Jennifer

Married, mother, music lover, animal lover. Fiscal conservative, social moderate. Keep your hand out of my pocket and your nose out of my business.

[Greta Van Susteren @greta]

Prof Dershowitz @AlanDersh wants to testify IN THE OPEN and not behind closed doors before the House Oversight Committee investigating Epstein but Committee wants his testimony behind closed doors - what is the committee hiding? What happened to transparency? @RepJamesComer @SpeakerJohnson

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@BrendanCarrFCC Laughable

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@WarPigsChief It used to be great when it was actually a taste of, but now it’s ridiculously priced for full size portions. I don’t want 10 different BBQ/smoked items or fried rices. This is the 1st year in 42 we will not be going

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@700wlw

[فرازان @AnotherSideVEGA]

I want to say something to those who are talking about Iran, about Iranians, about attacking it.

You have never lived under a religious, totalitarian dictatorship.

You grew up in mixed schools.
You don’t understand what it means to be separated girls in one building, boys in another from childhood.
And talking to each others is a great sin.

You wore whatever you wanted.
You cannot imagine being arrested for wearing a T-shirt with English writing on it even something as simple as “hello” or having your hands shoved into a bucket of paint as punishment.

You don’t know what it means that, for men in my country, having long hair was once considered a crime that they would grab you in the street and shave a cross into the middle of your head so you would be forced to shave it all off.

You cannot understand what it means for listening to music to be a crime especially Western music.
Punishable by prison. By lashes.

People were imprisoned even for carrying blank cassette tapes because authorities assumed they intended to record “immoral sounds.”

A woman’s singing voice is forbidden. Listening to it is considered a sin.
Showing musical instruments on television is forbidden.
Owning or carrying an instrument could be treated as a crime and your instrument could be smashed in front of your eyes.

You cannot imagine that owning a VCR was once a crime and if they arrested you, the consequences could be devastating.
Then satellite dishes became illegal. Police would climb rooftops like Spider-Man, tear them down, and later you would receive a court summons demanding to know why you had one.

They began jamming satellite signals so people could not watch. Those signal interferences later raised serious health concerns across the country.

If you didn’t pray at school, you were punished.
If you didn’t fast during Ramadan, you were punished.
If you ate in public during Ramadan, you could be flogged.

We grew up like this.

For the most basic human rights, we constantly had to struggle.
And it never ended.

The situation worsened economically year after year. Jobs required connections — otherwise, even the most highly educated young people often ended up driving taxis to survive.

We were told to chant “death to” one group of countries one day, another group the next.

The internet in Iran is rationed.
Twitter (now X) has been filtered since 2009.
YouTube has been filtered since 2009.
Instagram has been filtered since 2022.

If you see Iranians on these platforms, many access them through VPNs.

And despite all of this

We remained kind.
We remained compassionate.
We tried to see the beauty in life.
We learned to endure.

But endurance does not mean acceptance.

Before you speak, look at where you live.
Look at what you have had your entire life.
Ask yourself whether you have ever had to fight for the most basic freedoms for the right to choose your clothes, your music, your thoughts.

Ask yourself whether you have ever been punished for simply existing as you are.

Then speak.

And understand this:
Many of us are grateful to the United States and to Israel for their military assistance to our country.

Not because we love war.
But because we have lived our entire lives in one.

#Iran
#KingRezaPahlavi
#ThankYouTrump
#ThankYouNetanyahu

https://t.co/TinkFuPObf

[blue @bluewmist]

according to physiology people who go silent when somethings upsets them or hurts them are often experiencing a coping mechanism called emotional withdrawal. 1/4

[Farokh @farokh]

By far the most accurate post I’ve seen about how Iranians around the world feel, including myself. Please stop lecturing us and take a moment to read this.

“A lot of people outside Iran are watching what's unfolding and are shocked by one thing in particular:

that Iranians will feel relief, even joy, when a violent dictator falls. Whether you like it or not, that reaction is real. It comes from lived experience.

After 45+ years of being hunted, tortured, disappeared, executed, and massacred, the collapse of the machinery that did it doesn't feel "complicated." It feels like a breath. A moment of air.

And no, celebrating the fall of a dictator doesn't mean Iranians are naïve about what's next. People inside Iran understand the aftermath better than anyone commenting from the safety of a democracy.

They understand how dangerous transitions are. They understand the risk of chaos, revenge, and power vacuums. They knew from the beginning that you can't topple a regime like this with empty hands. They have paid for every peaceful route with blood.

So here's what some need to hear:

If you've been absent for 45+ years, if you ignored the massacres, the executions, the prisons, the disappearances, the rapes and only found your voice from the safety of a free country because Iranian suffering finally fits your political framework...

then you do not get to arrive now and speak with certainty. You don't get to lecture Iranians with theories as if your analysis is the truth.

Because what's happening isn't a debate. It's survival.

And Iranians don't need permission to feel relief when their oppressor falls, even while they brace for the frightening road ahead.
Listen to Iranians. Amplify them.

Centre the victims, and not your worldview.
And stop regurgitating regime propaganda.”

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

USA hockey wins their first gold medal since the 1980 Miracle 🥇

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

Yeah, we know. We might not vote for her for president, but she's a patriotic American, she didn't use the olympics to spout her views on woke shit, and she's there representing all of us.

We can love her without agreeing with everything she thinks.

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

Watching the big game! #puppybowl

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@AmericanAir I just wanted to give you kudos for the free Wi-Fi! A very nice addition and was happy our plane had it today!

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@graeters Fiona

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

Sparkle Beach Ken has to be the best!!

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@ZeekArkham Definitely!

[Speedkicks @Speedkicks]

Stanford said you guys gotta stop complaining and lock in

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@CarolsCloset I got that exact same call. I hung up on them and they then called me back 3 times. Crazy and yes, my 90 year old mom would have given them all her info if they had called her.

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

Bill Clinton skipped out on his Epstein hearing. After being subpoenaed, just said “nah.”

There are pics of him all over the Epstein files. None of those pics are with Lucifer (Hillary).

So… is the Left gonna start calling him a p3d0? I mean, they love leveling that accusation at Trump and conservatives without proof (I’m looking at you, CM Punk). Are they going to apply the same rules on their own, since it’s all about the victims, or are they gonna say “nah” like Bill did?

Leftist hypocrisy is real, ain’t it?

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@garco71 @mrmikeMTL Took care of my 96 yr old MIL when she had dementia and I am now taking care of my mother who is 90 and has dementia. Is it my responsibility, no but it’s what you do.

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

@EndWokeness Don’t think he has any say on availability or cost, hilarious!

[Jennifer @cincyjen]

She’s not wrong.

[Greta Van Susteren @greta]

I believe most Americans are moderates - the extremists on left and right are very loud podcasters which skews the view of America generally - am I wrong?