Reposted by jodi sh doffMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Funny 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. 480216046716
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Too 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.open.substack.comToo Busy to Read That Book? Short Attention Span ReaderEvery 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. 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 12/05/2026substack.comJodi Sh. Doff (@onlythejodi)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... 000
Reposted by jodi sh doffJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Unsolicited 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. 731650264
Reposted by jodi sh doffRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. 399204035672
Reposted by jodi sh doffMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The Worst Ruling in a Century (is an understatement) #Sad politicalwire.com/2026/04/29/t...politicalwire.comThe Worst Ruling in a CenturyRick 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... 29169451877
Reposted by jodi sh doffRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026So 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. 22681011926
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...brevity.wordpress.comOne Difficult Choice, One Honest Essay, Five Publications, and Thirty YearsBy 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… 021
Reposted by jodi sh doffRoz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Why 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 #memoirbrevity.wordpress.comOne Difficult Choice, One Honest Essay, Five Publications, and Thirty YearsBy 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… 151
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Whether 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 villagejodishdoff.substack.comAn 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. 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Watching 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.open.substack.comThe Year My Mother Was Seventeen & What Dementia ErasedIn 1947, history unfolded around my mother. Now dementia has erased her memories — and my chance to ask what that year meant. 010
Reposted by jodi sh doffKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15888640821173
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026They refuse to discuss, refund, or honor the lower advertised prices, despite these proof. With insurance, I paid TWICE what they quoted for the meds without insurance. Lesson learned. My bad, I've been boycotting since the DEI debacle, and got suckered in with snake oil claims. 011
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026On January 2nd, I ordered it, my receipt said they'd charged me $661 at 8:37 AM. At noon the same day, it shipped and I was charged instead, $743. 110
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Reason 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. 110
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.open.substack.comWhen She Says I Love You, My Heart BreaksDoes she mean it, or is it Stockholm Syndrome? 010
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025As a life long fighter for civil rights and social justice, I'm disappointed that such a supposedly woke company jumped on the keffieh bandwagon. For us, the left is the new right. We are in more danger from the knee-jerk responses of the liberal left than we are from the conservative right. 4 of 5 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Your sin of omission is perfectly in line with Hamas' stated goal of the elimination of all Jews. Everywhere. 4 of 5 100
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025No one wants women and children to suffer, but choosing the side of an actual aggressor (Hamas) who started this latest in a millenia long history of wars in that area, is in itself, an antisemitic choice. 3 of 5 100
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Jews make up .02% of the world. Antisemitic violence is on the rise everywhere. Many of us find ourselves having to be hyperaware all the time. 2 of 5 100
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025An 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 5 120
Reposted by jodi sh doffMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/08/2025You 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.nytimes.comWhite House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions 14343431580
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Something 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. 000
Reposted by jodi sh doffStandWithUs @standwithus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Powerful words from Van Jones, author and activist, on how progressives often underestimate the threat posed by the Iranian regime. Credit: CNN 0133
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2025hmmm, I've been a July birthday for 67 years, but I'm going to have to opt out. Strawberry Shortcake? Bleech. Maybe I could do a June or a December? Anyone want to swap? 110
Reposted by jodi sh doffShay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings 451380547615
Reposted by jodi sh doffjournalistross.bsky.social @journalistross.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Shortly 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. 139149053285
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 14/06/202518.5 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. 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025substack.com/@caprican/no...substack.comKenneth F. Martin on Substack 010
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Trump 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/fntyOLwxapp.sosha.aiJoin me on June 14 010
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025You should be reading this column daily.open.substack.comTreason has a pension planOn giving Ashli Babbitt's family $5 million 010
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Republican lawmakers going after "Know Your Rights" trainings. Because they don't want you to KNOW YOUR RIGHTSgothamist.comHouse GOP panel probes NYC Chinese American nonprofit over rights trainingsLawmakers are looking into guidance delivered by trainers at a March 8 workshop hosted by the Chinese American Planning Council. 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This is what authoritanism looks like. Government withOUT the people 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025SHEIN & Temu will be forced to raise their prices on April 25 because of the tariffs. NOW, it’s personal. 000
Reposted by jodi sh doffMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Trump 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 1131700320
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025After they already admitted they'd made a mistake, now backtracking with "I'm just reading what they handed me..." How very presidential... 100
Reposted by jodi sh doff🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/04/2025If you get funky when the beastie boys shout "HEY LADIES!" then you're a lady. 271543271
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025He: - 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 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025substack.com/@krassenstei...substack.comKrassenstein on SubstackBREAKING: 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... 010
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."open.substack.comTrump's In His Terrible Two’sFor our president everything's personal 000
jodi sh doff @jshdoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Never in modern American history, have so many been abandoned by the few they elected to represent them.open.substack.comDon't look down, they've removed the safety netThe 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? 000