Granny Weatherwax
@esmeweatherwax.bsky.social
Old I may be, and hag I may be, but stupid I ain't.
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words:
The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility
Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters
1/2
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility
Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters
1/2
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words:
The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility
Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters
1/2
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility
Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters
1/2
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it.
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Who's Threatening Who?
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
@tkingfisher.com I wanted to thank you for the Saints of Steel books, which have kept me sane these past few months when I was immobilized for long stretches from medical procedures. Just what I needed--engaging, heartwarming, with an interesting set of puzzles and characters I came to love. Thanks.
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
@tkingfisher.com I wanted to thank you for the Saints of Steel books, which have kept me sane these past few months when I was immobilized for long stretches from medical procedures. Just what I needed--engaging, heartwarming, with an interesting set of puzzles and characters I came to love. Thanks.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
I feel like the Guardian is usually better than this.
What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
October 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I feel like the Guardian is usually better than this.
What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
Finally got to read Wild Faith by Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social and it's unbelievably prescient
Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page
Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page
September 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Finally got to read Wild Faith by Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social and it's unbelievably prescient
Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page
Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page
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Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.
Klein explicitly says his project is to dishonestly portray the true nature of the right for his readers in hopes that helps foster some common ground to heal our nation. This didn’t work for Obama and it’s not gonna work for him.
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.
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Grok is off the rails 🥴
September 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Grok is off the rails 🥴
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
I was literally eating a donut when I read this, so perhaps I'm biased.
But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?
But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was literally eating a donut when I read this, so perhaps I'm biased.
But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?
But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?
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once again reminded of how the NYT sent me more emails to fact check Rice Truck than they have had critical sentences about invading greenland or whatever the fuck ol pudding brain was on about that day
A lot of people who are incredibly shrewd critical thinkers when someone posts a cute but improbable story, have a hard time recognizing when they’re being snowed by every piece of propaganda and outrage manufacturing they see in the news and online.
January 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
once again reminded of how the NYT sent me more emails to fact check Rice Truck than they have had critical sentences about invading greenland or whatever the fuck ol pudding brain was on about that day
Just found out my husband's sang "Son of Preacher Man" and "Afternoon Delight" with his 8th grade choir (~1979)
because the choir director thought they were about 1) religion and 2) a picnic
My husband figured it out when I started laughing uncontrollably at his sentimental playlist. This year.
because the choir director thought they were about 1) religion and 2) a picnic
My husband figured it out when I started laughing uncontrollably at his sentimental playlist. This year.
December 15, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Just found out my husband's sang "Son of Preacher Man" and "Afternoon Delight" with his 8th grade choir (~1979)
because the choir director thought they were about 1) religion and 2) a picnic
My husband figured it out when I started laughing uncontrollably at his sentimental playlist. This year.
because the choir director thought they were about 1) religion and 2) a picnic
My husband figured it out when I started laughing uncontrollably at his sentimental playlist. This year.
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This is my back story. The Jorts Lore, if you will. It’s a pretty funny story actually even if people were upset at the time www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...
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November 14, 2024 at 5:58 AM
This is my back story. The Jorts Lore, if you will. It’s a pretty funny story actually even if people were upset at the time www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...
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PSA: I am probably going to be meaner than usual this week as I watch my country decide if it’s going to install a blood thirsty mad king with access to nuclear weapons who wants to kill me and my loved ones.
I imagine this goes for many Americans.
I imagine this goes for many Americans.
October 28, 2024 at 3:53 PM
PSA: I am probably going to be meaner than usual this week as I watch my country decide if it’s going to install a blood thirsty mad king with access to nuclear weapons who wants to kill me and my loved ones.
I imagine this goes for many Americans.
I imagine this goes for many Americans.
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Reskeet if you are in the United States and are, in fact, like "oh my gosh, I will die if I don't have health care" politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/b...
Bonus Quote of the Day
“No one in the United States is like ‘Oh my gosh, I will die if I don’t have health care.'"-- Virginia U.S. Senate candidate Hung Cao (R), in an interview.
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October 18, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Reskeet if you are in the United States and are, in fact, like "oh my gosh, I will die if I don't have health care" politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/b...
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The first 40 accounts are now active, and the automated updates should be running.
There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.
There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.
September 27, 2024 at 9:27 PM
The first 40 accounts are now active, and the automated updates should be running.
There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.
There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.
Well now, there's a thing
September 16, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Well now, there's a thing
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Learned this morning that my partner, who votes in every single election, was removed from the voting rolls here in Ohio because of "inactivity." He got it fixed but what the fuck.
If you're in Ohio and planning to vote this November, please PLEASE keep checking your registration as it gets nearer.
If you're in Ohio and planning to vote this November, please PLEASE keep checking your registration as it gets nearer.
September 15, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Learned this morning that my partner, who votes in every single election, was removed from the voting rolls here in Ohio because of "inactivity." He got it fixed but what the fuck.
If you're in Ohio and planning to vote this November, please PLEASE keep checking your registration as it gets nearer.
If you're in Ohio and planning to vote this November, please PLEASE keep checking your registration as it gets nearer.
Find me these English professors. I have questions.
September 7, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Find me these English professors. I have questions.