Reposted by Amber WilliamsSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Let’s take care of each other today. 10691106
Reposted by Amber WilliamsProPublica @propublica.org · 24/12/2025We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities. Here's how to reach out:propublica.orgHelp Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights CasesHave you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, par... 15661344
Reposted by Amber WilliamsIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025There's also this assumption that once POC have attained some elite credential, then a world of resources and privileges suddenly becomes easily accessible. But that's far from true. Racial discrimination persists! academic.oup.com/sf/article-a... 13813
Reposted by Amber WilliamsMatthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below: 343912353
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAlex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comHegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them allDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile. 40536244
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Federal judges block Texas from using redrawn congressional maps that would boost the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections. 311785320
Reposted by Amber WilliamsJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 18/11/2025When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...people.comDonald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files 56939761615
Reposted by Amber WilliamsEric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me 676371167955
Reposted by Amber WilliamsSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction. The enablers have to feel it. weaintbuyingit.comweaintbuyingit.comWe Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power. 551808891
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/11/2025Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve. 526170025025
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues. 134559307
Reposted by Amber WilliamsBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves 434712907
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Trump's super-power is that he simply refuses to acknowledge political wounds that would instantly kill anyone with a modicum of shame. Which has worked well enough for him that many people have fooled themselves into believing he isn't wounded at all. But he is! He always has been! 451966
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are. 1415834563
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything 12075381797
Reposted by Amber WilliamsEric J. White @ericjwhite.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Using CRISPR gene-editing to permanently reduce cholesterol and triglycerides holds tremendous promise. It almost sounds like science fiction. Go science! www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...npr.orgCRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new studyAn experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease. 422238
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them. 20206191614997
Reposted by Amber WilliamsOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 04/11/2025It just keeps getting worse www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comU.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers sayLawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him. 35217
Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I'm really proud of this paper I wrote with my grad student proposing that children's racial biases are driven in part by racial differences in social status. Part of making the world a better place for children of color is ending racial inequity.compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in ChildhoodRacial bias emerges early in a fairly consistent manner in the U.S. and in other societies in which group-based inequality is prevalent. Specifically, White children often show in-group preferences w.... 1186
Reposted by Amber WilliamsJoshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11/10/2025In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans. 50475893691
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hourskare11.comKARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairmentKingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours. 30339631791
Reposted by Amber WilliamsSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal. 251735481
Reposted by Amber WilliamsBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2025I have finished Andor 🥲🥲🥲 Easily the best series of Star Wars, and some of the best just tv in general 4072335
Reposted by Amber WilliamsJeong Park @jeongpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Today was a sad day in Seattle journalism. As someone who read and followed Cascade PBS's work every day (for my job), they produced unique and compelling work week in and week out. This will be a big loss... 4423101
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.404media.coDOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right WingFollowing Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared. 8925271211
Reposted by Amber WilliamsWashington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah 774694974
Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025I signed up for a gym and the contract said that they had the rights to my image “in perpetuity throughout the universe in any medium or format whatsoever now existing or hereafter created on any platform and for any purpose.” I was told that this was a standard contract 😳 110
Reposted by Amber Williamsryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/08/2025"If Trump had demanded that these schools agree that 1+1=3 in order to have their funding restored, you can be sure that the schools would have done so, while adding a sub-clause noting that they have only the highest respect for the concept of mathematical truth."hamiltonnolan.comNegotiating With Terrorists, UnsuccessfullyHow to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing. 7481120
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23/07/2025"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comThe Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their PlacePete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces. 22730561568
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/07/2025PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support. 738352118707
Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The em dash is my favorite and now I’m self conscious about using it because apparently it’s an indicator that you used chatGPT 😭 000
Reposted by Amber WilliamsChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons! 18867581710
Reposted by Amber Williams🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/07/2025I really like how the Supreme Court is just letting Trump dismantle the Department of Education but wouldn't let Biden forgive student debt. Funny how that works. 181086243
Reposted by Amber WilliamsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025this came out yesterday. Times says: "We found that at key stages in the war, Netanyahu’s decisions extended the fighting in Gaza longer than even Israel’s senior military leadership deemed necessary." 12611229
Reposted by Amber WilliamsDenali @denali.bsky.social · 10/07/2025If you read one thing today, please read this: It's about neglect, tragedy, collective memory, dignity and grief. It also includes the story of how my friend Charles worked to secure the burial of a fellow veteran he'd never met.chicagotribune.comThere are few memorials for Chicagoans who died from heat in 1995. But there are remnants.The closest thing we have to a memorial for people who died from the heat is not even in Chicago. It’s the headstone of the mass grave in Homewood. 24020
Reposted by Amber WilliamsShannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 08/07/2025There is a moment in SINNERS I think about a lot. A character tells a horrible true story, and the weight of it is crushing, because not only did that thing really happen but it could happen, again and again and again. And then he laughs and starts to sing. He smiles and laughs and sings. 1663
Reposted by Amber WilliamsMichael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems. 261000324
Reposted by Amber WilliamsJessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I feel like I could be more productive if Harris were president b/c I wouldn’t constantly have to worry about America being dismantled and sold for parts 1043138
Reposted by Amber WilliamsBrian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Policies are one thing, but the most discouraging part of this current moment in the United States is the complete lack of empathy and humanity. I cannot fathom treating any human being the way they are openly cheering the dehumanizing mistreatment of the most vulnerable people in our population. 611622
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Congress has passed Trump’s “big, beautiful” nightmare bill, leaving the safety net in shreds to fund tax cuts for the richhuffpost.comHouse Passes Trump's Big Bill Cutting Taxes For Wealthy, Axing Health Care For MillionsDespite all the bad things Republican lawmakers said about the “big, beautiful bill,” the holdouts caved and delivered for Donald Trump. 31665281
Reposted by Amber WilliamsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this. 34849983121746
Reposted by Amber WilliamsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it. 24084181740
Reposted by Amber WilliamsTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations. 47123202788
Reposted by Amber WilliamsThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/07/2025Breaking news: The Senate narrowly approved President Trump's massive tax and immigration bill, extending tax cuts for wealthy Americans and cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, SNAP and other programs. wapo.st/4esoFbgwapo.stSenate passes Trump’s tax bill, sending it to House for final passageThe legislation extends trillions of dollars in tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implements new campaign promises, while spending billions on immigration. 287757
Reposted by Amber WilliamsJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/07/2025USAID is shutting its doors today--marking the end of democracy, diplomacy, and decency all in one fell swoop. 19818222
Reposted by Amber WilliamsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/06/2025A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now? 513261771