Whistler Heidi
@whistlerheidi.bsky.social
Curious, political-junkie, #atheist, #feminist, seeker of evidence based knowledge, #history, #democracy, #equality, #socialjustice, #science, #HumanRights, #NAT0, nature, dogs, birds, & all things creative.
We're ALWAYS #StrongerTogether!
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
We're ALWAYS #StrongerTogether!
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
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Charlie Kirk was a grifter. Rob Reiner was an activist. These aren't the same thing.
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Charlie Kirk was a grifter. Rob Reiner was an activist. These aren't the same thing.
This might be the one moment in time, that I wish the evangelical belief in a vengeful god & hell were a reality. #Trump
This morning the very evil President of the USA very predictably mocked the death of a good man. He did so to distract from his crimes, but also because he’s evil and can’t help rejoicing over the murder of his critics.
Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This might be the one moment in time, that I wish the evangelical belief in a vengeful god & hell were a reality. #Trump
Ukrainian underwater drones struck a Russian submarine for the first time on Monday, causing critical damage to the vessel and making it the first publicly acknowledged use of the new class of Ukrainian weapons, according to Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency.
#SlavaUkraini 💙💛🌻
#SlavaUkraini 💙💛🌻
Ukraine Claims First Strike by Underwater Drone on Russian Submarine #Ukraine
Ukraine Claims First Strike by Underwater Drone on Russian Submarine
As it tries to demonstrate its continuing ability to fight, Ukraine said it had used drones to inflict serious damage on a Russian Kilo-class submarine at a Black Sea port.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ukrainian underwater drones struck a Russian submarine for the first time on Monday, causing critical damage to the vessel and making it the first publicly acknowledged use of the new class of Ukrainian weapons, according to Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency.
#SlavaUkraini 💙💛🌻
#SlavaUkraini 💙💛🌻
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It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan.
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the CFPB would eviscerate longstanding fair lending and consumer protections in three dangerous ways:
nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan.
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.
Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
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A mass shooting at my alma mater Brown University hit hard, proving no community is safe from senseless violence in a land with more guns than people
Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
Mass shooting at Brown U.: When gun heartbreak comes home | Will Bunch
A mass shooting at my alma mater is a gutting reminder that no one is safe until we tackle America's gun crisis.
www.inquirer.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A mass shooting at my alma mater Brown University hit hard, proving no community is safe from senseless violence in a land with more guns than people
Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
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We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing.
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.
As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing.
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
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"It is unlikely that Heidegger could have imagined this deathless Silicon Valley, where Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have invested in anti-aging science, and where (relatedly and perhaps not as paradoxically as it might seem) individual human beings are increasingly considered replaceable."
A denial of death, post-truth, and "foul is fair" all speak to a refusal to acknowledge boundaries. For Trump and Putin, there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death. In the absence of any boundary, nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
In a Post-Truth World: The Fate of Birth, Death, and Other Boundaries
If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
www.iwm.at
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"It is unlikely that Heidegger could have imagined this deathless Silicon Valley, where Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have invested in anti-aging science, and where (relatedly and perhaps not as paradoxically as it might seem) individual human beings are increasingly considered replaceable."
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Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
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Donald Trump is a very sick man.
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Donald Trump is a very sick man.
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Absolutely vile.
We've had presidents before who were terrible people, but never one who was so shamelessly, publicly terrible. This behavior should not be excused, much less celebrated.
We've had presidents before who were terrible people, but never one who was so shamelessly, publicly terrible. This behavior should not be excused, much less celebrated.
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Absolutely vile.
We've had presidents before who were terrible people, but never one who was so shamelessly, publicly terrible. This behavior should not be excused, much less celebrated.
We've had presidents before who were terrible people, but never one who was so shamelessly, publicly terrible. This behavior should not be excused, much less celebrated.
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I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.
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"When we look back on 2025, this Rob Reiner tweet won’t make the top hundred worst things he did or said." Which is why we are an unserious country.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4936Eye
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4936Eye
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"When we look back on 2025, this Rob Reiner tweet won’t make the top hundred worst things he did or said." Which is why we are an unserious country.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4936Eye
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4936Eye
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Love Jack White’s response to Trump’s disgusting post about Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle
"Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much…."
"Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much…."
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Love Jack White’s response to Trump’s disgusting post about Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle
"Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much…."
"Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much…."
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History will remember Rob Reiner for his art, his heart, and his advocacy. It will remember Donald Trump for reducing the presidency to a platform for petty cruelty. Ranting about "mind-crippling diseases" while weaponizing tragedy offers a disturbing look at who is actually unwell.
December 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
History will remember Rob Reiner for his art, his heart, and his advocacy. It will remember Donald Trump for reducing the presidency to a platform for petty cruelty. Ranting about "mind-crippling diseases" while weaponizing tragedy offers a disturbing look at who is actually unwell.
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You're in the Trump administration, or you're a Republican in Congress. You consider yourself a decent person. You lack the nerve directly to contradict Trump. But you COULD post your own comment on Rob Reiner to make clear Trump wasn't speaking for you.
Has anyone done this?
Has anyone done this?
December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You're in the Trump administration, or you're a Republican in Congress. You consider yourself a decent person. You lack the nerve directly to contradict Trump. But you COULD post your own comment on Rob Reiner to make clear Trump wasn't speaking for you.
Has anyone done this?
Has anyone done this?
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It's always "Me, Me, Me!!"
Such a shallow, empty, soulless imitation of a human being.
Such a shallow, empty, soulless imitation of a human being.
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's always "Me, Me, Me!!"
Such a shallow, empty, soulless imitation of a human being.
Such a shallow, empty, soulless imitation of a human being.
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.
Rest in power #RobReiner! Godspeed. 🫶
Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Rest in power #RobReiner! Godspeed. 🫶
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What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
Preach! 👇👇👇
Governor J.B. Pritzker:
“We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
“We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Preach! 👇👇👇
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The person of interest detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who had served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery. www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/u...
Person of interest in Brown University shooting served in Army, worked at Arlington National Cemetery | CNN
The person of interest detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who had served in a position at Arl...
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The person of interest detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who had served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery. www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/u...