Jennifer (Orr) Reynolds

@jensmind.bsky.social

Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine, Downeast Maine Organizer, Arrested for Lollygagging in Whiterun, committing acts of toxic empathy as you read this! https://jrey.trollbreath.com/ https://magazine.trollbreath https://linktr.ee/trollbreath

Years ago I supplemented my teaching income as a restaurant server. Sometimes the special sold out. Word went around, “86 the lobster mac&cheese!” At no point did I grab a knife and find some lobster pasta to stab. It meant gone, over.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

The unspoken rules for protest in the US have been, for decades, that if you have a big tame sign-holding march, it's safe to bring your kids. If you're not perceived as threatening their power, they'll leave you alone. Which means they perceive their unpopularity as a threat to their power