Wendy K. Z. Anderson (she/they)
@wkza.bsky.social
Educator at the U of Minn-pls attribute my words to me. I am fluent in love, compassion, equity, justice, integrity, and collaborative and coalitional politics. Time to get to work. ♥️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖🖤
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Thank you for showing up! The big city protests are great, but the small town ones are where minds are changed.
A larger turnout than in April, here in Brainerd.
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Thanks Wes for the great graphic!
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Thanks Wes for the great graphic!
June 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Thank you for showing up! The big city protests are great, but the small town ones are where minds are changed.
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Anyone who's even dipped their toes into landmark cases knows this doesn't stop at trans rights.
Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.
June 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Anyone who's even dipped their toes into landmark cases knows this doesn't stop at trans rights.
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MN50501 is fundraising and we only have until Friday to reach our goal. If you'd like to help fund future demonstrations like No Kings Day, pick up your laser loon shirt or other merch here: mn50501-org-merch.itemorder.com/shop/product...
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
MN50501 is fundraising and we only have until Friday to reach our goal. If you'd like to help fund future demonstrations like No Kings Day, pick up your laser loon shirt or other merch here: mn50501-org-merch.itemorder.com/shop/product...
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My how the turn tables.
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My how the turn tables.
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For this price tag, over 60,000 people could've been covered by Medicaid for 1 year.
Healthcare, not warfare, please.
Healthcare, not warfare, please.
June 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For this price tag, over 60,000 people could've been covered by Medicaid for 1 year.
Healthcare, not warfare, please.
Healthcare, not warfare, please.
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MN50501's speech at the People's Action Coalition Against Trump press conference on right-wing terror.
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June 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
MN50501's speech at the People's Action Coalition Against Trump press conference on right-wing terror.
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@mn50501.bsky.social
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“That child deserves our support,” @governorwalz.mn.gov continued. “Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
Gov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.” www.startribune.com/gov-tim-walz...
Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over bans in sports
The Minnesota Democrat has been critical of other members of his party who are retreating at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“That child deserves our support,” @governorwalz.mn.gov continued. “Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
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In defiance of President Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work.
Defying Trump, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is still at work
The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In defiance of President Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work.
Our kiddo wrote this letter today to Claudette Colvin. I couldn’t be more proud of this kiddo for who chose for their “Change Maker” wax museum project.
May 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Our kiddo wrote this letter today to Claudette Colvin. I couldn’t be more proud of this kiddo for who chose for their “Change Maker” wax museum project.
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Satellite data from the European Space Agency shows the surface temperature of the oceans is warming 4.5 times faster than they were at the end of the ‘80s. It’s not easy to predict climate change, and the reality keeps turning out worse than we thought it would be 🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Applications...
www.esa.int/Applications...
Sea surface warming faster than expected
Satellite observations show that sea-surface temperatures over the past four decades have been getting warmer at an accelerated pace.
www.esa.int
April 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Satellite data from the European Space Agency shows the surface temperature of the oceans is warming 4.5 times faster than they were at the end of the ‘80s. It’s not easy to predict climate change, and the reality keeps turning out worse than we thought it would be 🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Applications...
www.esa.int/Applications...
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Where is Penn State on this petition? of course.
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Where is Penn State on this petition? of course.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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Say. This.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Say. This.
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keep it up, whip your senates and propel your presidents, hang together
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
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Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
April 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
keep it up, whip your senates and propel your presidents, hang together
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Also I just realized @sarahljaffe.bsky.social is back on here so I can hat tip her for my paraphrase of 'work won't love you back,' her eponymously titled EXCELLENT book on the myth of 'cause work' and struggle to survive under capitalism, which you should definitely read!
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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April 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Also I just realized @sarahljaffe.bsky.social is back on here so I can hat tip her for my paraphrase of 'work won't love you back,' her eponymously titled EXCELLENT book on the myth of 'cause work' and struggle to survive under capitalism, which you should definitely read!
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80th day of Trump's bribery scheme operating out in the open.
April 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
80th day of Trump's bribery scheme operating out in the open.
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I know people that got fired today. So. Yea. The fun keeps coming.
The union representing National Endowment for the Humanities workers said 65% received termination notices Thursday.
National Endowment for the Humanities terminates majority of staff, union says
The union representing National Endowment for the Humanities workers said 65% received termination notices Thursday.
bit.ly
April 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I know people that got fired today. So. Yea. The fun keeps coming.
For many Americans, consumptive, entertainment technologies have become panem et circenses…allowing folks to isolate themselves into dopamine cycles of distraction during massive time of political and cultural unrest.
Unplug and reconnect.
#handsoff and hands in
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Unplug and reconnect.
#handsoff and hands in
www.esdaw.eu/bread-and-ci...
www.esdaw.eu
April 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For many Americans, consumptive, entertainment technologies have become panem et circenses…allowing folks to isolate themselves into dopamine cycles of distraction during massive time of political and cultural unrest.
Unplug and reconnect.
#handsoff and hands in
www.esdaw.eu/bread-and-ci...
Unplug and reconnect.
#handsoff and hands in
www.esdaw.eu/bread-and-ci...
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Meanwhile in UK.
April 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Meanwhile in UK.
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“Hands Off! demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states by more than 150 groups”
Enjoy these pictures ❤️ and continue the fight for democracy ✊
Enjoy these pictures ❤️ and continue the fight for democracy ✊
Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests
NPR member station photographers documented what they saw at the demonstrations against the Trump administration, from cuts and layoffs to federal departments, to mass deportations.
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April 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Hands Off! demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states by more than 150 groups”
Enjoy these pictures ❤️ and continue the fight for democracy ✊
Enjoy these pictures ❤️ and continue the fight for democracy ✊
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WOW.
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
HANDS OFF EDUCATION: "Teachers are PISSED" —AFT President, Randi Weingarten, IN-STUDIO!
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
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April 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
WOW.
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
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Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual
"We know we have to teach everyone how to include us."
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A trip down Minnesota's second-wave feminist memory lane.
Some of the same women who tried to save abortion funding in the 1970s (and whose efforts were stymied by men in the DFL) are still around but now railing against the DSA, which supports abortion funding.
Some of the same women who tried to save abortion funding in the 1970s (and whose efforts were stymied by men in the DFL) are still around but now railing against the DSA, which supports abortion funding.
The formation of the DFL Party Feminist Caucus - MinnPost
The caucus was founded to advocate for feminist positions on issues like poverty among women, abortion, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
www.minnpost.com
March 19, 2024 at 1:24 AM
A trip down Minnesota's second-wave feminist memory lane.
Some of the same women who tried to save abortion funding in the 1970s (and whose efforts were stymied by men in the DFL) are still around but now railing against the DSA, which supports abortion funding.
Some of the same women who tried to save abortion funding in the 1970s (and whose efforts were stymied by men in the DFL) are still around but now railing against the DSA, which supports abortion funding.