Betty M Bayer
buntyful.bsky.social
Betty M Bayer
@buntyful.bsky.social
Dog-lover, feminism, history of science and psychology 🇨🇦🍁🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
June 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
June 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
June 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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even though LA is a sexy news story, neighbors have been protecting neighbors across the country all year and they will continue to. You have a community right outside your door. Care for it.
June 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Saturday, March 22 - hundreds #protest multiple #upstateny #flx #@geneva_democrats
March 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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✨I am thrilled to share the cover of my book —The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice— which will be published by @dukepress.bsky.social on April 25, 2025. (Link below)✨🧵
February 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.
March 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Trump's attacks on museum and library funding threaten two local museums, Historic Cherry Hill and the Underground Railroad Education Center

www.timesunion.com/news/article...
Albany museum funding at risk amid federal cuts
Local history museums are on edge as federal funding cuts target another agency: the Institute of Museum and Library Services
www.timesunion.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The Trump administration has argued the UK’s “Cass Report” justifies banning medical care for adolescent gender dysphoria.

It does no such thing, and in fact highlights that these medical treatments are necessary for some adolescents. My latest substack:

jackturban.substack.com/p/where-amer...
March 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Just released! New worker solidarity song (by my nephew) open.spotify.com/track/6vIJEW...
Coal Miner Songs
Christian Rutledge · Coal Miner Songs · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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March 4th For Democracy!! 🚨 Get more info, resources, or find a protest: fiftyfifty.one (check back next week for protest listings).

50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement.

#50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social

FAQs + talking points + other ways to act next. 🪡🧵
February 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community.

No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality.

Hate has no home here.
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:
February 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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“And laced throughout is an obsession with sexuality and a moral panic about ‘gender equity’ education…The authors seem to want schools and universities to cease to write and teach about gender altogether, a field more than a half-century old and flourishing.“ via @newrepublic.com
Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not.
Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.
newrepublic.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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‼️DC UPDATE‼️
We will meet at the US Capitol Building at noon! We officially have a permit for our peaceful protest!
#50501 #BuildTheResistance
February 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM