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Erica Wilkinson

@everywhereerica.bsky.social

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Travel Agent for corporate clients -- also a writer, book nerd, trivia queen, and enthusiastic home cook. www.ericawilkinson.com

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · Nov 15

Good morning!

I think I'm going to move over my biggest Hotel thread from the other place as a way to say hello again.

It seems like we could all use a little joyful day dreaming anyway.

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Chief White House Chuck Taylor Correspondent 🐝⚜️ @ntdubb.blacksky.app · 3h

Someone just purchased our military.

Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 6h

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

www.cnn.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

They are firing pepper balls into the faces of clergy, again
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Jorge Bautista, a clergyman with the United Church of Christ, reacts after he was hit in the face by a pepper round from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as protesters blocked the entrance to Coast Guard Island Alameda, where they are sent to as a staging area for a planned immigration crackdown, in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2d

This is the party that freaked out about the historical value of every last confederate monument giving a shrug as part of the White House is town down.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?

Trump Is Demolishing the Entire East Wing to Make Way for His Ballroom
President Trump initially said the construction at the White House would not touch the East Wing or "interfere with the current building."
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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in a new multi-week round of training on a new tech system for work, and I have to be on camera all day every day for the next 3 weeks, and policing my face and posture so that I'm looking attentive and not sitting weird is so hard

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

The White House heard the complaints

Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”

And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday

New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

www.washingtonpost.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

Exclusive: Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete.

Photos obtained by Law Dork show the dramatic extent of the first step in Trump's purported plan to build a new ballroom on White House grounds with private funds.

Exclusive: Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete

Photos obtained by Law Dork show the dramatic extent of the first step in Trump's purported plan to build a new ballroom on White House grounds with private funds.

www.lawdork.com

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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 3d

This is incredibly concerning, there's no reasonable explanation for this stockpiling.

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 3d

Okayyyy! I'm not imagining things then! I think so too!! Better than anything other than adding chicken feet from the butcher!

Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 3d

It's WILDLY easier! I can't believe how much!

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 3d

I've been making chicken stock at home for 20+ years, and never in my life have I had such easy and consistent success with making a fully gelled stock.

From ONE carcass of a Costco rotisserie bird I got a GALLON of clean HARD JELLO stock.

Soup Season's really about to pop off in Casa Wilkinson

Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

I scored a basically brand new vacuum sealer at thrift for 5$, and a very lightly used 8qt Instant Pot on Goodwill Auctions for 30$, and I'm about to ascend to new heights of frugality.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 7d

Larry: "I wasn't a trash talker! Trash talking is mean. I wasn't mean. I was honest."

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 7d

I somehow ended up on Prime Larry Bird Tiktok, and it's honestly SO wholesome to watch all these old heads reminiscing about what an absolute nightmare-fuel trash-talking basketball-virtuoso Larry was back in the day while watching old clips of him running the table on all of them.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 8d

This is probably a super ignorant question, but is anyone from AZ's CD7 able to like... sue Mike Johnson for denying them representation by refusing to swear in their duly elected congress person? Aren't we in Taxation Without Representation territory (on top of all the other nonsense?)

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 8d

"ICE is operating LEGALLY!" Yeah, so were slave patrols. What's your fucking point?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 11d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

Do you put water around the jars inside the pot?

Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

oOOOOOOoOOO! I'll have to try this!

I'm planning to turn most/all of this first batch into lebneh, so I don't mind having one giant pot this time.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

Thrifty in a trying-to-survive-the-ongoing-economic-disaster way, not a not a trad-wife way.

Making my own gut-friendly yogurt in a isn't-the-science-of-traditional-food ways-cool way, not a probiotics-can-replace-vaccines way.

Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

I had a coupon for milk, so I've currently got a pot of yogurt on for a long slow ferment, for a super gut-friendly lactose-free greek yogurt and/or lebneh.

I still don't know where I'm going to store this beast of a machine in my teeny kitchen.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

Also, I made fully jellified chicken stock in THREE HOURS.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday I made falafel and vacuum sealed and froze half for another day.

green falafel dough in a vacuum sealed bag

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 11d

I scored a basically brand new vacuum sealer at thrift for 5$, and a very lightly used 8qt Instant Pot on Goodwill Auctions for 30$, and I'm about to ascend to new heights of frugality.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 14d

*Eagle Screech*

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 14d

Genuinely, this makes me feel so patriotic.

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