Torrey Podmajersky
UX and content strategy. Author of UX Skills for Business Strategy and Strategic Writing for UX.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyMedia coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyGeorgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyAnd if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed! drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyWhat is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country. They didn't think we would. We do.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyBy who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyAbsolutely. Not only a fake problem but a verified strength — morally, culturally, financially, and on and on.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyImmigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThe StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.
- The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
- Proud of my rep.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyI was sent here a year ago by the people of WA's 6th. I am accountable to them — not party leadership. My neighbors are seeing Trump, JD Vance, and Pam Bondi go back on their promise to release the full, unredacted Epstein files.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyI have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.
- WHAT THE F*CK? Trump is making explicit threats against all leaders of Latin America!
- The rambling address just underscores how incompetent this man is at leading this country.
- Reposted by Torrey Podmajersky"We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition." This is regime change.
- The US has no right to be "running" Venezuela.
- Reposted by Torrey Podmajerskyit's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyJust woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
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- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThe Empire by Mary Oliver
- My country's military attack on Venezuela was illegal, according to our own constitution. I am horrified.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThis @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
- A person near me at the coffeeshop is making unconscious yummy sounds with his first bites of breakfast sandwich. So sincere, so wholesome.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyIn Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThis is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
- The author disabled quotes.A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskySuper-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations. knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThey’re bringing limes, they’re bringing grapes… and some, I assume, are gourd people.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThe following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyRemember, birding is there for you.
- the small, quiet sparkle of PNWers noticing signs of Autumn 💖
- PNW mood. ⛴️ @wsdot
- The online book launch for the 2nd edition of Strategic Writing for UX was a career highlight. Thanks so much for sharing it with me!
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThe state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyLook, the actual causes of the Revolutionary War are oft misunderstood, but to be clear: this is bullshit It was a dispute about the nature of the British empire, & specifically whether the American colonies had the same standing relative to the king as Great Britain did, or, rather...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyWalz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
- Is Mailchimp borked for anybody else? I'm in the middle of newsletter writing 😅
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyIt’s 6:14 p.m. at the D.C. parade, and it is *quiet* on Constitution Avenue between 20th and 21st streets.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyI need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskySenators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was? We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy. I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyAnd now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyIf Nazi Germany, they sent political prisoners to the camps before they sent the Jews. If a fascist state has a way to disappear a person, then nobody is safe.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyCopyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyTeen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells @ellayurman.bsky.social about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyQuite a fun moment when the security contractors who had been terminated by the USIP but had switched their allegiances to DOGE entered the property with an unconfiscated key and headed immediately to the gun safe.
- Reposted by Torrey Podmajerskyin 2010 if you said "this Citizens United decision will end up with one single person buying the House of Representives like a pound of cheese, so as to impeach judges who rule against his coup attempt" you'd have been dismissed as a hysteric
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThis picture speaks for itself. Donald Trump and Elon Musk don’t care but we MUST.
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- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyJewish Voice for Peace is occupying Trump tower to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release, no muslim ban ever and to stop arming Israel www.instagram.com/p/DHJWluoAV1v
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyHow many of you could put your hands on a passport, birth or naturalization certificate, and marriage record within say an hour? Because NH now requires all that to vote, and it's messing with women who changed their names after marriage. Project 2025 wants this to be a Federal law, the SAVE Act.
- I'm re-reading The Murderbot Diaries, and it is with that perspective I say WTAF. I don't want to live in a corporate polity, and I don't want humans to be enslaved or indentured to them, either. The history of "company towns" and colonies is grim. gizmodo.com/tech-execs-a...
- Reposted by Torrey Podmajerskythe advent of javascript frameworks was not, as was advertised, to "simplify application state & reactivity" on the web, but rather to satisfy man's primal urge and fervent desire to Build A Quite Strange And Peculiar Contraption
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyGermany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock has just given a really remarkable, nearly 12-minute speech on yesterday's events at the White House in support of #Ukraine. I have translated a large part of the speech for you. PART 1 OF 7
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyAmerica is now kidnapping and disappearing foreigners. I recommend strongly you stop coming here.
- CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyCBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyYour friend and mine, @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social, has a vision. Beneath a park in Philadelphia, lie buried the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people. What if they all came back as zombies, but they only ate white people? Clearly, we need this film. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyThis week-by-week tracker for federal education actions is incredibly useful! The most shocking thing I've learned so far is that it's been six weeks since Trump took office.
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- When this president says "Right out of central casting" it means that the person has the job based on his biases about race, gender, body shape, etc.
- Reposted by Torrey PodmajerskyI am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
