Wendy Skratt

@treejanitorz

Operations professional focused on transparency & building trust -> functional teams. Let’s question legacy processes & ask why people make individual choices. Can’t stop learning, defending democracy, & critiquing capitalism. Kdrama escapist who 💕 games

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Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· 2d

End of summer lavender blooms in Pittsburgh

Photo of wild lavender blooms against a field of green grass

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· 10d

We are “giving them a chance to remedy bad behavior”. TACO Tuesday is a day early. China already ignores the sanctions on Iranian oil. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· 13d

Currently reading and very timely: Chokepoints by @edwardfishman.bsky.social - as we await Monday’s announcement of the plan of an “economic d-day for Iran”.

Photo of book page: “The US sanctioned two Chinese firms … both absorbed the costs and increased their Iran business.”

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· 23d

I have recently signed up as a poll worker for the first time! Join me as a front line protector of elections. Today is National Poll Worker Recruitment Day. Make sure every polling place is staffed this November. act.powerthepolls.org/go/4927?t=4&...

Start now: apply to be a poll worker. Enter your zip code and find info about becoming a poll worker in your local area.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jul 18

MyPillow Founder Not Registered to Vote in State He Wants to Lead President Trump endorsed Mike Lindell, a leader of the election denial movement, for Minnesota governor this week.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jun 24

“Every time a government agency proposes a rule change, it is required to notify the public & accept feedback. The comment period is now open. The comment period closes on July 2, 2026, so now is the time to act.” Comment at www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Every time a government agency proposes a rule change, it is required to notify the public and accept feedback. The comment period for the USPS rule change is now open, providing you with a direct way to bring your concerns straight to the agency.

The comment period closes on July 2, 2026, so now is the time to act. You can submit comments online or mail them to: Director, Product Classification, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4446, Washington, DC 20260-5015.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· May 17

Officially moved into Pittsburgh house! #pittsburghpotty

Photo of an old toilet in a dark basement space next to a glass block window.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· May 14

Close up of small, sharp metal chip next to a hole in a hardwood floor from which it was removed and two pliers nearby

Two fortune cookie fortunes: 1) you will be free of the heavy burdens you’ve been carrying, 2) with patience, you can achieve anything

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Feb 15

Currently watching Our Blues. In the midst of life’s challenges, there are always opportunities for love, kindness and joy.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Dec 14

Hewo from the snow

A small snowman with eyes and mouths made out of leaves. It’s made of two stout snowballs and has a pair of small white gloves for hair

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Nov 20

Late fall walk

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jul 8

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NYT headline: Trump Looks to Avoid Casting Blame in Texas Floods

NYT headline: Trump Blames CA Governor and his Water Policy for Wildfires

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jun 19

Feeling very Wag the Dog from the 1990s this morning. NYT in a tailspin.

NYT headline: Iran Crisis Overshadowed as Senators Squabble at Hearing, A hearing featuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth exposed a major divide over the dangers of using U.S. troops domestically.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Apr 28

Must read for understanding our information networks www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

I was able to reconstruct fragments from participants who spoke to me because they considered the group chats an important open secret. And it’s hard to deny their power. The political journalist Mark Halperin, who now runs 2WAY and has a show on Megyn Kelly’s network, said it was remarkable that “the left seems largely unaware that some of the smartest and most sophisticated Trump supporters in the nation from coast to coast are part of an overlapping set of text chains that allow their members to share links, intel, tactics, strategy, and ad hoc assignments. Also: clever and invigorating jokes. And they do this (not kidding) like 20 hours a day, including on weekends.” He called their influence “substantial.”

Many of the group chatters celebrate their success in driving the ascendant politics of the Trump era, which they hope will bring back patriotic industry and traditional cultural norms. Some who have left or lurk consider it a sinister phenomenon in which Andreessen exerted unspoken gravitational pull, as one participant put it: “You’d see that the writers were bending toward the billionaires, and even the ones who prided themselves on being iconoclastic were bending to the tastes and the centers of gravity of power.”

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Apr 5

Big crowds at the Hands Off protest at WWE HQ in Stamford CT

Smiling young man in a blue jacket holds a sign that says “Democracy Needs You” outside WWE HQ in Stamford, CT

Large crowds of people gather outside WWE HQ in Stamford, CT for Hands Off rally

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Apr 1

Spring in Connecticut 🌺🌼🌸🌿

Bright yellow forsythia blooms backlit against blue sky

Light pink mountain laurel blooms in a cluster

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Mar 29

This pic of Vance in Greenland is begging to be a meme 🤡

JD Vance stands on a snowy landscape with a mountain and blue sky behind him while wearing a green parka. He’s raising one arm with his hand seemingly to grab something invisible.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Mar 25

What can you say when you have no excuse and are 💯 exposed? 🤷🏻

NYT: Republicans in Congress React to Signal Chat Leak with Collective Shrug

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Mar 15

Trump plays the media getting them to give hours of coverage to his attacks on them rather than covering the Democratic push on Schumer to fight him.

NYT headline: Trump Uses Justice Dept Speech to Air His Grievances Against His Enemies

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Mar 14

Pelosi: “Democratic senators should listen to the women…” and VOTE NO.

Pelosi Statement on the Government Funding Bill in the Senate

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America. Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable. I salute Leader Hakeem Jeffries for his courageous rejection of this false choice, and I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill.

“Democratic senators should listen to the women. Appropriations leaders Rosa DeLauro and Patty Murray have eloquently presented the case that we must have a better choice: a four-week funding extension to keep government open and negotiate a bipartisan agreement. America has experienced a Trump shutdown before – but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People.”

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Mar 13

FIX: GOP refuse any concessions, forcing coming shutdown

NYT headline screenshot: Senate Dems Balk at Funding Extension, Raising Risk of a Shutdown

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jan 26

Why am I not seeing major headlines about Trump breaking the law with these firings? “Legally murky” is crap. The law requires 30 day notice and “substantive reason” to Congress. Here: “Trump Breaks Law with Illegal Firings”

NBC News screenshot with headline “Trump fires 18 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move”

Screenshot of article text “The law requires a 30-day notification window between the White House informing Congress of its intent to fire an inspector general and that inspector general being removed from on-duty status. The White House must also provide substantive reasons for why the inspector general is being removed.

When asked whether the White House was concerned about the legality of the firings, given the required 30-day congressional notice for each inspector general, the official said a lot of these decisions happen with “legal counsel looking over them.” The official added that they were checking with the White House counsel’s office but didn’t think the administration had broken any laws.”

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jan 19

Currently reading Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s been on my pile ever since @karaswisher.bsky.social interviewed him about it in October. #booksky

Photo of book cover with the title “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by author Yuval Noah Harari. White background with red and black text and a carrier pigeon in the middle.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jan 11

2024 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Han Kang’s 2007 book which won the Booker Prize in 2016. #currentread

Photo of the book “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang with a red cover and black graphic image of a woman with her head tilted up

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Jan 10

"... Molly Crocket, William Brady & Jay VanBavel came up with something called the M.A.D. Model of Moral Contagion. [It] explains how group identity, user behavior, & the design of social media platforms interact in synergistic ways to spread mostly highly emotionally-reactive content" 🧵 2/3

Graphic showing "group identity" together with "engagement" amplified by "design" of social media platform creates the MAD model of moral contagion - why moralized content spreads online.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Dec 22

Alien ornament is 2024’s contribution to the tree.

Bunny and alien Christmas tree ornaments hang on artificial tree

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Nov 23

I am so excited to finally have speaking lessons for Korean on my phone iOS @duolingoverde.bsky.social app! 🇰🇷

Screenshot from Duolingo app showing a person watering flowers alongside a lesson progress map.

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Nov 21

You inspired me to share my favorite mushroom photo… compositionally similar to yours!

Black and white photo of a mushroom growing amidst grass and fallen leaves, from a low perspective

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Nov 17

Sometimes you just need affogato and a friend for breakfast.

Affogato on a coffee table in the foreground and a person drinking coffee and making a peace sign in the background

Wendy Skratt@treejanitorz· Nov 15

Today’s forecast calls for Blueskies!