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Lesley Bartlett

@lesleybartlett.bsky.social

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Prof @UW-Madison. Ed Policy, Anthro, Multilingual literacies, Migration. Açaí enthusiast.

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Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

North Carolina said Monday that it will work on a new congressional map that could yield another GOP-leaning district in the state.

It's the latest state to heed President Trump’s call to redraw congressional maps five years earlier than usual.

North Carolina Republicans heed Trump’s call to redraw congressional map

State becomes latest to join a national redistricting battle sparked by the president’s urging to shore up the historically small GOP House majority ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

"Regina George would never stoop to such lame material.

"Bondi’s a former Tri-Delt from the University of Florida, but she can’t meet the minimum standards of Southern lady scorn to match that pedigree. The entire sorority system should disown her."

www.salon.com/2025/10/13/p...

Pam Bondi is Trump's mean girl

Imagine if Regina George grew up to cover up for a fascist

www.salon.com

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

n.pr

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Lesley Bartlett @lesleybartlett.bsky.social · 4d

Safe travels! Hang in there

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 5d

At this point, are we descending into autocracy by sheer inertia or perverse curiosity?

For those telling the story (the Media), it might be, at least subconsciously, a morbid fascination with US autocracy-a prophecy they can't resist self fulfilling by covering in a way that mostly roots it on.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 5d

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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Lesley Bartlett @lesleybartlett.bsky.social · 5d

Absolute LEGEND!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 5d

"In North Carolina and other states, low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable to order Covid-19 vaccines through the VFC program."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...

Low-income families are still waiting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids, but states say they’re coming | CNN

Many low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable...

www.cnn.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 5d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6d

White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 6d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 6d

New from Fordham, the Wallace Foundation, @dmhouston.bsky.social & Michael Hartney:

Who’s on Board? School Boards and Political Representation in an Age of Conflict fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

Who’s on Board? School Boards and Political Representation in an Age of Conflict

School boards have become ground zero for America’s education culture wars, with fiery debates over race, gender, curriculum, and pandemic policies making national headlines. But beyond the noise, how...

fordhaminstitute.org

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d

Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 8d

"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 10d

‘Absolutely devastating’: Rural schools say $100K visa fee could make it hard to hire teachers

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/01/t...

Rural schools use H1B visas to fill teaching positions. A $100,000 fee could end that.

“No district could afford that even for one teacher, much less multiple teachers,” one Alaska superintendent said.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 11d

"'There simply aren’t enough students to go around,' said Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota. But the effects of the demographic cliff, he noted, 'won’t be evenly distributed.'"

U.S. Colleges Are About to See a Big Decline in Applicants

Forget a lot of what you thought you knew about higher education.

nymag.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Autism in Adulthood @autisminadulthood.bsky.social · 12d

"Are Universities Ready to Support Autistic Students? A Call to Increase Coordinated Campus Efforts" by Blaskowitz et al advocates for university departments to enhance #inclusion and support for #autistic students.

READ shorturl.at/EgzlU

Are Universities Ready to Support Autistic Students? A Call to Increase Coordinated Campus Efforts | Autism in Adulthood

Over the past decade, universities have seen an increase in autistic student enrollment; however, many of these universities are not supporting autistic students to have a quality college experience. ...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12d

Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll.

To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

The Human Toll

The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.

If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!

To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco

Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US

[image of a person with their face in their hands]

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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