Wendy Walker
@wenj.bsky.social
Birder. Recovered stage manager. Love a good story.
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If you want to help the Brown University community, donate blood.
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If you want to help the Brown University community, donate blood.
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
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Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth.
Journalists must speak out.
Journalists must speak out.
Journalists’ cameras become targets at Oregon protests
Federal agents in Portland are waging war on the press
freedom.press
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth.
Journalists must speak out.
Journalists must speak out.
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This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.
Truly grasp what Typhoon Halong did to western Alaska - High Country News
This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.
If you don't think kids should have food, what broke you?
In 2023:
-39% of SNAP users were Americans under the age of 18
-19% of SNAP users were 60 or older
-60% of SNAP benefits went to families with children
-39% of SNAP users were Americans under the age of 18
-19% of SNAP users were 60 or older
-60% of SNAP benefits went to families with children
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you don't think kids should have food, what broke you?
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UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
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America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!
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"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist."
Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.
www.hcn.org/articles/nor...
Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.
www.hcn.org/articles/nor...
What really is antifa? - High Country News
Effie Baum, an ‘everyday anti-fascist,’ talks about President Trump’s threat to designate the movement as a terrorist organization, and corrects the record.
www.hcn.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist."
Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.
www.hcn.org/articles/nor...
Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.
www.hcn.org/articles/nor...
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“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.
The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.
The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.
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Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported
Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.
We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.
Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.
We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.
September 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported
Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.
We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.
Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.
We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.
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Fascism is about power, not consistency. You can't fight fascists with gotchas. Your gotchas are music to their ears. The only thing that works with them is interfering with their ability to exercise their power. You have to make them fail at what they're trying to do.
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Fascism is about power, not consistency. You can't fight fascists with gotchas. Your gotchas are music to their ears. The only thing that works with them is interfering with their ability to exercise their power. You have to make them fail at what they're trying to do.
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Last time I checked, you can't drink data.
Residents of Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico, struggle to access clean water — but their county wants to bring a $165 billion data center campus to town.
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Resistance to data centers rises on the border - High Country News
In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.
buff.ly
September 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Last time I checked, you can't drink data.
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You can now register for the 14th Amendment Center’s webinars on birthright citizenship.
The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW:
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW:
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
You can now register for the 14th Amendment Center’s webinars on birthright citizenship.
The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW:
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW:
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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“The Guardian is printing the names of all the Palestinian journalists listed by the CPJ as having died as a result of Israeli military action since October 2023 as part of a day of action in condemnation of the killings and in solidarity with those journalists who remain…”
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“The Guardian is printing the names of all the Palestinian journalists listed by the CPJ as having died as a result of Israeli military action since October 2023 as part of a day of action in condemnation of the killings and in solidarity with those journalists who remain…”
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes.
If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
America tips into fascism (GUEST POST)
"Something is materially different in our country this week than last," writes historian Garrett Graff.
www.thehandbasket.co
August 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes.
If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
This is an important thread. D.C. is a testing ground.
THREAD: Centering the conversation on crime - which is always too much and terrible and devastating- suggests that violent crime justifies the presidential takeover of an American city. Trump declared a crime “emergency” in Washington, D.C. His power emanates from that declaration. 1/
August 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is an important thread. D.C. is a testing ground.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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A TSUNAMI WATCH is now in effect for Washington state. If you are on the coast, be prepared to take action & stay tuned for more instructions. This alert level will update once more is known. Find details here: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
#TsunamiWatch #WaWX
#TsunamiWatch #WaWX
July 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A TSUNAMI WATCH is now in effect for Washington state. If you are on the coast, be prepared to take action & stay tuned for more instructions. This alert level will update once more is known. Find details here: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
#TsunamiWatch #WaWX
#TsunamiWatch #WaWX
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"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."
I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids
Perhaps controversially.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."
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Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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July 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔
Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
July 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔
Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...