Wendy Walker

Truly grasp what Typhoon Halong did to western Alaska - High Country News This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.

This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.

If you don't think kids should have food, what broke you?

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

What really is antifa? - High Country News Effie Baum, an ‘everyday anti-fascist,’ talks about President Trump’s threat to designate the movement as a terrorist organization, and corrects the record.

"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist."

Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.

www.hcn.org/articles/nor...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported

Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.

We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

Fascism is about power, not consistency. You can't fight fascists with gotchas. Your gotchas are music to their ears. The only thing that works with them is interfering with their ability to exercise their power. You have to make them fail at what they're trying to do.

Last time I checked, you can't drink data.

You can now register for the 14th Amendment Center’s webinars on birthright citizenship.
The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW:
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

“The Guardian is printing the names of all the Palestinian journalists listed by the CPJ as having died as a result of Israeli military action since October 2023 as part of a day of action in condemnation of the killings and in solidarity with those journalists who remain…”

Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails. The end of an era.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

America tips into fascism (GUEST POST) "Something is materially different in our country this week than last," writes historian Garrett Graff.

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes.

If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

Belted Kingfisher.

This is an important thread. D.C. is a testing ground.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Color graphic of the coastline of Washington State on the right with gray circles of seismic waves approaching from the left across the blue ocean. Black text on a yellow background reads “There is a tsunami watch for Washington State. Be prepared to take action. A tsunami may have been generated. Stay tuned to local emergency management for more information. More information at tsunami.gov.”

A TSUNAMI WATCH is now in effect for Washington state. If you are on the coast, be prepared to take action & stay tuned for more instructions. This alert level will update once more is known. Find details here: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

#TsunamiWatch #WaWX

I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids Perhaps controversially.

"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."

Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social.

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JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔

Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

Israel is not "throttling food supply" It is STARVING PEOPLE AS PART OF ONGOING GENOCIDE.

I'm in King County, WA with Black-capped and Chestnut-backed overlap. 2x the adorableness.

One of my favorite childhood birds! I had no idea I was lucky to share space with them in Lake County.

How can you have a reasonable suspicion that an American citizen is in the country illegally?

You can’t

How can you have a probable cause that an American citizen is in the country illegally?

You can’t

How can you lawfully deport an American citizen for being in the country illegally?

You can’t

A very blue male Peacock with fabulous white eyelines looking curious. He is a resident of the Botanical Park and Gardens of Crete.

Happy Bluesky Birthday! Here's a fancy Peacock to add to the celebration.

This is the oath of office each senator takes at the start of his or her term:

While Iran and Israel continue to attack each other, Israel continues the mass murder of Palestinians.

A social media graphic with the message “Health for Everyone, Everywhere, Anytime” showing diverse people walking across a stylised globe

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay.

The right to health does not begin or end at a country’s border.

Refugees & forcibly displaced people must have uninterrupted, affordable & equitable access to health services wherever they are, at any time. #HealthForAll 👉 bit.ly/4kQoVDu