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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville

@stephdesilva.bsky.social
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Comms for NEARI.org, #RhodeIsland enthusiast, organized labor activist, politics nerd, AP style zealot, wife to high school sweetheart, mother to quotable 12yo girl.

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NEA Rhode Island @nearhodeisland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
NEA Rhode Island is built to last: founded in 1845, still running strong in 1926, and flooring it for worker power in 2025! #happyfriday NEARI staff pictured: Alex Lucini and his 1926 Studebaker, Mary Barden, Onelissa Martinez, Sam Howard, Bridget Almon, and Stephanie Mandeville
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
What a great story - @redsox.com & @nyyankeesofficial.bsky.social should visit these gentlemen! ❤️⚾️💙
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Cranston man builds backyard Fenway Park for dad who can't attend games due to health
A Cranston man whose dad is unable to make trips to Fenway Park anymore to watch the Red Sox play has brought the park to him.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Jamelle Bouie writes beautifully about some ugly truths.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This will keep happening to non-trans girls and women who aren't perceived as sufficiently feminine to fucking weirdos.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Bigoted betrayal of Americans serving our nation. Just disgusting.
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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
hi there, I am using this rare footage capturing the moment of a journalist being born as a ploy to get you to read a thread about what I do at WIRED as director of multiplatform video ↓↓↓↓↓
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
We’ve had PBS Passport for years and it IS worth every penny - we doubled our contribution earlier this year.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The one or two times a year I find myself in a situation where I have to make new friends of a big group of strangers makes me so appreciate kids and what we ask of them socially.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“…with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Happy birthday to the republic, “if you can keep it.” 🇺🇸
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 03/07/2025
How many times do we have to say it? Working families need health care more than billionaires, giant corporations and greedy CEOs need another tax break.
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Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Teachers at The Met School vote to unionize with NEARI "This vote was our way of standing together and saying: we love this place, and we believe it can be even better.” steveahlquist.substack.com/p/teachers-a...
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Teachers at The Met School vote to unionize with NEARI
"This vote was our way of standing together and saying: we love this place, and we believe it can be even better.”
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This was a fantastic speech in person. Check it out online here
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla.”
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🙌 VICTORY: The infamous "End DEI portal", which was built to intimidate teachers who didn't agree with the Trump administration's anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, has been shut down. Learn more about this and two other recent victories for inclusive education:
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NEA Defends Inclusive Education and Wins – What you Need to Know | NEA
Three court rulings uphold schools' rights to continue to provide an inclusive curriculum, teach the full history, and support students in accordance with their needs.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Found this bicentennial @providencejournal.bsky.social in my dad’s basement. Increasing my expectations for the 250th, ProJo!
Bicentennial newspaper from 1976
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NEA Rhode Island @nearhodeisland.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden released the following statement on the passing of R.I. Senate President Dominick Ruggerio: www.neari.org/about-neari/...
NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden released the following statement on the passing of R.I. Senate President Dominick Ruggerio:

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Senate President Dominick Ruggerio. Throughout his distinguished career, President Ruggerio was a steadfast advocate for public education, from early childhood through higher education, ensuring that students and educators alike had the tools and support necessary to thrive. He was a tireless champion of working families, committed to advancing fair wages, strong benefits, and a government that serves the people. His leadership left an enduring mark on our state, and he served the Senate with great pride and integrity. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and his esteemed colleagues in the chamber he so faithfully led.”
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 15/04/2025
Powerful testimony.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
👇🏼
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Rumeysa has a hearing today after a State Dept. reports found no terrorism links. The unidentified ICE officers who abducted her less than 60mi away said, “We are not monsters, we do what the government tells us.” Events like this should chill you to the bone. www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Tufts University student details poor conditions in ICE detention ahead of Monday hearing | CNN
A federal judge in Vermont will hear arguments Monday on the legality of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention at a Louisiana facility the Tufts University PhD student described as “unsanitary, unsafe, and inhum...
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“I’ve been with Bally’s for 12 years," Bally’s casino employee Phil Farinelli, said. "I survived stage 3 neck and head cancer and stage 1 lung at the same time. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I’m here – to say we shouldn’t be subjected to this ... [while] helping the state earn revenue."
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RI casino workers have fought for a smoking ban for years. Why they might win this time.
House Speaker Shekarchi has joined the push to ban smoking at RI's two casinos, a perennial issue that pits state revenue vs. workplace safety.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
OMG. IYKYK.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/04/2025
When hundreds of thousands of people coordinate across an entire nation to protest governmental policies, that’s not a page 18 story. That’s not a “see more in section B” situation. That’s front-page news. Period.
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Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page 18”
Here’s how newspapers across America minimized one of the largest demonstrations since Trump’s return to power.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@bostonglobe.com: three pages on historic #handsoff rallies from Saturday. @providencejournal.bsky.social: zero. When does ProJo go to bed, on Thursdays?
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congratulations to all the 14 yr old Floridians & Arkansans whose governors want them to drop out of school & work 13 hour shifts to screw in tiny screws on iPhones so the tech/crypto bros in the govt can have the newest iPhones to react with a fire emoji to the classified intel in the group chat
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I’m supporting my daughter today, but a piece of my heart is with my brothers and sisters waving that NEARI flag!!
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
ICYMI: You've probably heard about the vast array of agencies the HHS layoffs gutted, but somewhat less focused-on were the communications teams that were laid off. I talked to laid-off workers in the comms offices in 5 divisions of HHS, and all said their offices had been emptied or nearly so. 1/x
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Kennedy Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public (Gift Article)
The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department.
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Corey Booker is at hour 15 on the senate floor and there are over 36,000 live viewers on YouTube alone right now.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 01/04/2025
So they have enough diplomatic juice for Bukele to gleefully offer up gulag services but not enough to get back the people they illegally renditioned there? Girl, Biden got Brittney Griner out of enemy *Russia* and you can't get your little friend to the south to undo your oopsies? Weaksauce.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Pay no attention to my ham-fisted cabinet jeopardizing national security while I distract you with this nonsense…
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
March 28, 2025
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“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
They’re not.
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Patrick Crowley @patcrowley401.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We say working class in Rhode Island. See you at noon today.
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NEA Rhode Island @nearhodeisland.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden on the Trump EO: "Dismantling the Dept. of Education robs America’s students of the promise of a full and fair education. Students and their families in every Rhode Island community will be harmed by Trump and Musk’s wrecking ball." Read the full statement:
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NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden: "Students in every Rhode Island community will be harmed by Trump and Musk’s wrecking ball" | NEARI
Trump’s action will balloon class sizes, gut special education services, diminish job training programs, destroy student civil rights protections, and put higher education further out of reach for fam...
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NEA Rhode Island @nearhodeisland.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
💪🏼 We STAND UP when workers are fired without cause and safety protections are gutted. 💪🏼We STAND UP for our students, patients, and communities. 💪🏼And you better believe we SHOW UP when the super rich take what belongs to the people. ✊🏼 JOIN US! Open to all who care about workers bit.ly/ri-labor-rally
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Rally for Working People | NEARI
Saturday, March 22 We need your voice!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/03/2025
Kaine: "A bully can take something from you, but you shouldn't hand it over to him. So I'm voting no."
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So proud of this NEARI member! I get to work with these amazing teachers every day - raising up their voice to protect public schools and the freedom to read and learn.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge blocks mass firings of federal workers for now, orders thousands reinstated in lawsuit by states.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha @peterneronha.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
AG Neronha joins coalition in suing Trump Administration to stop dismantling of Department of Education: "With this action, the Administration will cause children harm that cannot be undone, the potential effects of which may continue for the rest of their lives." www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This story is super depressing and drives home, yet again, how some people in the MAGA cult would just go along with train cars and ovens, should it come to that: apnews.com/article/trum...
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Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The Democrats are bringing auction paddles to a knife fight.
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Stephanie DeSilva Mandeville @stephdesilva.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Nate Cavanaugh is listed as being paid just over $120,500 per year. According to DOGE’s official website, the average GSA employee makes $128,565 and has worked at the agency for 13 years.”
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