Wendy Walter
@wgw55.bsky.social
Genealogist and family historian, former earthquake geologist. Seattle -> MA. Cats, gardening, photography. I mask, vote blue, and write postcards
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This.
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This.
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Thank you for being part of the resistance! Through solidarity, resistance, and unity, we rise together, stronger and unshaken.
January 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Thank you for being part of the resistance! Through solidarity, resistance, and unity, we rise together, stronger and unshaken.
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When I read a new interview from Harris’s Dep Campaign Manager, it hit home for me because it was something I have warned about for years. Dems are losing the Information War, but there is one big way they can turn things around. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The One Big Reason Why Dems Are Losing the Information War
The good news is, this can be fixed with a new approach.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:56 PM
When I read a new interview from Harris’s Dep Campaign Manager, it hit home for me because it was something I have warned about for years. Dems are losing the Information War, but there is one big way they can turn things around. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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We cannot win if voters get their news about Democrats from Republicans.
Our party needs to show up everywhere if we want to beat the GOP’s edge and reshape the information environment.
That means deploying great communicators to deliver effective messages – everywhere.
Our party needs to show up everywhere if we want to beat the GOP’s edge and reshape the information environment.
That means deploying great communicators to deliver effective messages – everywhere.
December 16, 2024 at 12:41 AM
We cannot win if voters get their news about Democrats from Republicans.
Our party needs to show up everywhere if we want to beat the GOP’s edge and reshape the information environment.
That means deploying great communicators to deliver effective messages – everywhere.
Our party needs to show up everywhere if we want to beat the GOP’s edge and reshape the information environment.
That means deploying great communicators to deliver effective messages – everywhere.
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Given the events of the weekend, I am re-posting what I wrote about the importance of building a new opposition movement.
Please read, act and share.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
Please read, act and share.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
Building the Opposition
From Marc | The success of our democracy rests on an effective opposition movement.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Given the events of the weekend, I am re-posting what I wrote about the importance of building a new opposition movement.
Please read, act and share.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
Please read, act and share.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
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Mississippi has a critical Supreme Court runoff election on Tuesday, November 26, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Write #PostcardsToVoters to keep Justice Jim Kitchens and defeat his MAGA Republican opponent. #Mississippi #OurFreedomsOurFutures
November 17, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Mississippi has a critical Supreme Court runoff election on Tuesday, November 26, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Write #PostcardsToVoters to keep Justice Jim Kitchens and defeat his MAGA Republican opponent. #Mississippi #OurFreedomsOurFutures
George speaks truth here.
I would like to speak up today for the trans community.
You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
November 17, 2024 at 7:10 PM
George speaks truth here.
We have to be ready for what’s coming
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:07 PM
We have to be ready for what’s coming
Want to read this!
"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire.
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
Oathbreakers
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...
www.harpercollins.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Want to read this!
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Remember: fascism thrives on apathy.
The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.
Don’t give them want they want.
Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.
The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.
Don’t give them want they want.
Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.
November 16, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Remember: fascism thrives on apathy.
The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.
Don’t give them want they want.
Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.
The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.
Don’t give them want they want.
Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.
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I promise I will stand with you, the podcast family, & others looking for reliable information for the next four years. I will be there in times of uncertainty and anxiety, offering my best assessment of what is happening and what we can do to improve our public health world.
New Osterholm Update podcast episode! Dr Michael Osterholm & Chris Dall revisit the consequences of the US presidential election on public health. Dr. O also gives updates on COVID-19, other respiratory viruses, & H5N1 in pigs, and answers an ID query on pertussis
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 14, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I promise I will stand with you, the podcast family, & others looking for reliable information for the next four years. I will be there in times of uncertainty and anxiety, offering my best assessment of what is happening and what we can do to improve our public health world.
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Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
We need to get back to reading and critical thinking
Because 2024 feels different from 2016.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
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We know this because we lived this with Trump for the last eight years. Keeping focus is difficult. We're going to need to get better at this.
November 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM
We know this because we lived this with Trump for the last eight years. Keeping focus is difficult. We're going to need to get better at this.
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Perfect letter to send. Use it, and although one Bluesky follower reported that the link I provided to White House for President Biden and his sr gender advisor, Jennifer Klein, wasn’t working, I just tried it and got no bounce back. Try comments@whitehouse.org
Please don’t think me presumptuous, but for anyone who needs it, here is a draft letter. Let’s help Jill get this done!
November 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Perfect letter to send. Use it, and although one Bluesky follower reported that the link I provided to White House for President Biden and his sr gender advisor, Jennifer Klein, wasn’t working, I just tried it and got no bounce back. Try comments@whitehouse.org
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You should probably get used to hearing this word a lot over the next few years.
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
You should probably get used to hearing this word a lot over the next few years.
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It is crucial for President Biden to move quickly to fill inspector general positions and other ethics positions throughout the government and for the Senate to confirm IG positions before going home. It will be crucial to have every available check in place on a powerful executive next year.
Government transparency group begs Biden to fill vacancies for ethics jobs before Trump
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is begging President Joe Biden to fill 100 government vacancies for ethics and inspectors general before leaving office. On X over the w...
www.rawstory.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:37 PM
It is crucial for President Biden to move quickly to fill inspector general positions and other ethics positions throughout the government and for the Senate to confirm IG positions before going home. It will be crucial to have every available check in place on a powerful executive next year.
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The 1850s
Extreme division (N vs S)
Rampant threats & violence (even in Congress) to suppress opposition
Rampant "othering"
A new technology (telegraph) scrambling & spreading info
Also:
The rise of organized political opposition: the birth of the Republican Party
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/o...
Extreme division (N vs S)
Rampant threats & violence (even in Congress) to suppress opposition
Rampant "othering"
A new technology (telegraph) scrambling & spreading info
Also:
The rise of organized political opposition: the birth of the Republican Party
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/o...
November 13, 2024 at 4:54 PM
The 1850s
Extreme division (N vs S)
Rampant threats & violence (even in Congress) to suppress opposition
Rampant "othering"
A new technology (telegraph) scrambling & spreading info
Also:
The rise of organized political opposition: the birth of the Republican Party
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/o...
Extreme division (N vs S)
Rampant threats & violence (even in Congress) to suppress opposition
Rampant "othering"
A new technology (telegraph) scrambling & spreading info
Also:
The rise of organized political opposition: the birth of the Republican Party
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/o...
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I’m thinking about the Trump Cabinet and new useless Dept of Govt Efficiency and worrying that Trump may get his team through recess appointments without Senate confirmation. Senate has never recessed solely to allow recess appointments and that would be abdication of their Constitutional role. Bad.
November 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
I’m thinking about the Trump Cabinet and new useless Dept of Govt Efficiency and worrying that Trump may get his team through recess appointments without Senate confirmation. Senate has never recessed solely to allow recess appointments and that would be abdication of their Constitutional role. Bad.
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Morning friends. I'm so happy to be here w/you all on Bluesky. Let's focus on the points of light while we acknowledge the coming Trump darkness. Let's support & feed the points of light so that they grow stronger. We really are all in this together. And that's how we'll win. Together.
November 13, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Morning friends. I'm so happy to be here w/you all on Bluesky. Let's focus on the points of light while we acknowledge the coming Trump darkness. Let's support & feed the points of light so that they grow stronger. We really are all in this together. And that's how we'll win. Together.
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An antivax secdef is crazy. Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of human civilization than disease.
November 13, 2024 at 11:04 AM
An antivax secdef is crazy. Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of human civilization than disease.
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We're going to take over this place the same way we took over threads: by building up all of you
First, hit the like button, reply with #NoDemUnder1k, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here's how:
First, hit the like button, reply with #NoDemUnder1k, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here's how:
November 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM
We're going to take over this place the same way we took over threads: by building up all of you
First, hit the like button, reply with #NoDemUnder1k, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here's how:
First, hit the like button, reply with #NoDemUnder1k, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here's how: