Wendy Riker Purnell
@trypluralism.bsky.social
Brash, outrageous, and free. Dedicated to the free movement of goods, people, and ideas.
20 yrs ago, when I applied for a job at the Institute for Humane Studies, the 2nd stage of the interview process was to create the curriculum for a weeklong summer seminar. I called mine sth like Exploring Western Ideas, set it in St. Louis & included a visit to the arch. This is my 1st time here.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
20 yrs ago, when I applied for a job at the Institute for Humane Studies, the 2nd stage of the interview process was to create the curriculum for a weeklong summer seminar. I called mine sth like Exploring Western Ideas, set it in St. Louis & included a visit to the arch. This is my 1st time here.
Greetings from the gateway to the West where my new hero @scottyb.bsky.social shares how the Ferguson Public Library showed up for their community in 2014.
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Greetings from the gateway to the West where my new hero @scottyb.bsky.social shares how the Ferguson Public Library showed up for their community in 2014.
Tomorrow, I Walk for Hope, taking literal and metaphorical steps to support City of Hope, a world-class center for groundbreaking research and compassionate care.
Whether you choose to contribute your time and energy or your money, you can make a difference.
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Whether you choose to contribute your time and energy or your money, you can make a difference.
ourhope.cityofhope.org/fundraiser/6...
Walk for Hope 2025 - Orange County
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tomorrow, I Walk for Hope, taking literal and metaphorical steps to support City of Hope, a world-class center for groundbreaking research and compassionate care.
Whether you choose to contribute your time and energy or your money, you can make a difference.
ourhope.cityofhope.org/fundraiser/6...
Whether you choose to contribute your time and energy or your money, you can make a difference.
ourhope.cityofhope.org/fundraiser/6...
Just some random fat dude who wipes his butt with the U.S. Constitution. #ICEMonkey #ThatChunkyMonkey #ThugMonkeys #ThoseChunkyMonkeys
November 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Just some random fat dude who wipes his butt with the U.S. Constitution. #ICEMonkey #ThatChunkyMonkey #ThugMonkeys #ThoseChunkyMonkeys
I am not a socialist
I am not a communist
I am not a progressive
I am not a Democrat
I love free markets
I love free trade
I love the rule of law
I love America
And I have read our charter documents
That’s why I protested yesterday
I am not a communist
I am not a progressive
I am not a Democrat
I love free markets
I love free trade
I love the rule of law
I love America
And I have read our charter documents
That’s why I protested yesterday
October 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am not a socialist
I am not a communist
I am not a progressive
I am not a Democrat
I love free markets
I love free trade
I love the rule of law
I love America
And I have read our charter documents
That’s why I protested yesterday
I am not a communist
I am not a progressive
I am not a Democrat
I love free markets
I love free trade
I love the rule of law
I love America
And I have read our charter documents
That’s why I protested yesterday
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US citizens across the country have been caught up in immigration raids, arrested, and detained.
How do they get justice when their constitutional rights have been violated?
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How do they get justice when their constitutional rights have been violated?
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NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
US citizens across the country have been caught up in immigration raids, arrested, and detained.
How do they get justice when their constitutional rights have been violated?
🧵
How do they get justice when their constitutional rights have been violated?
🧵
Pres Dumpster Fire,
Sorry you can’t put wood up. Don’t punish those who can. Let us dance in the street. We don’t wamt your hate, lies & violence. We want life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness!
🌈❤️🕊️
Fellow Americans,
Save the republic, dance in the street, show Ben Franklin we can keep it.
Sorry you can’t put wood up. Don’t punish those who can. Let us dance in the street. We don’t wamt your hate, lies & violence. We want life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness!
🌈❤️🕊️
Fellow Americans,
Save the republic, dance in the street, show Ben Franklin we can keep it.
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Pres Dumpster Fire,
Sorry you can’t put wood up. Don’t punish those who can. Let us dance in the street. We don’t wamt your hate, lies & violence. We want life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness!
🌈❤️🕊️
Fellow Americans,
Save the republic, dance in the street, show Ben Franklin we can keep it.
Sorry you can’t put wood up. Don’t punish those who can. Let us dance in the street. We don’t wamt your hate, lies & violence. We want life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness!
🌈❤️🕊️
Fellow Americans,
Save the republic, dance in the street, show Ben Franklin we can keep it.
I’ve begun thinking of this administration as the insane clown posse: nihilistic, bad makeup, and asking “governance! How does it work?”
August 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve begun thinking of this administration as the insane clown posse: nihilistic, bad makeup, and asking “governance! How does it work?”
August 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@evanrail.bsky.social at a new brewery in Three Forks, MT for a (posthumous) 100th birthday celebration for flyfishing legend Bud Lilly, it finally occurred to me to share this series. Come visit us!
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Flavor on the Fly - YouTube
In this series, we explore the confluence of food, fly fishing, and adventures had amidst the exploration of something greater than ourselves. Hosted by prof...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
@evanrail.bsky.social at a new brewery in Three Forks, MT for a (posthumous) 100th birthday celebration for flyfishing legend Bud Lilly, it finally occurred to me to share this series. Come visit us!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Rewriting history the wrong way: forcibly erasing history in an attempt to prop up feeble-minded men with perverse notions of what should be.
The right way: speculative history that explores “what if” scenarios that showcase what could be if we appeal to our better angels.
The right way: speculative history that explores “what if” scenarios that showcase what could be if we appeal to our better angels.
August 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Rewriting history the wrong way: forcibly erasing history in an attempt to prop up feeble-minded men with perverse notions of what should be.
The right way: speculative history that explores “what if” scenarios that showcase what could be if we appeal to our better angels.
The right way: speculative history that explores “what if” scenarios that showcase what could be if we appeal to our better angels.
A conservative perspective includes the traditional values of a community. In the Rocky Mountain West, that means the “live and let live” and “love thy neighbor” principles the rainbow flag represents.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/let...
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/let...
Letter to the editor: For Montana girl, rainbow Pride flag represents core American value
Recently, at a Bozeman City Commission meeting, I was reminded that there are still folks who fail to comprehend the rainbow flag as a symbol of the full spectrum of
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August 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A conservative perspective includes the traditional values of a community. In the Rocky Mountain West, that means the “live and let live” and “love thy neighbor” principles the rainbow flag represents.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/let...
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/let...
“On the set, Stone achieved a purposeful chaos, somehow knowing just how wild to let things get while exercising what had become his signature gruff authority. ‘It was like a precision-executed three-ring circus ballet,’ Downey says”
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A Misunderstood Masterpiece: Inside the Making of "Natural Born Killers"
30 years after its release, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, and more recall the set of Oliver Stone's explosive film.
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August 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“On the set, Stone achieved a purposeful chaos, somehow knowing just how wild to let things get while exercising what had become his signature gruff authority. ‘It was like a precision-executed three-ring circus ballet,’ Downey says”
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
“Japanese culture in general -- and Ichiro in particular -- remains influenced by remnants of bushido, the code of honor and ethics governing the samurai warrior class.”
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Ichiro's return to Seattle won't resolve the battle raging within him
How five days in February reveal what Seattle's signing of Ichiro cannot. The future Hall of Famer is haunted by the life he can't escape.
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July 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“Japanese culture in general -- and Ichiro in particular -- remains influenced by remnants of bushido, the code of honor and ethics governing the samurai warrior class.”
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It’s almost like we should return to being a nation of laws, not of men.
When your policy is so bad you start distancing yourself from it citing “human” error.
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It’s almost like we should return to being a nation of laws, not of men.
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This is such extraordinarily trashy behavior.
July 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This is such extraordinarily trashy behavior.
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People who grew up after the rise of algorithmic platforms I really think just have no grasp of how different, and in many ways better, the internet used to be. The new incentives led to the rise of the genericized "content creator" and a turn to selling out not as a pejorative but an aspiration.
July 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
People who grew up after the rise of algorithmic platforms I really think just have no grasp of how different, and in many ways better, the internet used to be. The new incentives led to the rise of the genericized "content creator" and a turn to selling out not as a pejorative but an aspiration.
Hey, Siri.
In the past few months, have you noticed an uptick in people wanting to look up the Nuremberg Trials?
In the past few months, have you noticed an uptick in people wanting to look up the Nuremberg Trials?
July 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hey, Siri.
In the past few months, have you noticed an uptick in people wanting to look up the Nuremberg Trials?
In the past few months, have you noticed an uptick in people wanting to look up the Nuremberg Trials?
Tonight I was reminded that some folks fail to apprehend this flag as a symbol of enlightenment, of our growing understanding of the full spectrum of humanity, and of our ever-expanding ability to embrace pluralism. This flag represents the best of us. Love all, serve all.
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Tonight I was reminded that some folks fail to apprehend this flag as a symbol of enlightenment, of our growing understanding of the full spectrum of humanity, and of our ever-expanding ability to embrace pluralism. This flag represents the best of us. Love all, serve all.
When you look at a $2 bill or the Declaration of Independence, remember how these brave men battled tyranny: w/ their words & the courage of their convictions as they functionally signed their own death warrant, standing fast & true in principled opposition to a merciless despot.
July 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When you look at a $2 bill or the Declaration of Independence, remember how these brave men battled tyranny: w/ their words & the courage of their convictions as they functionally signed their own death warrant, standing fast & true in principled opposition to a merciless despot.
No standing armies!
ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
July 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
No standing armies!
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ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government” and whenever things get so far wrong “they may be relied on to set them to rights."
Thomas Jefferson expressing his faith in Americans and America’s revolutionary ideals in a letter to Richard Price Jan. 8. 1789
Thomas Jefferson expressing his faith in Americans and America’s revolutionary ideals in a letter to Richard Price Jan. 8. 1789
July 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government” and whenever things get so far wrong “they may be relied on to set them to rights."
Thomas Jefferson expressing his faith in Americans and America’s revolutionary ideals in a letter to Richard Price Jan. 8. 1789
Thomas Jefferson expressing his faith in Americans and America’s revolutionary ideals in a letter to Richard Price Jan. 8. 1789