G Wil
@knapperdad.bsky.social
Dad, LGBTQ ally, flint knapper, fletcher, bowyer, mediocre archery practitioner, fly-fisher, former translator (C-E), eardstapa, criminal justice policy guy, tax positive.
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
Shop cat helping me with maple board bow...
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Shop cat helping me with maple board bow...
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@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
Tin foil hat time: I think ending SNAP benefits, increasing healthcare costs, and a gov't shutdown with missed paychecks are all intentional. These, along with an increasingly aggressive policing posture, are intended to create civil unrest.
Their cruelty and desire for power know no bounds.
Their cruelty and desire for power know no bounds.
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Tin foil hat time: I think ending SNAP benefits, increasing healthcare costs, and a gov't shutdown with missed paychecks are all intentional. These, along with an increasingly aggressive policing posture, are intended to create civil unrest.
Their cruelty and desire for power know no bounds.
Their cruelty and desire for power know no bounds.
How is this not an SNL skit yet, where the reporters report the sky is blue, water is wet, and Johnson just denies it all.
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
How is this not an SNL skit yet, where the reporters report the sky is blue, water is wet, and Johnson just denies it all.
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Elites do not care about “democracy” except inasmuch as they support any system of social organization in which they personally are elites. Now that they’ve figured out they can maintain their elevated status without democracy, they will all shrug and go about their frictionless lives.
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Elites do not care about “democracy” except inasmuch as they support any system of social organization in which they personally are elites. Now that they’ve figured out they can maintain their elevated status without democracy, they will all shrug and go about their frictionless lives.
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
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As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
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So here's the thing about that...they did
Not very long ago
Turned out well
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Not very long ago
Turned out well
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot
Albany must embrace transformational change to bring NYC transit back on track and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow.
www.thenation.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So here's the thing about that...they did
Not very long ago
Turned out well
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Not very long ago
Turned out well
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
Legacy media: "Is the Democrat trans agenda harming America's soybean farmers?"
Chait, Klein, et al., you all sound just like this.
Chait, Klein, et al., you all sound just like this.
Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"
October 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Legacy media: "Is the Democrat trans agenda harming America's soybean farmers?"
Chait, Klein, et al., you all sound just like this.
Chait, Klein, et al., you all sound just like this.
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Things here are not great but someone tell Dave Chapelle that so far, no one has been dismembered with a chain saw for speaking truth to power against the regime. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Things here are not great but someone tell Dave Chapelle that so far, no one has been dismembered with a chain saw for speaking truth to power against the regime. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
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Today’s news of a shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan attacking the Latter-day Saints community during worship is devastating. Families deserve safety wherever they are, but being targeted while practicing one’s faith is especially horrific.
September 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today’s news of a shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan attacking the Latter-day Saints community during worship is devastating. Families deserve safety wherever they are, but being targeted while practicing one’s faith is especially horrific.
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Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.
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I know what it means to be shot in the head, to have doctors say survival is unlikely, and to fight for every step of recovery. Hearing that 12-year-old Sophia is healing is a miracle. I’m praying for her recovery and for the strength of her family 💜
Girl shot in head during Minneapolis Catholic school shooting making 'miraculous' recovery
Doctors warned that Sophia Forchas was "on the brink of death," but now she is due to be moved from an acute care ward to an inpatient therapy program.
www.nbcnews.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I know what it means to be shot in the head, to have doctors say survival is unlikely, and to fight for every step of recovery. Hearing that 12-year-old Sophia is healing is a miracle. I’m praying for her recovery and for the strength of her family 💜
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Trump's masked Gestapo thugs are beating & kidnapping people indiscriminately.
Some are documented immigrants, some are citizens!
There's no due process, just cruelty.
This 80yo heart patient/business owner was brutalized & detained.
Talk to friends &
Volunteer/donate:
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Some are documented immigrants, some are citizens!
There's no due process, just cruelty.
This 80yo heart patient/business owner was brutalized & detained.
Talk to friends &
Volunteer/donate:
Stopelectionrigging.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Trump's masked Gestapo thugs are beating & kidnapping people indiscriminately.
Some are documented immigrants, some are citizens!
There's no due process, just cruelty.
This 80yo heart patient/business owner was brutalized & detained.
Talk to friends &
Volunteer/donate:
Stopelectionrigging.com
Some are documented immigrants, some are citizens!
There's no due process, just cruelty.
This 80yo heart patient/business owner was brutalized & detained.
Talk to friends &
Volunteer/donate:
Stopelectionrigging.com
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free universal childcare.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free universal childcare.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
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Important set of analyses of the arms industry as a commercial determinant of health, which importantly draws out the parallels between the arms, tobacco, alcohol and other industries. Great work all
New series in @bmj.com just out: "The arms industry as a commercial determinant of health" including two analysis articles from Mark Bellis and colleagues. Thanks to Mohammed Abba-Aji for leading us on an editorial as part of it: www.bmj.com/collections/... @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Arms industry as a commercial determinant of health
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www.bmj.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Important set of analyses of the arms industry as a commercial determinant of health, which importantly draws out the parallels between the arms, tobacco, alcohol and other industries. Great work all
Relax everyone; he's molting.
August 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Relax everyone; he's molting.