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Working to strengthen democracy and build learning systems that equip every Kentuckian to flourish.

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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Fourteenth IS the Republic in big letters, followed by all the words of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Kentucky Psychological Association @kypsychassoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
KPA Statement on SB 351 kpa.memberclicks.net/sb-351-state...
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SB 351 Statement
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olivia krauth @oliviakrauth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
More on Senate Bill 351 in my latest for Queer Kentucky 👇 #kyga26 queerkentucky.com/kentucky-sb-...
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Kentucky Sen. Gex Williams files SB 351 targeting transgender teachers’ licenses - Queer Kentucky | Kentucky's Only LGBTQ+ Newsroom
Kentucky Sen. Gex Williams files SB 351, targeting transgender teachers’ licenses..
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sometimes 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.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No 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...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A candle for Minnesota.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026
This 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
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Rough 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.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Firmly, 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...
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The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Kavanaugh 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
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It 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.
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Athul 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."
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Ladies, 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.com
A Phony Trump Check and a ‘Depreciated’ Woman in Epstein’s Birthday Book
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 13/08/2025
Childcare 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...
Infographic titled 'A Vision for Universal Public Childcare' by the Roosevelt Institute, featuring six key aspects: Affordable, Universal, Federally administered with local coordination, A thriving, diverse workforce, Inclusive and linguistically diverse, and Safe, high-quality care with a plan for a 'Just Transition' into the system.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
When 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.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Trump 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.
White and yellow text overlayed a black background. Text reads: “CONGRESSMAN TED LIEU INTRODUCES WORLD REFUGEE DAY RESOLUTION” and “As the Trump Administration bans refugees and stops humanitarian aid, this resolution honors June 20 as World Refugee Day and reiterates our nation's obligation to help refugees who are fleeing unimaginable circumstances.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop
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AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Genuine 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 ?
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/05/2025
We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.
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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
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 09/05/2025
Mayor 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.
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Celina Stewart, Esq. @thecelinafactor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Finally! 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.
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Republican Jefferson Griffin concedes N.C. Supreme Court race after months of legal battles
The announcement, which comes six months after the final votes were cast, brings an end to the final unresolved contest from the 2024 election.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Stand in the shame, y'all.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Generations 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:
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DOGE’s Data Digging at the Social Security Administration Puts Millions of Americans at Risk
Under the Trump administration, Americans’ private Social Security data could be stolen, distorted, or even actively used against them.
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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 26/04/2025
On 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...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bukele would have him on a plane within an hour of Trump asking
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Exactly 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.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Danville, Kentucky, in the pouring rain! #HandsOff
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Mehdi 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:
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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.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The 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...
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World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The 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.com
Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Watched 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.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It 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.
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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...
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It 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.
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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...
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History of Measles
Learn the history of measles, from the pre-vaccine era to measles elimination.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
GOP 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."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The 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
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 01/03/2025
OPINION: "The Stephen D. Lee bust guards over a tradition of keeping a real man’s history quiet," Donna Ladd writes. buff.ly/3QGDZpC
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
From @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...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/02/2025
Every 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.
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Shooti @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
U.S. Marine Corps. Lieutenant General Frank E. Peterson, Jr. Photo credit: Sgt. M.G. Lindee, U.S. Marine Corps.
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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...
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American Federation of Teachers New Mexico, National Education Association-New Mexico, and Classified School Employees Council-Las Cruces Condemn Reports of Federal Agents Boarding School Bus
Reports via Social Media Claim Agents Boarded Bus and Demanded to See Documentation Paperwork of Students
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Constitution of the United States States of America, which I have sworn to defend. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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The 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...
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I’m in.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The SAVE Act will burden every citizen registering to vote. Call your Representatives to oppose this fast-moving, harmful bill.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Aaron Feis Christopher Hixon Scott Beigel Respect Forever
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Beau Weston @beauweston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In 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.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What Amy said.
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