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GretchenD

@gbdonart.bsky.social
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She/her.Workers' rights and child care campaigner. Big Purp retiree. Idaho→DEN→CHI→NYC→ SEA→DC→OAK (East Bay).

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 9h
"And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you." He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"Thiel’s destruction of Gawker, a publication that attacked virtually everyone, was the first shot fired in this era’s remarkably successful war against the free press. The war itself is not new. It’s just that today’s iteration of it is so very on the nose." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026
The other side of this is, of course, many daycare workers are so poorly paid they are low income. Free daycare could actually solve both issues. Freeing parents to join the workforce and paying workers a living wage.
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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Sandhill Cranes are out in force on Sauvie's Island, Portland, Oregon #birding
two Sandhill Cranes fly overhead
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wow I guess I'm the last to learn that the Olympian (whose name is based on Olympia, WA) is a weird clickbait aggregator now
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The news outlets purged as a result—the Washington Post, CBS, CNN, and surely more to come—are, from the perspectives of the oligarchy, a fringe benefit. They don’t have to worry about the pesky writers attacking them so much any more, either." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/09/2026
Important beaver news!!
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Researchers Find Beavers in Unexpected Places
The animals are expanding into new ecosystems that surprise scientists and benefit local species
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon"
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🍜 give me pho 🍜 @budapestmission.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was on both sides of this absurdity. had to file labor charges when our station forced mandatory overtime on a day we had specifically requested a regular workday in order to hold a union rally. also had a carrier who, without fail, filed charges every 6 months for failure to represent
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And I raise that bc it LOOKS like someone tried to put electoral considerations above fascist ravenous for a few weeks and the fascists made clear they would not stand by it. We REALLY underestimate the extent to which Trump is terrified of his own fascists.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration owes roughly $300 million to the International Labour Organization, dealing a devastating blow to an international agency and leaving workers worldwide to bear the consequences. ampr.gs/4yeR0Lf
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The Trump Administration’s Abandonment of the ILO Harms Workers Both at Home and Abroad
The Trump administration owes roughly $300 million to the International Labour Organization, dealing a devastating blow to an international agency and leaving workers worldwide to bear the consequence...
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm imagining the little Kerbal screaming as Elon's rocket goes out of control into the atmosphere.
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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
President Trump is a massive liar. It’s why he’s unfit for office, and for every other decent person role. Thank you for this essay and for all of your work, Daniel Dale. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a fond aficionado and practitioner of various American aphorisms, colloquialisms, and idioms--and as a person with a very crowded and often chaotic calendar--this tracks.
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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Quoted in the @nytimes.com this morning: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Idaho News Guild @idahonewsguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
McClatchy claims readers don’t want coverage like this — the kind that focuses on the heroes and the survivors. Prove them wrong by writing a letter to management at 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A fun recommendation for public interest lawyers: Go see Coyote v ACME, if you haven't already. It's a delightful movie about fighting a (cartoonishly) evil monopolistic megacorporation. I was worried it would be only a kids movie and it was so much fun.
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is useful when reading economic statistics
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GretchenD @gbdonart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How big grocers have been limiting food access in California www.sfgate.com/food/article...
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Giant California grocery chain is restricting people's access to food
"Entire childhoods went by without families having a nearby grocery store."
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw Wilber in ICE detention yesterday, in a wheelchair with a bullet still in his body. Here’s what’s next: He needs surgery. And ICE needs to cooperate with the independent investigation.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
CANADA: The First Walmart Union Contract in North America jacobin.com/2026/09/walm...
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The First Walmart Union Contract in North America
At a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, workers have made history by winning the first-ever union contract with the logistics giant in North America. Their fight has meant pay raises...
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jseattle @jseattle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9-2-5 — It’s Dolly Day in Seattle
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9-2-5 — It’s Dolly Day in Seattle
Happy Dolly Parton Day, Seattle. The city officially proclaimed September 25th as “Dolly Parton Day” to celebrate the legendary artist and philanthropist’s contributions to music, culture, and childhood literacy following her passing in August. City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck presented … Continue reading →
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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1916, IWW members organizing North Yakima apple pickers were arrested in the midst of a large street meeting and jailed. historylink.org/File/7335
Overview of Yakima City (now Union Gap). Union Gap , Washington, 1884
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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 2008, federal bank regulators seized Washington Mutual. historylink.org/File/8795
Washington Mutual Tower #1, n.d.
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GretchenD @gbdonart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow AutoZone spent $20,000 per vote to unsuccessfully oppose the union!
A new calculator from workers' rights watchdog
LaborLab estimates that the parts retailer AutoZone has paid $210,696 to managers and lawyers to crush a union drive by 11 workers in one store in White Plains, New York. The workers went public in July with their drive to join United Auto Workers Local 259.
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GretchenD @gbdonart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This one made me laugh!
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now wait a friggin' minute! #UnionsForAll #HigherEd
Four-panel meme contrasting a UW bargaining post saying "0% | UW is 'Not Authorized' to Talk About Raises" with a Seattle Times headline "Washington Huskies unveil $25 million TV studio," paired with two Emperor Palpatine panels captioned "...so broke..." and "UNLIMITED MONEY" to mock spending
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's 9/25 and you know we at SEIU 925 love Dolly's hit song & movie "9 to 5," with it's call for women in the workplace to be treated equally & with respect. Today we honor Dolly Parton and all of her incredible contributions, advocacy & generosity- including The Imagination Library.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/09/2026
Happy 9 to 5 day, Sister Dolly. We miss you ❤️
Photo of Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5."
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
7,000 Chicago hotel workers at 46 hotels voted 85% to authorize a strike. Cassandra Pope said it best, “They demand and demand, always rushing us, without acknowledging that we are human beings.” 1 in 3 can't afford rent. 30% can't pay utilities. Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott. Pay up
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's easier to hyperfixate on this one detail about Gen Z workers instead of on how corporations are using performance improvement plans to force out employees without severance; how return to office policies hurt parents, caregivers, and disabled workers; and how hard it is to find a job right now.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 25/09/2026
"Would a mass exodus of ordinary folks out of the churches permanently undermine the vitality of American Christianity?” sojo.net/articles/opi...
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The Pro-Labor Gospel Is Back on the Ballot
Candidates in Texas, Iowa, and Kansas are declaring God is on the side of workers. Will voters agree?
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s almost like they did not mean it when they said they would go after criminals only. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
Federal agents appeared in nearly every corner of daily life, carrying out operations at hospitals and airports, outside suburban schools and along rural construction sites and truck stops. They fanned out from coastal cities in Maine to desert towns in Arizona, across the open plains of Wyoming and down through the southern borderlands.

In Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, where the swell was strongest, they amplified their reach through partnerships with sheriffs and state highway patrol officers. In Democratic strongholds, they intensified their activities despite laws meant to restrict them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
190,000 home care workers in New York just filed for a union election. It could be the largest in US history! The record is 137,000 GM workers in 1940. They care for disabled New Yorkers in their own homes. Paid just $18hr with no benefits, no protections. Thats about to change.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4 million trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. Mamdani just made them pay $131.5 million in wage theft settlements to 264,000 delivery workers. This is why they fear working class solidarity. It comes with accountability.
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Pierce County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @piercelabor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today we closed on eastside Tacoma's Willard Early Learning Center! Plans include childcare during nontraditional hours, apprenticeships for childcare workers, space for affiliates and community groups - PCCLC's first home of its own since the late 1970's! Read more at bit.ly/willardpurchase
Alt text: Six Pierce Labor members pose together in front of a green curtain. Text reads: “From Idea to Institution: Pierce Labor Purchases Willard Early Learning Center.” Pierce Labor has purchased Tacoma’s former Willard School to create a childcare and workforce education center offering affordable care during nontraditional hours, childcare career pathways, and workforce and apprenticeship education. A “Read More” link points to bit.ly/willardpurchase.
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Jem's Jumpers UK @jemsjumpers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
(Yes this is a joke 😂) POV: your jumping spider has better discipline than you 😅 Honey said "watch this" and now she's the star of the house 🥹 She jumps. She lands. She's perfect. That's it, that's the post 😌 #jumpingspider
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.
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Elisa 🌶️🥔 @spicytater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Todd made the national spotlight. We need him to unseat Risch. Once we get him to do that, we work on his weaknesses. Not a perfect candidate but so much better than Jim Risch. #idpol #Idaho
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I apologize in advance for the cuteness I am about to unleash upon you I went outside again, you see This red squirrel had a little shelter of sticks and he stepped out into the sun to show me his FEETS 1/
SQUIRREL FEETS in the sun. They are attached to a whole squirrel. But the fact is we are looking at very cute little squirrel feet here, top one percent for sure
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dam removal works. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/c...
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Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath Dam Removals, Study Finds (Gift Article)
The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.
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GretchenD @gbdonart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel seen.
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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"No, that's not what I mean," objected Milo. "Can you show me the longest number there is?" "Surely," said the Mathemagician, opening another door. "Here it is. It took three carts to carry it here." Inside this closet was the longest 8 imaginable. It was just about as wide as the three was high.
A very long, wide eight
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