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Wendy Skratt
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Operations exec focused on transparency & building trust -> functional teams. Let’s question legacy processes & ask why people make individual choices. Can’t stop learning, defending democracy, & critiquing capitalism. Kdrama escapist who 💕 games
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Late fall walk
Native blooms backlit in late fall
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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NYT headline: Trump Looks to Avoid Casting Blame in Texas Floods NYT headline: Trump Blames CA Governor and his Water Policy for Wildfires
July 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Feeling very Wag the Dog from the 1990s this morning. NYT in a tailspin.
NYT headline: Iran Crisis Overshadowed as Senators Squabble at Hearing, A hearing featuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth exposed a major divide over the dangers of using U.S. troops domestically.
June 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Must read for understanding our information networks www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
I was able to reconstruct fragments from participants who spoke to me because they considered the group chats an important open secret. And it’s hard to deny their power. The political journalist Mark Halperin, who now runs 2WAY and has a show on Megyn Kelly’s network, said it was remarkable that “the left seems largely unaware that some of the smartest and most sophisticated Trump supporters in the nation from coast to coast are part of an overlapping set of text chains that allow their members to share links, intel, tactics, strategy, and ad hoc assignments. Also: clever and invigorating jokes. And they do this (not kidding) like 20 hours a day, including on weekends.” He called their influence “substantial.” Many of the group chatters celebrate their success in driving the ascendant politics of the Trump era, which they hope will bring back patriotic industry and traditional cultural norms. Some who have left or lurk consider it a sinister phenomenon in which Andreessen exerted unspoken gravitational pull, as one participant put it: “You’d see that the writers were bending toward the billionaires, and even the ones who prided themselves on being iconoclastic were bending to the tastes and the centers of gravity of power.”
April 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Big crowds at the Hands Off protest at WWE HQ in Stamford CT
Smiling young man in a blue jacket holds a sign that says “Democracy Needs You” outside WWE HQ in Stamford, CT Large crowds of people gather outside WWE HQ in Stamford, CT for Hands Off rally
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Spring in Connecticut 🌺🌼🌸🌿
Bright yellow forsythia blooms backlit against blue sky Light pink mountain laurel blooms in a cluster
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This pic of Vance in Greenland is begging to be a meme 🤡
JD Vance stands on a snowy landscape with a mountain and blue sky behind him while wearing a green parka. He’s raising one arm with his hand seemingly to grab something invisible.
March 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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What can you say when you have no excuse and are 💯 exposed? 🤷🏻
NYT: Republicans in Congress React to Signal Chat Leak with Collective Shrug
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Trump plays the media getting them to give hours of coverage to his attacks on them rather than covering the Democratic push on Schumer to fight him.
NYT headline: Trump Uses Justice Dept Speech to Air His Grievances Against His Enemies
March 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Pelosi: “Democratic senators should listen to the women…” and VOTE NO.
Pelosi Statement on the Government Funding Bill in the Senate “Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America. Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable. I salute Leader Hakeem Jeffries for his courageous rejection of this false choice, and I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill. “Democratic senators should listen to the women. Appropriations leaders Rosa DeLauro and Patty Murray have eloquently presented the case that we must have a better choice: a four-week funding extension to keep government open and negotiate a bipartisan agreement. America has experienced a Trump shutdown before – but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People.”
March 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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FIX: GOP refuse any concessions, forcing coming shutdown
NYT headline screenshot: Senate Dems Balk at Funding Extension, Raising Risk of a Shutdown
March 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Why am I not seeing major headlines about Trump breaking the law with these firings? “Legally murky” is crap. The law requires 30 day notice and “substantive reason” to Congress. Here: “Trump Breaks Law with Illegal Firings”
NBC News screenshot with headline “Trump fires 18 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move” Screenshot of article text “The law requires a 30-day notification window between the White House informing Congress of its intent to fire an inspector general and that inspector general being removed from on-duty status. The White House must also provide substantive reasons for why the inspector general is being removed. When asked whether the White House was concerned about the legality of the firings, given the required 30-day congressional notice for each inspector general, the official said a lot of these decisions happen with “legal counsel looking over them.” The official added that they were checking with the White House counsel’s office but didn’t think the administration had broken any laws.”
January 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Currently reading Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s been on my pile ever since @karaswisher.bsky.social interviewed him about it in October. #booksky
Photo of book cover with the title “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by author Yuval Noah Harari. White background with red and black text and a carrier pigeon in the middle.
January 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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2024 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Han Kang’s 2007 book which won the Booker Prize in 2016. #currentread
Photo of the book “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang with a red cover and black graphic image of a woman with her head tilted up
January 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"... Molly Crocket, William Brady & Jay VanBavel came up with something called the M.A.D. Model of Moral Contagion. [It] explains how group identity, user behavior, & the design of social media platforms interact in synergistic ways to spread mostly highly emotionally-reactive content" 🧵 2/3
Graphic showing "group identity" together with "engagement" amplified by "design" of social media platform creates the MAD model of moral contagion - why moralized content spreads online.
January 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Alien ornament is 2024’s contribution to the tree.
Bunny and alien Christmas tree ornaments hang on artificial tree
December 22, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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I am so excited to finally have speaking lessons for Korean on my phone iOS @duolingoverde.bsky.social app! 🇰🇷
Screenshot from Duolingo app showing a person watering flowers alongside a lesson progress map.
November 23, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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You inspired me to share my favorite mushroom photo… compositionally similar to yours!
Black and white photo of a mushroom growing amidst grass and fallen leaves, from a low perspective
November 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Sometimes you just need affogato and a friend for breakfast.
Affogato on a coffee table in the foreground and a person drinking coffee and making a peace sign in the background
November 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Today’s forecast calls for Blueskies!
Landscape photo of stream and forest area with blue skies reflected in the water littered with fallen autumn leaves
November 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Seeing the coverage, I thought… future historians will see this and wonder wtf 🤯 Alas, NYT ran “world leaders smile and flatter Trump” on Nov 9… so the future should understand the context.
New York Times headline from November 9, 2024 “Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World is Prepping from Trump Part II”
November 14, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Just starting to explore here. I’m new so tips and suggestions are welcome. Offering a pic of a new friend I met recently in nyc
November 12, 2024 at 9:25 AM