Erin Verwey
@erinverwey.bsky.social
She/her. Gardens, books, and bushwalks. Immigrant 🇺🇸🇳🇿.
All my social media posts going forward will just be the news with Lily Allen’s Fuck You being played in a loop.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
All my social media posts going forward will just be the news with Lily Allen’s Fuck You being played in a loop.
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Wonderful.
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Wonderful.
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If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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If I ever lose my fucking mind I want the New York Times to write about it because they’ve shown they can make a batshit crazy person seem normal
March 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If I ever lose my fucking mind I want the New York Times to write about it because they’ve shown they can make a batshit crazy person seem normal
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This is the final step on the road to authoritarian fascism.
If the President can rule by decree and cannot be scrutinized or reviewed by the other two branches, then this experiment in democracy is done.
If the President can rule by decree and cannot be scrutinized or reviewed by the other two branches, then this experiment in democracy is done.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the final step on the road to authoritarian fascism.
If the President can rule by decree and cannot be scrutinized or reviewed by the other two branches, then this experiment in democracy is done.
If the President can rule by decree and cannot be scrutinized or reviewed by the other two branches, then this experiment in democracy is done.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
I hope Gavin Newsom contracts an untreatable anal rash.
March 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I hope Gavin Newsom contracts an untreatable anal rash.
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#NickyNoMorals
Nicola Willis has proposed that the Living Wage no longer needs to be paid in cleaning, catering, & security services that are procured by government. Thousands of low-paid workers now face the potential pay cuts. We strongly condemn these changes.
union.org.nz/new-procurem...
Nicola Willis has proposed that the Living Wage no longer needs to be paid in cleaning, catering, & security services that are procured by government. Thousands of low-paid workers now face the potential pay cuts. We strongly condemn these changes.
union.org.nz/new-procurem...
New procurement rules hurt low-income workers - NZCTU
New draft government procurement guidelines will remove living wage protections for thousands of low-paid workers in Aotearoa New Zealand, said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President Richard Wagstaff.
union.org.nz
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
#NickyNoMorals
Nicola Willis has proposed that the Living Wage no longer needs to be paid in cleaning, catering, & security services that are procured by government. Thousands of low-paid workers now face the potential pay cuts. We strongly condemn these changes.
union.org.nz/new-procurem...
Nicola Willis has proposed that the Living Wage no longer needs to be paid in cleaning, catering, & security services that are procured by government. Thousands of low-paid workers now face the potential pay cuts. We strongly condemn these changes.
union.org.nz/new-procurem...
Fuck this guy. His son is drifting to the far right, so the answer is to just platform it? Also, throwing trans people under the bus is disgusting.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Gavin Newsom's MAGA drift is here
In suggesting that Democrats were wrong about trans athletes and cozying up to MAGA favorites, Newsom's presidential ambitions are more craven than ever.
www.motherjones.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Fuck this guy. His son is drifting to the far right, so the answer is to just platform it? Also, throwing trans people under the bus is disgusting.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I’d like to hear from voters of any race who were evacuated from polling places due to bomb threats and never voted.
The media is now obsessed with remorseful Trump voters, white voters, who are now losing their jobs or upset about inflation. I don’t want to hear from them. I want to hear from the Black voters who stood in line for hours, only to be turned away because their name was purged from the rolls.
March 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’d like to hear from voters of any race who were evacuated from polling places due to bomb threats and never voted.
So people are against empathy now? The sides are crystal clear. If you are doubling down on the side that is anti-empathy, I don’t know what to tell you.
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
So people are against empathy now? The sides are crystal clear. If you are doubling down on the side that is anti-empathy, I don’t know what to tell you.
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This piece is exactly right. I'm seeing people protest it by saying, "Why would Trump deliberately hurt people who voted for him?" And that's the problem: Trying to find "logic" in the thinking of an addled sociopathic narcissist is a fool's game.
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This piece is exactly right. I'm seeing people protest it by saying, "Why would Trump deliberately hurt people who voted for him?" And that's the problem: Trying to find "logic" in the thinking of an addled sociopathic narcissist is a fool's game.
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...What you need is 'anarchist calisthenics.' Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you'll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you'll be ready" -J. Scott
March 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
...What you need is 'anarchist calisthenics.' Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you'll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you'll be ready" -J. Scott
Robert Reich referred to the right wing media’s attempt to normalise Trump as “malignant piffle”, and I think this is the best characterisation of this administration that I have heard.
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Robert Reich referred to the right wing media’s attempt to normalise Trump as “malignant piffle”, and I think this is the best characterisation of this administration that I have heard.
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I hate this damn reality. RFK Jr., Trump and Milei are existential threats to the very core of the #neurodiversity movement.
February 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I hate this damn reality. RFK Jr., Trump and Milei are existential threats to the very core of the #neurodiversity movement.
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Some of our representatives are upset and complaining that they’ve “been getting too many phone calls” from us about everything that’s going wrong in this country right now.
Sounds like we need to make even more phone calls. 😎
Sounds like we need to make even more phone calls. 😎
February 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Some of our representatives are upset and complaining that they’ve “been getting too many phone calls” from us about everything that’s going wrong in this country right now.
Sounds like we need to make even more phone calls. 😎
Sounds like we need to make even more phone calls. 😎
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Schumer's strategy of allowing/encouraging Dems to vote for the "normal" nominees in order to try and peel off Republican defections to block Hegseth/RFK/Gabbard appears to have completely failed.
It appears there is little to no resistance from Senate Republicans to the nomination of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
February 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Schumer's strategy of allowing/encouraging Dems to vote for the "normal" nominees in order to try and peel off Republican defections to block Hegseth/RFK/Gabbard appears to have completely failed.
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Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.
February 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me, but I think attempting to drive a Range Rover up the steps of Parliament should disqualify a person from becoming Deputy PM.
February 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me, but I think attempting to drive a Range Rover up the steps of Parliament should disqualify a person from becoming Deputy PM.