Vanessa Wyeth
@vwyeth.bsky.social
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.
💖 Actress Marina Sirtis Posts Heartbreaking Tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart! 💔 Posting on Instagram, she said: "He's gone. My friend. My Captain. Me fellow football fan" Sirtis and Stewart worked alongside each other across #StarTrek: The Next Generation, 4 movies and returned for #StarTrekPicard 🖖
Marina Sirtis’s grief at losing Patrick Stewart just broke my heart
the president: accused of rape a few days ago the media:
NPR@npr.org · 20h agoHint: He likes them big (and he cannot lie). n.pr/4jOMEq0
PATRICK STEWART singing & dancing on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-D in 1991 as a birthday surprise for STAR TREK creator GENE RODDENBERRY. (never intended for public release this clip eventually surfaced as a DVD bonus feature)
The Alaska ballot stuff is pretty funny but it doesn’t top the Rhinoceros Party running a 42-year-old delivery man from Lac Saint-Jean in the same riding as PPC leader Maxime Bernier in 2019 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A Democratic Congress must make crystal clear: No bailouts for AI. We need to learn from the lessons of past bubbles, including the Great Financial Crisis when Wall Street execs made off like bandits while working people were left holding the bag. We can’t let that happen again.
House Progressives Throw Down a Marker: No AI Bailouts - The American Prospect
A new resolution demands that Congress withhold support for AI companies that bankrupt themselves and instead respond to any future recession by supporting ordinary people.
prospect.org
Considering that there are more than twice as many Muslims as Jews in Michigan, it's pretty remarkable how little mainstream anguish there has been about the GOP running the most Islamophobic campaign in US history in a key swing state.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2d agoWe have not one, not two, but three stories on the Michigan Senate race today. First: a dispatch from Macomb County, and how Abdul El-Sayed is handling the rampant and shameful Republican campaign of Islamophobia by confronting it directly. prospect.org/2026/10/29/a...
Sorry man we just can't keep on going like this. Can't have people speaking like this, especially people in positions of power. This can't just be fine now
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
They should hand out little pins when you leave the theater after seeing You Can See Everything so we know who has already seen it & is able to discuss it.
The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."
Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...
How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
newrepublic.com
Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mike Collins, Roger Marshall, on and on - everywhere you look the most despicable humans financed by a handful of billionaires and elevated by Trump want you to give them even more political power to serve their interests at your expense.
This is genuinely one of the most despicable, disgusting political ads of all time. I hope Ohio voters kick him to the curb.
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · last wk.Vivek Ramaswamy has not only confirmed the commercial with Amy Acton's estranged mother was made by his campaign, Axios also reports he's now spending $4 million to air it.
If you want to reduce rape on your campus, expel the rapists. If you want to reduce sexual harassment in your company, fire the harassers. If you want to reduce rape in your community, prosecute the perpetrators. This isn’t actually complicated; it’s just politically convenient to pretend it is.
Holy fucking shit. See You Can See Everything IMMEDIATELY and read nothing about it beforehand. My mind was blown a million times over.
I think we need to be clear that he biggest issue with this situation is not its timing. It’s that it’s happening at all. The mainstream outlets and Democrats framing this as an “elections issue” are missing the point entirely.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoWSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'
Can't get numb to this: it’s still absolutely shocking, if totally unsurprising, that Trump is actively helping Russia and harming Ukraine.
Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2w agoFT exclusive: The US has proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets immobilised after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and transfer them to a vehicle overseen by Washington in an attempt to revive peace talks www.ft.com/content/5435...
Because my job can be a real bummer, when I am searching for instances of sexual violence among men in a defined group, you don't search for "sexual assault," you search for "hazing." We have euphemized language because we really, really don't want to address this in any real terms.
Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2w agoincreasingly I have come to believe that men sexually assault and harass *other men* far more than is clearly understood, and I suspect that grappling with that will be crucial to bringing about real change.
Nothing has ever been more relatable than Amy Poehler calling her parents immediately after interviewing Paul McCartney.
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
A public execution isn’t just punishment; it turns the state’s violence into a civic spectacle, asking the audience to treat killing as governance.
This is shameful. It speaks to a character that enjoys turning power into violence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
washingtonpost.com
"The spread of censored and mangled syntax is happening because people believe, or have experienced, that platforms will silence them for accurately describing the world in plain language. This shit is terrible, and it has to stop."
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3w agoI REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.
Me, picking up tickets at the Hudson box office “that’s W-Y-E-T-H” and then I open the playbill:
ai psychosis? not me. claude says im special. different than the rest of you. more than mortal. immune to the trappings of humanity. a god? a golden god.
