Vera Knauer
@waspdebbie.bsky.social
Neither a WASP nor a Debbie. Artist, craftsman, former Cash Cab champ. Still terrible at selfies, and I spill stuff on myself a lot.
A lot.
A lot.
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Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.
Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
nyer.cm
July 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.
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Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world
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Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, 2014
May 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, 2014
As someone who curses a lot, you know you’re in trouble when I stop cursing and start using big words.
May 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
As someone who curses a lot, you know you’re in trouble when I stop cursing and start using big words.
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Just 52 days after first the president turned his eye on the firm, Perkins is now permanently protected by just about the strongest court order conceivable.
Meanwhile, the nine firms that bent the knee are trapped in servitude to the White House with no end in sight.
Let this be a lesson!
Meanwhile, the nine firms that bent the knee are trapped in servitude to the White House with no end in sight.
Let this be a lesson!
🚨 BREAKING: Perkins Coie wins a permanent injunction!!
Judge rules executive order "'Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,' is unlawful because it violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and
is therefore null and void."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge rules executive order "'Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,' is unlawful because it violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and
is therefore null and void."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just 52 days after first the president turned his eye on the firm, Perkins is now permanently protected by just about the strongest court order conceivable.
Meanwhile, the nine firms that bent the knee are trapped in servitude to the White House with no end in sight.
Let this be a lesson!
Meanwhile, the nine firms that bent the knee are trapped in servitude to the White House with no end in sight.
Let this be a lesson!
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Reposted by Vera Knauer
One of the most incredible protest signs I've ever seen. A Japanese American woman folded a huge origami crane to honor the children of Japanese American internment camps & protest current ICE camps.
📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25
✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️
📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25
✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️
April 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One of the most incredible protest signs I've ever seen. A Japanese American woman folded a huge origami crane to honor the children of Japanese American internment camps & protest current ICE camps.
📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25
✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️
📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25
✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️
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Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
April 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
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The advent of photography in America introduced an intense awareness not just of the self, but of the face—even for Abraham Lincoln, James Lundberg writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
The Problem With Abe Lincoln’s Face
The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.
bit.ly
April 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The advent of photography in America introduced an intense awareness not just of the self, but of the face—even for Abraham Lincoln, James Lundberg writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
nymag.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.
April 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.
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New York state officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding: cnn.it/4iUa8GJ
NY public schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with DEI order | CNN
New York state officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration’s ...
cnn.it
April 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
New York state officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding: cnn.it/4iUa8GJ
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Rick Steves — the guidebook author, trip host and massive personal travel brand — has put his personal commitment behind the cause of anti-fascism, with a self-funded documentary hosted on his own website.
Respect.
Respect.
History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
April 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Rick Steves — the guidebook author, trip host and massive personal travel brand — has put his personal commitment behind the cause of anti-fascism, with a self-funded documentary hosted on his own website.
Respect.
Respect.
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Whether it's students at Oberlin complaining about banh mi or administrators at NYU cancelling a speech for fear of offending Donald Trump, both schools have fraught relationship with freedom of expression.
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Whether it's students at Oberlin complaining about banh mi or administrators at NYU cancelling a speech for fear of offending Donald Trump, both schools have fraught relationship with freedom of expression.
Started reading the graphic novel version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Had to take a break bc it scares me that this could be our near future.
P.S. Libraries are the best.
P.S. Libraries are the best.
March 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Started reading the graphic novel version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Had to take a break bc it scares me that this could be our near future.
P.S. Libraries are the best.
P.S. Libraries are the best.
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Devastated at the loss of an eighth grader at my kids' school in Durham, North Carolina. Gabriela's family said she was recently repeatedly bullied with threats of calling ICE for her family's deportation.
gofund.me/ba207267
gofund.me/ba207267
Donate to Support Gabriela's family during this difficult time, organized by Claudia Ortega
*Este mensaje esta en español primero, y a continuación en ingles… Claudia Ortega needs your support for Support Gabriela's family during this difficult time
gofund.me
March 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Devastated at the loss of an eighth grader at my kids' school in Durham, North Carolina. Gabriela's family said she was recently repeatedly bullied with threats of calling ICE for her family's deportation.
gofund.me/ba207267
gofund.me/ba207267
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@schumer.senate.gov having no position is a failure of leadership.
The only viable position is "no, I won't endorse Trump/Musk's illegal evisceration of the government."
The only viable position is "no, I won't endorse Trump/Musk's illegal evisceration of the government."
via @joshtpm.bsky.social:
@kaine.senate.gov (VA): telling constituents he currently has no position on the Elon/Trump bill.
@markwarner.bsky.social (VA): telling constituents he currently has no position on the Elon/Trump bill.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tally-3
@kaine.senate.gov (VA): telling constituents he currently has no position on the Elon/Trump bill.
@markwarner.bsky.social (VA): telling constituents he currently has no position on the Elon/Trump bill.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tally-3
March 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@schumer.senate.gov having no position is a failure of leadership.
The only viable position is "no, I won't endorse Trump/Musk's illegal evisceration of the government."
The only viable position is "no, I won't endorse Trump/Musk's illegal evisceration of the government."
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Reposted by Vera Knauer
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
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33 times Zelensky thanked Americans and US leaders — a number counted by CNN journalists over the course of the full-scale war.
This comes amid accusations from Trump and Vance that Zelensky has shown “insufficient gratitude” toward the US.
This comes amid accusations from Trump and Vance that Zelensky has shown “insufficient gratitude” toward the US.
March 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
33 times Zelensky thanked Americans and US leaders — a number counted by CNN journalists over the course of the full-scale war.
This comes amid accusations from Trump and Vance that Zelensky has shown “insufficient gratitude” toward the US.
This comes amid accusations from Trump and Vance that Zelensky has shown “insufficient gratitude” toward the US.
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Last night on TikTok I basically skipped my algorithm over to coverage of that meeting and people’s reactions. It didn’t take long before my fyp was flooded with white women being like this is how my dad/ex talked to me.
What's most horrible about today is ... everything Trump did to Zellensky is textbook rich white guy ostracizing an outsider
it's straight up how people have described him treating workers of color and junior execs and what a lot of people watch these dudes do every day
it's straight up how people have described him treating workers of color and junior execs and what a lot of people watch these dudes do every day
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Last night on TikTok I basically skipped my algorithm over to coverage of that meeting and people’s reactions. It didn’t take long before my fyp was flooded with white women being like this is how my dad/ex talked to me.