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Wendell Albright

@wendella.bsky.social

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Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · Jun 10

It's like Asimov's "Nightfall" except instead of the stars driving us insane, it's social media...

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3h

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

Man people arguing with you about whether Washington was careful in how he conducted himself in public is just wild. (I guess I forget how little most people know about history or GW himself...)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

actually extremely grateful to ethiopian cuisine for basically teaching me how to appreciate vegetarian cooking as a 23 year old

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 4h

whY Doen't TheY justTTT gROW vaNILaaa aaAnd pEPPERR in kanSZAZ?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 5h

checks out

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 5h

We don't need no mulching mowers
We don't need no composting
No leaf-blowing in the backyard
Hey, raker, LEAVE THOSE LEAVES ALONE!

Less work for you and a billion times better for the soil, the buggies, and everything.

Leave those leaves alone!

gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/r...

Why Leaving the Leaves Is Better for Your Yard

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 6h

but even in the city of PORTLAND, Trump got votes

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 10h

How totally and utterly unnecessary. Nobody with a clear mind will mix up vegan sausages with meat sausages. And even if somebody is too ignorant to read the labels: there's no harm in eating vegan food (at least imho)

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 18h

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban

Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news. We fact-check the hell out of our reporting, and we respect and protect our sources.

Have a tip? Drop us a line, confidentially.

How to Leak to Us

The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of fairly and responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news that changes the…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia …”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 6h

"We were gathered here to talk about a road in Alaska"

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Q as Bondi Stonewalls Senate

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Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Q as Bondi Stonewalls Senate | The Daily Show

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 6h

Unless members are putting up sandbags to stop a flood, their work for their district is all in Washington

That's why they were elected to, you know, the House, in Washington

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 6h

this is a Putinesque setup, physically

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder how MAGA types in Portland are dealing with the cognitive dissonance?

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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · 12h

My social circle is basically composed of 3 groups- former diplomats, both U.S. and foreign; journalists, both U.S. and foreign; former Federal Law Enforcement Officers. All 3 groups are overwhelmingly aghast and frightened about what’s going on in our country today. @steadystatevets.bsky.social

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 12h

what about "blood-free sandwiches", is that allowed?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 13h

As the senior White House official told Caputo: “OMB is in charge.”

But those officials were not elected and are operating according to deeply unpopular ideologies.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 13h

but sure let's burn more fucking coal and choke on the fumes and sputter in the rising seas

Euronews @euronews.com · 20h

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

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