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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just donated to the campaign of this congressional candidate who was knocked unconscious and raped while repairing lawn signs. This country hates women. The least we can do is help each other.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More hard-hitting local investigative journalism from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Thank goodness! They haven't reported on TJ tote bags since August! (thank you, @usatoday.com network for leaving my local paper a dried-out, empty husk) #ROC

The "Morning News Roundup" section of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, featuring a photo of an acid green tote bag with blue straps, and orange lettering saying "Trader Joe's", under the headline "Trader Joe's Halloween mini tote bags arrive today. Here's what to know" The bag is hanging on an evergreen shrub, for some reason.

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Dr. Maxximus (he, him) @maxxmentum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't like posting this, but this I feel pressed to share . Cornell needs to be better. Trigger warning, SA related youtube.com/shorts/uikFm...

youtube.com

Meet the Cornell 7 #shorts

YouTube video by Stanzi

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dee Schur: He kept yelling, "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE is a criminal enterprise.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know the Bills are playing today only because the rabbi at my husband’s temple kept saying, “don’t worry, we’ll get you home by 1.” OK, no rush. Got to hear the shofar in plenty of time for the FIBA WBB game to tip off.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lake Ontario, September afternoon. I’m about go for what may be my last lake swim of the summer. Look at all that beautiful fresh water.

Sandy beach, rippled water reaching to the horizon, overhanging leafy branches of a cottonwood tree against a blue and white sky

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Love the woman in the stands in a Canada shirt holding up a sign that says “Lake America?” On one side and “Lake Ontario” on the other. Lake Ontario for ever! #FIBAWWC

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@morelle.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social What are you doing to protect Haitians in our communities from this hateful, mindless cruelty? We cannot stand by while Haitians are sent to their deaths.

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These side by side images tell the story: Trump welcomes only white South Africans while ICE descends on Haitians who have fled violence & established lives here legally. By abruptly ending TPS for Haitians & initiating mass deportations, our government is gleefully enacting racial apartheid in US.

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why Dolly. Just sitting here crying.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Perfection. Having watched this one bazillion times, I’m sharing in case someone else needs to come across it in their feed and watch it again. #WNBA

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ugh. MAGA Barbie on halftime show for SEA @ NYL on USA Network. Elle Duncan calling her “our favorite star”? Muting so fast and won’t be watching more games on USA. #WNBA

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KP @kpkeipea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

hell yeah muffet #WNBA

muffet mcgraw tweet about how trans women are not a threat but men coaches and doctors who harras abuse and assault are

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I still subscribe to my local newspaper, out of an oft disappointed hope that they might commit journalism. But I just got notice of a price increase, & with USAToday pap like this, they may convince me to finally quit them. (previous day's big story was price changes at Dollar stores.) #ROC

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 31/07/2026

She was only 12 years old, but her invention helped improve the air quality in classrooms across Connecticut. Her name is Eniola Shokunbi. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dr Fauci risking his own life to treat ebola patients. What have his attackers ever done for anyone? What sacrifices have they made to serve others? www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Why NIH's Anthony Fauci is treating Ebola patients himself

Spending 2 hours daily with patients has given NIAID chief

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don’t know what kind of ID you need to get pasta at Olive Garden, but for sure they won’t let me eat pasta without paying them money! Buying mediocre pasta is a crappy analogy for exercising my constitutional right to vote.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Nobody wants to live in blue states—that’s why rent is so low and real estate is so cheap in NYC and San Francisco.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lovely summer day in Rochester, as long as you don’t need to breathe.

Murky orange-tinted sky above a red house and green trees

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Seems like Sabrina did Marina Mabrey a favor by grabbing her arm and stopping her from throwing the shoe back. #WNBA #shoegate

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

a victim's statement is evidence.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Don't remember ever getting such a partisan political message from the SSA. All about how Trump is winning big for us seniors! 🤮 I can't find a good doctor, 2 of my husband's specialist docs have left USA, nursing home will be grossly understaffed because you deported the workers. But thanks!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2026

THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED FOR UNDER FASCISM — BRAVERY Before the attacks & the hot takes start, a few facts: Major Jason Watson is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, a career logistics officer, a NATO officer, and a decorated veteran who volunteered for a 365-day tour in Afghanistan… 🧵

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Yep. Can you imagine any previous president in the same situation not being forced from office in disgrace? But it’s Trump, so ho hum.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Only two days left (June 25 & 26) to get free shipping for anti-Prime days bookshop.org/shop/Watts (Ordering from Bookshop is always a good idea because it benefits independent bookstores)

bookshop.org

Bridget Watts Bookshop

Sharing books that interest me, including the work of my grandmother, the pioneering naturalist and ecologist, and Illinois Prairie Path founder May Theilgaard Watts.

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This illustrates how dumb POTUS is. A $14M mistake that will require even MORE of our tax payer $ to rectify.

I clean actual swimming pools for a living. This will not work. The reflection pool used to act much like a natural body of water with natural filtration. It would (leak) drain through the granite and new water was added. Now it's been
"sealed" with polyurethane and will no longer drain itself and the standing water will grow even MORE algae. With circulation and filtration added, it will no longer be a reflecting pool. Only still water perfectly reflects. It's ruined.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

3rd big Joe Morelle mailer paid for by an AI industry PAC that my husband has received in about a week. Wonder why it's worth it to the AI industry to spend so much on Morelle. #ROC

Corner of 8.5x11" postcard. Text: Joe Morelle for congress NY-25. PAID FOR BY THINK BIG PAC. WWW.THINKBIGPAC.AI. NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE'S COMMITTEE. THINK BIG PAC IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

@wnba.com I’m a League Pass subscriber and the NYL @Conn game isn’t being broadcast anywhere else, but I keep getting a message saying livestream isn’t available. What gives? League pass keeps getting more frustrating.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Johannes 🕊️❤️🙏 @soberasajudge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Very clearly ICE has become so violent and lawless that it, as an agency, no longer is trusted. It is beyond reform. ICE will need to be closed and its officers and agents prosecuted for murder, kidnapping, and other felonies. A new way of seeing immigration has to be found.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A thousand time this. I’m sick of media Using the word CLASH to describe ATTACKS by heavily armed ICE & other police in non-violent demonstrators, as if the use of force were equivalent on both sides

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thank you thank you 🙏 #WNBA League Pass for letting us see Big Ellie’s half-time show. Oh my goodness. #NYLiberty

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

State St., Rochester, Federal Bldg - be there Tues, May 26, 9:30am to support this lovely woman at hearing on her status. She's lived & worked in WNY for decades, picking apples, raising children, advocating for farmworkers. Snatched by ICE in April. #everyonefordolores #ICE #ROC

Poster decorated with a photo of a middle-aged Latina and Monarch butterflies, says Free Dolores, Home is Here, Pack the Court, pack the street May 26th 9:30 AM, Federal Courthouse, 100 State St, Rochester, NY.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

CDC messaging that hantavirus transmission “requires prolonged close contact” is contradicted by what’s really happening? What a surprise. Just keep washing your hands, kids. I’m sure we’ll all be fine.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Minnesota Lynx began their first game of the #WNBA season with a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good. I love women’s basketball so much. #FuckICE

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

These two together in one place! My heart. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ #WNBA #NYLiberty

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

More children being hospitalized with severe asthma because we refuse to take any measures, (even the easiest) to reduce transmission of COVID.

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