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Wendy Skratt

@treejanitorz.bsky.social
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Operations professional focused on transparency & building trust -> functional teams. Let’s question legacy processes & ask why people make individual choices. Can’t stop learning, defending democracy, & critiquing capitalism. Kdrama escapist who 💕 games

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h
4% increase in imports from Canada would easily replace the entire physical volume of diesel “negotiated” in the new US-Russia pact.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
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WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026
Navi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump's completely disinhibited: “Just get out and vote,” he said in a high school gym in Ohio, “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big. And we’re going to shove it up their ass.”
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Trump, campaigning in Ohio, says the midterms will bring a ‘big surprise’
The president rallied Saturday for Sen. Jon Husted, who faces a tough race against Democrat Sherrod Brown, and for GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
💯 www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
politico.com
Watergate Created Roger Stone. Trump Completed Him.
Stone may not have been in Nixon’s inner circle, but he saw enough to shape his view of politics for life.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I block accounts pretty regularly that follow me when I see that they follow only women, for instance. Sometimes I wonder if I’m too heavy handed so it always makes me feel good to see I’ve already blocked someone worth blocking 😊
Screenshot of Saeed Jones blocking an account that is showing as already blocked by me.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol… the camera realizes that the EXIT sign is prominent behind him and quickly reframes. He will be exiting soon (not soon enough).
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The GOP has been howling for years about the danger of a national database of gun owners. Yet they embrace a national VOTER registry. Absolute bullshit.
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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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026
POTUS just signed the Lindsey Graham Sanction Russia and Iran Act into law. Don’t fall for the label. It gives the President unprecedentedly broad authority to impose secondary sanctions and massive tariffs on foreign nations (100-500%).
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Luttig: The precursor of this constitutional crisis is when and if Mike Johnson removes the incumbent clerk and replaces them with a loyalist. That will tell the American people that Trump and Johnson are going to try this unconstitutional effort…
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This! How are headlines missing the very obvious “it’s probably ok, just not for this election” part.
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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 15/09/2026
Today, the Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed two more measles-associated deaths after local coroners reported these individuals died from complications associated with measles.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The study found that, under a worst-case-scenario combining higher electricity demand with constrained development of new generation, projected new data center demand across PJM between 2029 and 2030 alone will exceed the current annual electricity demand of the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"
wfmz.com
Pa. power regulators again warn of data centers' risk to grid reliability
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is again raising a red flag about future electric grid reliability amid increasing demand, including rapid data center development.
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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: We just won in the United States Supreme Court to protect your right to vote by mail.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“…leadership appeared to acknowledge the potential for legal liability, responding to internal questions that agents “are not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of their official duties and properly documented.”
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud (Gift Article)
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
Yikes! That ballroom isn’t going to complement the White House. It’s going to overpower it. Look at the scale of this thing. The people’s house is being swallowed by one man’s monument to himself.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More efforts at killing higher education in the United States. Good luck filling any of the specialized medicine training programs. And basic science? The engine that drives everything? This is bad. I’d argue even worse for businesses.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/09/2026
The administration’s efforts to undermine the 2026 election are failing. They will succeed only if citizens stay home. bit.ly/4r1RAZY
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Election Interference Won’t Work If Americans Vote
The administration’s attack on elections has failed in Congress and courts. Now it’s up to voters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/09/2026
Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Moscow, greeting them is Dmitriev - Putin’s head of the ”sovereign fund”, who frequently visits Miami
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 05/09/2026
BREAKING: We just won in court AGAIN, protecting Pennsylvanians’ right to vote by mail.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/09/2026
With midterm elections looming, the Republican-led House was scheduled to work for three more weeks before November. On Thursday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) cut that back to one, canceling planned votes in September.
washingtonpost.com
GOP-led House scraps two weeks of work ahead of midterms
The move gives candidates more time to sell themselves to voters. It means little, if any, legislation is likely to pass Congress before November.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kligerman: The administration wants to argue, “We’re not building it for this election.” Well, why are you rushing it? Why are there people, like our whistleblower, who have come forward to say, no, they’re rushing to get it done precisely to have it ready for this election?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And yet the GOP finds the concept of a national gun registry to be sacrilege.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"As presently designed, if even one bar code on one single ballot in a bulk-mailing of 10,000 ballots fails to properly scan during the verification process, the entire batch is rejected and sent back to the state — effectively stopping the ballots from being mailed to voters."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why did DHS create this website? More importantly, why since Democracy Docket published its story, is it now down? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump’s anti-voting order
It’s the latest sign that the federal government is hurtling forward with Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republican officials in a major battleground Texas county voted Tuesday to slash Election Day polling locations by 30% for the November midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
‘A deliberate barrier’: Texas battleground county cuts 30% of midterm voting locations
Outraged Tarrant County voters showed up at Tuesday’s county commissioners meeting in force, more than filling two overflow rooms and holding signs with a clear message about the Republican local offi...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Remember in 2025 when legal eminences publicly scolded people who used the term “constitutional crisis,” because the Trump White House hadn’t explicitly defied court orders, and then the Trump White House explicitly defied various court orders, and those same prominent legal voices said nothing?
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
forbes.com
USPS Whistleblower Warns New Rule Could Keep Voters From Getting Ballots—What To Know
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Work began again even as USPS leaders, publicly and in letters to members of Congress, maintained that the agency was not moving forward with the rule because of Talwani’s injunction and a separate court order involving the NAACP.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Germany: we’re not at war with Russia, but we’re not not at war. “The drone was equipped with military-grade explosives, investigators found, and with what appeared to be a faulty detonator.”
nytimes.com
Weeks After Failed Drone Attack, Germany Points Finger at Russia (Gift Article)
The country said Moscow was behind an explosive-laden drone found near a Ukrainian plane at a German airport last month. Russia did not immediately comment.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kindnesses always matter. Digital platforms are not designed to help us understand that. You have reached more people than most. You questioning if you matter might make people with less reach think they don’t or can’t matter. Choices to do better always matter. People notice.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Blumenthal said of the report that “the main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans. One-third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the U.S.P.S. puts all of their votes at risk.”
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your ever-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress fully support what Hegseth and the president are doing to the American military. It’s disgraceful and disqualifying
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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump was surprised when Driscoll told him how many generals and other top officers had been fired, pushed out, or passed over for promotion under Hegseth www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.
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Wendy Skratt @treejanitorz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
End of summer lavender blooms in Pittsburgh
Photo of wild lavender blooms against a field of green grass
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31/08/2026
If approved, the third-most populous county in Texas will scrap 92 polling stations just weeks ahead of the midterm election. trib.al/wc8ZUdg
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote
npr.org
How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 31/08/2026
Yes, but despite being under sanctions, he traveled to the United States to physically attend the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, where he met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Weird how most of those newly revealed pentagon psyops accounts also downplayed the Epstein list. Probably just a coincidence
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The crowd who screeches into the void about the deep state sure is quiet about being force-fed undisclosed propaganda from a DOD influencer program.
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