Weston Abney
@westonabney.bsky.social
President of AFSCME Local 96. Just some guy. Posts do not reflect employer's positions.
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Classes and campus activities were canceled for the rest of the week after a shooting that police said left one student dead and another in critical condition. Police said a suspect who is not a KSU student was in custody. n.pr/4iRglUP
1 student dead, 1 critically injured in shooting at Kentucky State University
Classes and campus activities were canceled for the rest of the week after a shooting that police said left one student dead and another in critical condition. Police said a suspect who is not a KSU student was in custody.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Classes and campus activities were canceled for the rest of the week after a shooting that police said left one student dead and another in critical condition. Police said a suspect who is not a KSU student was in custody. n.pr/4iRglUP
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Supreme Court poised to strike down Watergate-era campaign finance limits
Supreme Court poised to strike down Watergate-era campaign finance limits
The conservative justices signaled they are likely to rule for Republicans and President Trump. It would allow parties to enlist the help of wealthy donors.
www.latimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Supreme Court poised to strike down Watergate-era campaign finance limits
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They cut off her wedding ring. Wanton cruelty, just because. When this is all over all of these people need to go to prison
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
They cut off her wedding ring. Wanton cruelty, just because. When this is all over all of these people need to go to prison
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A shooting at Kentucky State University has left one person dead and another hospitalized in stable but critical condition. www.wtvq.com/reported-sho...
OFFICIALS: One dead, one critical in Kentucky State University shooting; suspect identified - WTVQ
A reported shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort has left multiple people injured. Gov. Andy Beshear confirms a suspect is in custody as the investigation continues.
www.wtvq.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A shooting at Kentucky State University has left one person dead and another hospitalized in stable but critical condition. www.wtvq.com/reported-sho...
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I have received several emails from students asking for PDF copies of articles of mine that don’t exist. In one case, assigned by the student’s instructor
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I have received several emails from students asking for PDF copies of articles of mine that don’t exist. In one case, assigned by the student’s instructor
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Prison telecom companies and more than a dozen red-state attorneys have challenged imposing limits on the cost of phone calls from prison, arguing that they would deprive lockups of necessary funding.
Priced Out of Phone Calls Home
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Prison telecom companies and more than a dozen red-state attorneys have challenged imposing limits on the cost of phone calls from prison, arguing that they would deprive lockups of necessary funding.
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the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
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Also shoutout to my spouse and nurses and doctors and parents and in-laws and lactation consultant, all of whom either told me “hey it’s fine to stop” OR — even better — said nothing because it WAS NOT THEIR BUSINESS.
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Also shoutout to my spouse and nurses and doctors and parents and in-laws and lactation consultant, all of whom either told me “hey it’s fine to stop” OR — even better — said nothing because it WAS NOT THEIR BUSINESS.
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NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.
Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.
LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.
LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.
Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.
LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.
LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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27/ Sauer is really going big now, following where he thinks Gorsuch and Barrett were leading, but I think he misreads them. They are asking questions.
But Sauer seems to be suggesting that the entire modern state now may be unconstitutional on his extreme theory of separation.
But Sauer seems to be suggesting that the entire modern state now may be unconstitutional on his extreme theory of separation.
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
27/ Sauer is really going big now, following where he thinks Gorsuch and Barrett were leading, but I think he misreads them. They are asking questions.
But Sauer seems to be suggesting that the entire modern state now may be unconstitutional on his extreme theory of separation.
But Sauer seems to be suggesting that the entire modern state now may be unconstitutional on his extreme theory of separation.
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Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
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FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
According to Iowa State University legal counsel, this is the ONLY position in the university that isn't vulnerable to the "people complained about your Facebook page and we have to fire you now" policy.
Starting pay is $15.03.
Starting pay is $15.03.
Custodian I - Part-Time - Ames, IA - Indeed.com
Iowa State University
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December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
According to Iowa State University legal counsel, this is the ONLY position in the university that isn't vulnerable to the "people complained about your Facebook page and we have to fire you now" policy.
Starting pay is $15.03.
Starting pay is $15.03.
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This Day in Labor History: December 8, 1886. The American Federation of Labor formed at a meeting of union officials in Columbus, Ohio. No one in the labor history world really likes the AFL, but let's try to understand what it was about and how it adapted to Gilded Age realities.
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 8, 1886. The American Federation of Labor formed at a meeting of union officials in Columbus, Ohio. No one in the labor history world really likes the AFL, but let's try to understand what it was about and how it adapted to Gilded Age realities.
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Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin on Friday was sentenced to four years probation after she admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly former Tuskegee Airman to purchase cryptocurrency.
Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin sentenced to probation after stealing from former Tuskegee Airman
Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin on Friday was sentenced to four years probation after she admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly former …
trib.al
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin on Friday was sentenced to four years probation after she admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly former Tuskegee Airman to purchase cryptocurrency.
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Thailand launched air strikes on its neighbour Cambodia on Monday, the Thai army said, with both sides trading blame for the latest eruption of fighting on their disputed border which killed a Thai soldier
u.afp.com/S7qc
u.afp.com/S7qc
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thailand launched air strikes on its neighbour Cambodia on Monday, the Thai army said, with both sides trading blame for the latest eruption of fighting on their disputed border which killed a Thai soldier
u.afp.com/S7qc
u.afp.com/S7qc
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Proud of Team DC.
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): 'Sinners' Dominates with 10 Wins
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): ‘Sinners’ Dominates with 10 Wins
After picking up 13 nominations from the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), Sinners turned 10 of them into wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan. One Battle After Another, which had also earned 13 nominations, took home three wins: Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress for Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor, respectively, and Adapted Screenplay.
awardswatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Proud of Team DC.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Important to note that she (correctly) doesn't say that faculty feel supported by or trust the administration to have our backs.
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Important to note that she (correctly) doesn't say that faculty feel supported by or trust the administration to have our backs.
Star Trek II vibes.
The Space Force’s new dress uniform saw its first official use with the graduation of newly commissioned officers from Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., on Thursday. www.stripes.com/branches/spa...
Space Force’s new dress uniform gets first official use with officer graduation ceremony
The Space Force’s new dress uniform saw its first official use with the graduation of 17 newly commissioned officers.
www.stripes.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Star Trek II vibes.
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This is where originalism is really spiritually aligned with straussianism—you, the clever contemporary scholar, are capable of uncovering the true hidden meaning that for centuries has eluded all those other chumps
It’s also plainly absurd that someone just happened to discover the true meaning of the common law that just evaded everyone else for 800 years in a few weeks of work. I don’t even know what to do with that.
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is where originalism is really spiritually aligned with straussianism—you, the clever contemporary scholar, are capable of uncovering the true hidden meaning that for centuries has eluded all those other chumps
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the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.