Webbigail Vanderquack 💙

Writer. Tinkerer. Master of nothing. Self-saboteur. She/her.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Former GA Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has endorsed Kamala Harris for President.

"This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a convicted felon without a moral compass"

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

THIS IS WHO HE IS, AMERICA.

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

@DanGrayson Deepest sympathy 💙

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

Poortabello.

[Uncle Duke @UncleDuke1969]

they’ve been through some real bad shiitake

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

@mary_mnnng Thank you. 🙏

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

‼️#MedicalTwitter‼️
Are there any pills that look and taste like mints, particularly in the US and/or the Caribbean islands, that someone could use to induce a miscarriage? I suspect someone may have been drugged, so I’m asking out of deep concern. #OBGYN #Miscarriage #Gynecology

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

@mary_mnnng Yeah, I am truly concerned, but apparently there aren’t any helpers on here. 😞

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

“I really don’t feel like getting up, but I gotta go put the baby in the fridge.”

Not a sentence I ever imagined saying. #AngelBaby

[EDIT BALLAI @eballai]

So. Well. Said.

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

@DrunkScribe No one ever put cinnamon on mine, but buttered sugar toast still makes me smile.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

1. ".. we’ve got to be smart and involve everyone. And make sure that we get a system that’s going to cool the planet for a while, or at least not increase for a while.”

Corporate capitalist media are silent on scientists' pleas for economic system change.https://t.co/XN19W1ln7r

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

@katiedimartin Children are childish inherently. Redundant.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

As they hoard more wealth, the ultra-rich will do anything to protect it.

They know democratic majorities would pass higher taxes, stricter regulations, and enforce anti-monopoly laws.

This is why billionaires are dolling out big bucks to Trump’s fascist campaign. Be warned.

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

This is fvcking terrorism.

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:

- In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited.

- Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.

- This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc.

- We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes).

- The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up.

- We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation.

- The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us.

- Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face.

- Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok.

- Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies.

- They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.

- The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.

- He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.

- In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:

- Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.

- It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.

- Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.

- Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.

- Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”

- And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Reminder: Hamas offered to release all its hostages on October 8th, in exchange for Israel releasing all its Palestinian hostages. Israel and the US refused. They wanted to annihilate Gaza, to seize its natural gas reserves.

[The USA Singers @TheUSASingers]

@charliekirk11s1 @truthgibbon Vote Blue.

Elect more progressive Democrats.

Take more mushrooms.

Use more cannabis.

Go to more museums.

Go see more live music.

Dance barefoot in the grass.

Look up at the stars.

Tax the rich.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This was seen at an Argentine ski resort it’s a phenomenon known as a subsun, where sunlight reflects off ice crystals In the atmosphere

📹 gabychavez86

[Webbigail Vanderquack 💙 @featheredpencil]

@landofthe80s @DemonBob_Badman Showed it to my nieces a few months ago. I’ve never seen them so glued to a screen, and that’s saying something. 💖