WendyB
@gwenzaxxon.bsky.social
Introvert but willing to talk about democracy
Failing at #FPL Since 2017 | Best OR 🌎: 20K | #YNWA | #USWNT
Failing at #FPL Since 2017 | Best OR 🌎: 20K | #YNWA | #USWNT
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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To understand the chaos in Chicago, here are some must-follows:
@unraveledpress.com
@thetriibe.com
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@chicago.suntimes.com
@katmabu.bsky.social
@bencollins.bsky.social
@dansinker.com
@wttw.bsky.social
@unraveledpress.com
@thetriibe.com
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@chicago.suntimes.com
@katmabu.bsky.social
@bencollins.bsky.social
@dansinker.com
@wttw.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
To understand the chaos in Chicago, here are some must-follows:
@unraveledpress.com
@thetriibe.com
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@chicago.suntimes.com
@katmabu.bsky.social
@bencollins.bsky.social
@dansinker.com
@wttw.bsky.social
@unraveledpress.com
@thetriibe.com
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@chicago.suntimes.com
@katmabu.bsky.social
@bencollins.bsky.social
@dansinker.com
@wttw.bsky.social
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If what was happening in Chicago was happening in NYC, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage
October 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If what was happening in Chicago was happening in NYC, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage
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August 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."
We Can Save Public Radio and Television
Viewers and listeners like us.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."
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"PBS is the foremost distributor of independent documentary, featuring stories and storytellers that don’t meet the interests or priorities of commercial media like the big studios and streamers."
What’s Being Lost in the Documentary Space As Congress Defunds Public Media
"We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way," writes ITVS boss Carrie Lozano as she assesses a less vibrant documentary landscape without the $9 million her organizati...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"PBS is the foremost distributor of independent documentary, featuring stories and storytellers that don’t meet the interests or priorities of commercial media like the big studios and streamers."
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Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
August 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.
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Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.
July 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.
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scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
Donations to NPR and PBS Stations Surge After Funding Cuts
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
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Ousmane Dembele hit Diogo Jota's gaming celebration ❤️
July 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ousmane Dembele hit Diogo Jota's gaming celebration ❤️
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Zohran Mamdani being a goddamn boss
June 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Zohran Mamdani being a goddamn boss
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
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PBS filed suit Friday against President Donald Trump and other administration officials to block his order stripping federal funding from the 330-station public television system, three days after NPR did the same for its radio network.
to.wttw.com/43Pmta9
to.wttw.com/43Pmta9
PBS Sues the Trump Administration Over Defunding, Days After NPR Filed Similar Case
In its lawsuit, PBS relies on similar arguments, saying Trump was overstepping his authority and engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” because of his claim that PBS’ news coverage is biased against c...
to.wttw.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
PBS filed suit Friday against President Donald Trump and other administration officials to block his order stripping federal funding from the 330-station public television system, three days after NPR did the same for its radio network.
to.wttw.com/43Pmta9
to.wttw.com/43Pmta9
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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
May 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
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Mostly, I want democracy.
May 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Mostly, I want democracy.
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my sister is the worker who was fired for wearing a mask to protect my immunocompromised fiancé. i went to mikos to confront the owner directly after and he told me mikos “did the whole mask thing; we’re done with that” and that masks were “disguises”
v different than his comments here! hmmm 🤔
v different than his comments here! hmmm 🤔
Miko’s Italian Ice is facing backlash after a worker says she was fired for masking. blockclubchi.co/3FhwDa0
May 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
my sister is the worker who was fired for wearing a mask to protect my immunocompromised fiancé. i went to mikos to confront the owner directly after and he told me mikos “did the whole mask thing; we’re done with that” and that masks were “disguises”
v different than his comments here! hmmm 🤔
v different than his comments here! hmmm 🤔
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Facts are such pesky things
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
May 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Facts are such pesky things
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Let us be the sunlight that destroys the mold upon our nation.
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Let us be the sunlight that destroys the mold upon our nation.
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This is Donut. He wanted to pop out and say hi. Wondering where your personal chauffeur is. Said you can borrow his, if you'd like. 13/10
April 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is Donut. He wanted to pop out and say hi. Wondering where your personal chauffeur is. Said you can borrow his, if you'd like. 13/10
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Thick red fog on a sunny day in Liverpool. Such is the state of Anfield today 🧨
April 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thick red fog on a sunny day in Liverpool. Such is the state of Anfield today 🧨
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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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Honestly, me too.
April 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Honestly, me too.