Joel Lesko
@sunshowerlearning.bsky.social
Inclusion Matters - Now More Than Ever
I'm a filmmaker, producer, and DEI educator for inclusion and belonging www.sunshowerlearning.com
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I'm a filmmaker, producer, and DEI educator for inclusion and belonging www.sunshowerlearning.com
🇺🇦🌴🥥❤️🙏🏽🫶 Let's be real and make good trouble. We support Ukraine.
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
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Amanda Marcotte: MAGA uses conspiracy theories and false accusations of "groomer" to spin a tale where they're the heroes and liberals are villains. In 2025, the Epstein files revealed the truth: they are, as MAGA voters always were, supporters of sexual violence. www.salon.com/2025/12/29/i...
In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are
Trump is desperate to distract his base
www.salon.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Amanda Marcotte: MAGA uses conspiracy theories and false accusations of "groomer" to spin a tale where they're the heroes and liberals are villains. In 2025, the Epstein files revealed the truth: they are, as MAGA voters always were, supporters of sexual violence. www.salon.com/2025/12/29/i...
Excellent with this (not in the NYT article)- One faculty member in Florida described the new classroom environment: Since Mr. DeSantis’s crackdown, I’ve seen my colleagues harassed and investigated for addressing topical issues, even outside the classroom. The climate of fear gives the government-
NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down.
There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
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December 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Excellent with this (not in the NYT article)- One faculty member in Florida described the new classroom environment: Since Mr. DeSantis’s crackdown, I’ve seen my colleagues harassed and investigated for addressing topical issues, even outside the classroom. The climate of fear gives the government-
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This is as close as they can get to Nuremberg Laws. They can't (yet) forbid the hiring of people of color but they prosecute any attempts at equity. It is fascism.
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
Google and Verizon are among those being investigated under the novel interpretation of a law applying to government contractors.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is as close as they can get to Nuremberg Laws. They can't (yet) forbid the hiring of people of color but they prosecute any attempts at equity. It is fascism.
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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11/11 Dogs to the Rescue
Dogs. Far from extinct, but due a special mention for their services to other animals. In South Africa and Zimbabwe police dogs are successfully tracking rhino-hunting poachers. And in Pacific Northwest, sniffer dogs on boats helping monitor endangered resident orcas.
Dogs. Far from extinct, but due a special mention for their services to other animals. In South Africa and Zimbabwe police dogs are successfully tracking rhino-hunting poachers. And in Pacific Northwest, sniffer dogs on boats helping monitor endangered resident orcas.
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
11/11 Dogs to the Rescue
Dogs. Far from extinct, but due a special mention for their services to other animals. In South Africa and Zimbabwe police dogs are successfully tracking rhino-hunting poachers. And in Pacific Northwest, sniffer dogs on boats helping monitor endangered resident orcas.
Dogs. Far from extinct, but due a special mention for their services to other animals. In South Africa and Zimbabwe police dogs are successfully tracking rhino-hunting poachers. And in Pacific Northwest, sniffer dogs on boats helping monitor endangered resident orcas.
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The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.
December 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.
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Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
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Carl Sagan predicted it. And now the dumbest motherfuckers ever to walk the face of the earth, MAGA Trump supporters, have fulfilled his prophecy. 😳👇
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Carl Sagan predicted it. And now the dumbest motherfuckers ever to walk the face of the earth, MAGA Trump supporters, have fulfilled his prophecy. 😳👇
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NO, NYTIMES, IT IS NOT THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/africa/trump-isis-strikes-nigeria-christians-facts.html
December 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
NO, NYTIMES, IT IS NOT THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/africa/trump-isis-strikes-nigeria-christians-facts.html
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In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 we learn that the fire department exists not to put out fires, but to start them. In a like manner, Pam Bondi's DOJ exists not to uphold the law, but to violate it, not to apprehend criminals, but to commit crimes.
December 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Bari Weiss told her staff in an email (per the WaPo - in an article I read in “The Detroit News”) that she is trying to win back the trust of American viewers.
Dear CBS,
Earning the trust of viewers can only start if you fire Bari.
www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
Dear CBS,
Earning the trust of viewers can only start if you fire Bari.
www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
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December 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Bari Weiss told her staff in an email (per the WaPo - in an article I read in “The Detroit News”) that she is trying to win back the trust of American viewers.
Dear CBS,
Earning the trust of viewers can only start if you fire Bari.
www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
Dear CBS,
Earning the trust of viewers can only start if you fire Bari.
www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
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What does it mean when Vladimir Putin is allowed to pick the entire US senior diplomatic and national security team, and then brags openly about having done it? Jack Hopkins goes there.
Putin Didn’t “Choose” Witkoff. He Engineered Him.
The psychological profiling playbook behind a preferred envoy-and why “Come alone, no CIA” is the tell.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What does it mean when Vladimir Putin is allowed to pick the entire US senior diplomatic and national security team, and then brags openly about having done it? Jack Hopkins goes there.
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CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
Group chat shows the spiked 60 Minutes segment on CECOT.
#60Minutes
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#60Minutes
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Group chat shows the spiked 60 Minutes segment on CECOT.
#60Minutes
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
#60Minutes
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
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This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.
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Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say | CNN Business
“60 Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
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I am furious that DOJ ignored the new federal law requiring release of the Epstein Files. I am equally angry that so many in legacy media seem not to care.
My latest for Democracy Docket lays out the case. Sign up now to access this and all premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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December 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I am furious that DOJ ignored the new federal law requiring release of the Epstein Files. I am equally angry that so many in legacy media seem not to care.
My latest for Democracy Docket lays out the case. Sign up now to access this and all premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
My latest for Democracy Docket lays out the case. Sign up now to access this and all premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0