@psychprof1999.bsky.social
Psychology Professor. Human & Dog Mom. Gen X. Feisty AF. Equality for ALL.🌎🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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🚫🟠🤡. I fucking dissent. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #BLM #ScienceIsReal
Vote Blue💙. Michigan State Alum.💚
Espresso. Prosecco. GF Foodie.
🚫🟠🤡. I fucking dissent. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #BLM #ScienceIsReal
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Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!
New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
www.404media.co
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!
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"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
www.mprnews.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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This should alarm everyone. The FBI searched a journalist’s home and seized her work devices, despite no criminal charges. This is a direct threat to press freedom.
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This should alarm everyone. The FBI searched a journalist’s home and seized her work devices, despite no criminal charges. This is a direct threat to press freedom.
Powerful.
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Powerful.
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
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A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp.
Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M.
An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M.
An utterly cruel and costly waste.
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp.
Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M.
An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M.
An utterly cruel and costly waste.
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FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1M to Trump's super PAC in April.
What happened next?
Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht).
Everything is for sale.
What happened next?
Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht).
Everything is for sale.
August 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1M to Trump's super PAC in April.
What happened next?
Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht).
Everything is for sale.
What happened next?
Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht).
Everything is for sale.
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Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
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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...
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
June 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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...
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...
Excellent & informative thread. Read all of @asharangappa.bsky.social posts to learn how misinformation is used to manipulate.
🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator
June 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Excellent & informative thread. Read all of @asharangappa.bsky.social posts to learn how misinformation is used to manipulate.
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60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley spoke out against the corrupt Trump administration at the Wake Forest commencement last week: “In this moment, our sacred ruled of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.”
May 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley spoke out against the corrupt Trump administration at the Wake Forest commencement last week: “In this moment, our sacred ruled of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.”
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The law is still the law.
On the Hook
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The law is still the law.
Absolutely devastating.
Virginia Guiffre, accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, has died by suicide, her family says
Virginia Giuffre, accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, dies by suicide: Family
Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide, family says.
abcnews.go.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Absolutely devastating.
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The ABA asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to block the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi from canceling $3.2 million in grants used to train lawyers to represent victims of domestic and sexual violence.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.reuters.com/legal/americ...
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.reuters.com/legal/americ...
American Bar Association sues US Justice Department, claiming retaliation over grants
The American Bar Association sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, claiming it illegally terminated federal grants in retaliation for the lawyer organization's public criticism of the Trump administration.
www.reuters.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The ABA asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to block the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi from canceling $3.2 million in grants used to train lawyers to represent victims of domestic and sexual violence.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.reuters.com/legal/americ...
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.reuters.com/legal/americ...
This is leadership.
Walz: An hour by hour day by day basis, the President has chosen, chosen to throw our economy into turmoil.
We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.
We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is leadership.
Another vile decision. The cruelty is appalling.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Another vile decision. The cruelty is appalling.
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball.
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
www.stevevladeck.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball.
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...