Patti West
@pattiwest.bsky.social
Mom. Sister. Friend.
Iowan 🌽
Traveler 🛫
Homebody 🏡
SE Manager 🚜
Iowan 🌽
Traveler 🛫
Homebody 🏡
SE Manager 🚜
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reminder for these times.
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What’s wasteful is ordering feds to explain their jobs instead of letting them DO their jobs.
February 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
What’s wasteful is ordering feds to explain their jobs instead of letting them DO their jobs.
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Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage
February 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage
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Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.
Everybody dies.
Everybody dies.
February 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.
Everybody dies.
Everybody dies.
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This is what's happening at the Education Department right now. I don't care about bureaucracy, but I care about what we can do for students—and this is hurting students!
February 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is what's happening at the Education Department right now. I don't care about bureaucracy, but I care about what we can do for students—and this is hurting students!
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Lately, I'm realizing that not only do I not love this nation but I really don't like it very much, either: not the one we have been and certainly not the one we're becoming now that we have rejected decency and elected inhumanity.
I'm not alone.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...
I'm not alone.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...
For Americans Who Don't Like America
I used to think I loved America but I didn’t.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Lately, I'm realizing that not only do I not love this nation but I really don't like it very much, either: not the one we have been and certainly not the one we're becoming now that we have rejected decency and elected inhumanity.
I'm not alone.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...
I'm not alone.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...
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If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
January 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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Did you know?
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
February 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Did you know?
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
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Fun fact: If you were half as reckless, irresponsible and prejudiced in your words, deeds and actions as the President of the United States, you'd probably get fired from your job.
January 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Fun fact: If you were half as reckless, irresponsible and prejudiced in your words, deeds and actions as the President of the United States, you'd probably get fired from your job.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
January 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Yup
If your spouse needs a safe word with her friends to protect herself from you, you should be in therapy.
Or in prison.
Not the Secretary of Defense.
Or in prison.
Not the Secretary of Defense.
January 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Yup
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I remember when advocating for mercy and compassion was considered Christian.
Now it's considered radical ideology.
Now it's considered radical ideology.
January 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I remember when advocating for mercy and compassion was considered Christian.
Now it's considered radical ideology.
Now it's considered radical ideology.
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I’m not at all surprised. 💙
January 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I’m not at all surprised. 💙
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Iowa activists, activate.
ICE is rounding up “suspected” undocumented immigrants.
No due process for American OR undocumented human beings.
🙏🏽
ICE is rounding up “suspected” undocumented immigrants.
No due process for American OR undocumented human beings.
🙏🏽
January 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Iowa activists, activate.
ICE is rounding up “suspected” undocumented immigrants.
No due process for American OR undocumented human beings.
🙏🏽
ICE is rounding up “suspected” undocumented immigrants.
No due process for American OR undocumented human beings.
🙏🏽
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Thank you for speaking truth to power through love, Rev Mariann Edgar Budde. The kind, just people of this world see you and appreciate you.
January 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Thank you for speaking truth to power through love, Rev Mariann Edgar Budde. The kind, just people of this world see you and appreciate you.