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Vanessa Wyeth

@vwyeth.bsky.social
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NYC mom with opinions: UN peacebuilding, parenthood, sportsball, politics, educational equity, feminism. Probably thinking about ̶S̶w̶e̶e̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶T̶o̶d̶d̶ ̶S̶u̶n̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶B̶l̶v̶d̶ Chess (jk it’s always Sweeney Todd). Personal views. She/her.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 21h
This country is utterly barbaric.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This makes me think of that scene in Widow’s Bay where the mayor says “Did they immediately turn to cannibalism? Of course not. It took four days.”
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely insane sky tonight.
View from a Manhattan apartment building, with the sky ablaze in golden light View of the sky above FIT in Chelsea, in shades of blue and violet with a faint rainbow Same vantage point as the first photo, taken 10m later, with sky all orange and violet as the sun sets behind some buildings
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All of these “But iS wiDowS BaY a ComEDy?” posts make me feel like I’m having a stroke. Are these people serious? It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in years!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An arrest in the Tasia Fortune case!
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JPD makes arrest in death of Tasia Fortune, who was found hanging
YouTube video by 16 WAPT News Jackson
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Walking down 9th Ave behind some Italian tourists, who just stopped to take photos and coo and exclaim over some squirrels.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the President of Harvard had posted what Elon did, an armed DOJ anti-Semitism strike force would already be on the way to seize the campus If just a random Harvard undergrad had posted it, DOJ would cut off its grants and launch an investigation
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
I dunno i guess i just think it's bad that, instead of rebuilding cultures of trust & shared consensus knowledgemaking which are fundamental to our society, we're just increasingly handing over decision- & sense-making authority to tools which a) we can't trust & b) further degrade trust foundations
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The lesson of history is that capitulating to a tyrant only invites more tyranny. www.commondreams.org/news/google-ma…
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'Embarrassing': Google Maps Renames 'Lake Ontario' as 'Lake America' in US | Common Dreams
​The name change followed President Donald Trump's executive order and "served as a reminder that billionaires will alwa
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I literally think about this tweet daily
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Absolutely horrifying. Those poor people.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I finally finished Sterling Point and the scene in E7 where Annie tells Ramona about the closet kiss is possibly the best, most realistic teen dialogue and acting I’ve seen, maybe ever? 16yo daughter concurs. Bravo, Megan Park.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026
I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Haberman and Michael Wolff both had detailed information on Natalie Harp that they were saving. To the extent investigative journalism still exists, it exists to make book royalties. What a dire place our media is in.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Getting all my political talking points from the comments of the pro wrestling subreddit from now on.
There have been more school shootings in the 2026-2027 school year (which started last week) than there are transgender athletes competing. This is a nothing issue pushed by nothing people while the rich continue to rob us blind.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As I've said before, the Trumpists are *hunting* trans kids. The media is silent. The Democrats are silent. And someday they'll all claim they fought against this. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/anti...
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Anti-trans news site outs Olympic skater's trans sibling - LGBTQ Nation
Women's gold medalist Alysa Liu has a sister competing in track and field in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I was a huge fan of fantasy as a kid but for some reason never read Ursula Le Guin. I’m now doing a book club with my 12yo nephew and we are reading the Earthsea trilogy together and goddamn it’s good.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Every time I miss bar trivia I joke with my friends that this will be the day they have a question about UN Secretaries-General. You'll never guess what question they got yesterday.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m struggling to think of a single use case for this that isn’t mis/disinformation
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you are 38 years old or older, I want you to start working on your foot strength and ankle mobility. Unless I hate you. Then I want you to rest for ten years and then suddenly try to hop off a step one day, cold.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
And when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, o my child, that was when I blocked you.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
a U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT official showed THIS MAP at a DIPLOMATIC MEETING WITH AFRICAN OFFICIALS my. god.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.
The sword situation
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement. I called my brother to check if there were any developments with respect to his sword and he said he could sort of make it out way up there if he squinted. I don’t know why everyone’s losing it over these swords he said. Then I called my congresswoman to ask yet again if there were any plans to tackle the sword situation as it were and the girl who answered said it was the official position of the office that the swords do not exist except in some rare foreign cases. I could tell she was reading from a script. Can you let her know that they most certainly do I said and she said that she would pass the message along and hung up. Outside some landscapers were at work trimming the neighbor’s hedges. Each of them with a gleaming blade perched inches from the back of their necks. Why didn’t they just grab it at this stage I thought. Why didn’t they just reach right up and grab it.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“The climate crisis will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you are the one filming it”. @PerthshireMags on the site formerly known as Twitter.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Wow sky suddenly looks apocalyptic in Manhattan
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
OK THAT WAS A GOOD SAVE
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Jason Davis @davisjason.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I want the world to know we also think this is insane
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Jason Davis @davisjason.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Forget the billionaires, someone get me Shakira's anti-aging regimen
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They should’ve just screwed around like a Harlem Globetrotters game. Trick shots. Running around with the ball underneath their shirt. 57 goals. Run it back again.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The only thing that would’ve made this game better is if during the last 10 minutes 100 Japanese school kids ran onto the pitch.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ok I am glad they gave it to Saka for the hat trick
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Literally everything that is happening in this game makes it more and more humiliating for both teams that they couldn’t do this the last game.
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ok that’s more like it
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Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
France has been my team for years and I am losing all respect for them.
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