Vanessa Wyeth
@vwyeth.bsky.social
NYC mom with opinions: UN peacebuilding, parenthood, sportsball, politics, educational equity, feminism. Probably thinking about ̶S̶w̶e̶e̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶T̶o̶d̶d̶ ̶S̶u̶n̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶B̶l̶v̶d̶ Chess (jk it’s always Sweeney Todd). Personal views. She/her.
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Vanessa Wyeth
@vwyeth.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I doubt I was known for anything but I did create this meme which went mildly viral and I remain very proud of it to this day.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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…These people have quite actively tried to ensure that if they go down we're going with them.
So I'm saying i want them stopped, but i want the equivalent of a controlled descent, the pilots and crew arrested on the scene, and a prolonged & public FAA investigation about how the fuck this happened.
So I'm saying i want them stopped, but i want the equivalent of a controlled descent, the pilots and crew arrested on the scene, and a prolonged & public FAA investigation about how the fuck this happened.
Look, i know a lot of us live for the schadenfreude of the crash & burn but i don't think some of you realize just in how many ways we are all in the fucking plane.
Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…
Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…
July 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
…These people have quite actively tried to ensure that if they go down we're going with them.
So I'm saying i want them stopped, but i want the equivalent of a controlled descent, the pilots and crew arrested on the scene, and a prolonged & public FAA investigation about how the fuck this happened.
So I'm saying i want them stopped, but i want the equivalent of a controlled descent, the pilots and crew arrested on the scene, and a prolonged & public FAA investigation about how the fuck this happened.
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Chuck Schumer’s insistence on “reining in” ICE is so infuriating because they simply do not believe themselves bound by the law. The only solution to ending the concentration camps, the torture, the abductions, the murder, is to disband the agency and prosecute the lawbreakers.
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records ...
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Chuck Schumer’s insistence on “reining in” ICE is so infuriating because they simply do not believe themselves bound by the law. The only solution to ending the concentration camps, the torture, the abductions, the murder, is to disband the agency and prosecute the lawbreakers.
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"Gender studies... brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. And this critical lens extends to revealing how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle seemingly believed they had the right to commit." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"Gender studies... brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. And this critical lens extends to revealing how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle seemingly believed they had the right to commit." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
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The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.
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Too many people amassing astronomic wealth fundamentally do not believe in the idea that all people are equal and deserve equal rights, and they are spending their money on those ideas. This is the story.
A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Too many people amassing astronomic wealth fundamentally do not believe in the idea that all people are equal and deserve equal rights, and they are spending their money on those ideas. This is the story.
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Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
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well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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“ hey all of their behavior is completely modeled off of abusive and maladaptive relationships and narcissistic systems …. so let’s throw out GENDER STUDIES ( because we would have to also admit things about abusive women and power not just men “
February 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
“ hey all of their behavior is completely modeled off of abusive and maladaptive relationships and narcissistic systems …. so let’s throw out GENDER STUDIES ( because we would have to also admit things about abusive women and power not just men “
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"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
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This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body
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Hahaha OK that's pretty good.
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Hahaha OK that's pretty good.
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U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies.
It's not just "a few bad apples."
It's not just "a few bad apples."
January 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies.
It's not just "a few bad apples."
It's not just "a few bad apples."
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
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OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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If ai is so good why did it need so many ads begging for us to use it??
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 AM
If ai is so good why did it need so many ads begging for us to use it??
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
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Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
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“god bless America” meaning the continents of North and South America is going to give the worst people alive a collective aneurysm :)
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
“god bless America” meaning the continents of North and South America is going to give the worst people alive a collective aneurysm :)