Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 8hHell yeah www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comLetitia James appointed special prosecutor in alleged gang-rape at CornellNew York attorney general brought in by governor after recent questions raised over university’s 2024 investigation 000
Reposted by Margot MifflinAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21hThis is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office. 421336718
Reposted by Margot Mifflinevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today in Pervert Glasses News: www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...lemonde.frParis prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glassesProsecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.' 826689
Reposted by Margot MifflinBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today. 5827271050
Reposted by Margot MifflinDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+ 21920551
Reposted by Margot MifflinJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The misinformation going around right now about Todd Blanche is burying the real threat—and squandering an opportunity to mobilize voter outrage against it 217961
Reposted by Margot MifflinBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu 12443952697
Reposted by Margot MifflinACLU @aclu.org · 23/07/2026BREAKING: An appeals court rejected the Trump administration's bid to re-detain Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown peace scholar who ICE arrested and sent to Texas for his speech in support of Palestinian rights. This makes it clear: The government can't weaponize immigration law to silence dissent. 201473440
Reposted by Margot MifflinRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The defense budget was $841 billion in 2024. 93963202181
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This reminds me of the day (in the late '80s) I interviewed Robert Mapplethorpe (for a Vogue roundup on shock in art) and told him about Karen Finley (also included), who he’d never heard of: He exclaimed (repeatedly), “Oh my God! That’s *so* disgusting! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...theguardian.com‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture warsIn a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today 000
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026“At the Harvards and Yales of the world, mostly wealthy students earn degrees that help them mostly stay wealthy. But with its quarter of a million students—many of whom come from households that earn less than $30,000 a year—CUNY is a one-of-a-kind mobility machine.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/n...nytimes.comCan America’s Best Engine of Social Mobility Weather a Bad Job Market?New York City’s public universities propel young graduates into the middle class. But some worry that a bleaker early career job market has added hurdles. 022
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport newrepublic.com/article/2129... via @newrepublic.comnewrepublic.comTexas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-DeportThere were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport... 010
Reposted by Margot MifflinIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/07/2026This is bigger than one incident. At events across Texas today, Indivisible groups are standing with immigrant communities and demanding accountability from DHS and ICE.theguardian.comICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in HoustonLorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by immigration enforcement as he was looking to hire workers, his son says 16730273
Reposted by Margot MifflinKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If you’re born in America, you’re American. That fundamental truth has been affirmed today — a decisive blow to the vile MAGA campaign to redefine who we are as a people. This is an important victory. But we know our fight to uphold justice, opportunity, and dignity for all must continue.nbcnews.comSupreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenshipThe Trump administration sought to upend the historical understanding of the 14th Amendment, which has long been interpreted to extend birthright citizenship broadly. 1722458
Reposted by Margot MifflinDemCast USA @demcast.com · 27/06/2026Watch as Rep. Ayana Pressley honors the women who have died because they were denied essential abortion care. Abortion care is a human right. We must keep up the fight for body autonomy. 331444568
Reposted by Margot MifflinEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The message tonight is clear: the era of spineless corporate Dems in safe seats is ending. We get the party we demand, and we're demanding fighters. And primary season ain't over. More endorsements to come! 382679481
Reposted by Margot MifflinBruno Fernandes needs punched in the throat @thombomb816.bsky.social · 19/06/2026A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match. 168163272590
Reposted by Margot MifflinElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/06/2026This will hurt students with disabilities and their families. Donald Trump and Linda McMahon are trying to gut public education — we need to keep standing up for every student in America.apnews.comTrump ramps up Education Department's dismantling with changes on special education and civil rightsPresident Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. 771458611
Reposted by Margot MifflinChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Pouring one out for Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes tonight. Respect to everyone who speaks truth to power and is willing to accept the consequences. 281311139
Reposted by Margot Mifflintalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 23/05/2026More than 300 people detained by ICE at Delaney Hall in New Jersey have launched a hunger & work strike, citing lack of medical care and fair due process. Via: www.instagram.com/p/DYp1m5KEa35/ 3406205
Reposted by Margot MifflinZeteo @zeteo.com · 21/05/2026Zeteo contributor Alex Colston has just been released from Israeli prison. Alex was abducted while traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla and details the abuses he experienced while detained. 10230109
Reposted by Margot MifflinGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/05/2026Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325. 3656255
Reposted by Margot MifflinACLU @aclu.org · 13/04/2026Join us in telling Meta: We don't consent to being spied on by your eyewear.action.aclu.orgTell Meta: Eyewear, Not SpywearMeta intends to add facial recognition technology to their glasses so anyone wearing the product can immediately and invisibly identify strangers. Tell Meta: Your glasses shouldn’t know our names. Dem... 215342
Reposted by Margot MifflinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This week it comes to a vote and Trump is demanding passage. Call your Senators AGAIN. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...open.substack.comSTOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)All Eyes on the Senate 8455226
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Honored (and grateful!) to get this vote of confidence in (and funding help for) my research. My book (which constellates antebellum Quaker women—Black and white—who fought for emancipation and suffrage from the 1830s-1860s) will be out via Beacon Press in 2028. 120
Reposted by Margot MifflinMelissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 26/02/2026Hillary Clinton doesn't recall meeting Jeffrey Epstein - yet we're led to believe she'll have valuable testimony. While Leon Black had $507 million in wire transfers to Epstein's shell companies & his wife Debra Black another $385 million. ARE WE SEEING THEIR DEPOSITIONS NEXT WEEK? 7270102
Reposted by Margot MifflinElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/02/2026Trump is lying. Coffee is up 18.3% Ground beef is up 17.2% Cereal is up 6.2 Bananas are up 5.4% Fish is up 5.1% Cookies are up 5% 1022199686
Reposted by Margot MifflinPublic Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Fact check: The tariffs aren't paid for by foreign countries like Trump just claimed. They are paid for by Americans, and foreign countries are bullied into doing Trump and his cronies favors to get out of them. This grifter in chief is full of it! 7568115
Reposted by Margot MifflinSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/02/2026Trump stole $1,700 from the average American family with his illegal tariff tax. It’s been 30 minutes. He hasn’t once mentioned how he is going to pay back your hard-earned money. 18454116
Reposted by Margot MifflinEmily Andras @emandras.bsky.social · 25/02/2026…the women will get a $25 gift certificate to Sephora, or whatever chicks like 611898297
Reposted by Margot MifflinAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026Trump: "In one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans -- a record -- off of food stamps" (In other words, Republicans cut food stamps) 2913595899
Reposted by Margot Mifflinkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026If you're going to PLA or ALA, you might want this app, given what we know happened at the last ALA from unsavory folks. 12110
Reposted by Margot MifflinJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I think it’s important to look at this kind of project within the broader frame of coordinated attacks from the state and the right on gender, post-colonial and area studies, as well as the push to revive/launder biologically essentialist views of sex, race and intelligence 210124
Reposted by Margot MifflinJim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors 9494417916775
Reposted by Margot MifflinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Arresting journalists. Good God. 421247453
Reposted by Margot Mifflinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too. 441229224262
Reposted by Margot Mifflinthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/01/2026wait they removed Bovino? maximum respect to the people of Minneapolis: you did this. power to the people forever 424874473
Reposted by Margot MifflinKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth. 5154719714181
Reposted by Margot MifflinMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity. 30387624191
Reposted by Margot MifflinRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/01/2026And a new beginning in NYC 432837
Reposted by Margot MifflinRise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Impeach, Convict, Remove! On the anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection, we will publicly list the crimes and constitutional violations perpetrated against the American people by the Trump regime. Join us! For info about how you can help “Impeach Convict Remove”: freespeechforpeople.org 5310122
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Up on JSTOR Daily today: my article on the history and perplexing persistence of women taking men’s names in marriage, something almost 80% of hetero brides still do. (“Women’s rights, forsooth!”) 040
Reposted by Margot MifflinMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/12/2025This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil. 1045119182245
Reposted by Margot MifflinThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/12/2025Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer contenttheguardian.comMeta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer contentMore than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings 39248224
Reposted by Margot MifflinLila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated: 1102407854
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025This is mind-blowing, especially because she gave us $30 million 5 years ago! bronx.news12.com/lehman-colle...bronx.news12.comLehman College receives $50M donationThe MacKenzie Scott Foundation donated $50 million to Lehman College today. 010
Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025So good, so righteously angry, and packed with crucial stats/facts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up 020