Reposted by Tina BessiasSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways. 772421414
Tina Bessias @tbessias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To use AI where it supports clearly articulated educational goals, to avoid “cognitive surrender…” This report beautifully addresses the challenge before us. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/aiandeducation.mit.eduReport – AI and Education 000
Reposted by Tina BessiasRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is eugenics 301657775
Reposted by Tina BessiasOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 16/09/202692 Days of paid recovery for Treason Turtle McConnell. 92 Days. Most people get 0. A mother gets 0. F🌸ck you, Treason Turtle. F🌸ck you. 🖕 #Pinks 14197127
Reposted by Tina BessiasMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Even in competitive authoritarian regimes the autocrat doesnt say this stuff out loud! 31656
Reposted by Tina BessiasDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future. 201444722
Reposted by Tina BessiasDurham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others. 13325199
Reposted by Tina BessiasDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We’re probably going to breach the 1.5 C climate target. So, now what? Here’s my take… drawdown.org/insights/wer...drawdown.orgWe're going to miss the 1.5°C climate target. Now what?The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by... 56027
Reposted by Tina BessiasDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting 16048441588
Reposted by Tina BessiasBlack Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 03/09/2026When we know who has the power, we can organize and make our voices heard. #blacktiktok #fyp #votingmatters #fypシ 045
Reposted by Tina BessiasRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead. 23379032764
Reposted by Tina BessiasTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Plenty of evidence that this is a negative policy step. Doctors, scientists: don’t just roll your eyes - call it out. The attack on truth, on institutional trust, is cynical and calculated. We must respond. 🧪 #medsky #episky #academicsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shotsOrder also recommends all shots be given at separate medical visits though cost of doing them together is lower 6252111
Reposted by Tina BessiasEQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Taco Tillis always chickens out. 211
Reposted by Tina BessiasAlexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Congressional stock trading should be illegal. As your Senator, I’ll ban it. 311087175
Reposted by Tina BessiasDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?eenews.netFEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states. 542458921
Tina Bessias @tbessias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The power of a world power that has suddenly reduced its reliance on oil. Fascinating read. 110
Reposted by Tina BessiasAI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Nearly 700 artists have signed our letter to @mayor.nyc.gov including the brilliant @mollycrabapple.bsky.social calling for a moratorium on AI. NYC kids deserve schools that foster their creativity and critical thinking. AI does the opposite. bit.ly/ArtistsSayNoAI4Schools 0133
Reposted by Tina BessiasDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/07/2026oh hell yes! 17920
Reposted by Tina BessiasBlack Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 28/07/2026The U.S. can mobilize billions overnight for war. $37.5 billion spent. Another $67 billion requested. But when children are hungry, families are struggling, and communities need support, suddenly we’re told to debate what we can afford. We have to be honest about our priorities. 11913
Reposted by Tina BessiasNational Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 23/07/2026What if we mapped the U.S. without state boundaries? An article co-authored by #NASmember and archaeologist Torben Rick explores how nature’s maps—from ancient seas & migration routes to watersheds & biomes—reveal the connections shaping our landscapes. theconversation.com/where-nature...theconversation.comWhere nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundariesState lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape. 1199
Tina Bessias @tbessias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comTour de PlanetAre bikes DEI, or are they a miracle? (Or both?) 110
Reposted by Tina BessiasWolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Most governments find the loss of entire world regions to uninhabitable climate scenarios and the untold suffering of humans - and animals - easier to imagine, than the transition away from oil and gas. As Amitav Gosh said, the climate crisis is a crisis of our imagination. 720677
Reposted by Tina BessiasProPublica @propublica.org · 05/07/2026For more than a decade, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court ignored thousands of petitions filed by prisoners, most of them Black, who claimed they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard. (Published Nov. 2023)propublica.orgThey Tried to Expose Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored Prisoners’ Petitions. No One Listened.The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expo... 24848421
Reposted by Tina BessiasIain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 27/06/2026From 1925: a prediction that, as more people choose to drive to the countryside, cars will end up destroying the very beauty that people go to see. 10660233
Reposted by Tina BessiasDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Does it ever hit home that the ascendancy of AI is taken to be assured, but the shifting of human society to fit into earth system limits is seen as everything from a head-scratcher to a longshot to an impossibility? 14913
Reposted by Tina BessiasAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is. 751278597231
Reposted by Tina BessiasThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Once again, the Times blames Democrats for Trump's choices. California is not damaging faith in government. Trump's lies about California are damaging faith in government. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...nytimes.comOpinion | California’s Excuses Are Damaging Faith in Government 46616
Tina Bessias @tbessias.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I’m so sorry to hear this, @splitrailfence.bsky.social. Trees are my friends, too. Life will grow out of all this death, but it will be slow and subtle and different from what was there before. I hope you will come to love it when the grief recedes. 000
Reposted by Tina BessiasAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Read this whole piece. 4422191083
Tina Bessias @tbessias.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Devastating analysis of SCOTUS decision on Alabama congressional districts by the great Sherrilyn Ifill: We are now facing the most consequential loss of Black political power since the end of Reconstruction.” substack.com/home/post/p-... 120
Reposted by Tina BessiasProPublica @propublica.org · 01/06/2026After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”propublica.orgShe Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that. 20677262
Reposted by Tina BessiasKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.” 380153185989
Reposted by Tina BessiasJeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her. 11858317
Reposted by Tina BessiasThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting 547186366949
Reposted by Tina BessiasMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Mitch McConnell is one of the main players who is responsible for degrading American democracy in current version of competitive authoritarianism by turning the SCOTUS is a John Roberts led MAGA Super Senate without any accountability. He owns this mess.axios.comMcConnell's legacy: Conservative courts for a generationMcConnell called blocking Merrick Garland one of his proudest moments. 1448
Reposted by Tina BessiasMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Mitch McConnell could have organized and led his caucus to convict Trump after January 6. Instead he surrendered like a coward. And never forget Mitch McConnell helped Trump to pack a MAGA supermajority in Roberts Republican SCOTUS. He did this. 1325477
Reposted by Tina BessiasGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member). 906151984113
Reposted by Tina BessiasMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It's not stupid. It's the most blatantly illegal & unconstitutional thing you could imagine. You're a goddamn United States Senator. Do the job you swore an oath to do. Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. These are <entirely> the people responsible: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 29328
Reposted by Tina BessiasMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This is undisputedly true, & the fact that so many politicians in states like WI spend so much time demonizing, defunding, & otherwise kneecapping the single most outstanding & world-class institution in their state remains mind-boggling to me, even after 20 years as faculty at one of these places. 28920
Reposted by Tina BessiasPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary. 233168345157
Reposted by Tina Bessiasruncible @runcible.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Found source w/ credit: www.youtube.com/shorts/P58ot... "A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power."youtube.comLouisiana Resident Calls MAGA "the Last Breath of the Confederacy"YouTube video by The Root 6353108
Reposted by Tina BessiasRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. To counter Trump’s culture wars and fake populism, progressives must mount a real battle against economic elites who have rigged the game — and shafted millions of working class people. 702046585
Reposted by Tina BessiasIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/05/2026Former Confederate states are trying to lock Black and Brown Americans out of political power. 1192105967
Reposted by Tina BessiasAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The GOP, complicit in equating driving with freedom & celebrating sprawl, are going to get their asses handed to them in elections not just because they are an affordability issue but because when Americans have to spend too much to drive, they no longer have the illusion of freedom cars can bring. 1498