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Janet

@jjsps.bsky.social

Long term recovery as frame of reference. MA Democrat. Mom, museum- goer, writer, reader, walker. Grief pervades me. Hope remains. No DM’s.

created December 4, 2024

2,176 followers 1,045 following 1,954 posts

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Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Beauty!

2/9/2025, 12:45:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s in great company. Did they meet on the Epstein plane?

2/9/2025, 12:41:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep hope alive.

1/9/2025, 11:33:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

They are eating their own!

1/9/2025, 11:32:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Scary

1/9/2025, 11:31:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes! They got us through- the “essential workers.” We must continue to show our thanks.

1/9/2025, 11:30:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dorothee V. Plessis (@dorotheevplessis.bsky.social) reposted

I hope it's up to date. Crap happens so fast!

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1/9/2025, 11:28:29 PM | 9 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Going! Needham MA

1/9/2025, 5:59:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Karma

1/9/2025, 5:10:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 11:55:32 AM | 5388 2214 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

So relevant!

1/9/2025, 1:05:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats and thank you for all your leadership and work.

30/8/2025, 5:32:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Scared-beyond-all-conspiracy-theories- scared…these charlatans will kill us. The scientists, experts, and adults have all left the rooms.

29/8/2025, 9:58:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop the steal for real!

29/8/2025, 9:55:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Neutralize headlines into meaninglessness. This is a 5 alarm situation.🔥

29/8/2025, 9:54:10 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

She is beautiful. Her sweetness and feistiness shine through.

29/8/2025, 9:52:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Conor Browne (@brownecfm.bsky.social) reposted

This is an outstanding development.

29/8/2025, 9:09:34 PM | 409 119 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 4:46:30 PM | 14668 5795 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...

29/8/2025, 1:57:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Fauci is a hero. Weak people seek to destroy heroes.

29/8/2025, 12:46:43 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

In this new age, finding valid, science-based info is a challenge. Here is a source.

29/8/2025, 12:45:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

The hallmark of the administration: break laws and lie.

29/8/2025, 12:43:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people

29/8/2025, 1:29:22 AM | 10591 2487 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) reposted

Union representing CDC employees re: ousted leader Dr Susan Monarez: “We commend her, not just for doing the right thing, but for doing the hard thing by standing against disinformation. She chose science over politics. This is the leader that CDC needs & our nation deserves”

29/8/2025, 11:14:35 AM | 2779 676 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Renaming bases with Confederate names, attempting to erase history, purging military and elsewhere of leaders who are female and of color, doing this for a rioter and criminal, trying to normalize racism and oppression again. Sick. Of. It. Don’t buy the lies.

29/8/2025, 12:28:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CCscott (@ccscott.bsky.social) reposted

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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29/8/2025, 10:38:24 AM | 24691 4425 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Ethics and principles still hold.

28/8/2025, 9:51:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t bear to listen to him for more than 20 seconds.

28/8/2025, 9:50:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Where from? Gorgeous.

28/8/2025, 7:51:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Senseless, hateful, short-sighted. Everywhere essential workers at all pay grades bring fired or arrested. A dangerous hollowing out of our country’s infrastructure and functionality.

28/8/2025, 7:49:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

The truth behind the headline. Another person with principles attacked and undermined by this administration.

27/8/2025, 11:35:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

And if women do, the GOP’s SAVE Act will prohibit them from voting, if their name doesn’t match their birth certificate.

27/8/2025, 10:14:43 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Fascists create crime concerns to justify militarization

27/8/2025, 7:13:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

His Gilded Age obsession is ruining our lives.

27/8/2025, 1:27:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Really. I don’t patronize them or Chick-Fil-A for this and for their historic anti LGBTQ hiring policies and activism as well.

27/8/2025, 1:27:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

Publicize this. Diversion, equity and inclusion policies and practices are good for business, good for workplace climate, good for workers!

27/8/2025, 1:20:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) reposted

🏳️‍🌈 NEW study: Companies with strong LGBTQ+ workplace fairness policies grow faster, earn more, and deliver steadier returns. Fairness and inclusion correlated with higher revenues, profit and investor returns. A 15-year analysis of hundreds of large companies found inclusion equals business success.

Human Rights Campaign LGBTQ+ study
27/8/2025, 1:14:20 PM | 310 117 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

25/8/2025, 3:48:44 PM | 3666 1903 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. Thank you.

26/8/2025, 4:08:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Such lies, and so much fear and harm being caused to so many.

26/8/2025, 4:03:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

I love “imaginary and unfounded.” As is most of what has come out of this administration and all its departments.

26/8/2025, 4:01:06 PM | 23 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, this is hopeful.

26/8/2025, 3:27:22 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Ask the neighbor!

26/8/2025, 3:18:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

ILLEGAL TO FIRE HER. You are the crooks.

26/8/2025, 3:14:41 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Person to person. That’s how this works best.

26/8/2025, 3:08:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

As Gov. Pritzker said, there are NOT two sides to this story.

26/8/2025, 3:03:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Voting with their feet.

26/8/2025, 3:01:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Wake up, ‘Merica. They’re taking your health insurance.

26/8/2025, 3:01:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Every Democratic leader: talk like this. Hold press conferences together. Tell the truth. Be a beacon.

26/8/2025, 3:00:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

The people around him are so afraid of him that they won’t even tell him how math works

25/8/2025, 7:42:35 PM | 10788 2907 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

Only one side to this story for sure.

26/8/2025, 1:24:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

Hero. Keep pushing back Governor.

26/8/2025, 1:12:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

Gov. J.B. Pritzker: fantastic governor speaking truth. Profile in courage.

26/8/2025, 1:10:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

And he would have made an outstanding VP…

25/8/2025, 8:41:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Prototype for us all?

24/8/2025, 8:07:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

So what has happened to her?

24/8/2025, 3:54:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Get it while you can!

24/8/2025, 3:52:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

😷😷😷

24/8/2025, 3:51:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m with you. What can you do? What can we do?

24/8/2025, 3:49:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Really- stay focused on Trump, Hakim.

24/8/2025, 3:44:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”

24/8/2025, 3:14:30 PM | 10500 3004 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it’s like when Bill Barr got out ahead of Mueller report. They offer Maxwell’s and Acosta’s transcript, very “mild,” many denials and names of Democrats to poison the well before the real stuff comes out further down the line. And gets downplayed.

23/8/2025, 1:15:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social)

Here’s the science!

23/8/2025, 12:38:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jordan (@gm-jordan.bsky.social) reposted

I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded. HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.

22/8/2025, 3:08:50 PM | 12405 3963 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Blurring of traditional lines must not be normalized.

23/8/2025, 12:32:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep them safe

23/8/2025, 12:28:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

They should not be armed, and be more like Boy Scouts.

23/8/2025, 12:27:51 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Plus taking away security clearances of former “old guard”

22/8/2025, 8:20:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

TMI

22/8/2025, 7:06:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This needs further investigation.

22/8/2025, 7:01:13 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) reposted

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

22/8/2025, 11:58:48 AM | 15086 2360 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Blood on his hands

21/8/2025, 4:24:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Clearing out institutional and constitutional knowledge for the big takeover. Silencing dissent in advance.

21/8/2025, 4:23:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Uganda jails, beats and has the death penalty for LGBTQ people

21/8/2025, 4:18:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

In the long run they will save his ass- shouldn’t criticize

21/8/2025, 2:18:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Disgusting. This was a while ago- Pence is in picture. Probably there are no meetings at all now on women’s health. Too woke!

21/8/2025, 1:58:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Step aside Washington Post, LA Times.

21/8/2025, 1:56:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Mayors and governors, state legislators for sure.

21/8/2025, 1:55:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted

🚨 Doctors were not allowed to treat people being held in detention. Unacceptable.

21/8/2025, 12:40:24 PM | 3457 2070 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

No humane services anywhere

21/8/2025, 1:52:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Truth! Clarity! Science! What used to light our way…and protect our health.

21/8/2025, 1:50:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, they (DHS) are so smarmy and tacky. In the face of pluck and courage.

21/8/2025, 1:49:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Like the threat to Gaza or hurricane ravaged Florida, destroyed lands bring developer$ rather than restoration of homes and communities and lives.

21/8/2025, 1:05:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Vagrants need “policing” by the National Guard? Oh yes, holding out empty cups for change or staying out of the rain is a HUGE threat.

21/8/2025, 1:03:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) reposted

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20/8/2025, 7:51:26 PM | 5590 2078 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

In addition to alcohol

21/8/2025, 1:26:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, I take offense to that Hippie comment…And I love it: we’re getting through!

20/8/2025, 5:51:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Kiss-ass - move to Fox News

20/8/2025, 5:26:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

I love it. I don’t think Germans felt able or safe to chase and harangue the Brownshirts (SA) or the Gestapo in the 1930’s like people now are doing with ICE. We still have this freedom.

20/8/2025, 5:17:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Love that ACLU!

20/8/2025, 5:11:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Pax Linson (@paxll.bsky.social) reposted

If Heather's Idea resonates, go for it! Here's mine: I'm an American. One of millions. This is my country, where I have dreamed since first I was my mother's daughter. This is our democracy. This is OUR country. We the People ARE this country! What say You?

20/8/2025, 1:48:35 AM | 412 102 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Not pointless at all- it’s rallied a lot of Americans. It’s lifted up the heroes who are the TX Democratic legislators. Hope is in pushback and saying NO- and each day, more get disgusted and take an action.

20/8/2025, 5:02:54 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bunny 🕊️ 🦋 🌊 🔔 🌈 🌲 💙 🌊 (@pittsburghlady.bsky.social) reposted

Kamala Harris encourages Rep Nicole Collins, day 2 of being restrained Texas house floor.

20/8/2025, 3:04:27 AM | 826 311 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Press pool quality has really gone down these past few months…

20/8/2025, 3:04:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Can he please go away now?

20/8/2025, 3:03:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Now DC residents’ safety is actually at risk

20/8/2025, 3:01:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Reminding me of 2020, after George Floyd’s murder. Black and white young people, together, resisting. People coming out to protest. Scares the sh*t out of the white nationalists.

20/8/2025, 2:55:52 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

There is spinning and there is spinning! Wow she’s a spinner…

20/8/2025, 2:53:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet (@jjsps.bsky.social) reply parent

Great job, both of you! Loved reading this.

20/8/2025, 2:49:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view