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LadyAda

@chitadenita.bsky.social
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music, higher ed, lifelong learner, ed policy, music, theater nerd for life, change management, gardens, hiking, poodles, all things PNW

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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
$10M is pocket change to this class. This is all such a twisted web of garbage.
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Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration misused $10 million, but no charges have been filed
Despite the lack of charges, the report ignited a new round of criticism aimed at Gov. Ron DeSantis and other top state Republicans over the charity receiving $10 million from a state Medicaid settlem...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent reporting by Reuters.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some joy for today.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Acknowledging the obvious harm to humans, the terror and fear caused by Trump's "deportation" mess, we are also starting to acknowledge the economic cost. $109M in my city alone. www.epi.org/deportation-...
epi.org
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is just one of the many horrifying stories playing out around us every day. This is a hostage situation and the rich are getting richer off of it. It makes my stomach turn.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Jennifer Lincoln, MD, IBCLC linktr.ee/drjenniferli...
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Who supports the Equality Act and why.
youtube.com
There are a million reasons to pass the Equality Act. Here are just a few.
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
MacFarlane: I feel like all of this was doomed to fail at the Great American State Fair the second Milli Vanilli canceled. Only bad things happen when Milli Vanilli cancels on you.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Let's talk one more thing, one more radical proposition on the executive branch. What if everybody's vote counted the same?
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Lucy’sMom @lucysmom13.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
www.reddit.com/r/atheism/s/...
reddit.com
From the atheism community on Reddit: DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List
Explore this post and more from the atheism community
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is so, so bad. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
elizabethginexi.substack.com
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Please read this astute summary. This is some scary shit.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Jebus. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...
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Amazon says it shut down a token leaderboard: 'Don't use AI just to use AI'
Amazon nixed an employee-created AI leaderboard called "KiroRank" after concerns it encouraged excessive AI spending.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The proposed quarry is on top of the San Andreas Fault and will poison the water supply and release asbestos into the atmosphere. It will increase the risk of flooding and wildfires. Lone Pine Canyon is part of indigenous lands and it will impact their traditional travel routes and water supply.
c.org
Sign the Petition
Stop the Lone Pine Canyon Quarry
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
President Trump Wipes Out the Entire National Science Board, with Mass Firings of All 24 Top Scientist, in a Total Seizure of Federal Research Oversight www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
forbes.com
Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters
Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.
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Defenders of Our Republic @defendersofourrepublic.org · 17/04/2026
HAPPY FREEDOM FRIDAY! This #FreedomFriday, 5 items: 1. Jaye rocks. #Jaye'sMorningLight 2. Another week of #SAAPM (see 🧵) 3. New Substack post will be published tomorrow 4. Highlighting "The Grind" Post for any new DOOR readers 5. DOOR is going public in D.C. o/a 1 JUL! DM if interested in helping!
defendersofourrepublic.substack.com
The Grind (Part One)
How to Sustain Daily Resistance against President Trump’s Regime
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🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Senator Ron Wyden is one of the more restrained members of the Senate who carefully chooses his words. I’ve never seen him angry. When RON WYDEN says this, LISTEN:
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We know the names of nine women (thanks to the work of investigative journalists at ProPublica, The New Yorker and others) who have died after doctors denied them life-saving care (cont.) msmagazine.com/2026/04/04/w...
msmagazine.com
Say Their Names: The Women Who Died After Being Denied Emergency Abortion Care
Women Who Died After Being Denied Emergency Abortion: Josseli Barnica, Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, Amber Nicole Thurman, Candi Miller, Porsha Ngumezi, Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski, Nevaeh Crain, Tier...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 20/03/2026
We've been here before.
"They're having problems with their economy again."
 1975 cartoon by American artist Ron Cobb.
 THEYRE HAVING
 PROBLEMS WITH
 THEIR ECONOMY
 AGAIN.
 ROBB
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thank goodness. I'll take any good news I can get these days.
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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files @amanpourpod.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“It’d take 160 flights per day to give the necessary food” Christiane and Jamie discuss how airdrops won’t work and how aid on trucks needs to surge right now to stave off famine 🔗 youtube.com/shorts/EajaY... Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on Global Player 🎧 #themiddleeast
youtube.com
“It’d take 160 flights per day to give the necessary food”
YouTube video by Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
In the words of John Lewis, it's time for "good trouble." If you're a Minnesotan, I urge you to join tomorrow's Ice Out For Good economic blockout and exercise your collective power. And if you're not, organize in solidarity and demand our leaders stand up to ICE. iceoutforgood.org
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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Epstein Files.
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.
An immigrant agent holds a cellphone that is doing a facial scan of a detained man. The app says "Searching Face"
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Thanks Trump. For NOTHING! =====================
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It's the deaths and it's the lives being upended in all sorts of ways. It's all heartbreaking and infuriating.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/01/2026
There are lots of ways we can express collective grief and fury and solidarity without appropriating something from Black women who have repeatedly asked us not to do this and should not have to ask again.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Taking any and all good news we can get. truthout.org/articles/sup...
truthout.org
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Decision Legalizing Gay Marriage
Justices declined to hear an appeal from Kim Davis over a $360,000 fee she was ordered to pay.
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The headline delivers - "a very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next Steve Vladeck" www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
stevevladeck.com
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Dalai Lama
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/10/2025
The Defense Department banned nearly 600 books from schools on military bases — but in a win for free speech, a federal judge just ordered those books back to the shelves.
advocate.com
Federal judge orders Pentagon to restore LGBTQ+ books, gender & diversity lessons in military schools
Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez to comply immediately.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do. Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
US withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocates
The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from Washington's global engagement on rights and justice issues.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
'The publication of fraudulent papers is “far outpacing” that of legitimate research, warned the researchers, who have published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.' 1/2
timeshighereducation.com
‘Sophisticated global networks’ undermining science, finds study
Systems in place to deal with fraud struggling to keep up, increasing risk of research becoming ‘completely poisoned’
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Amid all of the muck, there is McSweeney's wry sense of humor and irony. Thank you, McSweeney's. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lib...
mcsweeneys.net
Liberals Get So Upset About Every Little Jeans Ad and Blatant Corruption Scandal
Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the polic...
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LadyAda @chitadenita.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This says everything I have been recently thinking. www.chronicle.com/article/an-o...
chronicle.com
An Open Letter From Arne Duncan
The former secretary of education weighs in on Trump’s attacks.
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BlueinOhio @sharon43302.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
So extremely proud to work with such talented litigators. This is a massive and critical win. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/breaking-n...
ifyoucankeepit.org
NIH grant funding restored
Judge rules grant terminations on the basis of DEI and gender identity are discriminatory and illegal
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Antonio Bruno @antoniobruno.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/06/2025
I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.
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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Biden wins again
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