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Melanie Sonsteng-Person

@sonstengperson.bsky.social
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Asst Prof of Social Work || PAR & Qual methodologist || Working with communities to interrupt racial & systemic trauma in K12 & higher education || Constant movement towards liberation || #Biking #Academia #Liberation #Climate #Plants #MidCenturyFurniture

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 07/11/2025
“Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report’s authors said.
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Layoffs in 2025 second-highest since 2009 in potential sign of looming recession
“Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report’s authors said.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/11/2025
We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/DB2iRVW
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The Washington Post Has Become Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought
It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/11/2025
Last month, the company behind ChatGPT wrapped up a long-awaited restructure that that turned it into a for-profit entity valued at $500 billion, despite the fact that its products have yet to yield significant revenue streams.
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With Big Tech Talking Government Backing, Has OpenAI Become “Too Big to Fail”?
Leaders at the AI company are scrambling to pacify concerns that the bubble around their company could soon burst.
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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Join the Social Work Activist Collective on November 20 for a conversation on overcoming hopelessness and fear. For our last meeting of the year we wanted to create a space to share stories of resilience and ideas for where we can find collective strength. Join us! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/SWACNov20th
Flyer for November 20th event, Overcoming Hopelessness and Fear. Information about the event included in the text post is overlaid on an image of the roots of a tree.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The number of times I’ve seen film crews at this park where people take naps and concerts happen… I will say it a million times. But the most dangerous thing in LA is the police (and now ICE).
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
As a mental health professional, I approve The Bear season 4 finale. And anyone saying otherwise is a sadist.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
As long as immigration sweeps are happening in the communities that farm workers live in, farm workers will continue being detained and deported. Farm workers deserve REAL protections, so they can continue working without fear. www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
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After early reprieve from immigration enforcement, farming industry reckons with raids
The Trump administration's immigration enforcement mostly left farms and meat packing plants alone, until coordinated raids last week. Now, President Trump is signaling continued support for farmers.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I love my little town. It was jam packed! We were corner hoping as each street corner had more and more folks join in.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
While some kids are spending #FathersDay with their dads, recent raids in farm worker communities means we have kids who are tracking their dads to detention centers with airtags. #WeFeedYou
A photo of the fields and another photo showing ice raids in the background with these words: While some kids are spending #FathersDay with their dads, recent raids in farm worker communities means we have kids who are tracking their dads to detention centers with airtags. #WeFeedYou
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I’m so sick of hearing people get mad at news outlets owned by private corporations and the uber rich. Stop expecting them to be anything other than what they’ve always been and instead support independent news sources.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Remigration is a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. This is neo-nazism.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I spit out my drink with this conclusion hahahha
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is horrifying
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Timeline cleanse
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/06/2025
Oh no, an "insurrection" of dancing Imagine being the sourpuss deploying 700 very expensive Marines to ... what? Make LA be the town from Footloose?
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
More accounts of what’s happening please
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I see tons of reposts of lies from Fox News and the govt. instead of reposting and giving them a platform let’s keep posting what’s happening on the ground. Trying to argue law, truth, and logic with these folks has never worked. Stop wasting your energy doing it.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
No uber. No uber eats.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
They’re making sure what they’re doing isn’t televised.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I don’t know I feel like if AI can write a whole executive order and lay off half the federal workforce, it should automatically skip the intro of every show I rewatch
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Your tax dollars at work.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
They do whatever they want. They’re unhinged.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Decades of evidence of terror from the LAPD.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The LAPD is so violent
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Literally. Stop trying to get approval from the system.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Peaceful protest don’t exist in LA cause the LAPD are violent af. LA unified school district has its own dedicated police department. We spend more on police in schools than mental health services. Folks not from LA can go ahead and stfu about anything peaceful now.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This is the pain and fear and moral injury we are trapped inside in the USA. This is how bad things are, now. Not even 5 months into this presidency.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Ok can someone please tell me if I can go to Canada to get vaccines every year?
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Can we reframe “research” to internet searching. Cause I’m tired of people who have never even taking a research class talking about they did their research.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I think most folks from LA would claim a dirty dog over a dodger dog.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Does anyone know about potential vaccine access in other countries if we can’t have them here?
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I feel like they should have a masking section on airplanes. It’s only logical.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Has anyone else heard from CSWE re APM? I received one acceptance last week and haven’t heard a word on anything else. Wondering what’s going on here.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I literally teach my social change students that engaging in movement work is simply a matter of showing up and letting people put you in leadership roles.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I think people are desperate to believe that personal choices are what keep us healthy. There is more control in that belief than trust in a medical system controlled by insurance companies.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ok folks teaching social welfare policy in the Fall…: what new readings are you including in your syllabi? I just edited my assignments to align to the political moment but I need some ideas for readings as well.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I think all researchers should start explaining their methods in plain language so the mass public can begin to understand what this all means. The more folks know the less they can be manipulated.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
They want to track autism, miscarriages, abortion, birth control use but don’t want to track measles, bird flu, Covid or salmonella. Ask yourselves why that is. They’re setting the stage to blame people for their disabilities. To slate them for elimination. It’s eugenics & it’s escalating.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My absolute FAVORITE article on school social work! Just absolutely thought provoking and beautiful.
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“When you fight a dictator you have to take a risk” - Maria Ressa on npr discussing the similarities between Trump and Philippines dictator Duterte
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Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I was thinking the same thing…
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/04/2025
BREAKING: The Gaza Ministry of Health says that in addition to the 92 Palestinians being killed by Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours, 219 wounded people have also arrived at hospitals in the Strip aje.io/ml918p
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