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Release the #Epsteinfiles!

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · 23h

In between bombings, there’s a ceasefire…

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · 23h

See: Enshittification

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 4d

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · 4d

There was a time when the racism was very quiet, so a lot of us white folks didn't really understand. I've since learned so much and become much more aware. We're awash in it, despite what our eyes & ears tell us. 🖖

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · 5d

Always have been.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

newrepublic.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8d

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 8d

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 8d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · 18d

Unfortunately, federal taxes are automatically pulled out of pay checks when they’re drafted. Unless you have access to all the check writing companies and can rewrite their instructions, this isn’t a likely scenario.

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404 Media @404media.co · 23d

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · 29d

I’d say differently deranged

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · Sep 20

There’s hair on that berry

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Sep 20

The worst pasta type

Back of a van that says SCATTOLONI on it

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · Sep 18

Kimmel was always funny charming. He didn’t say anything insulting to or about anyone, other than revealing obvious truths that people just didn’t want to see.

wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · Sep 12

I emailed the recipe to your [email protected] address. Have fun with it - it’s slow, but not especially persnickety and so worth the effort!

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · Sep 12

Will get it to you!

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · Sep 12

Lol! I learned about quick “spagBol” while living in London. It’s always a day’s cooking here (California) so I was rightfully blindsided!!! Enjoy your supper. 🖖🏼😹

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wendy b. @wendinoakland.bsky.social · Sep 12

Question from another cook: are you making the slow version with soffritto and beef & pork, milk, nutmeg, and white wine, or just a tomato meat sauce?

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Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · Sep 4

George Washington— when he was General Washington—required his troops to be inoculated against smallpox in 1777. Without it, the Continental Army would have been devastated by the disease & it’s unlikely we would have won independence.
Don’t even think about telling me anti-vaxers are “patriots.”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 3

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

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Insightful Minds @zman58.bsky.social · Aug 10

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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