Caroline Ledbetter
@carolineledbetter.bsky.social
Data person. Other stuff.
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The subpoena seeks patients’ medical records and employees’ personnel files among other documents.
Children’s Hospital Colorado is fighting the DOJ in court over a subpoena about gender-affirming care
Children's Hospital Colorado is fighting in court to quash a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena about gender-affirming care.
coloradosun.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The subpoena seeks patients’ medical records and employees’ personnel files among other documents.
removing the blackness and ignoring the racism pretty much sums it up.
Black person: Makes a Black post about racism.
White person: I would have said it differently, removing the Blackness, and ignoring the racism!
Black person: That's fair. But the post I made was a Black post, speaking about racism. I said what I said.
White person: Blocks Black person.
🤷🏿♂️
White person: I would have said it differently, removing the Blackness, and ignoring the racism!
Black person: That's fair. But the post I made was a Black post, speaking about racism. I said what I said.
White person: Blocks Black person.
🤷🏿♂️
You're more than welcome to make the broader point that you would make about art in general, ignoring identity👍🏿
I made the very specific point about the undeniable connection between Black identity and jazz, and Black joy.
And I praise white jazz musicians that understand this, and that choose us.
I made the very specific point about the undeniable connection between Black identity and jazz, and Black joy.
And I praise white jazz musicians that understand this, and that choose us.
December 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
removing the blackness and ignoring the racism pretty much sums it up.
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One day we're gonna talk about long covid. My cynical self says it'll probably be decades from now. Scientists will be studying history and be like "wow! It fucked everybody up and they just didn't talk about it."
Just like we didn't acknowledge that a million plus people literally died.
Just like we didn't acknowledge that a million plus people literally died.
💜
My memory is terrible. Like I literally can't remember what I was like before covid. But I know it wasn't like this.
My memory is terrible. Like I literally can't remember what I was like before covid. But I know it wasn't like this.
December 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
One day we're gonna talk about long covid. My cynical self says it'll probably be decades from now. Scientists will be studying history and be like "wow! It fucked everybody up and they just didn't talk about it."
Just like we didn't acknowledge that a million plus people literally died.
Just like we didn't acknowledge that a million plus people literally died.
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Seriously, are there any tax lawyers who will tell a widow at the end of their rope what to do?
I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
December 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Seriously, are there any tax lawyers who will tell a widow at the end of their rope what to do?
I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
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Y'all want to vote your way out of this mess in 2026 and 2028. But some of y'all are still pushing "tough on crime?" candidates?
Good luck with that.
"Tough on crime" is a euphemism for "super racist."
As I said would happen, crime is *decreasing* in Baltimore and Chicago with *fewer* cops.
🙂🙃
Good luck with that.
"Tough on crime" is a euphemism for "super racist."
As I said would happen, crime is *decreasing* in Baltimore and Chicago with *fewer* cops.
🙂🙃
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Y'all want to vote your way out of this mess in 2026 and 2028. But some of y'all are still pushing "tough on crime?" candidates?
Good luck with that.
"Tough on crime" is a euphemism for "super racist."
As I said would happen, crime is *decreasing* in Baltimore and Chicago with *fewer* cops.
🙂🙃
Good luck with that.
"Tough on crime" is a euphemism for "super racist."
As I said would happen, crime is *decreasing* in Baltimore and Chicago with *fewer* cops.
🙂🙃
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Under Trump 2024, the pain of fascism is shared by more groups of people. More people are in the undesirables group, and more are exposed to state violence.
Under Biden, it was more heavily concentrated just on Black people.
"Trump is worse!" does not mean "Biden was awesome!"
Under Biden, it was more heavily concentrated just on Black people.
"Trump is worse!" does not mean "Biden was awesome!"
December 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Under Trump 2024, the pain of fascism is shared by more groups of people. More people are in the undesirables group, and more are exposed to state violence.
Under Biden, it was more heavily concentrated just on Black people.
"Trump is worse!" does not mean "Biden was awesome!"
Under Biden, it was more heavily concentrated just on Black people.
"Trump is worse!" does not mean "Biden was awesome!"
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Again, this take is why Trump is president today. 🤷🏿♂️
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
The Biden years were really good years; outside being very personally unlucky, if you couldn't make it use of that labor market, and those conditions, then that's kind of a fucking you problem.
December 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Again, this take is why Trump is president today. 🤷🏿♂️
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
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67 people-tracking Flock cameras across the U.S. were live-streaming on the internet, easily accessible with no login needed, @404media.co & @bennjordan.bsky.social found.
We know of five compromised Flock cams in Colorado.
One belongs to Douglas County, and it's at an open space trailhead.
We know of five compromised Flock cams in Colorado.
One belongs to Douglas County, and it's at an open space trailhead.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
67 people-tracking Flock cameras across the U.S. were live-streaming on the internet, easily accessible with no login needed, @404media.co & @bennjordan.bsky.social found.
We know of five compromised Flock cams in Colorado.
One belongs to Douglas County, and it's at an open space trailhead.
We know of five compromised Flock cams in Colorado.
One belongs to Douglas County, and it's at an open space trailhead.
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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This thread is not to minimize the horrors of CECOT.
This thread is to say that I wish more people knew about and cared about how many innocent Black people have had their lives destroyed by the exact same horrors.
This tears Black families apart.
This thread is to say that I wish more people knew about and cared about how many innocent Black people have had their lives destroyed by the exact same horrors.
This tears Black families apart.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This thread is not to minimize the horrors of CECOT.
This thread is to say that I wish more people knew about and cared about how many innocent Black people have had their lives destroyed by the exact same horrors.
This tears Black families apart.
This thread is to say that I wish more people knew about and cared about how many innocent Black people have had their lives destroyed by the exact same horrors.
This tears Black families apart.
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Just gonna point out that the people who are resigning from Heritage Foundation NOW were fine with Project 2025.
Quitting because of a right-wing slapfight about exactly how much Nazism is acceptable is not the same as quitting because you fixed your moral compass.
Quitting because of a right-wing slapfight about exactly how much Nazism is acceptable is not the same as quitting because you fixed your moral compass.
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Just gonna point out that the people who are resigning from Heritage Foundation NOW were fine with Project 2025.
Quitting because of a right-wing slapfight about exactly how much Nazism is acceptable is not the same as quitting because you fixed your moral compass.
Quitting because of a right-wing slapfight about exactly how much Nazism is acceptable is not the same as quitting because you fixed your moral compass.
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Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Fine. Let's compare CECOT to being in solitary confinement in a US jail.
In both cases we have innocent people.
In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.
In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
In both cases we have innocent people.
In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.
In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane
YouTube video by Partners for Justice
m.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
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This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Feeling really good about my decisions earlier this year to take the money I was spending on paramount plus and wapo and increase my @rmpbs.bsky.social @coloradosun.com @sentinelcolorado.com @cprnews.bsky.social and @propublica.org contributions
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Feeling really good about my decisions earlier this year to take the money I was spending on paramount plus and wapo and increase my @rmpbs.bsky.social @coloradosun.com @sentinelcolorado.com @cprnews.bsky.social and @propublica.org contributions
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Everyplace I have worked ever as a professional has had a group of white men with the same name that was bigger than the group of black people. Currently we have more white women with MY name in the part of the org than we do black employees.
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Everyplace I have worked ever as a professional has had a group of white men with the same name that was bigger than the group of black people. Currently we have more white women with MY name in the part of the org than we do black employees.
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Here's some white pride: Jim Brown was a proud white man. He was proud of being white! He was also super anti-racist.
But y'all don't want to put up statues of him? Why not?
If you kept slaves and stole from Black people? He would steal from you.
Closest thing to Robin Hood in the past 200 years.
But y'all don't want to put up statues of him? Why not?
If you kept slaves and stole from Black people? He would steal from you.
Closest thing to Robin Hood in the past 200 years.
John Brown’s Last Speech Performed by David Strathairn
YouTube video by ZinnEdProject
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Here's some white pride: Jim Brown was a proud white man. He was proud of being white! He was also super anti-racist.
But y'all don't want to put up statues of him? Why not?
If you kept slaves and stole from Black people? He would steal from you.
Closest thing to Robin Hood in the past 200 years.
But y'all don't want to put up statues of him? Why not?
If you kept slaves and stole from Black people? He would steal from you.
Closest thing to Robin Hood in the past 200 years.
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If liberals need to give up Clinton to stop Trump, then that’s just the cost of justice. I personally see it as a BOGO deal on shitty men we’re better off without.
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If liberals need to give up Clinton to stop Trump, then that’s just the cost of justice. I personally see it as a BOGO deal on shitty men we’re better off without.
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At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?”
2 Students at Brown Witnessed School Shootings as Children
Both women said the shooting on Saturday had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime.
nyti.ms
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?”
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A nice thread from Guy on JP's comments yesterday on NFP growth being overstated.
To which I will add a caveat - the birth/death model is not the principal driver of the wedge between CES and QCEW these last two years.
(Warning, statistical esoterica ahead) 🧵1/9
To which I will add a caveat - the birth/death model is not the principal driver of the wedge between CES and QCEW these last two years.
(Warning, statistical esoterica ahead) 🧵1/9
An explainer for Fed Chair Powell's comment about nonfarm payroll growth being overstated, which IMHO is being blown out of proportion:
1/ In yesterday's press conference, Powell said there is an overcount of ~60K/month in NFP, which has set off a new round of hyperventilation.
1/ In yesterday's press conference, Powell said there is an overcount of ~60K/month in NFP, which has set off a new round of hyperventilation.
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A nice thread from Guy on JP's comments yesterday on NFP growth being overstated.
To which I will add a caveat - the birth/death model is not the principal driver of the wedge between CES and QCEW these last two years.
(Warning, statistical esoterica ahead) 🧵1/9
To which I will add a caveat - the birth/death model is not the principal driver of the wedge between CES and QCEW these last two years.
(Warning, statistical esoterica ahead) 🧵1/9
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Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
@peark.es seems real bad that the fed chair doesn't trust the job numbers
L - Last week.
R - This week.
R - This week.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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More general than media consumption, the culture of competitive discourse for social
status is classed and gendered out the wazoo. I hate it. And I don’t have to do it anymore so I don’t.
status is classed and gendered out the wazoo. I hate it. And I don’t have to do it anymore so I don’t.
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
More general than media consumption, the culture of competitive discourse for social
status is classed and gendered out the wazoo. I hate it. And I don’t have to do it anymore so I don’t.
status is classed and gendered out the wazoo. I hate it. And I don’t have to do it anymore so I don’t.