SPWeston
SPWeston
@spweston.bsky.social
Working to strengthen democracy and build learning systems that equip every Kentuckian to flourish.
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More on Senate Bill 351 in my latest for Queer Kentucky 👇 #kyga26 queerkentucky.com/kentucky-sb-...
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This just pissed me off even more than the re-handcuffing The notion that these motherfuckers were the ones showing grace, that the women should be appreciative and speak well of the agents, that substandard treatment is conditioned on the women's portraying then as benevolent Fuckin disgusting
They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life. They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”
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Firmly, respectfully, the people organizing in these places LIVE here. We love our neighbors, our places, and our country. We have mobilized ourselves. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
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Ladies, I think the message of this whole grotesque saga is that not only do they want to control our bodies, but they think they are entitled to rape our babies. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
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Childcare is a public good. It's time to build a universal, public childcare system that protects workers, supports families, and resists corporate capture. Dive into the case studies and interviews that support this forward-looking framework ⤵️ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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"Ours is the vision and ours the growing reality of a great society in which the accidents of race and color, parentage and poverty, location and geography, will not be allowed to dim the light of human hope and to cripple the possibilities of human growth." Ned Breathitt of Ky. #Altcitizen #AllofUs
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Mayor Baraka’s arrest during an oversight visit to an ICE facility in Newark is shocking overreach of power, even by Trump standards. This is straight from the authoritarian playbook. Trump and his people want to silence anyone who seeks to hold them accountable.
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
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Finally! A win for NC voters, but unfortunately, the damage has been done. Judge Griffin’s refusal to accept the results of this election for more than 6 months – and his attempt to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters – was absolutely shameful.
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Generations of Americans have trusted the Social Security Administration with their private information. Yet, in a few short months, the Trump administration and DOGE have shattered trust that took decades to earn—trust that may never be regained. New from @mollyww.bsky.social:
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On April 25, 2025, federal agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan at her courthouse for allegedly obstructing the unlawful arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. Read the League's statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
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Bukele would have him on a plane within an hour of Trump asking
UPDATE: Trump seems to say for the first time that U.S. lacks ability to recover those sent to El Salvador if government deports someone erroneously. Says it’s totally up to Bukele. Seems to leave out that he could … ask Bukele to help fix an error. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Exactly so. And the human being in question would be on a plane in an hour if the Secretary of State made a single call to ask for that happen.
The animating, defining principles of the Trump Republican Party are cruelty, greed, hate, indecency & inhumanity. It is morally obscene that the administration doesn’t apologize & act urgently to return an innocent man wrongly rendered to a foreign hellhole. Congressional Republicans are complicit.
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"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge" “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. @premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:
The 2022 USA fertility rate is 1.7 per 1,000 women. Russia’s is 1.4, China’s is 1.2, and he spoke without truth. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...
Baier: What's the biggest thing that keeps you up at night? Musk: The birth rate is very low in almost every country. And unless that changes, civilization will disappear. America had the lowest birth rate
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The website is crashing. The phones are ring off the hook without enough staff to answer them. SSA is under attack--putting the Trump Admin & Elon Musk's DOGE between you & your Social Security benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
Watched twice for another reason: the officers moved with quick, adequate, controlled strength, protecting the attacker even as they restrained him. That’s how I want my government to operate.
Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in Berkeley for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. Fuze claimed they were paid protesters and he went there to show his support for Musk and DOGE.
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It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
@sifill.bsky.social is essential reading. Here's her latest. It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
“In 1912, measles became a nationally notifiable disease in the United States, requiring U.S. healthcare providers and laboratories to report all diagnosed cases. In the first decade of reporting, an average of 6,000 measles-related deaths were reported each year.” Fun! www.cdc.gov/measles/abou...
RFK Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
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The writ of habeas corpus exists to protect against arbitrary detention and confinement. Of course, the writ meaning anything depends on an executive branch that is willing to 1) respond to a legal action; 2) tell the truth in court; and 3) obey a court order. Otherwise this is 1973 Chile
"If they can disappear a green card holder, they can disappear a citizen." "No, I'd just call my lawyer and they'd get the misunderstanding sorted out." DHS: "Lol, lmao"
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OPINION: "The Stephen D. Lee bust guards over a tradition of keeping a real man’s history quiet," Donna Ladd writes. buff.ly/3QGDZpC
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From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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“We are deeply troubled by reports from educators and chaperones in the Las Cruces Public Schools who reported agents assigned to a federal checkpoint north of Las Cruces boarded a chartered bus carrying student athletes and demanded documentation. “ www.nmaft.org/press-releas...
The Constitution of the United States States of America, which I have sworn to defend. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
The SAVE Act will burden every citizen registering to vote. Call your Representatives to oppose this fast-moving, harmful bill.
🏛Congress has reintroduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act 👎The Save Act does nothing to voting more secure, it would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote. Tell your members of Congress to oppose the SAVE Act. Take action here: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/opposesaveact
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