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Wilhelmina Jenkins @wilhelminaj.bsky.social · 5h

I believe in science and I believe the secretary of health and human services needs a strong scientific background and an ability to correctly analyze research to set priorities along with other experts in the field. RFK Jr. is not that person. Please read the letter and, if you agree, please sign.

Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 6h

#covid #LongCovid #NEISVoid #mecfs there's gonna be a virtual rally for #NoKings where #pwLC will say we do NOT like rfk even though he apparently thinks we do 😒 we're trying to get as many people as possible to sign our letter to the senate HELP committee asking them to fire rfk!

HELP Committee Letter

Sign on here: https://forms.gle/1FvDbFTARW7TzJwb8 October 15, 2025 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions 428 Senate Dirksen Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Subject: Request...

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 1d

Grateful as always to @melissagiragrant.com for writing the response to the cursed masking discourse that I wish I had written.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

It’s not that fucking complicated. No one can make you care about people who have a different risk model than you have (or think you have…).

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 1d

Have set myself up to drown in admin for a season and realizing the answer is to take more notes and take longer to be responsive on anything that’s not critical.

(Having a phone is critical.)

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 1d

There’s just not much to work with

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 1d

The 👁️👁️ in here is that AZ is prepping a lawsuit against the federal gov for **taxation without representation*^ given it’s been 21 days and Grijalva is no closer to being sworn in.

Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · 1d

Adelita! Swear her in!

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 2d

Turned off replies because I can’t process kindness, will have to circle back when I can.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 2d

Today was my last day at my job. Tomorrow’s my first day on long term disability.

I loved that job, that workplace, that project with all my heart. I had one of those rare situations where I was well supported to do meaningful work.

I am so sick I forgot it was today.
Long covid, 5.5 years.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 2d

It will be hard. So many of us are trained to stop like a clock. But this is the only way forward and out.

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 2d

This sentiment, the "we do not demobilize" is what this campaign needs to preach from here on out. Getting the work done is going to require EFFORT. Taking the campaign's infrastructure and applying it to advocacy and political pressure will be crucial - mobilization is the right word.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 4d

Some first hand accounts from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in the thread.

Additional reporting here: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

Wait but the helicopter crashed between the trees and the building was real?

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

On my pile it goes. Thank you!

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

The first novella in Hearts in Atlantis, called Low Men in Yellow Coats, is at the center of what he does really well.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

…should I read Billy Summers?

My list would have The Stand as the doorstopper and then The Gunslinger, original version, and then novellas. Low Men in Yellow Coats. The Langoliers, Rage/Getting It On, The Long Walk.

If I could only pick one thing it would be Low Men in Yellow Coats.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

Kate I am freaking out.

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Drake Bentley @drakebentley.bsky.social · 4d

For Bob.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

Laughing. This exactly.

generic @chrismcneil.bsky.social · 4d

haven’t been to Mass in decades, but this kind of stuff activates Treadstone-level protocols in cultural Catholics

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6d

More signs. Per 1st sign, many Illinoisans would like to know why @govpritzker.illinois.gov has not demanded access to Broadview ICE, not come here & has deployed IL state troopers all over the Chi metro area incldg Broadview. ISP are helping ICE/DHS. Where are you, JB? Why are staties helping ICE??

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely delighted to give them props for finally doing the things I felt like the doctrine wanted ME to do.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

The administration itself acknowledge that some CDC workers had been mistakenly terminated due to coding errors, as reported earlier by ABC News.
I was also told that RIF'd editors of the CDC's flagship scientific journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report have all been recalled, as well as leaders and staffers in several other centers and divisions. Recalled CDC staffers include scientists and other workers in the
Global Health Center, as well as others who work on suicide and other injury prevention.
This is a developing story.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

Scroll down for some excellent explaining of Catholic activism at work.

I’ve been angry at the church all my life (mom’s annulment) but when they do get aligned with themselves it’s really powerful. They carried the presence of Christ to the ICE facility - as the Pope asked! - and were denied.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I haven’t been able to be who I want to be in the world for a long time but always, there’s more there than I think.

I’ll be damned if I can remember his last name. It’s French for something bad.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

He would just look at my place and decide on a project for the year. I would move my car when it was time for him to swap out storing snowmobiles for the camper. It worked really well.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

He saw I wasn’t using my garage and asked if he could use it. Offered me money and I turned him down so he started doing work for me. Almost always this was stuff that never occurred to me, like reroofing the south side of the garage.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 4d

I told my neighbor I’m moving and his face fell and he said Well that fucking sucks, in a way that reminded me that I actually have worked with him to set up some trades that were really good for both of us.

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