BellaLeigh
@bellaleigh.bsky.social
Texas Aggie. Blue dot in a red state (and family🙄) Elementary science teacher
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Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
www.texasobserver.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:
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November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I just can’t with calling these horrible humans “kids.”
Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”
Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I just can’t with calling these horrible humans “kids.”
Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”
Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”
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Dry, Rinse, Repeat…Sassy Politics on YouTube.
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Dry, Rinse, Repeat…Sassy Politics on YouTube.
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The best part of this tweet from January is she limited who could reply to it
September 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The best part of this tweet from January is she limited who could reply to it
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“In some ways, this bears a family resemblance to the Red scare of the 1950s."
The only bright side is that courts are likely to rule in favor of many who were fired from public institutions.
The only bright side is that courts are likely to rule in favor of many who were fired from public institutions.
The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“In some ways, this bears a family resemblance to the Red scare of the 1950s."
The only bright side is that courts are likely to rule in favor of many who were fired from public institutions.
The only bright side is that courts are likely to rule in favor of many who were fired from public institutions.
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In the last 5 years, 81 people have been killed by political violence in the US. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, some 54%, according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-wingers for 22%.
September 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In the last 5 years, 81 people have been killed by political violence in the US. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, some 54%, according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-wingers for 22%.
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So now MAGA is saying that Tyler Robinson was friends with a trans person. Donald Trump was friends for 15 years with a child sex trafficker and they didn’t bat an eye.
September 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So now MAGA is saying that Tyler Robinson was friends with a trans person. Donald Trump was friends for 15 years with a child sex trafficker and they didn’t bat an eye.
More Talarico and less Kirk
September 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
More Talarico and less Kirk
TikTok video by 🇬🇧Goochie🇬🇧
www.tiktok.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
www.theatlantic.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Trump’s actions relative to the Federal Reserve amount to an effort to limit/eliminate the central bank’s independence, according to 82% of respondents to the September CNBC Fed Survey.
Those actions will result in weaker growth, higher inflation and unemployment and a lower value for the dollar.
Those actions will result in weaker growth, higher inflation and unemployment and a lower value for the dollar.
Trump's Fed pressure campaign will lead to higher inflation, weaker growth, according to CNBC survey
The survey found that 41% of respondents surveyed believe that the president's actions are directly aimed at eliminating the Fed's independence, with 41% saying they are designed to limit them.
cnb.cx
September 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Trump’s actions relative to the Federal Reserve amount to an effort to limit/eliminate the central bank’s independence, according to 82% of respondents to the September CNBC Fed Survey.
Those actions will result in weaker growth, higher inflation and unemployment and a lower value for the dollar.
Those actions will result in weaker growth, higher inflation and unemployment and a lower value for the dollar.
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Gonna put up a few links to C&L that reflect the REAL Charlie Kirk, not the one you see through the gauzy whitewash of cable tv and newspapers.
Again, these things don't mean he should be shot. But they do suggest that hate speech is bad and more hate speech is worse.
Again, these things don't mean he should be shot. But they do suggest that hate speech is bad and more hate speech is worse.
September 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gonna put up a few links to C&L that reflect the REAL Charlie Kirk, not the one you see through the gauzy whitewash of cable tv and newspapers.
Again, these things don't mean he should be shot. But they do suggest that hate speech is bad and more hate speech is worse.
Again, these things don't mean he should be shot. But they do suggest that hate speech is bad and more hate speech is worse.
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“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
September 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
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What the media is NOT covering about who Charlie Kirk was
What the media is NOT covering about who Charlie Kirk was
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
youtube.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What the media is NOT covering about who Charlie Kirk was
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.
May 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.