Reposted by SPWestonKentucky Psychological Association @kypsychassoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026KPA Statement on SB 351 kpa.memberclicks.net/sb-351-state...kpa.memberclicks.netSB 351 Statement 011
Reposted by SPWestonolivia krauth @oliviakrauth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026More on Senate Bill 351 in my latest for Queer Kentucky 👇 #kyga26 queerkentucky.com/kentucky-sb-...queerkentucky.comKentucky Sen. Gex Williams files SB 351 targeting transgender teachers’ licenses - Queer Kentucky | Kentucky's Only LGBTQ+ NewsroomKentucky Sen. Gex Williams files SB 351, targeting transgender teachers’ licenses.. 032
Reposted by SPWestonWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us. 28961122221
Reposted by SPWestonMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comGladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technologyShe made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman. 13674820519711
Reposted by SPWestonBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026This just pissed me off even more than the re-handcuffing The notion that these motherfuckers were the ones showing grace, that the women should be appreciative and speak well of the agents, that substandard treatment is conditioned on the women's portraying then as benevolent Fuckin disgusting 343040782
Reposted by SPWestonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone. 633154252041
Reposted by SPWestonSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee. 873007834
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Firmly, respectfully, the people organizing in these places LIVE here. We love our neighbors, our places, and our country. We have mobilized ourselves. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...wagingnonviolence.orgThe resistance reaches into Trump countryAs organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground. 120
Reposted by SPWestonKimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what 331088195
Reposted by SPWestonBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 651285656070
Reposted by SPWestonAthul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect." 217153315168
Reposted by SPWestonKim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Ladies, I think the message of this whole grotesque saga is that not only do they want to control our bodies, but they think they are entitled to rape our babies. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...nytimes.comA Phony Trump Check and a ‘Depreciated’ Woman in Epstein’s Birthday Book 295
Reposted by SPWestonRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 13/08/2025Childcare is a public good. It's time to build a universal, public childcare system that protects workers, supports families, and resists corporate capture. Dive into the case studies and interviews that support this forward-looking framework ⤵️ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... 0205
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 24/06/2025When any of us, the people of the USA, want to see the government records of our own country, we’re minding our own business. Our inquiries are per se legitimate. 160
Reposted by SPWestonRep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Trump has turned his back on the world’s most vulnerable people by banning refugees and cutting foreign aid programs. Today, we stand up. Introduced a resolution to honor World Refugee Day and reiterate our moral responsibility to help those fleeing unimaginable circumstances. 1123147
Reposted by SPWestonClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop 181791496
Reposted by SPWestonAuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ? 52677622986
Reposted by SPWestonLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/05/2025We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts. 31987491347
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"Ours is the vision and ours the growing reality of a great society in which the accidents of race and color, parentage and poverty, location and geography, will not be allowed to dim the light of human hope and to cripple the possibilities of human growth." Ned Breathitt of Ky. #Altcitizen #AllofUs 1132
Reposted by SPWestonWorking Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 09/05/2025Mayor Baraka’s arrest during an oversight visit to an ICE facility in Newark is shocking overreach of power, even by Trump standards. This is straight from the authoritarian playbook. Trump and his people want to silence anyone who seeks to hold them accountable. 215141
Reposted by SPWestonCelina Stewart, Esq. @thecelinafactor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Finally! A win for NC voters, but unfortunately, the damage has been done. Judge Griffin’s refusal to accept the results of this election for more than 6 months – and his attempt to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters – was absolutely shameful.nbcnews.comRepublican Jefferson Griffin concedes N.C. Supreme Court race after months of legal battlesThe announcement, which comes six months after the final votes were cast, brings an end to the final unresolved contest from the 2024 election. 03011
Reposted by SPWestonCenter for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Generations of Americans have trusted the Social Security Administration with their private information. Yet, in a few short months, the Trump administration and DOGE have shattered trust that took decades to earn—trust that may never be regained. New from @mollyww.bsky.social:americanprogress.orgDOGE’s Data Digging at the Social Security Administration Puts Millions of Americans at RiskUnder the Trump administration, Americans’ private Social Security data could be stolen, distorted, or even actively used against them. 02115
Reposted by SPWestonLeague of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 26/04/2025On April 25, 2025, federal agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan at her courthouse for allegedly obstructing the unlawful arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. Read the League's statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... 02212
Reposted by SPWestonClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Bukele would have him on a plane within an hour of Trump asking 2937975
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Exactly so. And the human being in question would be on a plane in an hour if the Secretary of State made a single call to ask for that happen. 000
Reposted by SPWestonMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge" “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. @premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:zeteo.comSCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. 712006768
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The 2022 USA fertility rate is 1.7 per 1,000 women. Russia’s is 1.4, China’s is 1.2, and he spoke without truth. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...data.worldbank.orgWorld Bank Open DataFree and open access to global development data 000
Reposted by SPWestonMolly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The website is crashing. The phones are ring off the hook without enough staff to answer them. SSA is under attack--putting the Trump Admin & Elon Musk's DOGE between you & your Social Security benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comLong waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking downA flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge. 024
Reposted by SPWestonNPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.npr.orgA Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerabilityA Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information. 618148835856
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Watched twice for another reason: the officers moved with quick, adequate, controlled strength, protecting the attacker even as they restrained him. That’s how I want my government to operate. 010
Reposted by SPWestonSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2025It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation. 13941151066
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/03/2025@sifill.bsky.social is essential reading. Here's her latest. It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...open.substack.comIt Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. 020
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 12/03/2025“In 1912, measles became a nationally notifiable disease in the United States, requiring U.S. healthcare providers and laboratories to report all diagnosed cases. In the first decade of reporting, an average of 6,000 measles-related deaths were reported each year.” Fun! www.cdc.gov/measles/abou...cdc.govHistory of MeaslesLearn the history of measles, from the pre-vaccine era to measles elimination. 110
Reposted by SPWestonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House." 1661335227501
Reposted by SPWestonAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The writ of habeas corpus exists to protect against arbitrary detention and confinement. Of course, the writ meaning anything depends on an executive branch that is willing to 1) respond to a legal action; 2) tell the truth in court; and 3) obey a court order. Otherwise this is 1973 Chile 391071354
Reposted by SPWestonMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 01/03/2025OPINION: "The Stephen D. Lee bust guards over a tradition of keeping a real man’s history quiet," Donna Ladd writes. buff.ly/3QGDZpC 1316
Reposted by SPWestonBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 24/02/2025From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ... 851902887
Reposted by SPWestonErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/02/2025Every time I fly, I always pick a window seat. I stare out of it and watch the world go by. We live in such a beautiful world. It’s big enough for all of us. 1405698335
Reposted by SPWestonShooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 23/02/2025#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory #BlackHistoryMonth Today in history, 1979: Frank Peterson becomes the first African American general in the Marine Corps. Told when he enlisted that he’d make a great steward, Peterson vowed to become a combat pilot and entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. /1 9281881728
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 23/02/2025“We are deeply troubled by reports from educators and chaperones in the Las Cruces Public Schools who reported agents assigned to a federal checkpoint north of Las Cruces boarded a chartered bus carrying student athletes and demanded documentation. “ www.nmaft.org/press-releas...nmaft.orgAmerican Federation of Teachers New Mexico, National Education Association-New Mexico, and Classified School Employees Council-Las Cruces Condemn Reports of Federal Agents Boarding School BusReports via Social Media Claim Agents Boarded Bus and Demanded to See Documentation Paperwork of Students 010
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 21/02/2025The Constitution of the United States States of America, which I have sworn to defend. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...archives.govThe Constitution of the United States: A Transcription[get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in... 010
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The SAVE Act will burden every citizen registering to vote. Call your Representatives to oppose this fast-moving, harmful bill. 011
SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Aaron Feis Christopher Hixon Scott Beigel Respect Forever 000
Reposted by SPWestonBeau Weston @beauweston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025In 1938, Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to appease the dictator. He gave away part of Czechoslovakia to bring peace. Today, Neville Trump is sending his Secretaries of State and Defense to Munich to appease the dictator. They will give away parts of Ukraine to bring peace. 022