WhatSaraSaid
@whatsarasaid.bsky.social
Abortion advocate, researcher, utility infielder for bodily autonomy. Roots in Ohio, branches where the sagebrush grows. We're going to get the government out of your doctor’s office, because freedom is for every body.
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WhatSaraSaid
@whatsarasaid.bsky.social
· Oct 13
Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Portland, you magnificent weirdos
my 87yo Republican mother in law is taking it to the streets, for the first time in her life, with her friends at the retirement home on Saturday and that's why we will win
Look like? spending 40% of your ad budget to say you're a weirdo who wants to bully girls who play sports is freak stuff, just unserious about our country's problems
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Look like? spending 40% of your ad budget to say you're a weirdo who wants to bully girls who play sports is freak stuff, just unserious about our country's problems
At the Truman Library last week I saw what Harry’s decent-guy, replacement-level Presidency was: This man was just a white dude from a town out of ‘Huck Finn’ & he integrated our military. It’s not clear he knew he was gassing up a civil rights movement that made his own childhood illegal, but…
we have a strong reserve of “seems like fundamentally decent dudes who would likely do a good but not perhaps transformative job” and honestly the post WWII track record is that those guys turn out to be great more often than you’d expect
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
At the Truman Library last week I saw what Harry’s decent-guy, replacement-level Presidency was: This man was just a white dude from a town out of ‘Huck Finn’ & he integrated our military. It’s not clear he knew he was gassing up a civil rights movement that made his own childhood illegal, but…
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
So true. We could have spared literally the entire world a lot of suffering if only Bill deBlasio & Bloomberg had worked together to make this man the titular mayor of NY (doing as little as Eric Adams has & taking their direction on policy). But no.
Trump would trade offices with Mamdani in a heartbeat. He just wants NYC to appreciate him.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So true. We could have spared literally the entire world a lot of suffering if only Bill deBlasio & Bloomberg had worked together to make this man the titular mayor of NY (doing as little as Eric Adams has & taking their direction on policy). But no.
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Trump taking down all the pictures of Andrew Jackson and replacing them with James Baldwin quotes
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump taking down all the pictures of Andrew Jackson and replacing them with James Baldwin quotes
How did measles form a PAC to pay off GOP elected officials
NYT: RFK Jr personally ordered the change in the CDC website's language around vaccines and autism
My own editorial: I hope that RFK Jr is [redacted] until he [redacted].
My own editorial: I hope that RFK Jr is [redacted] until he [redacted].
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
How did measles form a PAC to pay off GOP elected officials
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there is one word for what is needed here:
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
there is one word for what is needed here:
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
Hell I once paid $550 to find the thumbtacks from the pin map my kid brought home from Montessori school & left with an assignment to keep looking through all output until I had 7 of them or pay another $3700
You ever pay $550 just to watch your dog eat some chicken wings
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hell I once paid $550 to find the thumbtacks from the pin map my kid brought home from Montessori school & left with an assignment to keep looking through all output until I had 7 of them or pay another $3700
Sarah Palin put out mailers with a target on Gabby Giffords; it only took one (1) verified whacko with a gun to kill 9 people (including a federal judge & a 9yo girl) in his effort to act on the instructions. The GOP knew how to direct stochastic violence before Trump, and he turns it up to 11.
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Sarah Palin put out mailers with a target on Gabby Giffords; it only took one (1) verified whacko with a gun to kill 9 people (including a federal judge & a 9yo girl) in his effort to act on the instructions. The GOP knew how to direct stochastic violence before Trump, and he turns it up to 11.
not saying I recently purchased a bodrhan, the Celtic drum used to call people to resist the empire's attacks on our communities since 1690...but not saying I didn't
Getting into the history of the IRA and British military occupation, in part because of the federal occupation in American cities right now. I also started listening to Irish folk songs about the IRA and I find the agitprop really effective.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
not saying I recently purchased a bodrhan, the Celtic drum used to call people to resist the empire's attacks on our communities since 1690...but not saying I didn't
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Breaking News: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is going to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.
The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early.
(This post is a test.)
The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early.
(This post is a test.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Breaking News: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is going to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.
The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early.
(This post is a test.)
The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early.
(This post is a test.)
Where do I mail 4.95 & SASE to get my “1 of the Couple of Wokesters” badge
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Where do I mail 4.95 & SASE to get my “1 of the Couple of Wokesters” badge
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These people live in a vast, beautiful country but they hate and fear 90% of it and refuse to learn anything about it so they keep being stymied by esoteric knowledge like "North Carolina armed" and "Chicago cold"
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
These people live in a vast, beautiful country but they hate and fear 90% of it and refuse to learn anything about it so they keep being stymied by esoteric knowledge like "North Carolina armed" and "Chicago cold"
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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ChatGPT down... I smell natural experiment!
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ChatGPT down... I smell natural experiment!
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I wrote about the indignity of being ruled over by these people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wrote about the indignity of being ruled over by these people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What were the other 9, let’s look into that too
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What were the other 9, let’s look into that too
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I also just found out Unity Play exists so it's on there too now. Bringing abortions to ALL your internet gaming platforms play.unity.com/en/games/c09...
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I also just found out Unity Play exists so it's on there too now. Bringing abortions to ALL your internet gaming platforms play.unity.com/en/games/c09...
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Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.
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This historical plaque on the edge of the French Quarter is a JOURNEY.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This historical plaque on the edge of the French Quarter is a JOURNEY.
(bangs head against desk) I teach health policy to graduate students and everything this silly man just said is 100% wrong & he knows if
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
(bangs head against desk) I teach health policy to graduate students and everything this silly man just said is 100% wrong & he knows if
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SOME PIGS
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
SOME PIGS