Joanne Wilshin
@joannewilshin.bsky.social
Writer. Imaginer. Mariner. INTJ. Books: The Findlings, The Happiness Path, First Mate's Guide 2 Cruising the PNW. Our worlds are our inventions. http://JoanneWilshin.com
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“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.
Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
October 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”
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“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
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1/ Must listen ep of The Daily. Congress is trying—THIS WEEK—to dramatically cut funding to CPB (which funds NPR and PBS). Rural Americans, who rely on local stations for weather warnings and local politics, will be worst hurt. Those stations will die. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Is Congress About to Kill This Local Radio Station?
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 07/11/2025 · 33m
podcasts.apple.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
1/ Must listen ep of The Daily. Congress is trying—THIS WEEK—to dramatically cut funding to CPB (which funds NPR and PBS). Rural Americans, who rely on local stations for weather warnings and local politics, will be worst hurt. Those stations will die. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Big win for California.
A judge just blocked DHS from using racial profiling.
✅ They can’t stop people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or standing outside a Home Depot
✅ They need reasonable suspicion—not skin color or where you work
✅ Detainees get free, private access to lawyers
A judge just blocked DHS from using racial profiling.
✅ They can’t stop people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or standing outside a Home Depot
✅ They need reasonable suspicion—not skin color or where you work
✅ Detainees get free, private access to lawyers
July 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Big win for California.
A judge just blocked DHS from using racial profiling.
✅ They can’t stop people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or standing outside a Home Depot
✅ They need reasonable suspicion—not skin color or where you work
✅ Detainees get free, private access to lawyers
A judge just blocked DHS from using racial profiling.
✅ They can’t stop people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or standing outside a Home Depot
✅ They need reasonable suspicion—not skin color or where you work
✅ Detainees get free, private access to lawyers
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Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.
July 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.
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Truckloads of clients? Hmmm...
Barbie Bondi?
Barbie Bondi?
July 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Truckloads of clients? Hmmm...
Barbie Bondi?
Barbie Bondi?
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Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
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Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
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"The projection they're using does not match what we want people to believe, so we reject it and pretend it's not valid."
Just like they've done every other time they want to blow up the deficit to give more tax cuts to billionaires. They only accept CBO analysis if it makes Dems look bad.
Just like they've done every other time they want to blow up the deficit to give more tax cuts to billionaires. They only accept CBO analysis if it makes Dems look bad.
SANCHEZ: You say the CBO is off with these estimates. But your website cites the CBO something like nine times, and you've talked about supporting a balanced budget amendment. You don't trust the CBO at all?
MIKE ROUNDS: The projection they're using is not using dynamic scoring
MIKE ROUNDS: The projection they're using is not using dynamic scoring
June 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"The projection they're using does not match what we want people to believe, so we reject it and pretend it's not valid."
Just like they've done every other time they want to blow up the deficit to give more tax cuts to billionaires. They only accept CBO analysis if it makes Dems look bad.
Just like they've done every other time they want to blow up the deficit to give more tax cuts to billionaires. They only accept CBO analysis if it makes Dems look bad.
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“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you”
The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.
The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
May 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you”
The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.
The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.
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Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
May 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
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Perhaps unfreezing the infrastructure funding for airports and letting Verizon do the upgrade rather than waiting for Elon to test his system for a potential contract would be a good idea. 🙄
May 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Perhaps unfreezing the infrastructure funding for airports and letting Verizon do the upgrade rather than waiting for Elon to test his system for a potential contract would be a good idea. 🙄
The Revlon red glint
of a peony flower
piercing the shy dawn.
of a peony flower
piercing the shy dawn.
May 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The Revlon red glint
of a peony flower
piercing the shy dawn.
of a peony flower
piercing the shy dawn.
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WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
April 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
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Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
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I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."
April 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."
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1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
April 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
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3. The rationale for this policy keeps changing. Remember when it was all about bringing manufacturing home? (That was yesterday.) Now it's negotiating deals. Those are fundamentally in tension.
(I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.)
(I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.)
April 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
3. The rationale for this policy keeps changing. Remember when it was all about bringing manufacturing home? (That was yesterday.) Now it's negotiating deals. Those are fundamentally in tension.
(I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.)
(I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.)
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of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states
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I am enjoying seeing all these #handsoff protests springing up around the country in towns both big and small. It's a hopeful thing to witness in such dark, scary times.
And I love these DC protest signs.
And I love these DC protest signs.
April 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I am enjoying seeing all these #handsoff protests springing up around the country in towns both big and small. It's a hopeful thing to witness in such dark, scary times.
And I love these DC protest signs.
And I love these DC protest signs.
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Protest video shared with me from Massena, New York, a rural town on the Canadian border of ~12k people. Estimated 250+ in attendance. Amazing.
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Protest video shared with me from Massena, New York, a rural town on the Canadian border of ~12k people. Estimated 250+ in attendance. Amazing.
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House after Trump's tariff announcement, the Senate passes Tim Kaine's resolution to terminate Trump's declaration of emergency that is providing the legal underpinning for his tariffs on Canada. Republicans crossing: McConnell, Paul, Collins, Murkowski
April 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
House after Trump's tariff announcement, the Senate passes Tim Kaine's resolution to terminate Trump's declaration of emergency that is providing the legal underpinning for his tariffs on Canada. Republicans crossing: McConnell, Paul, Collins, Murkowski