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wendy b.
@wendinoakland.bsky.social
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Taking photos 🫖 drinking tea. Definitely a dog person. 🇺🇦 I like brutalist architecture and uranium glass.
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In between bombings, there’s a ceasefire…
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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.
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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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. 🧵
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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
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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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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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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.
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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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
I’d say differently deranged
There’s hair on that berry
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The worst pasta type
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.
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. 🖖🏼😹
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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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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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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Motherfucking wind farms…