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Bethany Letiecq

@bletiecq.bsky.social
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Professor studying families, immigration, structural oppression. Community-based participatory action research. Academic freedom. NCFR past-President. GMU-AAUP Pres. VP of AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Mom/partner. Part of Twitter exodus. Posts mine.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Proud of the CDCers who fought to get this vital info out! 30% of our workforce is gone. Heartbroken by the loss of brilliant scientists, institutional knowledge, & frankly my friends, colleagues, & mentors. An understaffed CDC harms the public & leaves the US vulnerable. Rebuilding will take years
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Where Higher Ed Policy Becomes Real (opinion)
Financial aid administrators are supposed to solve problems. But I couldn’t fix things for the undocumented students who lost access to in-state tuition and Texas state financial aid.
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOW 👏 this needs to happen in every state www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-legis...
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Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
Supporters of the bill say citizens, rather than corporations, should have more power in elections.
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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 28/09/2026
New Mexico is providing a blueprint and a path forward for solving the nation’s severe shortages.
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OPINION: Home-based child care is the backbone of America’s infant-toddler care system. We need more of it 
When the state of New Mexico announced it would provide no-cost universal child care last September, Yaneidy Gomez, a nurse, started thinking about starting her own program. New Mexico made it easy: She applied for a child care license in March and by April had passed inspection and welcomed her first family, proving that a motivated provider can move quickly when states streamline the confusing maze of bureaucracy and paperwork. Two things made the decision to swiftly open a home-based child care business possible: New Mexico’s newly expanded child care assistance program and her confidence that state support for home-based child care was here to stay.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read this: is is from the chair of outside advisors of the Iowa civics center imposed on campus. He thinks he is describing current faculty but he is perfectly describing himself and his fellow travelers
"I think there's a fundamental tension," Lowery told Inside Higher Ed. "We've had a sort of ideological takeover of the universities where you have ideological administrators hiring ideological faculty and they will do everything they can to prevent other ideas from being represented on campus."
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
virginiamercury.com/2026/09/24/s... @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org
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Southern faculty voice fears over political interference, academic freedom erosion in annual survey • Virginia Mercury
Most faculty members from Virginia and Southern states say they would not recommend their state as a desirable place to work, citing concerns about political interference and academic freedom, accordi...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's "banning the free press"
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Academia in the unregulated AI era. We need boilerplate language specifying draft manuscripts cannot be uploaded into an LLM @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social Adding to list..
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The "Fled Sheeran Tour." I LIKE it. And it would be badass to support these musicians who put their consciences before their livelihoods. I'd pay to see that show. &:^)
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I still can't believe public sector workers in VA--me included!--do not have a basic human right as a worker. Time for VA to enter the 21st century and join the majority @abigailspanberger.com -- Repeal the ban on worker rights!
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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A Carnegie Mellon Professor’s Comments Were Explosive. Are They a Firing Offense?
Free-speech wars have become ever-present in academe. And Uju Anya, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has experienced more than her share.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “To see what Patriots owner Robert Kraft did to line up all the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way… this isn’t just about one artist.”
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More coverage of the 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey: Florida professors fear being targeted by state leaders, students after elimination of DEI www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
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Florida professors fear being targeted by state leaders, students after elimination of DEI
Florida university professors fear their students are spying on them and lament elimination of DEI from general education courses and canceled research
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Didn’t know this might be our last visit to the Kennedy Center @peternoonan14.bsky.social ? 😭
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after pro-Palestine comments www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... 
“I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2,” he wrote. “Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine.”
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Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after pro-Palestine comments
Messina Touring Group, which promoted the tour, said that venues on the tour wouldn’t allow Macklemore to perform.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages as ‘Calming Areas,’ Report Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages as ‘Calming Areas,’ Report Says
The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c... Cuz End Times…
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"When we've designed public programs in ways that people can't figure out whether they're eligible without consulting lawyers, we've done something wrong," Herd said. "That has huge, huge implications for what's to come."
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A cancer survivor hoped to work — then she lost her Medicaid disability coverage
As state governments grapple with how to determine who's sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some families are already struggling with what illnesses guarantee health covera...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Perfection. (ht: @bobupstateny.bsky.social)
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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The new bargaining frontier: AI and academic labour
Higher education is approaching a new bargaining frontier. AI has already entered academic work. The question now is whether the conditions under whic...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design, it inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue
Read more here.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio... When academic freedom is under attack, we must stand up, fight back. Our democracy depends on it. @aaupmason.bsky.social @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social @aft.org Join us: www.aaup.org/join
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Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impact
“I received several death threats.” Two D.C.-area college instructors who appeared on the Professor Watchlist describe what it meant for their lives.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lawyers for a witness to the killing of Alex Pretti confirmed she has given an interview to the feds. She witnessed Pretti murdered. Negotiations for the interview were in the works for weeks as she secured immunity so she could testify freely & without retribution as the probe is underway.
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She Watched Agents Kill Alex Pretti From The Backseat Of An ICE Vehicle. Now She Can Share What She Saw.
She’s been experiencing some trauma,” James Cook, an attorney for Wynnie Savageford, told HuffPost.
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleged that a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with the Postal Service’s new mail voting rule this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Catastrophic’: Postal workers slam Trump’s mail voting restrictions, urge Supreme Court to uphold block
A union representing 200,000 postal workers said the restrictions "will inevitably grind the operation of the postal system to a halt."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 09/09/2026
Massachusetts is now the 10th state to allow abortion later in pregnancy based on a physician’s professional judgment. The change should spare more patients and families the added trauma, delay and expense of traveling out of state for care.
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Who Should Decide Whether a Patient Needs an Abortion: A Doctor or an Opinion Columnist?
In case you missed it, a <em>Washington Post</em> columnist published a so-called op-ed late last month that can only be described as an antiabortion, whine-weary litany of complaints about blue state...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A truck driver working 40-hour weeks to make $50,000 a year pays about $3,800 in federal income tax. An 8% rate. An investor earning the same $50,000 in long-term capital gains pays $0. Work gets punished. Wealth gets rewarded. This tax code is a scam.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump‘s cash gifts to government employees, violate ethics rules, which exist to promote loyalty to the United States over loyalty to one person. He doesn’t get to break the law just because cash bonuses were “his longtime practice” in the private sector. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp, two other close aides
Financial disclosures show the sums were equivalent to nearly one-third of each of their salaries. Experts say the gifts are without precedent and may violate the law.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join us @aaupmason.bsky.social @aaup.org We are your union @georgemasonu.bsky.social !
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