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jodi sh doff

@jshdoff.bsky.social
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Sober, aging caregiver for a parent w/ dementia. Funny. Lucid. Heart-wrenching ™ Multiple anthologies, Hippocampus, Oldster, ShortReads…Find me on Substack: substack.com/@onlythejodi

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Too Busy to Read A Book? Short Attention Span Reader —a ridiculous monthly feature — is For You. I want to be silly for a bit & judge books by their covers. I want to tell the world about books. Want your book dissected by someone with nothing but a love of books & written things, I’m here.
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Too Busy to Read That Book? Short Attention Span Reader
Every month I'll tell you what a book is about without ever reading it. Is it magic? No, it's Short Attention Span Reader where we can so judge a book by its cover.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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This is a project I have wanted to do for YEARS. Tune in tomorrow, for the debut of Short Attention Span Reader where each month I will prove that I can so judge a book by its cover. If you have a boo...
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3: You don't need an MA in Creative Writing to write. You don't need special software to write. You don't need online services to write. All you need is a notepad, a pen and the willingness to take time, make mistakes and learn.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Worst Ruling in a Century (is an understatement) #Sad politicalwire.com/2026/04/29/t...
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The Worst Ruling in a Century
Rick Hasen: "Wednesday’s 6-3 party line decision in Louisiana v. Callais will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century." "All six Repub...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#lifegoal getting something published by @dintywmoore.bsky.social. This, in Brevity Blog follows a story I thought no one would be interested in...
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One Difficult Choice, One Honest Essay, Five Publications, and Thirty Years
By Jodi Sh. Doff I had one essay, published five times over a span of thirty years. A friend started BUST, the feminist magazine for women with something to get off their chests, in 1993. The first…
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Why write? To make sense of your own life, and because it might also have happened to someone else. @jshdoff.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/o... #writinglife #authorlife #creativewriting #memoir
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One Difficult Choice, One Honest Essay, Five Publications, and Thirty Years
By Jodi Sh. Doff I had one essay, published five times over a span of thirty years. A friend started BUST, the feminist magazine for women with something to get off their chests, in 1993. The first…
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Whether you’re a new subscriber, or we’re old friends, here’s a quick reminder why we’re here. I’m talking about aging, caregiving, dementia, and righteous feminist indignation. We can’t do this alone and we don’t have to. If it takes a village, you are my village
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An Aging, Sober Writer on Caring for her Nonagenarian Mommy with Dementia.
All the Kübler-Ross stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and eventually, acceptance. And that’s just a Tuesday.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Watching 42—a film about Jackie Robinson—I realized my mother was 17 the year Major League Baseball was integrated. What else was happening in the world and what was it like for her to come of age at such a pivotal time in history? I wish I'd asked when she could still tell me.
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The Year My Mother Was Seventeen & What Dementia Erased
In 1947, history unfolded around my mother. Now dementia has erased her memories — and my chance to ask what that year meant.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Reason eleventy million to hate and boycott Amazon. On January 2nd, Amazon listed my prescription's average price with insurance as $38 for three months. Without insurance, it was $338 for three months.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“You’re really so good to me.” Sometimes followed by an “I love you.” I didn’t doubt she loved me, but I’ve never been sure if she meant it at that moment, or if it was part of her survival instinct— staying on my good side. A little bit battered wife syndrome, a little bit Stockholm Syndrome.
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When She Says I Love You, My Heart Breaks
Does she mean it, or is it Stockholm Syndrome?
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
An Open Letter to the "Wokeness" of Topple and Burn, Cruising your site this morning, I saw two necklaces supporting Palestine and none against anti-semitism. You support the disabled, women, the oppressed, the matriarchy, the marginalized. 1 of 5
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.
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White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Something about this stinks. A managed cease-fire so quickly? A retaliatory strike on a US military base in Qatar, the country that just gave Trump that ridiculous jet? And not retaliatory strike to US proper? And Iran pre-warned us about the airstrike? So no one was hurt? Something is not kosher.
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StandWithUs @standwithus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Powerful words from Van Jones, author and activist, on how progressives often underestimate the threat posed by the Iranian regime. Credit: CNN
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Lisa Cottrell @lisacottrell.com · 14/06/2025
#KnowYourRights #NoKings
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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
A few hundred Americans of all ages standing in dappled sun with flags and signs
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journalistross.bsky.social @journalistross.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Shortly after the Atlanta #nokings event kicked off at 10, organizers said Liberty Plaza near the state Capitol had already reached maximum capacity of 5,000.
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🌚 @calixsino.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Wtf
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
18.5 miles of anti-scale security fencing, 17 miles of concrete barriers, are being installed throughout Washington for the Felon 47 parade and the Army Birthday Festival.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Trump is defying courts and ignoring the Constitution. That's why I'm taking to the streets on No Kings Day for a nationwide day of defiance. app.sosha.ai/s/fntyOLwx
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Join me on June 14
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
You should be reading this column daily.
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Treason has a pension plan
On giving Ashli Babbitt's family $5 million
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Republican lawmakers going after "Know Your Rights" trainings. Because they don't want you to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
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House GOP panel probes NYC Chinese American nonprofit over rights trainings
Lawmakers are looking into guidance delivered by trainers at a March 8 workshop hosted by the Chinese American Planning Council.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is what authoritanism looks like. Government withOUT the people
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is what caving looks like
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
SHEIN & Temu will be forced to raise their prices on April 25 because of the tariffs. NOW, it’s personal.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump has pretty good instincts about when he's going to be in trouble, politically or otherwise, so him explicitly giving himself plausible deniability now in his statements should be interpreted as an acknowledgment that he sees some danger in the policy in general & re Abrego Garcia specifically
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/04/2025
If you get funky when the beastie boys shout "HEY LADIES!" then you're a lady.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
He: - closed a wind farm that would've powered 1M+ homes & help NYS be fossil fuel-free by 2050. - allowed commercial fishing in a marine protected zone, (home to endangered sea turtles & whales) - promoting mining in our national parks. Short-sighted. Selfish. Destructive. Greedy. #PayAttention
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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BREAKING: Senator Van Hollen just met with El Salvador's Vice President Félix Ulloa, and get this... The VP told Van Hollen that the reason they are holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia at CECOT is because t...
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"In the end, his feelings about who he likes & who he hates are running the show. We are dealing with: A petty, vindictive man wielding great power to punish or reward people according to his emotions. It’s as if a child in the throes of the terrible twos were President of the United States."
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Trump's In His Terrible Two’s
For our president everything's personal
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Never in modern American history, have so many been abandoned by the few they elected to represent them.
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Don't look down, they've removed the safety net
The MAGA societal wet dream is succeeding beyond their wildest dreams inside a government that is experiencing multiple points of structural failure. Where are the Democrats?
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
That time she annoyed me so much i finally shot her. In the face.
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Five Little Piggies, Mom, God, Death & the Big Bang
She kept asking for a gun, so I got her one. Got one for myself too, while I was at it.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Weinstein retrial bans the use of the words “survivor” and “force” in any testimony, replaced by “complaining witness” and a description that allows the jury to draw their own conclusions. Read all the dystopian books and recognize. Worldwide.
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Harvey Weinstein appears in court as retrial approaches
Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday ahead of his retrial, which is scheduled to start in just over a month.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Hungary’s parliament passed a constitutional amendment to ban all LGBTQ+ events. Poland is the worst state in the EU for LGBTQ+ rights Fewer & fewer countries I'd feel even a little bit safe. The land of my ancestors: Hungary, Russia, Poland. Nope. US? NOPE.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard says, "Not Today, Satan," to Felon47 Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands
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Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands
Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Defying HIS own Supreme Court, smiling and nodding as Bukkake says the idea of returning a prisoner the DOJ mistakenly sent (and we paid for) is preposterous, and yet, you KNOW, Felon47 will continue to do business with his Bukkake pal. Look who our country is aligned with now and be horrified.
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Is Trump defying the Supreme Court?
His team argues it can leave a wrongfully deported man in a foreign mega-prison.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump asks WWVD?
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Trump's Mentor Is A Dictator
What Viktor Orban’s Hungary can show us about our future.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“If they can, contrary to the law and every regulation and without any due process, mark people inside SSA’s database dead who legally entered the country and were legally required to be issued a work SSA number, then they can do that to anybody,”
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Trump administration lists thousands of immigrants as dead in new policy | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security requested the Social Security Administration to enter more than 6,000 names of immigrants into its database used to track dead people, according to a DHS official w...
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Disposable People: We Are Not Safe
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Disposable People: We Are Not Safe
The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.
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jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
About goddamned time the Supreme Court made a decision they didn't just pull out of Felon47s ass.
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Supreme Court Sides With Migrant Trump Administration Wrongly Deported (Gift Article)
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/04/2025
Mercy looked it up yesterday night and the tariffs are about to make my Crohn's meds unavailable. So that's cool. Anyway, don't sleep on the eugenicist aspect of this. Tariffs are going to make it unaffordable for disabled people to stay alive, which is part of the point of them.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This isn’t a trade war against China and the rest of the world. It’s an economic war against working class America.
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