leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮
Founder @stemedify.bsky.social, core organizer @standupforscience.bsky.social • Psych Ph.D., Latina Sinvergüenza™️, y disabled nightmare dressed like a daydream ✨ • “Like Regina George but for a good cause”
📍Los Angeles | 🔗 https://www.leslie-bern.com
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Part of what makes Mamdani so great is that he’s just like… a normal nice guy. He’s reacting like a human being. Too many politicians have faux culture war brain worms and it makes them weird and offputting.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Again they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad
- Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up. That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮in stranger things if you have spent a period in the upside down can you deduct that time from gross income
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Half this site is arguing about OPSEC while suburban women are out there going full Ronald Speirs
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Ditto "contrarian" or "heterodox"
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Washington Post reporter laid off while freezing in a war zone by one of the world’s richest people.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS NEW CALIFORNIA VOTING MAP FOR MIDTERMS
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮just think about how incredibly out of bounds your sexual ethics must be to get the government of france sounding this prot-pilled
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮it goes without saying but I don't think the 3rd richest person on the planet is destroying the prestige newspaper he bought because of the finances of the newspaper business
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮If the product were that good you wouldn’t have to force people to use it. This is insane.
- Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com. HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter" That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮They called it AI and now I gotta debate the definition of intelligence with my barber
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Live your life so that you never have to publish an op-ed in the campus newspaper about your connection with Jeffrey Epstein dukechronicle.com/article/my-c...
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- exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
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- BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮fund research on menopause you cowards
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
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View full threadReposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮The administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮This article is almost 10 years old but remains evergreen. "The line on men has been that they're the only gender qualified to hold important jobs and too incompetent to be responsible for their conduct."
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮It's wrong that they won't let me live in a 55+ community simply due to my age. They should let you in if you match the "general vibe"
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
- Reposted by leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽🏫 🇳🇮Reposted with alt text And a way to heartily cuss out what ever editor decided to write that description Bad Bunny is American , no matter what part his citizenship by BIRTH for ALL purposes is AMERICAN Puta