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spweston.bsky.social
Working to reduce COVID, strengthen democracy, and build learning systems that equip every Kentuckian to flourish.
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When any of us, the people of the USA, want to see the government records of our own country, we’re minding our own business. Our inquiries are per se legitimate.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump has turned his back on the world’s most vulnerable people by banning refugees and cutting foreign aid programs. Today, we stand up. Introduced a resolution to honor World Refugee Day and reiterate our moral responsibility to help those fleeing unimaginable circumstances.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

submitted 7 days ago • 514 comments

We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

submitted 28 days ago • 336 comments

"Ours is the vision and ours the growing reality of a great society in which the accidents of race and color, parentage and poverty, location and geography, will not be allowed to dim the light of human hope and to cripple the possibilities of human growth." Ned Breathitt of Ky. #Altcitizen #AllofUs

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Mayor Baraka’s arrest during an oversight visit to an ICE facility in Newark is shocking overreach of power, even by Trump standards. This is straight from the authoritarian playbook. Trump and his people want to silence anyone who seeks to hold them accountable.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Finally! A win for NC voters, but unfortunately, the damage has been done. Judge Griffin’s refusal to accept the results of this election for more than 6 months – and his attempt to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters – was absolutely shameful.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Stand in the shame, y'all.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Generations of Americans have trusted the Social Security Administration with their private information. Yet, in a few short months, the Trump administration and DOGE have shattered trust that took decades to earn—trust that may never be regained. New from @mollyww.bsky.social:

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments