Melanie Sonsteng-Person
Asst Prof of Social Work || PAR & Qual methodologist || Working with communities to interrupt racial & systemic trauma in K12 & higher education || Constant movement towards liberation || #Biking #Academia #Liberation #Climate #Plants #MidCenturyFurniture
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-Person“Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report’s authors said.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonWe are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/DB2iRVW
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonLast month, the company behind ChatGPT wrapped up a long-awaited restructure that that turned it into a for-profit entity valued at $500 billion, despite the fact that its products have yet to yield significant revenue streams.
- The number of times I’ve seen film crews at this park where people take naps and concerts happen… I will say it a million times. But the most dangerous thing in LA is the police (and now ICE).
- As a mental health professional, I approve The Bear season 4 finale. And anyone saying otherwise is a sadist.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonAs long as immigration sweeps are happening in the communities that farm workers live in, farm workers will continue being detained and deported. Farm workers deserve REAL protections, so they can continue working without fear. www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
- I love my little town. It was jam packed! We were corner hoping as each street corner had more and more folks join in.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonWhile some kids are spending #FathersDay with their dads, recent raids in farm worker communities means we have kids who are tracking their dads to detention centers with airtags. #WeFeedYou
- I’m so sick of hearing people get mad at news outlets owned by private corporations and the uber rich. Stop expecting them to be anything other than what they’ve always been and instead support independent news sources.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonRemigration is a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. This is neo-nazism.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonBy now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
- I spit out my drink with this conclusion hahahha
- This is horrifying
- Timeline cleanse
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonOh no, an "insurrection" of dancing Imagine being the sourpuss deploying 700 very expensive Marines to ... what? Make LA be the town from Footloose?
- This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids
- More accounts of what’s happening please
- I see tons of reposts of lies from Fox News and the govt. instead of reposting and giving them a platform let’s keep posting what’s happening on the ground. Trying to argue law, truth, and logic with these folks has never worked. Stop wasting your energy doing it.
- No uber. No uber eats.
- They’re making sure what they’re doing isn’t televised.
- I don’t know I feel like if AI can write a whole executive order and lay off half the federal workforce, it should automatically skip the intro of every show I rewatch
- Your tax dollars at work.
- They do whatever they want. They’re unhinged.
- Decades of evidence of terror from the LAPD.
- The LAPD is so violent
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonI am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
- Literally. Stop trying to get approval from the system.
- Peaceful protest don’t exist in LA cause the LAPD are violent af. LA unified school district has its own dedicated police department. We spend more on police in schools than mental health services. Folks not from LA can go ahead and stfu about anything peaceful now.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonDolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonThis is the pain and fear and moral injury we are trapped inside in the USA. This is how bad things are, now. Not even 5 months into this presidency.
- Ok can someone please tell me if I can go to Canada to get vaccines every year?
- Can we reframe “research” to internet searching. Cause I’m tired of people who have never even taking a research class talking about they did their research.
- I think most folks from LA would claim a dirty dog over a dodger dog.
- Does anyone know about potential vaccine access in other countries if we can’t have them here?
- I feel like they should have a masking section on airplanes. It’s only logical.
- Has anyone else heard from CSWE re APM? I received one acceptance last week and haven’t heard a word on anything else. Wondering what’s going on here.
- I literally teach my social change students that engaging in movement work is simply a matter of showing up and letting people put you in leadership roles.
- I think people are desperate to believe that personal choices are what keep us healthy. There is more control in that belief than trust in a medical system controlled by insurance companies.
- Reposted by Melanie Sonsteng-PersonToday, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
- Ok folks teaching social welfare policy in the Fall…: what new readings are you including in your syllabi? I just edited my assignments to align to the political moment but I need some ideas for readings as well.
