Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/10/2025It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette] 361149996573 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with 14025 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2025No one is safe from gun violence in America. We do not have to keep living like this. Instead of inciting more violence, our political leaders should use this moment to unite us around common sense gun reforms that a majority of Americans support. 560115612526 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2025"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor 529204376360 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2025An 18-year-old U.S. citizen was violently detained by Border Patrol and told he had no rights here. He happened to record the encounter, which captured immigration agents joking about using stun guns and getting bonuses. It was always about cruelty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comImmigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrestVideo from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets 12128381194 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...apnews.comArmy veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyoneA U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work. 898184738505 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/06/2025Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.washingtonpost.comThe Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school.Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley. 927108144053 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025“Maybe your kid gets just 2 dolls instead of 30”. 1711747357 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Looks like we're barrelling down the path towards *funding public schools means states have to fund religious schools* followed by *publicly-funded religious schools have to be able to discriminate or it's a violation of their religious freedom* www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...nytimes.comSupreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in OklahomaThe justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test. 11216 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that? 430138134691 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I’ve done a lot of things in my lifetime, but I’ve always come back to teaching. When I decided to retire, I wanted to do it quietly. Instead, my colleagues at @imcivicaction.bsky.social decided to make a film about my last class. Learn more here. robertreich.substack.com/p/my-last-cl...robertreich.substack.comMy last classComing to you 482262340 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!! 16728586820065 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/04/2025“He came to the United States seeking safety, and he did everything right… Then, one day, he disappeared.” Michael Franklin on the quiet cruelty that made Andry Hernandez Romero’s dissapearance possible.contrarian.substack.com‘One hairdresser' is the voice of complicity in 2025Andry Hernandez Romero and the others whose names we don't know are another victims of state-sponsored violence. 24803286 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Greg Abbott and his pro-voucher donors may have won the battle but at what political price? My latest on why vouchers in Texas will end up being fuel for the *Fighting Oligarchy* fire educationwars.substack.com/p/it-aint-ov...educationwars.substack.comIt Ain't Over in TexasAbbott and the pro-voucher movement just won a huge short-term victory, but at what political price? 193 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DTravis J. Tritten @travistritten.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Big one for military folks ... Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.socialmilitary.comPrivatized Commissaries? Pentagon Looking to Turn Over Retail, Recreation Services to CompaniesThe Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money could ultimately be sold off to... 127858377 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird 180344785292 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 10/04/2025In the latest episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social we explore the Department of Defense schools - the best in the land as it turns out. They’re also explicitly integrated by race and class: diverse, equitable & inclusive. A model or no longer permissible?https://on.soundcloud.com/EtcCRBqLt8LsMagy9on.soundcloud.com#196 The Best Schools You’ve Never Heard OfThe best schools in the country may be run by - wait for it - the Defense Department. But as education researcher Kenneth Wong tells us, the schools’ success is a fairly recent development, reflecting 11512 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Trump has cut the part of the FDA that notifies doctors and the public when there is a safety problem with a drug or a medical device. www.politico.com/news/2025/04... 27342282017 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico. 497350289487 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Trump administration acknowledges it wrongfully deported a man to El Salvador terror prison but argues to the judge that he lacks the ability to order the man’s return www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comAn ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran PrisonThe Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return. 39039231519 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.youtu.be20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John LithgowYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 5862481512974 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 26/03/2025BREAKING—Trump HHS has abruptly canceled $12 billion in grants to states used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment—discontinued grants include $11.4 billion from CDC, as well as around $1 billion from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrationnytimes.comTrump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health ServicesStates have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services. 33399215 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/03/2025The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous. 646314976756 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DThom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 25/03/2025This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying: 14073682252 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.D🇺🇸Boston Brian🇺🇦 @bostonbrian.com · 26/03/2025You didn’t send dick pics or this weeks shopping list to the wrong number you lazy halfwitted cuntbag! They were highly specific and detailed plans of a U.S military strike that killed people.. You and everyone else on that chain should be fired, charged, arrested and convicted.. 1361681337 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 25/03/2025📍Welp—The National Security Agency (NSA) sent out a security special bulletin in February 2025 warning of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-sig...cbsnews.comNSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chatThe National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal. 14375137 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.media.tenor.comPm Private GIFALT: Pm Private GIF 30077649216834 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DChildren in Scotland @childreninscotland.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Children in Scotland was delighted to welcome Hood College to Scotland as part of their Study Visit Programme. Delegates travelled all the way from Maryland, USA, to learn about how Scotland nurtures children and young people with additional support needs. Haste ye back, @hoodcollege.bsky.social ! 153 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 18/03/2025“DOGE has broken into our building” says CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which called DC Metro Police & reported the forcible break-in by DOGE into USIP despite protests that it is not part of executive branch and is instead an independent nonprofit. www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside...nbcwashington.comUS Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its buildingEmployees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an ... 49830404 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself. 5393576610761 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DBrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme." Un-fucking-real. 1163196285517 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/03/2025donald trump's newly appointed deputy press secretary at the united states department of defense: jewishinsider.com/2025/03/pent... 3332955904 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2025As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is. 15858681978 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DDiane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Send Musk a message: Go home. Go away. theintercept.com/2025/03/06/e...theintercept.comWe Found Elon Musk’s DOGE Email Address and We’re Fighting to Reveal His MessagesThe Intercept is publishing Elon Musk’s government email address to aid those seeking information on DOGE in the public interest. 0117 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DEvil MoPac @evilmopacatx.bsky.social · 06/03/2025ICYMI I lay out just why the Texas Voucher Scam is so horrible 2465 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The SAVE Act is nothing more than Republican Project 2025 trickery. It's a way for them to suppress votes, using conspiracy theories about immigrants as their cover. Contact your Members of Congress now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE ActContact Congress today! 11760305 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DDiane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is why Zelensky would not sign a treaty with Putin without security guarantees. Add to the list below: Millions of Ukrainians to starve to death when Stalin seized their grain in the Holodomor in 1930s. Russia signed and broke Budapest Agreement in 1994, when Ukraine gave up nuclear arsenal. 02211 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer. 900250977300 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This is evil. Pure evil. 37683985812985 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025AOC: The order has come down to this committee. Find $880 billion to pay for a tax cuts on yachts, jets, billionaires, and mega corporations while working class people pay higher tax rates than Facebook does. Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than many large corporations 155125243474 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DDiane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025www.nybooks.com/articles/202... @npeaction.bsky.socialnybooks.comSelling Out Our Public Schools | Diane RavitchDonald Trump promised that he will make public funds available to private as well as religious schools in every state, and this is what his party wants, 1137 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DEvil MoPac @evilmopacatx.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Don't normalize using the politically calculated term "School Choice" Call it "Taxpayer Funded Private School Vouchers"media.tenor.coma group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying booooALT: a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo 418232 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DDiane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Closing the Department of Education is an Empty Gesture dianeravitch.net/2025/02/18/t...dianeravitch.netWhat You Need to Know about Trump’s Plan to Close the Department of EducationTrump wants to close the U.S. Department of Education. He thinks the Department of Education has been indoctrinating Americans to accept DEI and “radical gender ideology.” He’s wr… 097 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Replace “14th Amendment” with “2nd Amendment” and “gate crashers” with “AR-15s.” Then see what conservatives think. 73826170 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DDiane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Trump is no patriot. dianeravitch.net/2025/02/15/t...dianeravitch.netTrump Is Destroying Our Country, Putin BenefitsI am posting a large excerpt from Olga Lautman’s Tyranny Tracker. Christine Langhoff shares this link with us. I urge you to subscribe. I have given up trying to keep track of Trump’s d… 0104 0
Reposted by Amy Kilpatrick, Ph.DDiane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025What are the extremists doing to our schools? They are supposed to teach democracy, not fascism. archive.is/2025.01.12-1...archive.is 01610 0
