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Wendy Kloiber

@wendykloiber.bsky.social
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So did the divine right of kings. Long covid class of March 2020, the kind with ME. Would like one more tattoo, minimum. She/her. Ashland, WI —> MSP.

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Erin Lee @erinmarilee.bsky.social · 20h
On Sunday October 11, Nate and I will compete in The Big Sit to raise funds for #MECFS research and we’d love your help! The Big Sit is a birding event where you try to find as many species as possible while sitting in a 17 foot circle. There are 2 ways you can help:
A white male and female couple in their 40s smile in front of a fallen southern live oak tree bleached by the sun. They are holding binoculars and smiling because they just spotted an endangered piping plover in the wild!
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
IS THE DEATH PENALTY UNJUST?
Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, from an opinion dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision denying review in a Texas death penalty case, Callins v. Collins, Feb. 22, 1994.
"Bruce Edwin Callins will be executed [tomorrow) by the state of Texas. Intravenous tubes attached to his arms will carry the instrument of death, a toxic fluid designed specifically for the purpose of killing human beings. The witnesses... will behold Callins...strapped to a gurney, seconds away from extinction.
Within days, or perhaps hours, the memory of Callins will begin to fade. The wheels of justice will churn again, and somewhere, another jury or another judge will have the...task of determining whether some human being is to live or die.
We hope...that the defendant whose life is at risk will be represented by..someone who is inspired by the awareness that a less-than-vigorous defense...could have fatal consequences for the defendant. We hope that the attorney will investigate all aspects of the case, follow all evidentiary and procedural rules, and appear before a judge...committed to the protection of defendants' rights...
But even if we can feel confident that these actors will fulfill their roles...our collective conscience will remain uneasy.
Twenty years have passed since this court declared that the death penalty must be imposed fairly and with reasonable consistency or not at all, and despite the effort of the states and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural rules to meet this...challenge, the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination...and mistake...
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored...to develop...rules that would
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My mom just told me there are parts of Washington County where people drive with the windows up because so many deer have died. 1200! www.fox6now.com/news/wiscons...
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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Waiting for a play that celebrates the beauty of connection that can occur in online spaces
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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An important piece of Wisconsin history.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dreamed I was dragging an axe through Library Mall and it was making the metal on concrete sound and have been genuinely pleased since that my dreaming mind armed me and made me scary.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*lights a candle for Stevie Ray Vaughn*
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Wisconsin Drought Task Force is looking for more conditions reports from northern Wisconsin. Please let us know how things are! Drop a comment below, email us at wisconet[at]cals.wisc.edu, or fill out a report: droughtimpacts.unl.edu/tools/condit... Thanks for your help!
droughtimpacts.unl.edu
Submit and view Condition Monitoring Observer Reports (CMOR) | Drought Impacts Toolkit
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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 24/09/2026
Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:
From one of the highest Isle Royale peaks at 1,133 feet above sea level (roughly 530 feet above Lake Superior), webcam located at the peak of Mount Ojibway, captures a northern vantage point. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-24 06:11:48 EDT (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 45 F | 7 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: S at 8 mph | 13 kph // Humidity: 94%
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I asked for this to review for Publishers Weekly several million years ago and they let me have it and it’s still up on their site. (No I didn’t recognize my work; I had to find the email to my editor.)
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looks like Cub, CVS and Costco in MSP have Nuvaxovid in now (new name for Novavax.)
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love this account so much.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧵, this is a quote from @ziibiing.com about why mutual aid could act more effectively than institutions during metro surge
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s the autumnal equinox and it took me a bit by surprise. All the trees in the envelope around the house are still green.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s ice hat o’clock
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧵 wow
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Sean Lim @seanlimmn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m humbled to see my artwork on display in the halls of the Minnesota State Capitol! Thanks to curators of The Rebel Loon Archive for including a piece of mine in their exhibition of 50 protest artworks, curated from a larger collection in response to Operation Metro Surge. therebelloonarchive.com
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
However it came to be that Ben Wikler is a surrogate on data centers? Good work.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Last month it was Epic.
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Fuck you I do not consent, Epic! and Jesus, I write and send bullets with this info before every appointment for the last several years, since I got complex, my docs tell me how much it's appreciated, I believe it, and I REALLY want someone else to do it. A well paid human. 115
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• What follow-ups, referrals, or unresolved issues should I be aware of?
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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I made a purse because I always wanted one after playing with my grandmother's sewing box of a similar build approach. And I created a cosplay for an event to have an excuse to make it finally. I present Baba Yaga's House as a purse. (I might have posted this already but I love it so much.)
A photo of a black lace dress hanging on a beige door with a house shaped purse which has dangling chicken feet.A close up photo of the house purse with chicken feet. There are white chicken buttons on the front and on the chimney. The feet are still dangling.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
raaaaaaain
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seriously though, what do you mean, “toxic”? This is vibelanguage. If you need it to be a term of art you’ll have to build a definition. Why would you not use terms that have at least general established meaning if not actual terms of art? *looks around at this place*
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Kid: why is Cub Pharmacy calling me? Me: message? Cub Pharmacy: stuff stuff stuff come get your vaccines now Kid, confirming: is it vaccine time? Me: wow thank you helpful Cub Pharmacy robocall yes it is
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It has surprised me that no one has gone viral drawing the Econ 101 “trade is good for both partners” graph.
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026
Anyway here is my plea: please don’t surrender weird sex stuff (even cringey, ill-advised weird sex stuff) to the fash. They don’t deserve custody.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOCTORS ARE WALKING OFF THE JOB — and they say the system pushed them there. Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Minnesota hospitals launched a 4-day strike after 3+ YEARS and 60+ bargaining sessions without a first contract. Their message: PATIENTS OVER PROFITS. They’re fighting
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'It's unsustainable': Doctors abandon posts in first-ever US hospital walkout
Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Twin Cities area hospitals began a four-day strike on Monday in what’s believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history.Doctors c...
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: Novel drug bezisterim might help with fatigue, PEM, and neurological symptoms in Long COVID, according to preliminary results BioVie shared today. These are early findings that will need more review, but it's exciting to see a positive trial result for once! More @thesicktimes.org:
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Bezisterim may help with some Long COVID symptoms, drug’s developer reports in early trial results - The Sick Times
While the phase 2 clinical trial results, shared by BioVie in a webinar on Tuesday, have yet to be peer-reviewed, investigators say they can inform a confirmatory phase 3 trial.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@kateviolette.com just realized I hadn’t seen you here in a bit. Hope all is well with you and you are having a good break from socials! 💜
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Tropical Bird • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
$1350/ $1500. I need to close this out today.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DSCC, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01114 (CJN)
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01132 (CJN)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01151 (CJN)ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that DSCC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,
ECF 163, is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART'; and it is further
ORDERED that LULAC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
ECF 171, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that NAACP Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
172, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the United States Postal Service is preliminarily enjoined from
implementing and enforcing the Final Rule it published on August 21, see Ballot Mail for Federal
Elections, 91 Fed. Reg. 54,966 (Aug. 26, 2026).
DATE: September 13, 2026
'ARL. NICHOL
United States District Judge
' The Court denies only the portion of the Motion that seeks to preliminarily enjoin Section 3 of the Executive Order.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Omg! They say to themselves. It’s alive! It’s a thinking entity!! It’s a breakthrough!!! And I’m over here thinking—you’ve never had a tarot deck tell you the querent does not understand her question when you do a second spread bc you didn’t like the first answer have you. bsky.app/profile/alys...
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Was not familiar with your game, didn’t need to go this hard &etc
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trans people are trying to survive and when they correctly point out that there are Dems who are on the wrong side doing harm, you call them a cult. From the bottom of my cis white midwestern Dem heart; go fuck yourself neighbor. There’s no tent of any kind that fits slander like this.

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@whstancil.bsky.social
ever since @eleanor.lockhart.contact pointed out to me that a lot of online trans discourse has the dynamics of a high-control group, I can't stop seeing it. "you can only trust your brothers and sisters in the group" is a tried-and-true social control mechanism
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i wish i could properly communicate how crazy some people made me feel for even talking about covering people’s rent it was just totally unheard of at this scale thankfully the 100s of people that formed rent funds and PTA and neighborhood committees all disagreed with the electeds and foundations
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
about half of that $38 million was mutual aid and crowdfunding. which is just…so much money. it really is incredible to think about.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
during OMS we formed a group of rent funds called Keep Minnesota Housed and tracked, between Feb and May, exactly how much rent was being paid and where, and what/where the unmet needs were the documentation allowed us to move money from foundations who had sworn they couldn’t pay rent
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The child who is teaching science and researching grad school is reading @samlmontano.bsky.social ‘s Disasterology and sending their notes and I am going to need to re-read it to enjoy them as much as I want to.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fenris literally herded us off the couch out the door and down three steps to the hammock. She wouldn’t settle and wouldn’t go out on her own and was completely happy once she’d won. And she is right in every way, we should be outside.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heated to 107, recirculated for 90 minutes. Wild.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tomorrow is my birthday and a thing I’m hungry for this year is random input from other people - the things people share at coffee or the grocery store or the park or the meeting. For my birthday, will you tell me something going through your mind that I wouldn’t have seen on your tl?
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Variety show recipe is lost Jim Henson’s animating ethos cannot be reproduced by committee Honestly, let them be. We were lucky to have them when and how we did.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It does. Love and gratitude to you, friends, it’s extra rough out here this week and people are eating the personal cost to try to steer.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can’t turn on the white noise, the thunder and the crickets are too lovely.
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Tropical Bird • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I am in a very dire situation at the moment. I need help immediately. I can’t afford bills or groceries for this week. Please. Somebody HELP however you can. My credit cards are maxed out. I have like $8 in the bank. I need to raise at least $200 today.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good for Shailene Woodley, she did some beautiful work on that show. Good for whoever wrote that part and set it in Graceland and just did their own Station Eleven meditation. You got away with it.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Missing Alice Wong, so much, and grateful to Kate for jumping in to take this position while the meat grinder is cranking.
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Smithsonian magazine piece featuring my friend @julialmv.bsky.social is one of the best popular accounts I’ve read of Long Covid and the current state of science. Highly recommend.
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For Many Americans, Covid Is Still a Chronic, Disabling Disease. These Scientists Are Working Tirelessly to Bring Them Relief
Long Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers
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