.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yes, I have thought this, too.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Oh, Dave, I doubt you are capable of such diabolical “cravings” and thank the stars for that!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thanks, I prefer to tread cautiously with these conversations. I am so sorry that your folks do not get it. Too many people get their egos wrapped up in this and lose sight of what is best for their children to feel whole. One can feel hurt but take it to a therapist to deal with, not on your kids.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yup. It's not my business to comment, probably, as an adoptive parent, but I think that this adoptive mom is way out of line.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Oy, we don't want him. They are both plagues on the Republic.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A billionaire can do whatever the ——he wants and that’s America in a nutshell.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
These days, I constantly need a nap. Either it’s aging, galloping fascism, or something in the water? Hope you get some rest.💜
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thank you. Signed.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Some of us are old enough to have been active in the anti-Apartheid movement back in the 1980s. Hell no, we’re not going to forget how sick and repressive that racist regime was, nor will we allow Trump’s white supremacist-driven distortions of history.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🤔
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Yup! Beyond distressing, it’s a damned Shanda!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The title itself is 🔥
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Has Gov. Healy spoken regarding this bill? I would be extremely disturbing, though sadly not unimaginable, for a lesbian political official to take an anti-trans position for political expedience. I hope that is not the case.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Yup and Donald was also charged with housing discrimination as a young landlord as I recall reading.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
His racist views, especially anti-Black racism, have been well-known since at least the 1980s, but in this, as in so many other things, the mainstream press has been derelict in its duties to expose his ugly views.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Yup, their vision of gender policing is much broader than attacking trans women, though that is not to minimize how trans folks are being most harshly targeted.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It’s more than depressing, it’s grotesque!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Yes, absolutely! That’s a great point, beyond these closures making it that much harder to get meds, in general.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Alex, I’ll take “What is one late ‘70s song that does not need to be revived?” for $500.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Yes, that is grim, especially with the news that Rite Aid has again declared bankruptcy and is poised to close many stores around the nation. So much for the vaunted “choices” we supposedly have in all things retail.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Truth. Where's the debate?
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
God bless the witty dorks!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is gutting for sure. We just saw her at a small venue with John Doe a couple months ago. Such vitality, crackling wit, adorable dork energy and talent!!!💔
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Cis lesbian here. I love these results because they defy the unfair perception that lesbians are perfect recruiting material for TERFs and other reactionary social forces.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
She does not even need to become a Dem., just become an Ind. like Bernie and Maine Senator Angus King. As long as she remains a Repub., Senator Murkowski is fully complicit.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If Sen. Murkowski is still a member of the Republicans Caucus in the Senate, she is part of the problem.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Maybe there’s some humanity left out there.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This Passover, we cannot hold seder as usual. The meal cannot be festive while Palestinians in Gaza face famine; the questions of liberation are not theoretical. This year’s Jewish holiday of liberation urges every one of us to step up our commitment to the liberation of the Palestinian people.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It sounds like you, like me, have a very full bedside table! 🥰
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Set your watch by it! 😡
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Yes, this is why we organize!
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Not going to let this idiot erase history.
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Jennifer Selwyn @jensel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This administration truly wants people to die. It’s no hyperbole to observe that.
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