Wendy Wilkins
@wkw11.bsky.social
Retired academic administrator (dean, provost), linguist and cognitive scientist, dressage rider and horse owner.
Constance Grady on The Great Gatsby: …one of Gatsby’s celebrated lines about the wealthy: “They were careless people…They smashed up things…and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess…”
March 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Constance Grady on The Great Gatsby: …one of Gatsby’s celebrated lines about the wealthy: “They were careless people…They smashed up things…and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess…”
We all need a little laugh now and then!
February 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
We all need a little laugh now and then!
Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you.
Do something
Do something
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Heather Cox Richardson: Musk’s team … took control of the Treasury’s payment system, … gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.
February 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Heather Cox Richardson: Musk’s team … took control of the Treasury’s payment system, … gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.
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Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.
Huge rally in Santa Fe to support immigrant rights. Love living in New Mexico!
February 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Huge rally in Santa Fe to support immigrant rights. Love living in New Mexico!
Heinrich’s office being flooded with calls about Musk’s illegal activities. They are happy to hear from us. Lujan’s voicemail boxes are full. Hooray for New Mexico citizens!l
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Heinrich’s office being flooded with calls about Musk’s illegal activities. They are happy to hear from us. Lujan’s voicemail boxes are full. Hooray for New Mexico citizens!l
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
“Trump is choosing to begin his term pandering to the fossil fuel industry and its allies,” Union of Concerned Scientists said in a statement. “His disgraceful and destructive decision is an ominous harbinger of what people in the United States should expect from him and his anti-science cabinet.”
January 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“Trump is choosing to begin his term pandering to the fossil fuel industry and its allies,” Union of Concerned Scientists said in a statement. “His disgraceful and destructive decision is an ominous harbinger of what people in the United States should expect from him and his anti-science cabinet.”
Noticed a big increase today in the price of both gas and diesel. Coincidence?
January 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Noticed a big increase today in the price of both gas and diesel. Coincidence?
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Biden preemptively pardoned J6 police officers who were beaten and injured, to protect them against retribution from the insurrection leader because they dared to testify truthfully before Congress.
Trump pardoned the thugs who beat them.
Trump pardoned the thugs who beat them.
January 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Biden preemptively pardoned J6 police officers who were beaten and injured, to protect them against retribution from the insurrection leader because they dared to testify truthfully before Congress.
Trump pardoned the thugs who beat them.
Trump pardoned the thugs who beat them.
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Cecile Richards was a wonderful human being. She was fierce like her mother, Ann Richards, and a humble warrior for women. This world is much better because of her life's work.
January 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Cecile Richards was a wonderful human being. She was fierce like her mother, Ann Richards, and a humble warrior for women. This world is much better because of her life's work.
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Trump just removed the US from the World Health Organization while we’re seeing increased concern over bird flu. Congratulations America! You elected an absolute moron.
January 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump just removed the US from the World Health Organization while we’re seeing increased concern over bird flu. Congratulations America! You elected an absolute moron.
Robert Reich: Now is the time for Democrats to do what they used to do before the Democratic Party tried to move to the so-called “center.” Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Strengthen safety nets. Increase public investments. Pay for all this by raising taxes on the super-wealthy.
December 25, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Robert Reich: Now is the time for Democrats to do what they used to do before the Democratic Party tried to move to the so-called “center.” Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Strengthen safety nets. Increase public investments. Pay for all this by raising taxes on the super-wealthy.
Reposted by Wendy Wilkins
For the longest time, the easiest way to trigger Trump and MAGA was to question his self-reported crowd sizes.
Now all you have to do is say ‘President Musk.’
Now all you have to do is say ‘President Musk.’
December 23, 2024 at 2:34 AM
For the longest time, the easiest way to trigger Trump and MAGA was to question his self-reported crowd sizes.
Now all you have to do is say ‘President Musk.’
Now all you have to do is say ‘President Musk.’
Reposted by Wendy Wilkins
This is sadly what the voters chose, and now we all have to experience the pain of that decision.
December 19, 2024 at 11:22 PM
This is sadly what the voters chose, and now we all have to experience the pain of that decision.
This country is so sick 😢😢😢
December 20, 2024 at 3:05 AM
This country is so sick 😢😢😢
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Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for Dec. 17, 2024. Gun Violence.
December 19, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Ferrollo visiting Aunt Cecelia in Flagstaff. I think he likes the view!
December 20, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Ferrollo visiting Aunt Cecelia in Flagstaff. I think he likes the view!