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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 07/04/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Excerpt from Guardian article about outcome of 2024 U.S. Presidential election. "White women still voting for the Republican candidate." Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996.

Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 07/04/2026

Got excited when I found the first instance of a woman appearing in the Congressional Record, in 1916. Until I realized that she was a white supremacist and the speech was about the value of slavery.

Yellowed paper with text, the title page of a speech delivered by Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy" titled "Wrongs of History Righted" which was included in the Congressional Record in 1916.

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 24/02/2026

No cheating: your last saved pick of a celebrity is your therapist. Of all the characters from "Love, Actually," she's not the most problematic

Kiera Knightley opening the door in a scene from the movie "Love Actually" where her husband's weird friend declares his love in a series of signs.

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 10/02/2026

You don't get one of these by being shy about your accomplishments

Clear glass plaque for the very fake "Top 50 Lawyers" award. Text: Presented to: Lewis Small America's Top 50 Lawyers Personal Injury Lawyer Pennsylvania

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 13/01/2026

Things are largely shitacious today except this is not: a Best Small Fictions nomination from @doesithavepockets.bsky.social along with these lovely writers!!

Coastal background with tree and words announcing Does It Have Pockets nominations for Best Small Fictions

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 11/12/2025

My bank sent me an email addressed to "Mrs. Theiss" and you know I sent a strongly worded message back

Image of Rosie the Riveter not allowing an overpaid CEO call her "Mrs." when she obviously uses her maiden name.

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 06/10/2025

Me: my back hurts all the time, it makes no sense Also me:

Red stick figure with severely bad posture

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 11/07/2025

Bird cam footage reminds me to be grateful that there's not a camera three inches from my face while I'm cracking sunflower seeds between my teeth

A mourning dove sitting in a pile of seeds, looking slightly regretful about being on camera

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 12/06/2025

Throwback to June 2017. I feel so naive to think that treason would be the worst of his offenses

Me (white woman in Nats hat) holding a sign defining Treason, per U.S. consitution, as "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid & comfort"

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride Month to Grimace, too. He's not the mascot we want, but he's the one we deserve 🤣

SNL sketch in which Grimace comes out as bisexual. A very muscular, shirtless Grimace surrounded by other familiar characters from McDonald's, including the Hamburglar.

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 28/05/2025

Except for the ones in my heart

From submittable, an empty grid with the words "No submissions found" instead of writing submissions

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 10/05/2025

Does a fresh haircut cancel out a fresh literary rejection? I think so

Woman with chin-length hair in front of glass doors, smarting a little from a rejection on a short story

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 17/03/2025

Keep going. "Do Boycotts Work? As Target’s Traffic Declines, Tesla And Others See Shifts With Consumers" by Doug Melville @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...

Quote text: The markets are taking notice. Target’s stock price (NYSE: TGT) is down 24%—from 137.40 on Jan. 24, the day Target cut its programs—to 104.70 on March 15. Within that time frame, the stock is down 10% from when the 40-day kickoff began on March 5, accelerating an ongoing downward trend in its stock price since late 2024. To top it off, The City of Riviera Beach Police Pension Fund filed a class-action lawsuit against Target, its CEO, and board members, claiming they misled investors about the financial risks of Target’s DEI and Environmental, Social, and Governance initiatives. The plaintiffs are alleging that Target downplayed the risks of consumer backlash and boycotts stemming from the changes.

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 06/03/2025

They don't want protest because they know protest works

Attack on civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama. On this day in 1965, state troopers used nightsticks and tear gas to attack American civil rights activists as they crossed a bridge in Selma, Alabama, during their attempted march to the state capitol in Montgomery. Black and white image of protestors holding American flags.

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Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 09/12/2024

A rainy Monday in December calls for brevity Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero (trans. @jcolson.bsky.social), Night Beast by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social and The Woman’s Part by @jmgatford.bsky.social