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Susan Wachtman

@suewrite.bsky.social
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Hard of hearing old white lady who can imagine being different. SFF writer, she/her. "Tell me, where do the children play?"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
OF COURSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MUST CHANGE. What is WRONG with you if you don't think that??
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
Okay so someone quote tweeted me and was very upset that I didn't know that Mamdani had a very incendiary speech about the Democratic Party, and they were right, I had not watched Mamdani's speech about the Democratic Party, just seen clips. So I found it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0i...
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'The Democratic Party Must Change': Zohran Mamdani | NYC GOTV Rally 2026 | APT
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???
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Susan Wachtman @suewrite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Policies Communities Need to Confront the AI Data Center Race ilsr.org/articles/the...
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The Policies Communities Need to Confront the AI Data Center Race
Safeguarding community self-determination and well-being, tackling monopoly power, and building small-scale distributed alternatives are the keys to protecting communities during the data center boom.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/05/2026
Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.
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Exclusive: Inmates describe being punished for speaking out about Ghislaine Maxwell | CNN
Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates speak to CNN about Maxwell’s special treatment in prison and how they were punished for criticizing Maxwell. MJ Lee reports on OutFront.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. To counter Trump’s culture wars and fake populism, progressives must mount a real battle against economic elites who have rigged the game — and shafted millions of working class people.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
At the Union Now event in NYC where Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, union leader Sara Nelson and others will be speaking
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"Working class Jews were sacrificed by the millions so that Zionists could build a racially and economically elite society in Palestine that would empower themselves and decimate the Arab population."
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This thread runs through 1933 Business Plot, profiting off Nazi Germany/Holocaust, JFK assassination, Iran Contra, Iraqi War, 2008 Financial Crisis, Covid pandemic, Ukraine War, Israel's Gaza genocide, crimes of aggression on Venezuela & Iran. It involves Epstein, billionaires & Zionist extremists.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/04/2026
Gentle reminder that Israel is more than twice the size of Lebanon. Lebanon is smaller than Connecticut. And right now, Israel occupies almost 20% of Lebanon, and is pushing for more. And they're deliberately poisoning the areas they occupy so no one can live there anymore.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/04/2026
JD Vance tries to call Trump live on stage at a rally for Viktor Orban in Hungary and he gets sent to voicemail twice.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And some people gave us shit for Don’t Look Up being too over the top. Man oh man do I wish it was.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/04/2026
Urge your senators and representative to return to DC, reconvene Congress, and end Trump’s illegal war.
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Tell Congress: End the Illegal War on Iran
Trump's unauthorized, unprovoked war in Iran has cost the lives of US service members and thousands of civilians in Iran and across the Middle East. And now, Trump is threatening a ground invasion and...
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In the words of Samuel Adams, the people have largely become "tributary slaves" without any real representation.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And if it comes and goes and nothing happens, and the apologists say “it was just a threat to get them to buckle, he never meant he’d actually do it,” it is morally correct to punch them in the face.
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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 07/04/2026
The sitting President just called for the end of an entire civilization. It’s time to impeach him.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is not foreign policy, it’s a deranged mad man threatening to wipe out an entire country. It's past time. The 25th Amendment must be invoked.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you know anyone who works at DOD, now is a good time to give them an earful about their oath to defend the US against enemies *domestic*.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.
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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Privileged liberals still shrug this off, perennially in denial that normalizing evil over there guarantees it’ll later be used over here. Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch youtu.be/0Nh_TYBsrUo
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Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/04/2026
I am a radical but I believe that taxes are actually good and the Democrats should instead focus on populist messaging that mercilessly attacks oligarchs and corporate power
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Tax cuts are the hot new idea for Democrats
New tax cut plans from 2028 presidential prospects and major Democratic candidates for governor have spurred a "wonk revolt" from liberal and moderate policy experts.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/04/2026
In which Israel's most read daily paper unambiguously calls for the annexation of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt AND calls for the complete eradication of "any Palestinian life" from the entire region.
SO, HERE is the place to say it plainly: From Israel's perspective there are no more "sacrosanct" borders in its immediate vicinity. Security lines and defensive zones will necessarily be drawn and redrawn according to frontier needs.These is, and will not be for the long-term future, any Palestinian life in this area. No rehabilitation and reconstruction here. Nothing that would once again place Palestinian terrorist armies smack right up against and adjacent to Israel's magnificent farming towns and peaceful cities in the Gaza periphery.ISRAEL'S UPDATED security posture and strategic doctrine also means that the "borders" between it and its failed and/or hostile neighbors must change. What was between Israel and Gaza, Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be no more.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
There has been some back and forth over the headline wording but hard to be more straightforward than this.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
War crimes. Trump is REPEATEDLY threatening war crimes. And some experts say the US may have already committed war crimes in Iran... bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Child immigrant suffered alleged sexual abuse in federal custody, family says
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/04/2026
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
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FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
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kd @katalogued.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“They won’t start to get rid of birth control, are you crazy?!”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Sorry... you are telling me that during the run-up to the 2020 presidential election the Trump FBI hid the fact that it was actively investigating sitting president Trump for Child Rape? Because that would appear to be what happened, and it appears also that the death of Epstein ended that probe...
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The military budget Trump proposed today is $1.5 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that's $260 billion higher than the largest military budget on record. It's not WWII-level military spending; it's parody-level. www.stephensemler.com/p/trump-prop...
Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on the military, $260 billion more than at World War Two’s peak. US military spending, constant 2026 dollars. Line graph shows Trump’s 2027 proposal towering above the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Cold War high, and World War II high. Fiscal year 2027 proposal: $1.504 trillion (050 base discretionary + mandatory supplementing base funding). Data: OMB, DOW.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The US government: Bombs a girls' school; assassinates top leaders and their families; bombs steel mills; bombs universities; threatens to bomb Iran to the Stone Age US press: Iranian government is now very hardline
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I have a feeling that all these firings of military higher ups is going to result in a LOT more of this and it will be very very lucky if we can make it thru the rest of this administration w military ONLY talking bad about trump on tv.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2026
“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."
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Some Marines graduate without their parents' presence amid ICE fears
News that ICE would be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events upended family plans, elicited national reaction and drew out protesters, including Marine veterans.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.
Historian Robert Paxton's definition of "fascism" (2004)
"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Overnight Pakistan raised the price of petrol by 43% and high speed diesel by 55%. The country's petrol minister says the government has “limited resources and there is currently no end in sight to the war”.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “This time, we will no longer be deceived by America. Twenty-three years ago, they dragged us into a Middle East war under the pretext of Saddam’s weapons and spreading democracy, but the outcome was the exact opposite."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments: The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Iran rejects ceasefire, demands complete end to hostilities across region - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Iran rejects ceasefire, demands complete end to hostilities across region
<article data-history-node-id="437135" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-rejects-ceasefire-demands-complete-end-hostilities-across-region" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-rejects-ceasefire-demands-complete-end-hostilities-across-region" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran rejects ceasefire, demands complete end to hostilities across region</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran will not accept a ceasefire and instead is seeking a complete cessation of hostilities across the region, in comments to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>Abbas Araghchi said current contacts with Washington do not amount to negotiations but are limited to exchanges of messages, either directly or through intermediaries.</p> <p>“What is happening now does not amount to negotiations, but is limited to an exchange of messages,” Araghchi said, adding that the communication is being conducted within a formal government framework.</p> <p>He said Iran has not responded to a reported list of US proposals and has not submitted any proposals or conditions of its own, adding that Iran would require guarantees against future attacks and compensation for damages before any resolution to the conflict.</p> <p>“The Iranian people cannot be threatened, and the American president must address them with respect,” he said, adding that the Strait of Hormuz remains open but “will only be closed to those who wage war against Iran.”</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association spent $30K to promote the lie that a “deputy sheriff saved Ward 86 from a rapid mass casualty stabbing.” That was a total fabrication. It was public health workers who stopped the assailant while the sheriff watched. missionlocal.org/2026/03/sher...
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S.F. sheriffs’ union spent $30K to push debunked story of hospital worker’s stabbing
The sheriffs’ union spent thousands to cast the deputy at Ward 86 as a hero, even after clinic staff said they'd stopped the attack.
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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
13!! She was 13 when Trump sexually abused her. 🔴 A new investigation has backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13, according to a report. www.thedailybeast.com/new-evidence... #MAGA #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13
More information given by the woman has been backed up.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"[A]udits have not stopped the sexual abuse of women incarcerated across the federal prison system ... The abuse [at FCI Dublin] was so widespread that prisoners and workers dubbed it 'the rape club.' That prison had also met all standards on its most recent audit for preventing sexual abuse."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/03/2026
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
the most vile pieces of shit
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