Jennifer Walke

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

Our cover this week.

*slaps roof of sense of humor* you can fit SO much trauma in this bad boy

I have to read this.

The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days.

The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.

‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.

So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

In case you weren’t aware, government grants that are multi-year have an evaluation each year to ensure all of the criteria are being met before another year of funding is dispersed. So they could just prepare a list of everything they want to stop funding when a cycle completes. But they aren’t.

White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.

We are so fucked.

Do not obey in advance

Amid ICE raids in Washington, know your rights On July 23, a post on the Wildfire app, a localized alert app for college campuses, alerted the UW community that there was an ICE raid at the UW Link

As this ramps up again, know your current rights. Tell them nothing, record their activity if you can, and if you know someone they are looking for - no, you don't.

As best you can, ignore him.

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

This Lions loss really hurts. Good season, boys. #onepride #detroitlions

It’s also so easy for event management and groups. UGHHHHHHHHH. I actually use it quite a bit for the “buy nothing” group.

Two backpacking groups, one for women first timers and one specific to women and being overweight.
My selfie sisters ❤️ which we have started a discord but damn I’m bad at that. I will miss them the most tbh. They are why I hang on.
There is a peloton group where I print out monthly workouts.

This is amazing. WHERE IS THE STUDENT LOAN RELIEF 😭😭😭😭

Yesterday, President Biden finalized a rule to remove medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans.

The number of Americans with medical debt on their credit reports will be zero — down from 46 million right before he took office.

Why isn’t anybody talking about this?

BookyMcBookface the big blue Mobile Library parked in Orphir. There is a light covering of snow on the ground

Guess who's back? Back again.

Booky's back. Tell a friend.

#BookyMcBookface is back on the road for the first time in 2025. Today he is in Orphir and Stenness, so go along and borrow some books! 📚

I have to leave Facebook. One of the things I’m struggling most with is there are 3-4 groups there I absolutely love and those same groups cannot be found here. :(

10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021 After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

The weather image again of the Ice Storm "dildo" that has changed form -- now it looks less like a penis with a shark fin, because the fin has morphed into a back-tilted bit, so now it looks like a "rabbit vibrator."

OH NO NOW IT'S A RABBIT VIBE

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Googly eyes have been added to the cover artwork

Reader, I googlied him

Had a work meeting today. Only thing on the agenda: be mindful of your time and energy through the end of the year. Don’t schedule the meeting. Don’t dive into a project that will require you to put it on someone else’s plate when you’re done. Be mindful of THEIR time and energy.

Everything Is Awful, But You Can Do One Small Thing - WhoWhatWhy Tiny acts make a big difference, but when so much is wrong in the world, where do we even start? Just pick one small, manageable thing a day. Here’s a starter list.

I’ve decided to document the small things in a weekly column, for anyone looking for tiny, manageable things they can do to fight oppression, fascism, and all the problems we face without getting overwhelmed. whowhatwhy.org/culture/ever...