Profile avatar
jessicasunja.bsky.social
Mother/wife, book hoarder, soccer lover, + Cleo's person. Be a good human. 🇺🇸+🇰🇷💍🇩🇪
442 posts 1,345 followers 1,933 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

In Nov ‘24 77M Americans voted for a: racist sexist corrupt xenophobic misogynistic veteran-hating sexual-assaulting voter-suppressing authoritarian-aspiring sex-trafficking-adjacent perpetually-failed businessman and his nazi billionaire plaything instead of an exceptionally qualified black woman

Sometimes I put PBS on at work. PBS is showing this right now, "The US and the Holocaust," a Ken Burns doc from 2022. Excellent beginning, lots of context about eugenics and insane fear of immigrants, going to some length to emphasize that "race" itself is bullshit. www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-...

History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

well republicans, youve tied yourself to an asshole that everyone in america hates and you cant distance yourself from him or else he’ll fully fund a primary campaign against you so i dunno, good luck with that

Some 25 hours later, Booker caps off again with John Lewis: "He said for us to go out and cause some good trouble, necessary trouble to redeem the soul of our nation ... Let's be bolder in America, with a vision that inspires... We need that now from all Americans. ... Let's get in good trouble."