SPWeston
@spweston.bsky.social
Working to strengthen democracy and build learning systems that equip every Kentuckian to flourish.
Firmly, respectfully, the people organizing in these places LIVE here. We love our neighbors, our places, and our country. We have mobilized ourselves.
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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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October 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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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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
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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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.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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"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."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"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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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.
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A Phony Trump Check and a ‘Depreciated’ Woman in Epstein’s Birthday Book
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September 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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.
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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...
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...
August 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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...
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...
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.
June 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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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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.
Today, we stand up.
Introduced a resolution to honor World Refugee Day and reiterate our moral responsibility to help those fleeing unimaginable circumstances.
June 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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.
Today, we stand up.
Introduced a resolution to honor World Refugee Day and reiterate our moral responsibility to help those fleeing unimaginable circumstances.
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the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it
full stop
full stop
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it
full stop
full stop
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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 ?
June 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.
May 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.
"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
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"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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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.
This is straight from the authoritarian playbook.
Trump and his people want to silence anyone who seeks to hold them accountable.
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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.
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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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.
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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May 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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.
Stand in the shame, y'all.
The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and
commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post.
This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post.
This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
Ann Telnaes
Ann Telnaes was an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post. She won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2001 and was a finalist for the prize in 2022.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Stand in the shame, y'all.
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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:
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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April 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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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:
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April 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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...
www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
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Bukele would have him on a plane within an hour of Trump asking
UPDATE: Trump seems to say for the first time that U.S. lacks ability to recover those sent to El Salvador if government deports someone erroneously. Says it’s totally up to Bukele. Seems to leave out that he could … ask Bukele to help fix an error. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Bukele would have him on a plane within an hour of Trump asking
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.
The animating, defining principles of the Trump Republican Party are cruelty, greed, hate, indecency & inhumanity. It is morally obscene that the administration doesn’t apologize & act urgently to return an innocent man wrongly rendered to a foreign hellhole. Congressional Republicans are complicit.
April 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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"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:
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
@premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:
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.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"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:
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
@premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:
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.
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March 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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.
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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...
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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March 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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...
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A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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.
Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in Berkeley for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. Fuze claimed they were paid protesters and he went there to show his support for Musk and DOGE.
March 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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.