Wendy Fall
@wendyfall.bsky.social
PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
Come on, Dept. of Ed! What, did you get tired of ruining the teaching profession and decide to beat up a new type of public servant???
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Come on, Dept. of Ed! What, did you get tired of ruining the teaching profession and decide to beat up a new type of public servant???
I am sorry I didn’t post before now, but I love this book, and you should read it!!
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards (in the science fiction category). 🥰
You can vote here: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
You can vote here: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I am sorry I didn’t post before now, but I love this book, and you should read it!!
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I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
Inconceivable!
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Inconceivable!
We need a new word like ‘enshittification’ for the addition of unwanted AI to everything.
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We need a new word like ‘enshittification’ for the addition of unwanted AI to everything.
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
Truth. Local and state public health are doing their level best to hold the line, and to build multi-state cooperation. Also: you’ll need to increase your state’s public health budget in the next few years. They are taking up an enormous new burden and likely losing their federal funding.
great interview with some really important points
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Truth. Local and state public health are doing their level best to hold the line, and to build multi-state cooperation. Also: you’ll need to increase your state’s public health budget in the next few years. They are taking up an enormous new burden and likely losing their federal funding.
No one should be judged less worthy, less valuable, less educated, or less eloquent if they speak differently than you do. Language is culturally acquired and very specific. People should not have to ‘code switch’ to be taken seriously — by asking them to, we insult the family who raised them.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
No one should be judged less worthy, less valuable, less educated, or less eloquent if they speak differently than you do. Language is culturally acquired and very specific. People should not have to ‘code switch’ to be taken seriously — by asking them to, we insult the family who raised them.
Also, these are the students college professors have to worry about. There is a nearly circular Venn diagram showing where this group overlaps with the Turning Point group, who doxx professors with whom they disagree.
The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Also, these are the students college professors have to worry about. There is a nearly circular Venn diagram showing where this group overlaps with the Turning Point group, who doxx professors with whom they disagree.
Good tips for protesters:
No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
act.aclu.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Good tips for protesters:
Also, part of being a good ally is making sure the people who are being targeted for hate do not have to bear the burden of protest alone. If we all show up, we break every kind of fascist or nationalist narrative.
one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Also, part of being a good ally is making sure the people who are being targeted for hate do not have to bear the burden of protest alone. If we all show up, we break every kind of fascist or nationalist narrative.
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find some outlets in here. don’t pay for substack; your cash goes to literal nazis.
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
find some outlets in here. don’t pay for substack; your cash goes to literal nazis.
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☎️Take a few minutes today to call your reps and senators. They need to hear from us, especially from federal workers.
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
☎️Take a few minutes today to call your reps and senators. They need to hear from us, especially from federal workers.
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
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If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
Milwaukee and Madison: stand with Chicago tomorrow.
Hands Off Chicago – Stand in Defiance
badgercollective.net
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Milwaukee and Madison: stand with Chicago tomorrow.
D.) When I worked in public schools there was no budget for students to have access to a whole book. All I could offer them was access to a classroom set, photocopied excerpts, and novels I bought with Donorschoose money or paid for myself.
Why aren't students reading whole books?
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other
October 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
D.) When I worked in public schools there was no budget for students to have access to a whole book. All I could offer them was access to a classroom set, photocopied excerpts, and novels I bought with Donorschoose money or paid for myself.
Looking to escape? Very silly band, good time to be had. Waukesha WI USA tomorrow night.
September 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Looking to escape? Very silly band, good time to be had. Waukesha WI USA tomorrow night.
Thank goodness. Please, by all that is scientific and not holy, get a bipartisan group together and fire him before he harms or endangers anyone else.
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Thank goodness. Please, by all that is scientific and not holy, get a bipartisan group together and fire him before he harms or endangers anyone else.
Also, at the same time making pregnancy more dangerous by reducing access to care and telling pregnant people not to be vaccinated, and not to take fever-reducers/painkillers (acetaminophen). This is about causing pain and harm.
But if pregnancy is all-consuming, painful, and may happen at any time, then it's much harder to do other things with your life, too. Women's spheres narrow. And that's what they are aiming for: circumscription of women's lives. (Really all our lives.)
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Also, at the same time making pregnancy more dangerous by reducing access to care and telling pregnant people not to be vaccinated, and not to take fever-reducers/painkillers (acetaminophen). This is about causing pain and harm.
I truly crave the day when we are no longer ruled by the kinds of people who can be bought by old white billionaires.
Bad news for MAGA: 242 days into Donald Trump's term, his net approval rating is -17%, down 2.6 points since last week.
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.
The demographics are most revealing ...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.
The demographics are most revealing ...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I truly crave the day when we are no longer ruled by the kinds of people who can be bought by old white billionaires.
This is a reminder that late night talk shows are not the only targets for government censorship and overreach. Book bans are censorship, too, and a book ban has never been on the right side of history.
No - this is not the latest satirical headline at @theonion.com This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend Lamar Consolidated ISD schools.
www.txftrp.org/pinkalicious...
www.txftrp.org/pinkalicious...
Pinkalicious and 700+ other titles removed from Lamar Consolidated ISD, near Houston
No - this is not the latest satirical headline at The Onion. This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend LCISD schools.
www.txftrp.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is a reminder that late night talk shows are not the only targets for government censorship and overreach. Book bans are censorship, too, and a book ban has never been on the right side of history.
You should not be on academia.edu . I know this because after my dissertation director had died, they kept telling me she had posted new things. They were using her work as clickbait, and it was revolting.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
You should not be on academia.edu . I know this because after my dissertation director had died, they kept telling me she had posted new things. They were using her work as clickbait, and it was revolting.
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Hi, Bluesky! It’s God.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
September 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Hi, Bluesky! It’s God.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Protecting Wisconsinites’ health from environmental and occupational exposures by day. Teaching literature by night. Being equitable to all human beings throughout.
i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here
be proud of your work and share it here
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Protecting Wisconsinites’ health from environmental and occupational exposures by day. Teaching literature by night. Being equitable to all human beings throughout.
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I will work with any Republicans willing to put science and facts over politics and ideology to push out RFK Jr.
That man is a serious threat to public health and American lives.
It's never too late to do the right thing. Join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.
That man is a serious threat to public health and American lives.
It's never too late to do the right thing. Join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.
September 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I will work with any Republicans willing to put science and facts over politics and ideology to push out RFK Jr.
That man is a serious threat to public health and American lives.
It's never too late to do the right thing. Join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.
That man is a serious threat to public health and American lives.
It's never too late to do the right thing. Join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.