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Wendy Colborne

@wendycolborne.bsky.social

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Union communicator. Hillsdale College grad (where I learned my forever enemies). Pan. Joyful partner of @DavidColborne. Trans rights are human rights. Nazi punks fuck off.

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · Nov 8

As someone who went to the notoriously conservative Hillsdale College (as a queer liberal woman), I feel like I have some special insight into the Heritage Foundation chuds that will soon be running our government. Rule #1: They genuinely do not think people different from themselves are people. 1/

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 23h

Ezra Klein in tomorrow's NYT: "Why the Kansas Young Republicans were doing politics the right way"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 1d

The only series I've ever read that matched the scale and grandeur of GoT was the Dandelion Dynasty by @kyliu99.bsky.social. I ended up loving it way more than I ever loved GoT, and the audiobooks are great. As a long-term fan of yours, I think you'd love them.

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 2d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 3d

Exec3: What if, while we targeted our advertising towards lanyard-class staffers with an occasionally overdeveloped sense of noblesse oblige, we argued that the NLRB was unconstitutional?

Exec1 and Exec2: Okay, now it's starting to get warm in here.

Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional

Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

www.bloomberg.com

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 4d

parody of a WW2 propaganda poster that showed US soldiers images of soldiers from other countries who were allies. It has a purple bar at the top and bottom of the poster that has text inside that reads "This man is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM"

in the middle is a black and white photo of the Portland frog, and it is labeled "Frog"

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d

I love this image.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 4d

Same! A worthwhile pilgrimage.

Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 4d

That's what John Hinckley, Jr. wished Jodie Foster had said.

Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 4d

I'm glad someone finally noticed

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RalstonReports @ralstonreports.bsky.social · 5d

"..Rosen (D-NV) said during a press call..that only Cortez Masto could explain her votes. Rosen has voted against the GOP’s resolutions, she said, because 'I believe that fighting for people's health care is one of the most important things I can do.'”

thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

Nevadans in Congress frustrated as government shutdown drags into 2nd week - The Nevada Independent

With air traffic controllers calling out sick and small business loans on pause, Nevada lawmakers on both sides express concern.

thenevadaindependent.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 6d

Frank Lloyd Wright was the Steve Jobs of architecture.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 6d

Anti-furry bigotry tbh

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 7d

Fabulous alt text.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 7d

And also wholly unsurprising (I went to Hillsdale with him and he was always like this).

At least that hellhole taught me how to recognize disingenuous, self-righteous conservative bullshit early.

Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 7d

Gaiser's responses from his nomination hearing are horrifying. Empty of moral courage. Pure venality and sociopathy.

www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 8d

I went to college with this guy. He was a smug shitheel then and he's worse now.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 8d

Head of OLC is a former Alito clerk
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 8d

One of the more curious aspects of working in information technology these days is watching my colleagues and I relearn well-worn lessons of the past the hard way, only at internet speeds.

Now it's time for the United States to learn from those of us in IT.

My latest for @thenvindy.com:

OPINION: Unitary Executive Theory is a bad idea for computers, a worse one for presidents - The Nevada Independent

OPINION: Unitary Executive Theory is a bad idea for computers, a worse one for presidents. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

thenevadaindependent.com

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