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Keri
@kerilynnwolfe.bsky.social
Avid reader, basic needs advocate, & figure skating enthusiast working for dignity & autotomy for all. She/ her. Views = mine.
I wonder if she is “concerned.”
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.

The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.

Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
September 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Is this like how Covid ended or
September 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Ok but for real my male counterparts on the team never wore jeans, only khakis
Nation’s Quiet, Gangly Kids In Cargo Pants Announce Plans To Be Freakishly Good At Cross Country https://theonion.com/nations-quiet-gangly-kids-in-cargo-pants-announce-plans-to-be-freakishly-good-at-cross-country/
August 31, 2026 at 4:56 PM
“‘But what this shows us is that even if you decide to focus on one problem, it turns out usually what you come up with is going to be able to pivot and solve other problems that you didn’t initially try to address. There’s a kind of freedom in that.’”
Great to see the Guardian highlighting the mutual aid work of clean air clubs and mask blocs who have been distributing free N95 masks and air purifiers in areas affected by wildfire smoke 👏
How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke
Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
In grad school, I used to get a pot of tea and work at the local coffee shop until it closed at 10pm many evenings. We stopped by on our way through town recently, and now it closes at 2pm.
I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.
August 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I nannied a kid FOURTEEN years ago who just got recommended to me on Snapchat, in case you were wondering how long and deep that meta data is.
August 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵
August 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Both of these threads hold much worth grappling with. I also agree that we reached this moment largely because Covid served as an accelerator, and most of us hold trauma we can’t quite name or process.
I study sexual violence and I think people would be surprised by how often people still bring up COVID once they know they’re talking to someone who is willing to hear about trauma.
One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
July 30, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Two things can be true: if the 2016 Dem machine didn’t rally against Sanders’ popularity—AND if Sanders had checked the behavior of his Bernie Bros back then—those same folks wouldn’t have as much ground to stand on now to say the Platner allegations are about structural barriers and “the system.”
July 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Taking big risks as I approach a new decade.

(Serving fresh store-bought berries and produce at my fortieth birthday party tomorrow)
July 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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“During a press conference, Ronaldo, one of Salgado Araujo’s American citizen children, said he “did not learn about his father’s final moments from a hospital or law enforcement. Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media,” The Bulwark reported.”
They canned Kristi Noem as part of a public relations stunt following Minnesota. But now another one of our neighbors is dead, another family is grieving, and another agent with a body count continues stalking our streets endangering us all: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/ice-has-ag...
ICE Has Again Taken The Life Of One Of Us
When will enough be enough?
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
July 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I reposted something from my org on LinkedIn with commentary yesterday,
and I gained a new follower. Joke’s on them: my social media activity is capricious, at best.
June 24, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why:

1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
bookshop.org
June 22, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I volunteered for field day at my kid’s school today. I have a pulled hip flexor and she had a broken foot, but we both handled the day surprisingly well. I had a blast.
June 3, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I hear there are people who don’t get migraines, and I wonder if they are bored? Utterly blissful? Super productive because there’s no background processes constantly calculating what combo of food, movement, dehydration, meds, weather, sleep, hormones, and/or stress might accidentally do them in?
May 28, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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At least one woman is now in limbo after US officials moved her to Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, and now say they won’t bring her back because of the Ebola travel ban – despite a judge’s order for her return. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
White House pauses removal of detainees to the DRC as Ebola outbreak widens
But Trump administration will not return detainees deported to third countries in disease-struck region
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I could use fewer massive weather changes because I could use fewer migraines.
May 21, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Pachinko
A Tale of Two Cities
My Brilliant Friend
Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind?

No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.
May 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Actually, this is exactly what I was down in D.C. lobbying for with colleagues from the @diapernetwork.bsky.social last month, for the fourth year in a row—except we asked for $200M.
Californians get free diapers. But at what cost?
May 15, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men.

So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening.

My colleagues and I started to count:
May 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Call, email, or write your reps and ask them to oppose this bill, which is a essentially federal ban on LGBTQ+ books. Find your reps' contact info at reps.fyi
May 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Niche appeal post, but the company behind the Nugget Play Couch put out a statement about the VRA and are donating to You Can Vote NC as a result, and I’m thrilled because we were planning on buying my kiddo one this weekend after we had to toss her old one due to mold issues in our house.
May 1, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Hit that point in town meeting when I question everything I believe in.
April 29, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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A toddler nearly died at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas. After more than a week in intensive care, she was sent back. Sarah Stillman reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Return of Family Detention
Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.
www.newyorker.com
April 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM