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stephwilkes.bsky.social
Author of Raw Material, sheep shearer, textiles researcher, Camp Kaos
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You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

submitted 18 days ago • 286 comments

hi can I please encourage you to go participate in cultural events, even if it is just to witness & support. it will be good for you and your brain and also for the folks who are making the art. stay curious. ❤️

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Family watching that insane press conference and then reminding you that you said "Don Jr. will make a resort out of Gaza if he wins" at Thanksgiving is...not the kind of right anyone ever wants to be. We're going to "free Gaza" aren't we, FFS.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

They’re shortselling on our destruction.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 22 days ago • 135 comments

the people I talked to for this 2022 story about what Trump would do to the administrative state said I had to imagine a world where Democrats literally stop getting federal benefits of any kind; these examples were pulled from those conversations newrepublic.com/post/167842/...

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Trump's AG nominee withdrew due to charges he was a sexual predator, while Trump's DoD nominee may survive charges that *he* was a sexual predator, as we learn multiple House Republicans texted a 1/6 witness asking for "sexual favors" and, uh, maybe Dems could draw a bright line around all this?

submitted 30 days ago • 166 comments

ICE is on buses and at gas stations in black SUVs up here in Nor Cal, again. Had some exciting shearing seasons last time because - my appearance notwithstanding - people see what they expect to see when you're in the textbook ag worker car, which is a beat-up Sienna, not a truck. What do you do?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Trump just took 500 Marines on standby to help with escalating California wildfires and sent them to the border instead, where migrant crossings have been at the lowest level they’ve been in years since July. Unbelievable. And apparently armed, which is new. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

submitted 31 days ago • 48 comments

Gorgeous post-storm day for the San Francisco Christmas tradition of Golden Girls Live (but this time at The Curran!) and a stop by the tree. We are family...I got my husband and one of my sisters with me... 🥰

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?

submitted 72 days ago • 152 comments

In Sacha Naspini’s THE BISHOP'S VILLA (Europa Editions), "even subtle acts of complicity...[during wartime] are enough to nudge the most unwilling of citizens, including cobblers, toward heroism or cowardice." A prescient review by Joe Stanek

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

This is too familiar. A year and a half ago my wife needed a hip replacement. It wasn’t a choice. It was a medical necessity. Through our jobs and my WGA membership we have three “great” insurance policies. The day before the surgery a clerk said her primary insurance wasn’t going to cover it.

submitted 79 days ago • 63 comments

Three years of caring for my grandmother radicalized me real well. Fuck Medicare Advantage and the further privatization this administration wants to perpetrate.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to share a new story today: For The New York Times Style Magazine, I explored the fascinating history of the lesbian pulp novel, a genre that predates the modern gay rights movement. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/t...

submitted 79 days ago • 18 comments

I liveskyed the 2024 Martial Law Declaration of Korea. This is the thread.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

The barricades that were built inside the National Assembly to block the soldiers from entering while parliament was working to pass the bill to nullify martial law

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

Be the politician scaling the walls of the National Assembly to overturn martial law that you want to see in the world goddamn

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

American Dems simply do not fight like this. Lawsuits are the only type of fight they know.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Two new stories for Fibershed on women shepherds doing so much good in the world, by doing right by the soil, animals, and fellow humans. The Professionals: Women Graziers: fibershed.org/2024/11/27/t... Shepherding: Professional Pathways...: fibershed.org/2024/11/25/s...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments