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Ember Babiak (they/them)

@wendybabiak.bsky.social

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Poet (CONSPIRACY OF LEAVES, Plain View Press), butterfly-hummingbird gardener, mama to two adult humans and one tiny dog. Two-spirit. AuDHD. Spoonie. Married. (No DMs). Wondering human.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · Sep 8

My beloved has written a novel. Brian Dale Babiak MD. Actually, he’s written seven, wildly varied like a constellation where the stars are at wildly different distances, but make a picture to our eye.

This is him catering to my sense of whimsey and love of a happy ending.

Within an elaborate border with dragons at the corners and nachos floating around a spreadsheet at the bottom, in large, old-fashioned type, “GRANDMA’S ILLEGAL DRAGON RACING CIRCUIT,” and then, in smaller, simpler text, “A SCIENTIFICALLY IMPROBABLE ADVENTURE IN ACTUARIAL HEROISM—Being the Conplete, Annoted, & Emotionally Devastating Account of How Speadsheets Saved the Multiverse, With Dragons, Nachos, and the Discovery That Everyone Matters.”

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Mr Handsome Boy @kaiten9653.bsky.social · 13d

"please take this seriously. Antifa is now going door to door demanding a 'trick' or a 'treat'. Frightened residents have been reduced to placating them with assorted candies". -Andy Ngo

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.”

0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 7h

I know plenty of cisgender men who are decent humans.

The obscene wealth is the problem. Them controlling what we see is not okay.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 7h

If he cheats, HE didn’t love YOU enough.

Jeepers.

And he won’t stop.

RUN.

Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 9h

And he thinks he’s smart. It’s kinda infuriating, ngl.

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𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 @sofia-rosa.bsky.social · 3d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 9h

For every fascist authoritarian, there was a Chamberlain who tried appeasement, or a Schumer who opted for stern letters over dogged resistance.

Fascism thrives in the face of timid opposition.

This is why voters are desperate for candidates who will truly challenge Trump and the oligarchs.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sure there will be some. They can even be born to good folks and learn hate online. That’s why we always have to be pushing from our end.

Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 1d

They won’t always buy it, tho. They’re not gonna wanna talk to them once they’re grown.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! Marriage isn’t that hard when you give each other lots of latitude to be as weird as feels right.

Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a fabulous book. He’s since released some more novels (I’m reading THE DOUBLES: GHOSTS OF THE PODIUM, chilling), and a creative nonfiction book on ADHD that I’m really digging.

I knew he was smart, but dang. He’s brilliant. Kinda a fun realization after 34 years of marriage.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 2d

Oscar came with me on my errands, as he does. He’s even more popular than my pin.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 2d

Oscar. He’s the bestest boy.

Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 2d

I wore my pon around town on errands today, so yes, I am.

A beaded pin, gold on black, reads FUCK TRUMP.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday

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Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot: Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 2d

The government has the funds to issue SNAP benefits, yet they're withholding the money. Over $3 billion in contingency funds are set aside to ensure food assistance during a shutdown. They could leverage these funds to fulfill SNAP benefits for 40 M people, including 16 M children, yet they don't

Homepage

Informing debates. Shaping policy. Producing results.

cbpp.org

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 2d

While he builds a ballroom.

It’s like he’s BEGGING for a general strike.

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 4d

And in November. Thanksgiving. Good grief.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House.

This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be contrarian, to a point. Since roughly 100% of Americans, w/an IQ over 60 points, knows what "anti-fascism" means, & have since WWII, progressive sorts would be smarter to use that term. "Antifa," to many, sounds foreign & scary, like "Intifada," which is why right-wingers use it exclusively.

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thechemist.bsky.social @thechemist.bsky.social · 4d

I recall watching those briefings. When he kept on doing them without having any information that actually needed to be released, I knew he craved the attention in the same sick way as Trump. Wasn’t surprised when he turned out to be an abusive bully of a sex pest.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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