Lysi Mache
@lsanger-blinn.bsky.social
Adoptee post-reunion, social worker, ancestral investigator (genealogy/context/storytelling). Equity, justice, and empathy for all. Bard alum.
Recent revelations indicate its far worse than it appeared 3 years ago. open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...
Leon Botstein Must Go
The Bard College President's Extensive Relationship with the Sexual Predator Jeffrey Epstein - And More - Makes His Position Untenable
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However, student newspaper the Bard Free Press shows photos of Botstein meeting the helicopter on the 2013 trip, and giving a tour of Bard campus to Epstein as well as two female guests who arrived with the financier, described as "young" and "girls." www.thedailycatch.org/articles/jef...
Jeffrey Epstein’s May 3, 2013 Bard Visit: The Day in Photos - The Daily Catch
Jeffrey Epstein and several women visited Bard's campus on May 3, 2013, landing at Blithewood in a 14-seat chartered helicopter.
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Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.
I'm a human rights lawyer. I have represented immigrants & asylum seekers my entire career. As you see ICE increase its attacks on immigrants, here are steps you as a US citizen can take to be an ally & protect immigrants from ICE and CBP absue. (No paywall) qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids
Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors
qasimrashid.substack.com
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
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Chicago is standing alongside 30 communities nationwide in reaffirming that everyone belongs. We are proud that @chicago-city.bsky.social is part of this national movement! #ImmigrantHeritageMonth #YouBelong
I was thinking about this tonight. They aren’t deporting violent criminals. They’re kidnapping people off the streets, most of whom are here legally. It is wrong and we need to speak out against it. It is home-grown terrorism.
President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
White House aide calls Los Angeles anti-ICE protests an 'insurrection'
Senior White House aide Stephen Miller on Saturday condemned protests in downtown Los Angeles against federal immigration raids as an "insurrection" against the United States.
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ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says | Houston Public Media
The soldier is one of at least 20,000 Afghans seeking asylum nationwide, having fled Afghanistan after aiding the U.S. military during the two-decades-long war there.
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This was never about “protecting” college seats for US citizens. It has always been about fear—about sending a chilling message to undocumented youth that they are not welcome, no matter how long they’ve lived here, or how much they’ve already given back.
I Was an Undocumented Texas College Student. I’m Not Going Anywhere—and Neither Is Our Movement.
Lawmakers lacked the political courage for a floor vote at the Capitol on the Texas Dream Act, so state leaders took a coward’s path.
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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Who are the Bambergers of our time? We need them!
John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · last yr.Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
I would once again like to point out, if you are really truly afraid of fascist infiltration then you have to plan your exit in a way that guarantees fascism won’t be allowed to take hold. The pope stacked his conclave with the people he wanted to move power after his death. Joe Biden did not.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · last yr.Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, has been critical of the president and his actions.
More white babies. Let's call this what it is. 🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr.Trump administration has shown signs of enthusiasm for a pronatalist agenda. DOGE head Elon Musk, a father of 14, posts regularly on social media about the need for Americans to have more babies; he has also promoted NatalCon on X.
Couldn't have explained the root of my sadness at the death of Pope Francis any better. Thank you for this.
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · last yr.I do mourn Pope Francis. Though I’m no longer a practicing Catholic, my remaining tether was to the kind of faith he modeled, especially in his care for migrants, for refugees, for social justice, and against war and genocide. Hope @zeets.bsky.social doesn’t mind my sharing this.
Proud as always to be a Bardian. Asking yourself why an arguably small, often considered niche, liberal arts college has made such an immense impact? Because critical thinking matters. Because values matter. Because free societies matter. #bardcollege #bardproud #bardian #aplacetothink
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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If you haven't tuned in yet, what are you waiting for?? Thank you again #SenatorBooker
Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · last yr.Right now, Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor like a combination of Jimmy Stewart in "Mister Smith Goes to Washington" and Jerry Lewis in the last hours of his telethon. Compelling viewing! (On C-Span and Youtube)
Thank you, Senator Booker. Use every mechanism left to center & uplift working class Americans. We're with you!
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.What am I watching? The Cory Booker show.
Listen to John Lithgow read Snyder’s ‘20 lessons on Tyranny’. Do it. Do it now. Do it, so that you can prevent what is happening in the USA from happening in <your> country. What is happening in the USA is only the start of tyranny. Without resistance, it’ll spread. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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I think we need to be prepared to fight in the streets. If we see this happening, yell like there's a baby trapped in a burning building. They're operating like the SS, so we have to get loud. We're socialized not to make a scene, not to argue. We need to recall how to scream.
This is completely terrifying, a huge violation of the first amendment, and part of the coopting of a distorted version of anti-semitism to justify persecution of people speaking out against Israel's genocide. And the broader pursuit of a police state.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last yr.Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
"All of us have a stake in stopping the regime’s fearmongering and intimidation. All of us can help targeted individuals, institutions, and organizations take a stand."
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last yr.I want to share with you three rules for fighting tyrannical fear and intimidation, gleaned from discussions I’ve had with a number of people who have lived in repressive regimes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-to-fear-and-intimidation
We need a new free speech movement. And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement
