Bethany Letiecq

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

UVA president situation was Spanberger's first test: She failed The Scott Beardsley appointment was the first realpolitik political test for Abigail Spanberger. She failed, miserably.

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Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

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ICE Wants to Buy Warehouses for Mass Detention. Communities Are Fighting Back. People across the political spectrum are realizing these federal detention warehouses will harm their communities.

The overdue firing of Kristi Noem will have no bearing on the continued plans for unwanted warehousing of human beings across the country.
The spotlight should focus on these warehouses (de facto concentration camps) during Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing.
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Texas Public Policy Foundation Advances “Election Judge” Training - EXPOSEDbyCMD The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a well-established right-wing think tank based in Austin, has launched a new funding stream well beyond its home state to support groups with a history of election ...

TPPF’s top identifiable donor is the billionaire Charles Koch, who has given $14.6 million…

Glad to see Koch engaged in such positive social change LOL…

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Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

The White House wants an extra $50 billion to fund Trump’s illegal war.

That’s on top of the Pentagon’s $1T budget — which Trump is trying to boost to $1.5T.

Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private corporations and the Pentagon has failed eight financial audits in a row.

To be clear, whenever fascist republican scum like Karoline Leavitt mention President Obama’s middle name Hussein, it’s not to show respect, it’s for white supremacy purposes and to somehow paint him as complicit with terrorists. Their white hoods are always on display.

“Scores of children…” murdered by the United States.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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Jeff Stahler
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Can't you just hear the pundits talking about a divided America and asking in earnest, "How can we work together to bridge our differences?"

GW sold Virginia campus for $427 million to Amazon for data center development The deal transfers all of GW’s roughly 122 acres of property in Loudoun County, Virginia, to ADS for $427,299,350 — roughly $3.5 million an acre — according to real estate records.

1. Big tech funds MAGA

2. MAGA wages war on universities

3. University revenues plummet

4. Big tech buys university assets

5. Data centers literally replace higher education

THIS IS WHY we need collective bargaining! @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot

Don't kick us out of Collective Bargaining!
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Give higher ed workers a chance to build a better higher ed system for our students, our workers, and all of VA! @aaup.org @aft.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @ucwva.bsky.social @unitehere.org @seiu.org

VA Dems ran on a pro-worker agenda, yet are leaving workers behind @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org

Don’t cut higher ed workers out of collective bargaining!
@abigailspanberger.com @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

The majority of faculty on campus work on semester contracts w/no job security. Even those with tenure can be denied due process. Don’t cut us out of collective bargaining. The higher ed lobbyist agenda is NOT pro-worker! @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

““He [the military Commander] said that ‘President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth’”, the NCO added.”

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Fired VSU faculty members demand answers, jobs back Six faculty members say they were abruptly fired with no explanation last year from Virginia State University. VSU isn’t commenting.

All faculty need collective bargaining! As VSU demonstrates so clearly, tenure and due process can be ignored by administrators who are unwillingly to uphold policies. With a union contract, this would not happen!
@donscott757.bsky.social @ssurovell.bsky.social

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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Pentagon to Curb Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks

White supremacy isn’t going down easy in America.

Pentagon to Curb Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

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VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

We will fight this Virginia State. Your treatment of these faculty was reprehensible. We love our HBCUs, but @aaup.org & @aft.org will not stand for disrespectful treatment of members! Solidarity @ucwva.bsky.social ❤️ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Well over half of VA profs are untenured and many struggle to pay the bills. This is 2x true for our adjunct profs. As Prof Letiecq says, our working conditions are our students' learning conditions! When we struggle, they struggle. We need collective bargaining NOW!

Collective Bargaining is essential… @local6741.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aaupmason.bsky.social

Don’t cut higher ed workers out!

Don’t cut home health care workers out of collective bargaining! ALL public sector workers deserve the right to bargain for better working conditions! We are in solidarity @seiu.org @aft.org @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social @aaupmason.bsky.social @unitehere.org @ucwva.bsky.social