Reposted by savannah wootenMary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison 93105482240
Reposted by savannah wootenSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 11/02/2025Donald Trump and Elon Musk are illegally cutting off funding to our nation's essential services. But no one dares touch the Pentagon budget. Join us as we fight to slash the Pentagon and invest in our communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx6E...youtube.comSenator Markey Hosts Press Conference on Cuts to Essential Services Despite Bloated Pentagon BudgetYouTube video by Senator Markey 1819135
Reposted by savannah wootenPublic Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The U.S. spends more than $400 BILLION annually on prescription drugs. The Pentagon budget is quickly approaching $1 TRILLION. Taxpayers hand over $20 BILLION in oil and gas subsidies every year. But sure, let's ignore the real problems & focus on getting rid of the penny. 417950
Reposted by savannah wootenMicah @rincewind.run · 08/12/2024we can have a vibrant community of trans people or we can have Singal and his followers maybe that’s not a choice you want to make as a platform, but if you don’t make it the trans people will make it for you by leaving 401953382
Reposted by savannah wootenelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead. 171498359
Reposted by savannah wootenJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them 694153951782
Reposted by savannah wootenRami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 08/12/2024DAMASCUS: 1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment. For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost. Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more. 8775021796
savannah wooten @savannahewooten.bsky.social · 05/12/2024do you know how unwell you have to be to be in the top 0.005% of So Long, London listeners? because I do lol 010
savannah wooten @savannahewooten.bsky.social · 02/12/2024the feature I have craved since childhood has DROPPED 💌📮❣️ 020
Reposted by savannah wootenGeoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Massive away win for the little fella. 573583919606
Reposted by savannah wootenAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 26/11/2024New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why the rape accusation against Pete Hegseth matters. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Fever Ray. 38334
Reposted by savannah wootenAndy Richter @andyrichter.co · 23/11/2024I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber 234162771665
savannah wooten @savannahewooten.bsky.social · 24/11/2024cannot overstate what a good time it is to be (1) a generally obsessive person who (2) RELISHES when people obsessively nerd out about something as a society and (3) had somehow never seen Wicked until Thursday 020
Reposted by savannah wootenColin Demarest @demarest-colin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024In Replicator analysis first shared with us, Public Citizen writes: "Tech companies have swept into the military-industrial space with gusto, claiming to bring an innovative edge to an otherwise clunky and slow-moving, albeit lucrative, industry." www.axios.com/newsletters/...axios.comAxios Future of Defense 011
Reposted by savannah wootenLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor 9594452823
Reposted by savannah wootenHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 20/11/2024The Biden administration plans to send internationally banned antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine. @marywareham.bsky.social details this "shocking and devastating" development: 910744
Reposted by savannah wootenJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This place has big coffee shop inside a bookstore vibes and I’m here for it 276179891405
Reposted by savannah wootenKate Violette @kateviolette.com · 20/11/2024I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people. 202420515
Reposted by savannah wootenBeing Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky 554127982503
Reposted by savannah wootensteven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I am so glad that Bluesky has taken off and evolved to the point where it is as useful and vibrant as Twitter was at its best. For a while, Bluesky didn't have the features I needed as a journalist, and it didn't have the same audience. Now it has both. It's nice to feel optimistic about this place! 654817238
Reposted by savannah wootenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/11/2024I hope that the people who are usually not politically engaged but worked really hard to get Harris elected wake up soon and realize that they are not the only ones who are tired of a struggle that is full of defeat & in fact they could learn about surviving from the leftists they mark as enemies 684915607
Reposted by savannah wootenderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2024im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you. 575345292718
Reposted by savannah wootenAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Now that’s a subskeet 485384768
savannah wooten @savannahewooten.bsky.social · 20/11/2024tbh the world might be better if many people in DC would go home at 5:30 pm and stay a while lol 030
Reposted by savannah wootenWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/11/2024With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive. 442362325410
Reposted by savannah wooten🦋𝘙𝘩ₒ𝒏∂𝔞 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024📌 this one! It is spot on! 10371431097
Reposted by savannah wootenShannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker. 14910612740
Reposted by savannah wootenTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 18/11/2024This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book. 474283574285
Reposted by savannah wootenRebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch. 1242459477002
Reposted by savannah wootenOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in. 253250704467
Reposted by savannah wootenPublic Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The pentagon failed its audit, again, for the SEVENTH year. The pentagon has NEVER passed an audit. And guess what? After failing to account for their $824 billion budget, they'll get even more money next year. 29635