She/Her Michigander. Nonprofit comms etc, newly union! Tweets here my own. Team #GreatLakes #FreePalestine #MopUpMichigan. Speramus meliora resurgent cineribus.

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Don't mind me, I'm just tweeting a timeline break so I can pin it. Take care of yourself folks. Stop. Breathe. Then keep on keeping on. 💧♥️
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‼️ Just did some phone banking for Abdul El-Sayed and many of the conversations were the same as over the weekend. Everyone that answered already voted for Abdul or had plans to go tomorrow. Here are the ones that stuck out. - Arab female voter (20s) Wayne County noted the Islamophobia and praised Hasan Piker: “No one seems to care about us but we’re showing up for Abdul. Pretty much everyone in my community has or will be. Things are so bad. Democrats like to blame us and Republicans are racist against us. Jake Lang came here. It feels like everyone hates us. I watch Hasan and it was nice seeing him come here for Abdul and show how normal it is.” Then she said she and her family are all going tomorrow to vote for Abdul. Herself, her two siblings, her parents and her two grandparents. - Black male voter (50s) in Flint: “She’s been attacking Mike Rogers for months and suddenly she goes to support him? In what world is he better than Abdul El-Sayed?” He said he has already voted for Abdul by mail. - White male Independent (30s) in Calhoun County: “Rogers has literally nothing to offer other than what Trump is doing so I’m voting for El-Sayed tomorrow.” - Black female voter (20s) in Oakland County: “What Haley did on Sunday was gross. I’ve been telling everyone to vote Abdul so Mike Rogers can go away, but now I need her to go away too.”
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
Abdul El-Sayed literally just repeated the gist of the claim that got him in hot water this week: “It shouldn't be this hard to pay taxes and know that that money's gonna be spent on you and your kids, instead of dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids.” That is the essence of the highly controversial ad that caused Haley Stevens to break with him and sparked condemnation from Jewish leaders across America.
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We got your back, New York!
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If you think poor people don’t know how to budget, you don’t know any poor people.
Ohio Republican Jon Husted: People living in poverty are just not very... um... experienced at navigating the real world
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I’ve seen enough. Debbie Dingell for speaker of U.S. House
Replying to @samueljrob
Dingell: “If we go and look like Republicans — which we are not going to…”
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onion article from 3 hours ago
#TexasSenate Sean Spicer’s sources claim that Haley Stevens is set to endorse Ken Paxton
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Jen • jenelaina.bsky.social retweeted
But if you hold a sign that says “I SUPPORT GENOCIDE,” it’s not a problem.
British police arrest 325 people at a London protest in support of Palestine Action. Demonstrators staged a "mass action" outside the US embassy ahead of a court hearing on the UK government's July 2025 decision to outlaw Palestine Action under anti-terror legislation u.afp.com/SysV
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Jen • jenelaina.bsky.social retweeted
Fellas we finally have a new king of men
My dumb ass was wondering how they threw the boxes that high up
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I need to throw myself in a lake. What do you mean it's already November f--k.
Perhaps my most Michigan post of the day: Oh my GOD I need to go look at a lake after all of this is over
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I have done a November 10th lake swim. Twice. Think that's the latest and we're being pretty generous with the word "swim" but I don't count it unless I go under and get at least a dozen strokes in so yep. Of course it's 73 tomorrow but 68 and rain Wednesday then 50s. 🫤
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RT @GordonSexyyuen: Rest in Power Juan Atkins ( 1962 - 2026 ) #juanatkins #techno #dj #producer
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If anyone in Michigan is trying to figure out how to complete the “Board of Trustees Member Oakland Community College” portion of their ballot, I found a discussion on a Michigan Democratic Progressives fb group where everyone is suggesting Robin McGregor and MiVida Burrus.
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A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND A NAKBA SURVIVOR SHARED THE SAME STAGE. At the London finale of Macklemore’s tour, 86-year-old Stephen Kapos took the mic. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest as a child. Looking at Gaza, his warning was chilling: "Eighty years later, when I look at the mass destruction in Gaza, I see it is worse than Budapest. Children are still playing among the ruins." Right after him stood 85-year-old Antoine Raffoul. "I was seven years old when I became a Nakba child. For eighty years I have been a Nakba survivor. And for the last three years I have been witnessing a genocide of my people." He spoke about his 7-year-old granddaughter, and his dream to finally hold her hand on a return journey to his homeland. "Silence is not an option anymore." 🧭
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19-year-old Brandon Young from 6 Mile says he’s voting for Abdul El-Sayed because Haley Stevens is pro-Israel. “She’s too much of a corporate, Israel shill,” Young says.
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Anytime someone tries to center how opposition to Israel's genocide is making Jews feel less safe, show them this. There is a bazooka of full on, blatant, not-just-opposing-a-foreign-country's-slaughter-of-civilians racism and bigotry being directed against Muslims. Get a grip.
El-Sayed supporters Aasiya Yaasiin, Mina Abdel-Khalek and Faduma Hassan say Islamophobic rhetoric in TV ads is making them feel less safe at school and in public. “It’s like going back in time. I’m more in danger of a racist event now than five years ago,” Yaasiin says.
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RT @AreelUS: Thank you, Ana @ananavarro You said what needed to be said. Never underestimate a Latina woman with courage, clarity, & a voic…
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"Ms. Rachel and NFL player Azeez Al-Shaair meet Jood from Gaza"
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"Hey, space those seats apart a bit so we don't have any empty ones in the crowd shot, ok? Not so far that it's obvious though... Perfect."
Mike Rogers has arrived for his election-eve rally event in Rochester Hills, MI.
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We've had our differences. We have our own thing right now too. But Ohio: please make this loser lose tomorrow and we're good. At least for awhile. Love, Michigan
Vivek Ramaswamy performs "Lose Yourself" by Eminem at the Iowa State Fair
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Life is now just watching conservatives do this everyday and being helpless to stop it
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