Steve Newman
@stevenewman.bsky.social
Keely's husband, Tal and Sasha's dad, assoc prof of English at Temple (opinions my own), labor unionist at TAUP (AFT #4531).
Huh--it's like Project 2025 is actually a thing. Who would thunk that Trump and his minions were lying about that? So out of character!
January 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Huh--it's like Project 2025 is actually a thing. Who would thunk that Trump and his minions were lying about that? So out of character!
She is a hero, & we ALL need to hear this message and to see how to speak truth to power. It will almost certainly have no effect on its target audience, who has a blackened mass of dead worms where his heart should be, and it sickens me we have to plead for decency.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...
1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
She is a hero, & we ALL need to hear this message and to see how to speak truth to power. It will almost certainly have no effect on its target audience, who has a blackened mass of dead worms where his heart should be, and it sickens me we have to plead for decency.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...
Yes, we should point to the outrage of pardoning rioters who did grievous harm to police officers. But let's please not lose sight of the fact that even if no police officers had been injured, Trump just pardoned more than a thousand people seeking to overturn a fair democratic election.
January 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yes, we should point to the outrage of pardoning rioters who did grievous harm to police officers. But let's please not lose sight of the fact that even if no police officers had been injured, Trump just pardoned more than a thousand people seeking to overturn a fair democratic election.
And that's just for starters. . .
In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.
January 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
And that's just for starters. . .
Our democratic republic is in grave danger. We need to figure out how to preserve it and to protect the most vulnerable among this. My hate for this woeful failure of a human being is just one smidgen less than my love for my country--I hate him in part BECAUSE I love my country.
January 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Our democratic republic is in grave danger. We need to figure out how to preserve it and to protect the most vulnerable among this. My hate for this woeful failure of a human being is just one smidgen less than my love for my country--I hate him in part BECAUSE I love my country.
Not listening to The Great Bloviator. Saving my energy for the fight ahead.
January 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Not listening to The Great Bloviator. Saving my energy for the fight ahead.
Sen. Reed is doing a fine job laying out why it should be IMPOSSIBLE for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as SecDef. If only I were more confident that the truth of his awful record on so many fronts were sufficient to lead to his rejection by the Senate.
January 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Sen. Reed is doing a fine job laying out why it should be IMPOSSIBLE for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as SecDef. If only I were more confident that the truth of his awful record on so many fronts were sufficient to lead to his rejection by the Senate.
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The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴 🌐
Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’
YouTube video by IASSL
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January 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴 🌐
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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We can't get bogged down in every little thing he does and says. He's trying to burn us out and make us give up.
“For my next attention seeking trick, I will have you concentrate on Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Panama Canal—instead of my absurdly unqualified cabinet picks or that I have no real plans to fix the border or bring down food prices. Look, America, a rabbit!”
January 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We can't get bogged down in every little thing he does and says. He's trying to burn us out and make us give up.
I am NOT apologizing to the rest of the world for this grasping, corrupt, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, and otherwise-bigoted lunatic. ALONG WITH SO MANY OF YOU, I WORKED MY BUTT OFF TO STOP HIM FROM GETTING BACK IN POWER. But those who voted for him should. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Trump Suggests Taking Greenland and Panama Canal by Force: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I am NOT apologizing to the rest of the world for this grasping, corrupt, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, and otherwise-bigoted lunatic. ALONG WITH SO MANY OF YOU, I WORKED MY BUTT OFF TO STOP HIM FROM GETTING BACK IN POWER. But those who voted for him should. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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The French version of the Cass review. Make yourself aware of it and tell everyone. It even goes as far as to say that Cass is wrong.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The French version of the Cass review. Make yourself aware of it and tell everyone. It even goes as far as to say that Cass is wrong.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
January 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
If you voted for Trump, you not only betrayed this brave veteran and police officer, you betrayed the American ideals he put his life on the line for. No policy difference, no philosophical position could justify this undermining of our most fundamental beliefs or processes. tinyurl.com/muxm6y58
As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed'
A police officer defended the Capitol from violent rioters on Jan. 6. With President-elect Donald Trump poised to pardon the rioters, he now asks, "what did I risk my life for?"
tinyurl.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you voted for Trump, you not only betrayed this brave veteran and police officer, you betrayed the American ideals he put his life on the line for. No policy difference, no philosophical position could justify this undermining of our most fundamental beliefs or processes. tinyurl.com/muxm6y58
If you haven't read Elspeth Barker's _O Caledonia_ (1991), I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a brilliant, brief novel that combines the Gothic and bildungsroman in a particularly compelling way--luminous natural history writing combined with razor sharp social observation. #Bookthreads
January 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If you haven't read Elspeth Barker's _O Caledonia_ (1991), I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a brilliant, brief novel that combines the Gothic and bildungsroman in a particularly compelling way--luminous natural history writing combined with razor sharp social observation. #Bookthreads
I just got into a very unedifying 'debate' on Threads with a male TERF from the UK. When I asked him why he was so hostile to transwomen and not transmen, this was the response. Embarrassing and damaging incoherence and characteristic of the exchange on the whole.
December 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I just got into a very unedifying 'debate' on Threads with a male TERF from the UK. When I asked him why he was so hostile to transwomen and not transmen, this was the response. Embarrassing and damaging incoherence and characteristic of the exchange on the whole.
Utter, imperialist lunacy being normalized by a network watched by millions. Try not coddling the wannabe dictator so enthusiastically @cnn.com.
CNN is hopelessly broken.
1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.
1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.
December 24, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Utter, imperialist lunacy being normalized by a network watched by millions. Try not coddling the wannabe dictator so enthusiastically @cnn.com.
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Right wing voters' capacity to believe that none of the horrors GOPers *promise to do* will happen to them is nearly limitless.
Psst, y'all: you are "those people" to 45 and his minions. They hate you just like they hate everyone.
Psst, y'all: you are "those people" to 45 and his minions. They hate you just like they hate everyone.
December 24, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Right wing voters' capacity to believe that none of the horrors GOPers *promise to do* will happen to them is nearly limitless.
Psst, y'all: you are "those people" to 45 and his minions. They hate you just like they hate everyone.
Psst, y'all: you are "those people" to 45 and his minions. They hate you just like they hate everyone.
That face-eating leopard is gonna needed Ozempic. P
December 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
That face-eating leopard is gonna needed Ozempic. P
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Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️🌈
December 15, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️🌈