Maia Sheppard
@maiasheppard.bsky.social
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget
Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
n.pr
September 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
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Each year, nearly 5,000 children are diagnosed with brain tumors, which are the leading cause of pediatric cancer-related death. In August, the Trump administration announced it would stop supporting a federally funded network dedicated to researching these deadly cancers.
Federal funding cuts to pediatric brain cancer research ‘taking away hope’ from families
Brain tumors are the leading cause of pediatric cancer-related death. In August, the Trump administration announced it would stop supporting a federally funded network dedicated to researching these d...
www.pbs.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Each year, nearly 5,000 children are diagnosed with brain tumors, which are the leading cause of pediatric cancer-related death. In August, the Trump administration announced it would stop supporting a federally funded network dedicated to researching these deadly cancers.
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Many Americans lack basic knowledge about fertility. @olgakhazan.bsky.social spoke with doctors and other experts about the information they think should be included in sex ed for middle and high schoolers:
What Women Wish They’d Known Before Trying to Get Pregnant
Many Americans lack basic fertility knowledge. More robust sex ed could help.
bit.ly
September 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Many Americans lack basic knowledge about fertility. @olgakhazan.bsky.social spoke with doctors and other experts about the information they think should be included in sex ed for middle and high schoolers:
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The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
NYC shooter had two 'mental health holds' in Las Vegas. They didn't affect his legal right to own guns
The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
n.pr
August 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
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Please watch this in its entirety
Trump has installed dozens of men who follow this ideology into the highest levels of his administration, including Pete Hegseth, who leads the Department of Defense.
This is the doctrine Republicans want all Americans to live by.
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Trump has installed dozens of men who follow this ideology into the highest levels of his administration, including Pete Hegseth, who leads the Department of Defense.
This is the doctrine Republicans want all Americans to live by.
🧵
August 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Please watch this in its entirety
Trump has installed dozens of men who follow this ideology into the highest levels of his administration, including Pete Hegseth, who leads the Department of Defense.
This is the doctrine Republicans want all Americans to live by.
🧵
Trump has installed dozens of men who follow this ideology into the highest levels of his administration, including Pete Hegseth, who leads the Department of Defense.
This is the doctrine Republicans want all Americans to live by.
🧵
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If the goal of education is democracy, then both the ways and means get to be more expansive.
We can open up curriculum, be more creative with our pedagogy, and allow for multiple pathways in our assessments.
Innovation shouldn't be relegated to neoliberalism. We can do so much better.
We can open up curriculum, be more creative with our pedagogy, and allow for multiple pathways in our assessments.
Innovation shouldn't be relegated to neoliberalism. We can do so much better.
August 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If the goal of education is democracy, then both the ways and means get to be more expansive.
We can open up curriculum, be more creative with our pedagogy, and allow for multiple pathways in our assessments.
Innovation shouldn't be relegated to neoliberalism. We can do so much better.
We can open up curriculum, be more creative with our pedagogy, and allow for multiple pathways in our assessments.
Innovation shouldn't be relegated to neoliberalism. We can do so much better.
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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
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More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe"
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe"
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Oklahoma Republicans installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.
So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.
UPDATE: Oklahoma parents fight back
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories ...
popular.info
May 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Oklahoma Republicans installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.
So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.
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Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
May 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
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Disinformation straight from the White House.
May 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Disinformation straight from the White House.
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New post: Tens of thousands of Iowans would lose health insurance, food assistance, or both under the "big, beautiful bill" House Republicans just approved.
I pulled together some estimates of the impact on Iowans living in #IA01, #IA02, #IA03, #IA04.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/22/h...
I pulled together some estimates of the impact on Iowans living in #IA01, #IA02, #IA03, #IA04.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/22/h...
House Republicans vote to take food, health care away from Iowans
Laura Belin: Tens of thousands of Iowans would lose their health insurance, food assistance, or both under the "big, beautiful bill."
www.bleedingheartland.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
New post: Tens of thousands of Iowans would lose health insurance, food assistance, or both under the "big, beautiful bill" House Republicans just approved.
I pulled together some estimates of the impact on Iowans living in #IA01, #IA02, #IA03, #IA04.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/22/h...
I pulled together some estimates of the impact on Iowans living in #IA01, #IA02, #IA03, #IA04.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/22/h...
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After 35 years of teaching history in New Hampshire, John Dube left the state he called home—driven out by threats and censorship under a law that bans the teaching of “divisive concepts” in schools.
He refused to stop teaching the truth.
Now he’s starting over in Vermont.
He refused to stop teaching the truth.
Now he’s starting over in Vermont.
Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety
Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
After 35 years of teaching history in New Hampshire, John Dube left the state he called home—driven out by threats and censorship under a law that bans the teaching of “divisive concepts” in schools.
He refused to stop teaching the truth.
Now he’s starting over in Vermont.
He refused to stop teaching the truth.
Now he’s starting over in Vermont.
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Trump told us these people were so dangerous they couldn't afford due process to prove how dangerous they were. They had to go straight to the foreign concentration camp.
Turns out *at least* one in five of them *didn't even break US immigration law*
Turns out *at least* one in five of them *didn't even break US immigration law*
Trump sent 50 Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador. They were in the US legally.
Trump administration says they're gang members in the US illegally. Available info says they entered legally, had no criminal charges.
www.usatoday.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Trump told us these people were so dangerous they couldn't afford due process to prove how dangerous they were. They had to go straight to the foreign concentration camp.
Turns out *at least* one in five of them *didn't even break US immigration law*
Turns out *at least* one in five of them *didn't even break US immigration law*
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Images President Trump shared that purported to show “white genocide” in South Africa have been debunked.
Trump leans into widely disputed claims about "white genocide" in S. Africa
Trump played a controversial video to emphasize his claims about white Afrikaners facing racial violence.
www.axios.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Images President Trump shared that purported to show “white genocide” in South Africa have been debunked.
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Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
Trump is now giving the South African president the full Zelenskyy treatment
May 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
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Trump's press events with world leaders that he doesn't like are quickly becoming the weirdest moments in U.S. history.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
May 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Trump's press events with world leaders that he doesn't like are quickly becoming the weirdest moments in U.S. history.
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It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
wrd.cm
May 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
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A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S.
The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.
The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.
A Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S.
The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.
The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.
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The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit
So much for cutting costs.
www.motherjones.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
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NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
www.npr.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
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This kid runs circles around the reporter
May 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This kid runs circles around the reporter