Jen House

Praying for the two soldiers attacked yesterday in DC and for calm and compassion toward the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees making this country better each day.

Let us not react in a way that causes them to live in fear.

“The Crew had conversations with Nancy over the last few years about extending the French-born manager's contract, which currently runs through 2026, and making him the highest paid manager in MLS.“

This sure looks like the #Crew96 FO as the source.

It's time to quote Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Onto the next era of #Crew96

Bad day for Cincinnati sports teams, huh?***

*Picture below from earlier today when the Pats won in Cincy

**Saw FCC got stomped by Miami in the MLS playoffs (also in Cincy)

It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.

Mon morning: I walked my dog in fleece lined leggings, wool socks, a puffy winter coat, a winter hat and gloves. There was snow.

Sat morning: I walked my dog in joggers, a t-shirt and no-show socks. Obviously no snow.

This week was peak Ohio weather.

Just thinking out loud, but MLS moving to a winter calendar leaves a gaping summer sports vacancy in Columbus. We need a WNBA team more than ever.

All jokes aside, I love that three of the most powerful Republicans in the country dragged a single member of Congress into the Situation Room, spent the day turning on the juice but couldn't shake anything loose. Love to see them come away from that empty handed.

It’s excited husky ❄️season ❄️

These pictures capture her joy and energy this morning.

mLs ShOuLd PlAy A wInTeR cAlEnDaR

Then get ready for more of these kinds of games in TOR, MTL, CHI, MIN, CO, RSL, NE, NYRB/NYC, SKC, and probably STL, CLB, CIN too. Bet the fans will come out to the stadiums in droves and strongly enjoy their experience.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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So here's where we are, Sunday morning:

Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.

So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.

Dystopian.

I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

Give these guys a follow and bully them into making this their permanent home. Twitter sucks.

This is what a New Era looks like.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Democratic women have made history tonight:

Abigail Spanberger will be the first female governor of Virginia.

Mikie Sherrill will be the first female Democratic governor of New Jersey.

I’m looking forward to seeing these strong, dedicated leaders deliver a bright future for their states. 🎉

Oh Ohio. What if we were like this?

JD Vance's half-brother has lost by an overwhelming margin as he tried to become the mayor of Cincinnati.

Democratic incumbent Aftab Pureval wins reelection.

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*

The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

It's Election Day! I voted. Have you?

The man handing out sample ballots in the parking lot got to hear my dog practicing her best "singing" while I voted.

It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To Talking to the gerontocracy.

it's clear reading this @rtraister.bsky.social piece how little the Democratic Party thinks it erred in running Joe Biden at his age

Also this memorable quote: "Many can’t imagine doing anything in which they won’t be heavily staffed and relevant all the time.”

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Lovely tifo in Columbus tonight, knitting together Crew Cat, Goosebumps and Dia De Los Muertos imagery...

And do I spot an Easter egg paying subtle tribute to the Men At Work crest??? 👏

The President of the USA is a monster.

Tonight was fun. #crew96

Game 3 tickets purchased. Let’s go Crew. 🖤💛🖤💛

#hellisreal

How broken do you have to be to throw and enjoy such an opulent party while knowing damn well you’re starving children?

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.