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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Steven Heydemann, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 13 more

zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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by Lesley Bartlett

lesleybartlett.bsky.social
Safe travels! Hang in there
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Tom Clark, Mark D. White , and 6 more

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸
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joshuaweishart.bsky.social
At this point, are we descending into autocracy by sheer inertia or perverse curiosity?

For those telling the story (the Media), it might be, at least subconsciously, a morbid fascination with US autocracy-a prophecy they can't resist self fulfilling by covering in a way that mostly roots it on.
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bornmiserable.bsky.social
AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It
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by Lesley Bartlett

lesleybartlett.bsky.social
Absolute LEGEND!

Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Efrén O. Pérez, Juan Cole , and 7 more

propublica.org
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
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doritreiss.bsky.social
"In North Carolina and other states, low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable to order Covid-19 vaccines through the VFC program."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...
Low-income families are still waiting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids, but states say they’re coming | CNN
Many low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable...
www.cnn.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Mark D. White, Johan P. Olsen , and 7 more

jdcmedlock.bsky.social
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Stephen M. Walt, Lisa W. Fazio , and 25 more

atrupar.com
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Nandita Sharma, Joe R. Feagin , and 8 more

thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller

crampell.bsky.social
White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
www.nbcnews.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett

nerdjpg.com
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Mirya R. Holman, Tyler Simko

michaelpetrilli.bsky.social
New from Fordham, the Wallace Foundation, @dmhouston.bsky.social & Michael Hartney:

Who’s on Board? School Boards and Political Representation in an Age of Conflict fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
Who’s on Board? School Boards and Political Representation in an Age of Conflict
School boards have become ground zero for America’s education culture wars, with fiery debates over race, gender, curriculum, and pandemic policies making national headlines. But beyond the noise, how...
fordhaminstitute.org
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Norbert Schwarz, Robert W. Wallace , and 11 more

katzish.bsky.social
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Norbert Schwarz, Peter Thorne , and 15 more

johnpfaff.bsky.social
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
flglchicago.bsky.social
Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d
Here’s video of the incident
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Cas Mudde, Jan W. Mueller , and 28 more

flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett

sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions
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by Karin Wulf — Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Philip N. Cohen, Aviel Roshwald

kawulf.bsky.social
"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...
www.acls.org
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett

drprestongreen.bsky.social
‘Absolutely devastating’: Rural schools say $100K visa fee could make it hard to hire teachers

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/01/t...
Rural schools use H1B visas to fill teaching positions. A $100,000 fee could end that.
“No district could afford that even for one teacher, much less multiple teachers,” one Alaska superintendent said.
www.chalkbeat.org
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 2 more

cmewing.bsky.social
"'There simply aren’t enough students to go around,' said Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota. But the effects of the demographic cliff, he noted, 'won’t be evenly distributed.'"
U.S. Colleges Are About to See a Big Decline in Applicants
Forget a lot of what you thought you knew about higher education.
nymag.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Anna O. Law, Ken Caldeira , and 20 more

couts.bsky.social
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett

jessicacalarco.com
Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll.

To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
The Human Toll The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change. If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story! To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US [image of a person with their face in their hands]
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Brigitte Nerlich, Diane Ravitch , and 6 more

jay.bsky.team
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett

timmuth.bsky.social
Journalist from El Salvador, Mario Guevara, writes from an ICE detention facility, about the ongoing violations of his human rights and dignity since his arrest in June while covering protest activity. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.
bittersoutherner.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Robert B. Reich

duckworth.senate.gov
If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Carl T. Bergstrom, Melissa Terras , and 6 more

benpatrickwill.bsky.social
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Nina Jankowicz, Brendan Nyhan , and 11 more

mford.bsky.social
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
On September 3, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction directing the Executive to obligate roughly $10.5 billion of appropriated aid funding set to expire on September 30. Of that $10.5 billion, $4 billion was proposed to be rescinded in a “special message” transmitted pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act. See 2 U. S. C. §681 et seq. After the District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied stays of that order, the Government filed this application to stay the District Court’s injunction. The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. The Government, at this early stage, has made a sufficient showing that the Impoundment Control Act precludes respondents’ suit, brought pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, to enforce the appropriations at issue here. The Government has also made a sufficient showing that mandamus relief is unavailable to respondents. And, on the record before the Court, the asserted harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents. This order should not be read as a final determination on the merits. The relief granted by the Court today reflects our preliminary view, consistent with the standards for interim relief.
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Andrew Gelman

davidgura.bsky.social
Bloomberg News has obtained more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account.

Here, my colleagues summarize correspondence between Mitch Webber — then a research assistant to Alan Dershowitz, now a partner at Paul, Weiss — and Epstein:
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Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Fabián Muniesa, Janet Murray , and 4 more

erininthemorning.com
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
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