Kate Weckesser English
@kwenglish.bsky.social
Travel. Cooking. Books. Movies. Animals (dogs & cats equally). Keeping hope alive!
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In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for life-changing — sometimes lifesaving — post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for life-changing — sometimes lifesaving — post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
Our nonprofit, @eihumanrights.bsky.social , has a new quotable shirt (or hoodie!) This batch of orders closes September 21. Get yours at: ow.ly/1fIl50WXEeo
Recognizing the Humanity of Others | Bonfire
Share this wisdom from Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu . Recognized for "his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Our nonprofit, @eihumanrights.bsky.social , has a new quotable shirt (or hoodie!) This batch of orders closes September 21. Get yours at: ow.ly/1fIl50WXEeo
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This a-cappella rendition of a popular Ukrainian love song became an instant hit.
In all my years on this earth I haven’t seen 🇺🇦 culture as vibrant as it is now.
#StandWithUkraine
In all my years on this earth I haven’t seen 🇺🇦 culture as vibrant as it is now.
#StandWithUkraine
July 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This a-cappella rendition of a popular Ukrainian love song became an instant hit.
In all my years on this earth I haven’t seen 🇺🇦 culture as vibrant as it is now.
#StandWithUkraine
In all my years on this earth I haven’t seen 🇺🇦 culture as vibrant as it is now.
#StandWithUkraine
@nytgames.bsky.social today's spangram is wonderful!
June 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@nytgames.bsky.social today's spangram is wonderful!
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda have signed a US- and Qatar-brokered peace deal, raising hopes of ending renewed conflict – and opening US access to key minerals.
June 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda have signed a US- and Qatar-brokered peace deal, raising hopes of ending renewed conflict – and opening US access to key minerals.
I appreciate the luxury of accurate representation in Congress these days. I know too well that this is not true for many of us.
@beyer.house.gov speaks my mind
@beyer.house.gov speaks my mind
A war of choice is not an act of peace.
Trump’s pursuit of regime change in Iran would be a terrible, unnecessary, immoral, and expensive mistake that could cost many lives.
Trump’s pursuit of regime change in Iran would be a terrible, unnecessary, immoral, and expensive mistake that could cost many lives.
June 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I appreciate the luxury of accurate representation in Congress these days. I know too well that this is not true for many of us.
@beyer.house.gov speaks my mind
@beyer.house.gov speaks my mind
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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.
June 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.
We're excited to share this T-shirt featuring the #harveymilk quote "Hope will never be silent." Wear it with pride, and keep hope forever in your heart. #hope #pride @eihumanrights.bsky.social @right2learn.bsky.social
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June 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We're excited to share this T-shirt featuring the #harveymilk quote "Hope will never be silent." Wear it with pride, and keep hope forever in your heart. #hope #pride @eihumanrights.bsky.social @right2learn.bsky.social
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While John Adams was in Paris, he wrote to Abigail: "The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.
June 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
While John Adams was in Paris, he wrote to Abigail: "The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.
Did you see #Mountainhead on #HBO last night?
Deeply disturbing and dark, and hewing far too close to reality.
@edeggans.bsky.social is my favorite TV critic. Here are his thoughts, which I found pretty profound:
Deeply disturbing and dark, and hewing far too close to reality.
@edeggans.bsky.social is my favorite TV critic. Here are his thoughts, which I found pretty profound:
HBO's film Mountainhead joins a small flood of recent TV shows satirizing the rich: Sirens, Your Friends and Neighbors and the grandaddy of them all, The White Lotus. Here's why I hope Hollywood stops making them, or learns to make them differently: loom.ly/nUoHzI8
Why HBO's tech bro satire 'Mountainhead' is a triggering experience
Much as I love some rich people satires, like Sirens, Your Friends and Neighbors and Mountainhead, I hope Hollywood stops making them...or makes them differently
loom.ly
June 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Did you see #Mountainhead on #HBO last night?
Deeply disturbing and dark, and hewing far too close to reality.
@edeggans.bsky.social is my favorite TV critic. Here are his thoughts, which I found pretty profound:
Deeply disturbing and dark, and hewing far too close to reality.
@edeggans.bsky.social is my favorite TV critic. Here are his thoughts, which I found pretty profound:
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The plane is still at Shannon and appears to have taxied to a parking stamp and powered down. I’m gonna try and sleep, but #avgeeks please keep watching it. Hope we created an international incident.
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The plane is still at Shannon and appears to have taxied to a parking stamp and powered down. I’m gonna try and sleep, but #avgeeks please keep watching it. Hope we created an international incident.
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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
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May 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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Salinas, California.
Locals -- vividly! -- show their disgust for January 6th convicts "meet and greet" in their neighborhood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEq...
Locals -- vividly! -- show their disgust for January 6th convicts "meet and greet" in their neighborhood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEq...
Conflict erupts at Jan. 6 rioters event in Monterey County
YouTube video by KSBW Action News 8
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April 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Salinas, California.
Locals -- vividly! -- show their disgust for January 6th convicts "meet and greet" in their neighborhood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEq...
Locals -- vividly! -- show their disgust for January 6th convicts "meet and greet" in their neighborhood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEq...
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Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
Somewhere in the White House, a bottle of ketchup knows its time is nigh #butheremails #thatsdumb
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb (Gift Article)
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Somewhere in the White House, a bottle of ketchup knows its time is nigh #butheremails #thatsdumb
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
@maryweckesser.bsky.social welcome to bluesky!
the sun shines brightly through the clouds in the blue sky
ALT: the sun shines brightly through the clouds in the blue sky
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March 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@maryweckesser.bsky.social welcome to bluesky!
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God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
March 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
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As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
"The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice."
John Rawls
John Rawls
March 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice."
John Rawls
John Rawls
A little Raffi
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youtu.be/aHO8xAe-FKs
C-A-N-A-D-A
YouTube video by Susan McClary
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March 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A little Raffi
youtu.be/aHO8xAe-FKs
youtu.be/aHO8xAe-FKs
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Carl Dean, an asphalt paver who met his future wife, Dolly Parton, outside a Nashville laundromat more than six decades ago and quietly championed her as she rose to superstardom, died on Monday. He was 82.
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s Husband of Nearly 60 Years, Dies at 82
Mr. Dean was known to shy away from the spotlight as his wife rose to fame.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Carl Dean, an asphalt paver who met his future wife, Dolly Parton, outside a Nashville laundromat more than six decades ago and quietly championed her as she rose to superstardom, died on Monday. He was 82.