Jeannie Albert
@vtgenie.bsky.social
Progressive, dead head, math professor, musician, cat lover, law nerd/law school dropout, wanderer. Grateful to be in Vermont. Showing up to make things better.
It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.
Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoMichigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.
We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoAfter Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Kansas Supreme Court deals final blow to GOP bid to throw out late-arriving mail ballots
The ruling is a conclusive defeat for Schwab’s last-minute campaign to enforce a Republican-backed law that attempted to eliminate the grace period and required mail ballots to arrive on Election Day ...
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From latest Navigator poll, word cloud of responses from Trump voters who say they regret their vote
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Sen. Ron Johnson lecturing Dr. Anthony Fauci about medicine is the epitome of idiocracy.
it’s especially ridiculous to tell a part of the coalition that is having significant success motivating people to get involved in politics that you don’t want them to help with an existential political battle
the problem we have right now is that the Trump coalition is smaller than everyone else but it is concentrated in ways that make it extremely powerful politically and so we do, in fact, going to need everyone else to beat it that’s what the big tent means
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 2w agoI think a party that can welcome anti-Trump Republicans can also embrace members of the DSA. I think it should, actually
Saw my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He had a Chinese menu in his hand and was walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
The Trump administration staged a brutal takeover of the Kennedy Center and its board, instituting hyper-political messaging and programing. As Ben Folds put it: when you politicize art, you've got propaganda. Oversight Dems are fighting to restore the Center and its art.
Congressman McGovern (D, MA) fires back at Republicans’ communist claims, & lays out how the Republican Party has become fascist & unhelpful to the American people. We need more of this!
Is Joe McCarthy BACK FROM THE DEAD?!
YouTube video by Congressman Jim McGovern
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Today I'm sharing the 2nd lecture of my course "Hitler and Stalin Today," titled “A World of Empire.” Totalitarianism did not emerge from nowhere. It was a response particularly to the empires that Europeans had created. This course was hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca youtu.be/PDOGV5Gl6SE?...
Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today: Class 2: A world of empire
YouTube video by Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3w agoIn collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...
Great meeting with @maryltrump.bsky.social today. We talked about the stakes of this moment and how to rally folks around the cause of American democracy. It’s going to take a lot of hard conversations, but it couldn’t be more important for the future of our country.
Here's a reminder that Trump threatened 102 days ago to commit genocide against a nation of 93 million people. The story lasted a day or two and the news media moved on. The madman stayed in office to make new threats and kill more people in an illegal war.
a reminder that the Marshals service will need to be one of the first offices a new administration clears out
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago2 days after Blanche was confirmed as Deputy AG, he fired me from my position as a pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump's friend, it cost me my job. Blanche sent US Marshals to my home to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress. #cdnpoli
It should be so spectacular, for so long, that the public accountability becomes white noise. We should become *bored* with all the accountability, it should go so long.
basal wrathbone@groboudo.bsky.social · 3w agoAgree 💯 and emphasize “spectacular” Proportional to Bannon’s shock and awe tactic of flooding the zone with bullshit… A torrential cavalcade of accountability. A devastating supercell of mesocyclonic justice. This is the way!
California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.
Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
In my latest Substack, I wrote a little about twilight, about evil, about morality...and about how we can make it to a new day. I hope you'll give it a read. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
A Time of Moral Reckoning
When you can't tell the difference between right and wrong, you are lost
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The New York Times downplayed and normalized the actions of criminal Donald Trump for years. The Times’ reward: Federal agents showing up on reporters’ doorsteps. Which proves once again that you can’t play nice with fascists. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
When fascists come for the news outlets that enabled them
The NY Times and ABC News find that appeasement doesn’t work
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026.** Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, bl...
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![AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, LEONARD BRIGHT, VANITA REDDY, LANDON SADLER, and AARON GEORGE,
Plaintiffs,
V.
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON, JAY GRAHAM, DAVID
C. BAGGETT, JOHN W. BELLINGER, JAMES R.
BROOKS, MICHAEL A. HERNANDEZ III,
WILLIAM MAHOMES JR., KELLEY SULLIVAN GEORGIADES, and SAM TORN, in their official capacities as members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO.
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs American Association of University Professors ("AAUP"), on behalf of
its members in the Texas A&M University System ("Texas A&M"), and individually named member professors Leonard Bright, Vanita Reddy, Landon Sadler, and Aaron George (collectively, "Plaintiffs") challenge Texas A&M System Policy ("System Policy") 08.01's prohibition on teaching "gender and race ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation, and gender identity" in academic coursework (the "Censorship Policy" or the "Policy").
On its face, the Censorship Policy imposes a complete prohibition, in all core-
curriculum courses, on courses "advocat[ing]" particular disfavored views of race or gender, or
any topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, but the Policy does not impose any corresponding ban on opposing views on these issues.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jcats4toei4ybf5ibk3njty3/bafkreidml3fbnbiivajg7rverpx3nckfhv3zdron6klbxc7kaffoyslpty)
