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Heather Schulte
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Founder of Stitching the Situation, non-profit collaborative art/archive of COVID-19 experiences in the US
www.stitchingthesituation.org
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Heather Schulte @dawnofheather.bsky.social · 16d
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If you don’t know Alice Wong’s work and tenacious spirit, honor her life by listening, reading, learning, and applying her wisdom.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Come see our work in person at The People’s Building through Dec 10
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Over Boulder tonight!
@bianchiweather.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Very excited to share our exhibition, ‘It Comes in Waves’ opens this Friday, Nov 7, happy hour from 5-7 pm, at The People’s Building, 9995 E Colfax in Aurora (just a couple blocks east of “official” Denver).

We have limited public hours, but I am happy to schedule additional viewings.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
whetstone.bsky.social
This is a great resource in precarious times.

Tried it for my city and it pulled up all the things I know about + more I didn’t. It finds food pantries, but also stuff like legal help and housing assistance.

For those of us more fortunate, great way to find volunteer and donation opportunities.
findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care
Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.
findhelp.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
apnews.com
BREAKING: Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Just WOW
jeremydehartwx.bsky.social Jeremy DeHart @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social · 26d
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
I cannot recommend this convo enough. Both enlightening about the policy that is enabling so many of our systems shittier, AND hopeful with actual steps toward making things better. Well worth the time. @adamconover.net

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The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow
Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 10/08/2025 · 1h 46m
podcasts.apple.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Soooo excited for this reboot, with a lovely new host. RR was a central part of my childhood.
mychal3ts.bsky.social Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Sep 29
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
vanityfair.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
vinguptamd.bsky.social Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · Sep 17
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
shannonmattern.bsky.social
A country is real estate. A nation is a brand. Governance is deal-making. Diplomacy is franchising. Services yield profit. Everything is zero-sum. All relations are transactional. This admin is what happens when everyone majors in business or econ… or runs a car dealership.
August 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
govpritzker.illinois.gov
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today.

Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.

There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Governor JB Pritzker joined elected officials, business, faith, and education leaders, community advocates, and law enforcement leaders to condemn the Trump administration’s plan to deploy the National Guard or active duty military in Chicago despite objections from state and local leadership.
August 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
There's a point Arendt makes in Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship that people who convince themselves to cooperate with the regime in pursuit of "the lesser evil" end up conditioning themselves to accept evil, which the regime then ratchets up. A similar story with the press here.
fleerultra.bsky.social Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Aug 25
if you wind back the clock a year and say “trump will be president, he’ll tear up entire agencies without any legislative authority, ignore court orders, build a concentration camp, and send troops into multiple US cities” you wouldn’t ask “well how many troops?” before deciding what this describes
August 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Pyrocumulonimbus spotted on my flight into Denver. I believe it’s the Little Gerry’s fire in WY. @bianchiweather.bsky.social thought you might enjoy!
August 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Heather Schulte
sanders.senate.gov
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.

The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.

The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
June 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
There’s no sense to be made, but maybe some cents? Well worth a read for one’s amusement.
June 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
❌👑
with liberty and justice FOR ALL
June 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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kendrawrites.com
Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.
June 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
dawnofheather.bsky.social
Put two malignant narcissists in a room and what else could possibly happen?
June 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Screenshot of scene from the old game Oregon Trail. There is a green graphic on a black background. The graphic is of an ox pulling a wagon and below it is says YOU HAVE LISTENED TO RFK Jr.
May 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM