Jess Schuster 🙆🏼‍♀️

This state needs to be under a conservatorship

Me getting a candidate ready for call time.

I feel so seen right now @swanmanekamp.

@Matt_Bove Springville would 💯 make the list.

1) Lewiston 2) East Aurora 3) Ellicottville 4) Williamsville 5) Hamburg

@eileenwkbw @zellnerforny @WKBW @GovJakeWagner this is your handiwork for sure. Beautiful sign placement 😍

Polls officially closed in the special election for the 61st State Senate seat. I’m at @zellnerforny watch party. His republican opponent Dan Gagliardo is watching results at his restaurant D’Aolio in Amherst. @WKBW

Opinion | This Rural Congresswoman Thinks Democrats Have Lost Their Minds. She Has a Point. - The New York Times Read it here: nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opi…

“Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.”

Say what you will, but Zohran gives a masterclass in what we need more of from elected leaders: respect for different opinions, mutual admiration, integrity. We can support different candidates without mudslinging. We’ll have to if we plan to win.

Zohran Mamdani is asked to respond to criticism from @NydiaVelazquez for getting involved in New York Congressional primaries: (This morning The Judge Street Journal reported that she plans to endorse @ReynosoBrooklyn, who’s running against the mayor’s pick, @claireforny)

Grief doesn’t know time. It follows us eternally, but we can enjoy the new year while holding space for what is or was and what we’ve been through.

MoMA

I fell in love with this sentence: “Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.”

I don’t know who needs to hear this but: Love shows up. If someone loves you they show you in many ways. Small ways, big ways, average ways but they show up. They answer. They are there when you need them.

"I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times." Before Midnight (2013)

The Last of Us. Bill and Frank. And I’ll take absolutely no questions on the topic. 😭

I *need* everyone over 35 to understand that a lot of young voters / first time voters DO NOT understand how important the ACA is or how transformative this law was.

I get what Sylvia Plath meant when she said “if i get through this year, no matter how badly, it will be the biggest victory i've ever done.”

This moment demands fighters, not folders.

Tonight, I am voting no on a procedural vote on an appropriations deal that would re-open the government. Since July, I have been clear: to earn my vote, Republicans would have to do something to bring down the cost of health care for working and middle-class Michiganders. The promise of a vote in over a month does not meet that threshold. For me, this was never about politics or Beltway gamesmanship. President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ has plunged America into a health care crisis. That emergency has real life victims, and in Michigan, the average price of health care is increasing across the board, with some expected to see their premiums more than double. What’s clear is that the old way of doing business continues to fail America. Leadership is about changing and adapting when there is real need, and unless we hear that, we will fail to meet the moment.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/int… The good news is I’m not toxically masculine OR toxically feminine (indirect, conflict averse/avoidant, etc) so maybe I’m an okay boss? Fascinating listen and discussion.