Hope Teague Bowling
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NBCT 2010 • Co-host of the IWL_Podcast • Faith, Social Justice, Ed Policy, Minutiae, and Shade • hopeteague.com • bowlingsabroad.com
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Ep. 221: Who Gets to Be the Hero w/ Author Natasha Bowen
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YA author Natasha Bowen shares that she never saw herself in any books until she was 19yrs old! Representation matters, especially when it's authentically part of storytelling and not crammed into an otherwise white/eurocentric story.
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I always return to this quote from Derek Jensen in moments like these
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I always return to this quote from Derek Jensen in moments like these
Heading to Budapest with @natebowling.com this weekend. If you've got food/beverage recs or off the beaten path type things, hit us up!
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Heading to Budapest with @natebowling.com this weekend. If you've got food/beverage recs or off the beaten path type things, hit us up!
YA author Natasha Bowen shares that she never saw herself in any books until she was 19yrs old! Representation matters, especially when it's authentically part of storytelling and not crammed into an otherwise white/eurocentric story.
open.spotify.com/episode/7qwT...
open.spotify.com/episode/7qwT...
Ep. 221: Who Gets to Be the Hero w/ Author Natasha Bowen
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November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
YA author Natasha Bowen shares that she never saw herself in any books until she was 19yrs old! Representation matters, especially when it's authentically part of storytelling and not crammed into an otherwise white/eurocentric story.
open.spotify.com/episode/7qwT...
open.spotify.com/episode/7qwT...
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I desperately need the US to stop having news for a while
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I desperately need the US to stop having news for a while
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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
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Here's some back of the napkin actuarial math on a fifty-year mortgage for $300,000 at 6%:
Principal: $300,000
Monthly Payment: $1,579
Total Interest Paid: $647,520
Total of All Payments: $947,520
Principal: $300,000
Monthly Payment: $1,579
Total Interest Paid: $647,520
Total of All Payments: $947,520
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Here's some back of the napkin actuarial math on a fifty-year mortgage for $300,000 at 6%:
Principal: $300,000
Monthly Payment: $1,579
Total Interest Paid: $647,520
Total of All Payments: $947,520
Principal: $300,000
Monthly Payment: $1,579
Total Interest Paid: $647,520
Total of All Payments: $947,520
On the one hand, do what you want with your expendable income. On the other, Mar-o-lago/MAGA face is definitely political branding and serves as a type of virtue signalling (if they had any virtues).
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220: Jaw and Order
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November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On the one hand, do what you want with your expendable income. On the other, Mar-o-lago/MAGA face is definitely political branding and serves as a type of virtue signalling (if they had any virtues).
open.spotify.com/episode/3Oly...
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In case you missed it, this episode was eye opening!
📢 I was geeking out this entire conversation because Loretta and Marlene are GIANTS. So many things they shared had me 🙌🏻 and 🤯. Please give this episode a listen and grab a copy of their book.
spotify.link/S4z4yzELKXb
spotify.link/S4z4yzELKXb
Ep. 219: Moving Beyond Choice Into Reproductive Justice w/ Loretta J. Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried
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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In case you missed it, this episode was eye opening!
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Washington, there's literally no excuse to not vote. We vote by mail or dropbox (use a dropbox since you waited til the last minute).
Black voters in the South often have to stand in line for hours to do what you can do in your slippers.
Get your life together and send off that damn ballot.
Black voters in the South often have to stand in line for hours to do what you can do in your slippers.
Get your life together and send off that damn ballot.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Washington, there's literally no excuse to not vote. We vote by mail or dropbox (use a dropbox since you waited til the last minute).
Black voters in the South often have to stand in line for hours to do what you can do in your slippers.
Get your life together and send off that damn ballot.
Black voters in the South often have to stand in line for hours to do what you can do in your slippers.
Get your life together and send off that damn ballot.
Nearly every election, I send some $$ to Pizza to the Polls. You should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate
Pizza to the Polls 🍕🇺🇸
Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Nearly every election, I send some $$ to Pizza to the Polls. You should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate
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I've said it before and I'll say it again now:
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again now:
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Just finished this collection of short stories by the best of contemporary YA authors. Best friends, secret crushes, and tough decisions. 10/10 recommend!
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Just finished this collection of short stories by the best of contemporary YA authors. Best friends, secret crushes, and tough decisions. 10/10 recommend!
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#Files 31 Days of #Halloween Oct 31st Sarah Kendzior — NYT bestselling author of THEY KNEW & other books @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and arguably the scariest person I know — recommends “731” (S3E10): “The episode most notable for the present crises is probably ‘731.’” Happy Halloween and thanks!
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#Files 31 Days of #Halloween Oct 31st Sarah Kendzior — NYT bestselling author of THEY KNEW & other books @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and arguably the scariest person I know — recommends “731” (S3E10): “The episode most notable for the present crises is probably ‘731.’” Happy Halloween and thanks!
📢 I was geeking out this entire conversation because Loretta and Marlene are GIANTS. So many things they shared had me 🙌🏻 and 🤯. Please give this episode a listen and grab a copy of their book.
spotify.link/S4z4yzELKXb
spotify.link/S4z4yzELKXb
Ep. 219: Moving Beyond Choice Into Reproductive Justice w/ Loretta J. Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried
spotify.link
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📢 I was geeking out this entire conversation because Loretta and Marlene are GIANTS. So many things they shared had me 🙌🏻 and 🤯. Please give this episode a listen and grab a copy of their book.
spotify.link/S4z4yzELKXb
spotify.link/S4z4yzELKXb
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I'm gonna stop saying "this is what y'all voted for" (even though we need to accept that a LARGE number of Americans did very much vote for this) and instead say what I really mean: This is what y'all refused to vote *against*
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm gonna stop saying "this is what y'all voted for" (even though we need to accept that a LARGE number of Americans did very much vote for this) and instead say what I really mean: This is what y'all refused to vote *against*
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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Washington State is one of the most Democratic leaning states in the country.
Zero Republicans hold statewide elected office and the state hasn't voted for the GOP for President since 1988, that's 37 years.
Nevertheless the ABC & Fox affiliates in Seattle are right wing propaganda mills.
Zero Republicans hold statewide elected office and the state hasn't voted for the GOP for President since 1988, that's 37 years.
Nevertheless the ABC & Fox affiliates in Seattle are right wing propaganda mills.
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Washington State is one of the most Democratic leaning states in the country.
Zero Republicans hold statewide elected office and the state hasn't voted for the GOP for President since 1988, that's 37 years.
Nevertheless the ABC & Fox affiliates in Seattle are right wing propaganda mills.
Zero Republicans hold statewide elected office and the state hasn't voted for the GOP for President since 1988, that's 37 years.
Nevertheless the ABC & Fox affiliates in Seattle are right wing propaganda mills.
Got sucked into this author who never fails to deliver tension-filled, feel-good romances. She weaves in mental health issues and complex relationship themes but I'm looking for a little more variety. If y'all have any recs of romance books centering Black/Brown characters let me know!
October 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Got sucked into this author who never fails to deliver tension-filled, feel-good romances. She weaves in mental health issues and complex relationship themes but I'm looking for a little more variety. If y'all have any recs of romance books centering Black/Brown characters let me know!
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For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
📢 @oasisyouthcenter.bsky.social
has served the Tacoma community for decades! We meet up with drop-in coordinator, Wayne Rowser for our latest episode!
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has served the Tacoma community for decades! We meet up with drop-in coordinator, Wayne Rowser for our latest episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/5sNp...
Ep. 218: The Heart of Tacoma’s Queer Youth Community
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October 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📢 @oasisyouthcenter.bsky.social
has served the Tacoma community for decades! We meet up with drop-in coordinator, Wayne Rowser for our latest episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/5sNp...
has served the Tacoma community for decades! We meet up with drop-in coordinator, Wayne Rowser for our latest episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/5sNp...
Absolutely appalling. Every single one of the stories is enraging. Somehow it's just business as usual in America 2025.
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
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ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Absolutely appalling. Every single one of the stories is enraging. Somehow it's just business as usual in America 2025.
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
War-ravaged Portland
🎙️Jesse Sutanto is baaaaack and as lovely as ever. Newest episode of the podcast.
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Ep. 217: Sharp Humor, Big Hearts and a Touch of Murder: Jesse Sutanto Returns
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September 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🎙️Jesse Sutanto is baaaaack and as lovely as ever. Newest episode of the podcast.
open.spotify.com/episode/1wO0...
open.spotify.com/episode/1wO0...