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Oliviaaaah
@unbuildingwalls.bsky.social
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She/her | librarian & legal researcher| 🪐📚 | Lake Michigan adjacent (U.P.➡️Chicago➡️Milwaukeee)

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"Tax the rich" is the moderate position.
A woodcut of a beheading via guillotine.
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I have the best welcome wagon.
A girl snuggles with her two pitties, a black one at her side with his head in her lap and a brown one tucked between her legs.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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This pastrami style smoked steelhead trout might be the tastiest smoked fish I've ever eaten.
Lox style cold-smoked Pastrami Steelhead from Hudson Valley Fisheries.
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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If you have a Woodcraft store near you, many offer classes. I made this maple and cherry laminated cutting board for $130, plus I learned how to use a table saw, jointer, planer, and miter saw!
A cutting board with laminated maple and cherry wood.
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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From: She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress | WIRED www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...
Another competitor has proven openly hostile. Bethany Johnson, a trans woman who is also running on a progressive platform, sees Abughazaleh as an enemy. According to Johnson, Abughazaleh supporters on Bluesky made cruel jokes at her expense, treatment that amounted to harassment. Johnson responded by repeatedly showing up at Abughazaleh’s office with protest signs, roller-skating back and forth in her underwear, and deliberately making herself vomit outside its doors. Abughazaleh filed a “stalking no contact” court order against Johnson to get her to stop.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I'm glad I got cameras to spy on my dogs while I'm at work because now I know one of my dogs walks around with a plush toy in his mouth for 10 minutes or so every time I leave (he never does this otherwise).
A black dog carries a stuffed alligator around a living room. A grey couch and ouija board blanket are in the foreground.
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I forgot to mention this is across the street from an elementary school. There is a reddit post about this and the consensus seems to be it was probably a no knock warrant. Why plan a raid across from an elementary school for 7:30am on a school day though!?!?
A reddit post reads: I saw the APC heading westbound on Locust in a convoy of unmarked squads including Cudahy PD. Seems to be a search warrant, but they went in hard. I heard the flashbang go off as I was parking my car, but I still managed to record the majority of it. Thankfully, nobody was injured, especially considering they were pointing rifles at the cars that pulled up to drop off kids at the school across the street.
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Feds in Riverwest Milwaukee. Unclear what agencies (cause it's hard to tell when they aren't fucking wearing identification!!)
Men in camouflage in front of an unmarked van in an alley.
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Sometimes the $5 DVD bin provides
A DVD collection of MTV's Aeon Flux the animated series.
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Still widely condemned, NYT.
A NYT headline reads "a debate over 'conversion therapy,' once widely condemned, is back"
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This reminds me, yesterday, I was trying to figure out what they were chanting in the protest scene in OBAA, forgot to do the -ai on my query. This was the AI overview:
A screenshot of an for the Google query "what are the protestors chanting in the protest scene in One Battle After Another." Text reads: Al Overview Protests related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not a specific film titled "One Battle After Another," feature chants like "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," "Globalize the intifada," and "Free, free Palestine". These slogans carry different mean- ings, with supporters viewing them as calls for human rights and freedom, while critics inter- pret them as calls for Israel's destruction and violence against Jews. Chants in Pro-Palestinian Protests "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free": This chant, referring to the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, is seen by supporters as a call for a free Palestinian state with dignity and freedom, but by critics as a call for the destruction of the State of Israel. "Intifada" (or "Globalize the intifada"): The term "intifada" means "uprising" or "shaking off," and while some see it as a call for ... (Text cuts off here)
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I can't believe it's only been a little over three months loving on this sweet lady! Lil mama got NINE teeth pulled this week. She has been very brave and is persevering through this trying time of "no crunchy snacks."
A brown dog in a red collar snoozed on the porch, her snout in a patch of sunlight.
October 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Y'all, what the everloving fuck
A pop up that appears upon visiting hud.gov that reads "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people." The landing page of hud.gov, with a red banner with the text "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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With alt text
"Going home without her that night was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do," May said. "She put so much effort into looking nice, because she was excited to take a step toward becoming an American, and I had to go home, and I had to put away the shoes that they took off her feet and gave to me in a plastic bag." He says that Marques is a documentarian without a criminal record who came to the U.S. on a tourist visa seven years ago. "They put her in hand shackles and in leg shackles, and around the waist as well, like she's some hardened criminal. She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie," May said.
September 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I was trying to stay offline this weekend so I am behind on the Big Discourse, but I can't stop thinking about this part of the Klein/Coates discussion.

It pairs nicely with this quote from the Pirkei Avot: "It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it."
Then let me flip that question actually a bit. Why are we losing? We're losing because there are always moments when we lose. See that feels very fatalistic to me. It doesn't feel fatalistic to me. It feels like the truth. I mean, and let me express what I mean. I'm Ta-Nehisi Coates. I'm the writer. I'm the individual, right? But I am part of something larger, and I've always felt myself as part of something larger. I have a tradition. I have ancestry. I have heritage. What that means is that I do whatever I do within the time that I have in my life, whatever time I'm gifted with. And much of what I do is built on what other people did before then. And then after that, I leave the struggle where I leave it, and then hopefully it's in a better place. Oftentimes, it's not. That's the history, in fact.
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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When I say I'm a trekkie, this is what I mean.
A two panel image of Rom from Deep Space 9 quoting, "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
September 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Having watched the eight-episode series for review — which was set to be under embargo until Sept. 25 — it’s clear that “The Savant” is precisely the type of show America needs right now. It looks at a sector of mostly white male individuals who believe that America belongs to them. Fueled by hate, bigotry, xenophobia and misogyny, they talk cruelly and candidly online about enacting harm and violence toward individuals or “others” who they feel are unworthy of being in “their” country. Nowhere in the show does it mention Donald Trump’s name, and other than depicting white nationalists in a negative light, “The Savant” is a straightforward, non-controversial character study — and a well-paced thriller — about one woman trying to stop domestic terrorism.
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Tried to accomplish the smooth top sandwich loaf and ended up with this monstrosity.
A loaf of bread that was supposed to be rectangular but instead had a mass where the dough tried to make a hasty escape.
September 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I've been neglecting my bread making which means I've also been depriving myself of my favorite easy breakfast: griddled sourdough discard mixed with chopped kimchi, topped with fried eggs.
A sourdough discard pancake topped with two fried eggs and chili crisp in a black plate.
September 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I Knew listening to my morning news pods was going to be trying today.
Goose chase meme. First text reads "what made him controversial?" Second text, as goose chases a figure, reads "Why was he so controversial?!?"
September 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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My interest in sports is completely limited to my nephew (a MSU cheerleader) occasionally cropping up in game highlights.
Spartan wide receiver Nick Marsh moments before catching a pass for a TD. Two MSU cheerleaders watch with mouths agape, ready to celebrate. A heart is drawn over the left cheerleader.
September 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Touching butts
A black and brown dog lay on a gray sofa, their butts touching and their two bodies making a top half of a heart.
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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This dog sure loves to perch.
A brown dog in a red collar perches on the tiny console between the driver and passenger seat of a car.
August 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I'm being raided.
A squirrel eats a stolen tomato on a tree stump.
August 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Was not expecting a big old crop of hops (we bought in February and never got to speak to the sellers about the yard). I have no idea what to do with it.
Ripe hops hangs on vines over the back of a tall brown fence.
August 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM