Josh W
@winowiecki.bsky.social
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Teaching, mentoring, and writing from the edges.
Contributor to The Conversation US.
Author of “Margins and Centers” on Substack.
Queer nurse.
Settler on stolen land.
Teaching, mentoring, and writing from the edges.
Contributor to The Conversation US.
Author of “Margins and Centers” on Substack.
Queer nurse.
Settler on stolen land.
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The autonomous car company announced an expansion into three new regions, including the Motor City.
Waymo plans to launch ‘robotaxis’ in Detroit - Detroit Metro Times
Autonomous car company Waymo says it plans to deploy its “robotaxi” service in Detroit this winter. In a series of announcements Monday, Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., sai...
www.metrotimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The autonomous car company announced an expansion into three new regions, including the Motor City.
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Dia de Muertos poem
From SENTENCES: poems & bars
From SENTENCES: poems & bars
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dia de Muertos poem
From SENTENCES: poems & bars
From SENTENCES: poems & bars
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There is a disconnect in America today: Trump is deeply unpopular facing mass resistance from citizens. But elites keep rolling over for Trump anyway.
What to do? An organized boycott campaign.
Here's how it would work, and why it could very well change elite behavior www.vox.com/politics/466...
What to do? An organized boycott campaign.
Here's how it would work, and why it could very well change elite behavior www.vox.com/politics/466...
Americans have a secret weapon against Trump
A new strategy to stop business elites from bending the knee.
www.vox.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There is a disconnect in America today: Trump is deeply unpopular facing mass resistance from citizens. But elites keep rolling over for Trump anyway.
What to do? An organized boycott campaign.
Here's how it would work, and why it could very well change elite behavior www.vox.com/politics/466...
What to do? An organized boycott campaign.
Here's how it would work, and why it could very well change elite behavior www.vox.com/politics/466...
Grateful to share new work in @ajnonline.bsky.social with Dr. Jackie Iseler:
“The Undervalued Clinical Nurse Specialist Role”
This piece lifts up the CNS as a solution hiding in plain sight; an APN role rooted in evidence, system thinking, and mentorship.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1097/AJN....
“The Undervalued Clinical Nurse Specialist Role”
This piece lifts up the CNS as a solution hiding in plain sight; an APN role rooted in evidence, system thinking, and mentorship.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1097/AJN....
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Grateful to share new work in @ajnonline.bsky.social with Dr. Jackie Iseler:
“The Undervalued Clinical Nurse Specialist Role”
This piece lifts up the CNS as a solution hiding in plain sight; an APN role rooted in evidence, system thinking, and mentorship.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1097/AJN....
“The Undervalued Clinical Nurse Specialist Role”
This piece lifts up the CNS as a solution hiding in plain sight; an APN role rooted in evidence, system thinking, and mentorship.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1097/AJN....
Peak Michigan Daily satire. Layered with enough hyperbole to qualify for its own honorary degree.
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Peak Michigan Daily satire. Layered with enough hyperbole to qualify for its own honorary degree.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.
Excited to see this piece I wrote for @us.theconversation.com get a new life!
🧐 Let's go behind the scenes of how new scientific discoveries get checked over before getting into academic journals and then news stories.
It's called peer review—a checkpoint where anonymous experts scrutinize a study to:
✔️ Spot mistakes
✔️ Question assumptions
✔️ Push for revisions
It's called peer review—a checkpoint where anonymous experts scrutinize a study to:
✔️ Spot mistakes
✔️ Question assumptions
✔️ Push for revisions
September 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Excited to see this piece I wrote for @us.theconversation.com get a new life!
LOVE Tea and Sympathy — a must stop every time I’m in the city.
Nicky Perry’s Tea & Sympathy is an institution in the West Village. She and her daughter have started a podcast in which they interview their celebrity regulars ⬇️
She runs a British tea shop in New York. Now she could interview Obama
Nicky Perry’s Tea & Sympathy is an institution in the West Village. She and her daughter have started a podcast in which they interview their celebrity regulars
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
LOVE Tea and Sympathy — a must stop every time I’m in the city.
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno
Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno
I hope tonight’s gig will have the same galvanising effect as the 1988 Nelson Mandela concert – and give people courage to speak out about Gaza, says music producer Brian Eno
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno
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UC nurses are joining faculty workers to sue the Trump administration and stop its illegal attack on gender-affirming care and ICE deportations at our universities and hospitals.
This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.
This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.
September 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
UC nurses are joining faculty workers to sue the Trump administration and stop its illegal attack on gender-affirming care and ICE deportations at our universities and hospitals.
This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.
This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.
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"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
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We are live now from San Francisco announcing our lawsuit bringing together a broad coalition of labor unions to stop the Trump administration’s attempt to unlawfully stifle free speech within the University System of California.
@aft.org @uaw.org @calnurses.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
@aft.org @uaw.org @calnurses.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
UC Faculty, Staff, Students & Unions Sue to Halt Trump Admin Assault
YouTube video by TheAAUP
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We are live now from San Francisco announcing our lawsuit bringing together a broad coalition of labor unions to stop the Trump administration’s attempt to unlawfully stifle free speech within the University System of California.
@aft.org @uaw.org @calnurses.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
@aft.org @uaw.org @calnurses.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
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The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
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Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.
September 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.
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The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews
Will only test for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Stopped tests: 6 additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia.
Will only test for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Stopped tests: 6 additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia.
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses
As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
www.nbcnews.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews
Will only test for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Stopped tests: 6 additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia.
Will only test for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Stopped tests: 6 additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia.
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We know how Trump, Republicans and Jillian Michaels feel about museums, history & slavery.
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
'Are We Creating Critical Thinkers?' Historians Say Smithsonian Review Reflects Today's Anti-Intellectualism
“We're in a very dangerous moment when everybody's considered an expert, where your training doesn't matter."
dlvr.it
September 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We know how Trump, Republicans and Jillian Michaels feel about museums, history & slavery.
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
But what do historians, scholars & educators think about what this administration is doing
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Americans celebrate workers and the labor movement on a completely different day from most of the rest of the world.
The reason? Politics, of course.
The reason? Politics, of course.
Why do we celebrate Labor Day? So Grover Cleveland could own the left.
Labor Day became a federal holiday because of politics under President Grover Cleveland.
wapo.st
September 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Americans celebrate workers and the labor movement on a completely different day from most of the rest of the world.
The reason? Politics, of course.
The reason? Politics, of course.
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A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
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I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today.
All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked.
Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked.
Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Amid Trump’s attacks on higher ed, professors need to keep standing up for our democracy | Opinion
Across the nation, there has been a groundswell of academics who have decided to speak out for their institutions — and we all must keep doing so.
www.inquirer.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today.
All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked.
Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked.
Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Palantir’s Gotham platform lets the government weave together driving records, police reports, even social media — creating powerful maps of people’s lives.
Critics warn it’s surveillance by algorithm, with little public oversight.
buff.ly/e4mclbR
Critics warn it’s surveillance by algorithm, with little public oversight.
buff.ly/e4mclbR
August 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Palantir’s Gotham platform lets the government weave together driving records, police reports, even social media — creating powerful maps of people’s lives.
Critics warn it’s surveillance by algorithm, with little public oversight.
buff.ly/e4mclbR
Critics warn it’s surveillance by algorithm, with little public oversight.
buff.ly/e4mclbR