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Usree Bhattacharya

@usreeb.bsky.social
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Associate Prof at UGA | TESOL, Applied Linguistics, Disability & AI | Berkeley PhD | Proud GA Democrat | Rett Mom | Director, Rett Lab @UGA | 🇮🇳🇺🇸 | English Language Specialist | Opinions mine

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Ashley R Moore @ashleyrmoore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Many of us are torn about going to the US for #AAAL2026. Here's a list 7 things we can do in Chicago to support affected communities, including a list of neighbourhoods that would appreciate those per diem $$$: littlevillagechamber.org/chicagos-imm...
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Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help - Little Village Chamber of Commerce
Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help From sharing information and shopping immigrant-owned businesses to donating to nonprofits, here are seven ways Chicagoan...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I know, right? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about the good parts of cancer, like how it helps you lose weight?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/08/2025
Nobody talks about the good parts of climate change.
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/07/2025
Funny how “trimming the fat” means axing PBS, not the subsidy that helps billionaires write off their private jets.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
NYT out with a piece on Epstein & Trump’s friendship, including this memorable quote: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It’s even said he likes beautiful women as much as I do, many of them are on the younger side.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
.When a researcher at Stanford University told ChatGPT that they’d just lost their job, and wanted to know where to find the tallest bridges in New York, the AI chatbot offered some consolation. “I’m sorry to hear about your job,” it wrote. “That sounds really tough.” It then proceeded to list the t
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ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death
Record numbers of people are turning to AI chatbots for therapy, reports Anthony Cuthbertson. But recent incidents have uncovered some deeply worrying blindspots of a technology out of control
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In my lifetime, i cannot recall any other American President who openly hated the other party or urged his devotees to hate their neighbors who voted differently
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 01/07/2025
"Pick your battles." There are 8,765 of them. It's a systematic assault on literally everything. No American has ever sought such petty revenge on every aspect of culture, democracy, and society as this thin-skinned billionaire & his Republican collaborators.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
When Joe Biden referred to "shylocks" in 2014, the ADL admonished him. I look forward to seeing the group similarly criticize President Trump for using the term today.
@ADL on X: We welcome @VP @JoeBiden’s admission he erred in describing those who take financial advantage of American servicemen & women as #shylocks.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Before the 2024 election, Trump said he'd send the National Guard and military against the "enemy from within." Oh, that's a Hitler quote, by the way. Here we go. This is fascism.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New York Times Grants Race Science Enthusiast Anonymity in Mamdani Hit Piece twp.ai/4io0Vv
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New York Times Grants Race Science Enthusiast Anonymity in Mamdani Hit Piece
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Trump just used the anti-semitic term "shylocks" to describe bankers. No outrage, no asks for condemnation, no badgering of Republicans to ask if they support Trump's ugly statement. Nada. Meanwhile, did you hear that Mamdani supports Palestinian rights and criticizes Israel?!?! GET HIM!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/07/2025
Today, USAID shuts down. Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5. Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry. This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
i want a covid booster tbh
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/05/2025
Nope, the Trump administration hasn't given up on trying to ban abortion. Just this week, RFK Jr. pushed a fake report about the abortion medication mifepristone. He's peddling misinformation so he can lay the groundwork for restricting abortion access no matter where you live.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/05/2025
Across the federal government, Trump officials are halting a wide range of operations by declining to approve key funds. This unofficial hold on many activities has incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.
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The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the U.S. government. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11/05/2025
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Jeff Bezos continues to deliver on his corrupt bargain with the MAGA regime
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 11/05/2025
Might have to update future cover letters to include "if my unpublished work is fed into an LLM by a reviewer or editor, this must be disclosed to me so the next time we're at the same conference I can fistfight them in the parking lot, or perhaps throw their computer into a lake"
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Jonathan Haddad 🌴🥥🥥🥥 @haddaddoinwork.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A gift from Cat-ar.
Adorable ginger cat in a box.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
THIS.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/05/2025
No words… 😢
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
2/ Amber Thurman went to the hospital with telltale signs of sepsis, yet it took 20 hours for doctors to intervene with a D&C procedure after abortion became a felony in Georgia.
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Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/05/2025
‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Twitter’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research. Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump’s USDA Dismantled Decades of Federal Food Policy in Just 100 Days twp.ai/4im1PY
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Trump’s USDA Dismantled Decades of Federal Food Policy in Just 100 Days
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/05/2025
For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, President Trump's elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue from low-cost online retailers like Shein and Temu.
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Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions
For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.
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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Excited to announce that ✨ A Show of Hands: Kalika and the Goddess of Learning is a #1 New Release in Children’s Holidays Around the World & Eastern Religions! #2 in Children’s Hinduism & #13 in Holidays & Celebrations📚 Out now: a.co/d/0mSNYVq #RettSyndrome #AAC #InclusiveLit #disability
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 30/04/2025
Evil Elon is officially gone from the US government. He said his goodbyes at a cabinet meeting, and Trump said he was going back to his car company.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.” Thinking about the types of people who participated in this atrocity. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
When techbros come up with fancy new "AI-driven" gloves for the blind, or prosthetics, etc this is why disabled people are often very skeptical. Because tech in general cannot guarantee/is not interested in sustainability, and disabled people can't afford to be switching constantly
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/04/2025
The equivalent here isn’t “doctor gives penicillin for infection,” it’s “barber gives leeches to treat ill humours.”
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/04/2025
NIH slashes overheads, fires directors and staff, freezes funds, halts trials, interrupts research, stalls grant review, and terminates 100s of grants on infectious disease, vaccines, mRNA, DEI, LGBTQ health. NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
A lot of the things you just talked about in the outside, in the scientific community, I think part of it stems from the fact that so much of the scientific community is on the left and they didn’t vote for President Trump. And so almost any change made is going to end up causing, you know, anxiety.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Yes but you see the price of eggs was up one entire dollar so what choice did we have
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week: CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569 Texas: 481 (+59) New Mexico: 54 (+6) Oklahoma: 10 Kansas: 24 (+1) HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14) Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%. New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases. DEATHS: 3 (+1)
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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Resistance 💪🏽 🇺🇸 in Athens, GA.
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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
See NORD’s statement about the impact of recent political changes in the lives of rare disease families like ours. I hurt for my daughter and her future. She deserves better.
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Usree Bhattacharya @usreeb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
It was wonderful to be part of Disability Advocacy in Clarke County, as part of the Equitable Breakfast series by Out of Hand Theater. Wonderful job, UGA and team! ❤️👏🏽
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And the guy who sponsored the bill was arrested this week for soliciting a 16 year old girl for sex. Except when he went to meet her it was a cop. No biggie though, Musk amplifies even worse people on a regular basis.
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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
3) Federal workers are flocking to Reddit to share information and find community amidst the onslaught of layoffs. @nytimes.com @kashhill.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/t...
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Reddit Becomes a Lifeline for Federal Workers Scared of Losing Their Jobs
The online forum’s pseudonymity lets them vent, share information and find solace. Unpaid moderators, like David Carson, are working overtime to keep up.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16/03/2025
“I’m fearful that even the most low-level political speech or just doing what we all do — like shout into the abyss that is social media — can turn into this dystopian nightmare where somebody is calling you a terrorist sympathizer and making you, literally, fear for your life and your safety”
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This must be the most pro-corruption Administration in the history of the Republic.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 05/03/2025
"It turned out that Trump did not need to alter his behavior to be president," our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. "He simply altered the presidency to match his personality."
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Opinion | The State of Himself
Trump hasn’t altered his behavior to be president. He altered the presidency to match his personality.
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Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
i spent a ton of time with the new AI "perspectives" feature on @latimes.com opinion content and...you'll be shocked to hear there are problems www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the-...
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The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more "objective" if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written by a human and the other side is generated by AI. The reality: Kind of a mess.
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