Susan M Wachtman

SFF writer, she/her, hearing loss, ally, grandmother-Covid and climate change, genocide and fascism - I'm against them.

[Susan M Wachtman @SusanMcdW]

At this point, they'd have to pay me NOT to protest.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

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The trans community may consider this case a loss…

BUT Justice Kavanaugh accidentally backed the government into a corner here that could change transgender legal status in future cases.

“Biological sex” is expressly not “sex assigned at birth”

[ꪝe @_wej01]

Hi... Norwegian here.

When a woman finds out she’s pregnant, here’s what happens:

She calls her GP or midwife.
Appointment within a week.

7 check-ups across the pregnancy.
Two ultrasounds included.
All antenatal care is 100% free.

The birth itself is also free.
After the birth: A year of paid leave.
Then daycare at $124/month.

No insurance.
No denied claims.
No bill.

Just a system that says: we’ve got you..

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The net effect of this decision is political parties will have more power over individual candidates. When elections are over, winning candidates will feel more obligated to vote with their parties instead of their constituents.

Fewer Thomas Massies and Ro Khannas, more zombies.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for just one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others CANNOT eat

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Tonight, I gave Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to force a vote on releasing the names of Congressmen who used taxpayer funds for sexual misconduct settlements.

The Speaker has two legislative days to consider the timing of the vote. Stay tuned.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 A baby formula producer was under criminal investigation after their formula was repeatedly linked to the deaths of infants.

The Trump Administration has closed that investigation.

[Dylan Park-Pettiford @dyllyp]

11 stars for the Confederate states instead of 13 stars for the original colonies is a detail most Americans won’t notice because of our public school system.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

The Israeli military built an AI system called Lavender & a tracking system called "Where's Daddy?"

Lavender uses surveillance data & an algorithm to mark tens of thousands of Palestinian men as targets.

"Where's Daddy?" tracks them to their homes so they can be bombed there.

[Envidreamz @envidreamz]

A family’s vacation nightmare near a current Covid hotspot in Georgia just turned into a lifelong diagnosis.

They arrived at their condo and went swimming, and everything slowly shifted. He got unusually tired, refused his favorite pizza, fell asleep, then started vomiting for hours.
He became out of it, breathing deep and fast.

They rushed him to the ER where his blood sugar was 397. Diabetic Ketoacidosis. New onset autoimmune Type 1 diabetes.
The past few weeks he had been extra thirsty and urinating more.

Now their world is flipped. He’s in the Children’s Hospital in Savannah, Georgia on fluids and insulin, sugar coming down but they face days of learning a whole new reality on management of this complicated autoimmune disease.

This hits me hard because it reminds me of my own childhood. I developed Type 1 diabetes at age 7 after having the chickenpox.
One virus, and my immune system turned on me.
Viruses trigger these autoimmune diseases, and right now Covid is driving exponential cases of new onset Type 1 diabetes.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: A parasite that causes explosive diarrhea has reportedly spread to 20 U.S. states.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed.

He got a list.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

We are PRIVATE citizens, the government should know very little if anything about us at all.

They are PUBLIC officials, we should know damn near everything about what they are doing.

The cameras are pointed the wrong way.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment.

[Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) 🌻 @CJAOurPower]

This visualization presents global temperature anomalies from 1880-2026. The data used is publicly accessible.📈🥵

The ‘climate spiral’ was popularized by climate scientist Ed Hawkins from the National Center for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading.

[Roger @rdd147]

Either the US is preparing a major war against Iran or we’re giving all of our military equipment to Israel.

Can’t say I’ve ever seen so many Super Galaxy’s (4 right now) active in my life.

Trump has a 32% approval rating and 26% economic approval rating. Guessing he knows midterm elections are toast and preparing for full scale war in November.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Microsoft whistleblower on the firms deep integration into the Zionist genocide:

After nearly two years as a Critical Environment Technician at a Microsoft Italy data center, I choose to resign. This is because, right now, Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry. For the past 994 days, Microsoft has powered the genocide of our people in Palestine, and the company’s European data centers are fundamental to how Microsoft abets crimes against humanity.

On August 6, 2025, reports exposed how Microsoft hosted 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone call data in the Microsoft Netherlands data center, with additional data stored in the Irish data center, amounting to 200 million hours of audio. This trove of mass surveillance data has been described as “one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group.”
This data is used by the Israeli military to identify targets for airstrikes, arrests, and blackmail from the entire Palestinian population. It is also used as training data to build AI-targeting programs. These programs invent arbitrary justifications to murder non-combatants, intentionally adding civilian workers to the Israeli military’s generated “target bank“; the programs also facilitate massacres of entire families at once.

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

Jesus fucking Christ hahah

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

I’m still waiting for journalists to question American players about Trump’s actions and foreign policy. You know, bombing schools and stuff like that.

Seems like political questions are only reserved for Asian, African and Arab players.