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Sheila R. Foster

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Sheila Rose Foster is a legal scholar, and an author. She is a tenured Professor of Climate at the Columbia… more

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Law 33%
Political science 29%
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, John Marston

muellershewrote.com
In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Rebecca Solnit, Richard S.J. Tol , and 26 more

asharangappa.bsky.social
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Diane Ravitch, Joseph Schafer , and 4 more

jentaub.bsky.social
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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by Joanna Bryson — Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Staffan I. Lindberg, Rebecca Sear , and 1 more

j2bryson.bsky.social
This is a video summary of www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... about what has halted collapses of Democracy before. Via @bwyble.bsky.social by @marinanord.bsky.social (of @hertieschool.bsky.social, coincidentally!) @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social @silindberg.bsky.social & al.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster

newyorkstateag.bsky.social
The EPA is attempting to deny climate change and rollback critical scientific findings.  
 
Unlike our federal government, I know climate change is real and I'm taking action to fight back.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Anna O. Law, Will Jennings , and 6 more

kylegriffin1.bsky.social
New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, James Goodwin, Anne Norton , and 1 more

marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.
🚨 Center for Coalfield Justice v. Washington County Board of Elections
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster

perrybaconjr.bsky.social
It's remarkable that Mamdani has successfully courted the establishment and broadened his voting base without moving right on policy. His platform remains in tact. He has backtracked from language he used in the past, but not given policy concessions to centrists. newrepublic.com/article/2009...
Zohran Mamdani Is Threading One of the Trickiest Needles in Politics
For the general election, Mamdani has managed to expand his base while staying basically true to his primary-season beliefs. There’s a lesson in there for all Democrats.
newrepublic.com
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by Sheila R. Foster

sheilarose.bsky.social
To our national democratic leaders, please take note. Let's embrace and not run from the next gen of leaders.🙏🏾

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...
Kamala Harris Reinforces Support for Zohran Mamdani in Phone Call
www.nytimes.com
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by UN Environment — Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Lisa Ann Richey

unep.org
Climate change refers to long-term temperature & weather shifts, which can occur naturally but have been mainly driven by human activity since the 1800s.

Follow the #ClimateSummit as countries discuss the future of our planet and get the latest facts: www.un.org/en/climatech...
A polar bear stands on a small, melting ice floe surrounded by open ocean. Large bold white text reads, “What is climate change?” The UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) logo is in the top right corner.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster

joncooper-us.bsky.social
Jimmy Kimmel: “Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway. People I never would have imagined, like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candace Owens, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul. Even my old pal Ted Cruz.”
Jimmy Kimmel Chokes Up After Returning From Suspension: ‘It Was Never My Intention to Make Light of the Murder of a Young Man’
An emotional Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night stage on Tuesday and spoke out for the first time about his six-day suspension from ABC. Kimmel opened the program with clips from different news o...
www.aol.com
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Jacob T. Levy

krassenstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants.
The grants were suspended over allegations of campus antisemitism, use of race in admissions, and recognition of transgender identities.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster

aclu.org
Hours after we sent a letter signed by over 450 artists and 40K others defending free speech, ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel will return to air.

Other companies should heed this warning: We the people are watching.
Before Jimmy Kimmel's reinstatement, talk show hosts and ACLU added to outcry over suspension
Bill Maher, John Oliver, the hosts of 'The View' and 400 artists who joined the ACLU have spoken out about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, which has now been lifted.
www.latimes.com
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Ben H. Ansell, Norbert Schwarz , and 8 more

govpritzker.illinois.gov
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
variety.com
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Sanford F. Schram, Gerald Friedman

ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, American Library Association

insidehighered.com
@tamu.bsky.social President Steps Down Under Pressure

Mark Welsh resigned Thursday after state lawmakers accused the university of pushing “leftist DEI and transgender indoctrination” on his watch. https://bit.ly/3I8PaHf

#AcaemicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
Mark Welsh in jacket and tie in front of Texas A&M sign
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by Seth Masket — Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Mark D. White, American Library Association , and 5 more

smotus.bsky.social
9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
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by Katharine Hayhoe — Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Norbert Schwarz, Richard Waite , and 1 more

katharinehayhoe.com
Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice!

“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”
Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour
Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...
www.nature.com
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by Sheila R. Foster

sheilarose.bsky.social
This is huge. Among other reasons the Gov is endorsing him, she says: "...[I]n light of the abhorrent and destructive policies coming out of Washington every day, I needed to know the next mayor will not be someone who would surrender one inch to President Trump."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster

bostonhistory.bsky.social
Gift Link: Read article without a subscription. A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Washington Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame." wapo.st/45Yk0vl
National Guard documents show public ‘fear,’ troops’ ‘shame’ over D.C. presence
Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.
wapo.st
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster

climate.columbia.edu
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Climate Week NYC 2025, rising threat to NYC food system, distinguished fellows program, glacial ice loss, chat with Professor @sheilarose.bsky.social, new faculty, more from Columbia Climate School and State of the Planet! ➡️ us8.campaign-archive.com?e=17f790cedd...
Flooded neighborhood on September 4, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. Credit: Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Alan Richardson , and 1 more

piperformissouri.bsky.social
Couldn’t have said it better myself…
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Juan Cole

gennhutchison.bsky.social
I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce

newyorkstateag.bsky.social
The Supreme Court is taking on a case that challenges part of the Voting Rights Act. It ensures voters of color can elect representatives of their choice.

I'm leading a group of AGs to defend this law and protect voting rights for everyone in our country.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Erin O’Donnell

doctorvive.bsky.social
A devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.com. I mean, whew!
The evidentiary core of each chapter consists of a summary of the academic work of a few experts, usually economists, with frequent and lengthy quotations, as well as the occasional interview, whose conclusions are repeated uncritically. (To take one example, they quote without scrutiny the claim of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan that he is requiring employees to work in person in order to foster trust, rather than to impose discipline or to recoup the costs of commercial real estate. They give no sense of the unruly literatures on their subjects, the ranges of disagreement, the difficult problems and mutually exclusive solutions. They claim to set an agenda for a new liberal political order, but what they have done is read some economists and argue, again, for deregulation.
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by Sheila R. Foster

sheilarose.bsky.social
Having taught at two Jesuit universities (Fordham and Georgetown), I am happy to see this Op-Ed that aligns DEI with Jesuit values. From my former Dean at both places, William Treanor.

www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
At Jesuit universities, the government’s D.E.I. crackdown is an attack on religious freedom
Now more than ever, it is urgent to stand up for our university’s autonomy to make curricular decisions based on its Jesuit mission.
www.americamagazine.org
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by Sheila R. Foster

sheilarose.bsky.social
Sadly emblematic of how much we've retrenched in a few months.“Are we that much of a threat to society that we have to be policed like this?” ...“There was some true equality that was starting to form within our nation, but now it’s just like we took 100 steps back.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge
www.nytimes.com
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by Sheila R. Foster

sheilarose.bsky.social
NYTimes: Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington

"Republican governors did not want to answer why they were willing to send their National Guard troops to Washington while not inviting the same attention to their cities."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington
www.nytimes.com
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by Sheila R. Foster

sheilarose.bsky.social
Indeed.
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Reposted by: Sheila R. Foster, Mary Jane Curry

awkword.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong?
U.S. Cities Are Lowering Education Requirements for Cops
Finally! Exactly what America needs: more cops with less education. Cities across the country are lowering their standards.
www.vice.com
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