Lynne Cripe, PhD
@lynnecripe.bsky.social
CEO The KonTerra Group | International Humanitarian and Development Staff Care
Also passionate about #abortionaccess, #immigrationjustice, #baking 🧁 , and #cats 🐈
Also passionate about #abortionaccess, #immigrationjustice, #baking 🧁 , and #cats 🐈
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
THEY. HAVE. NO. SHAME.
How do you not know this by now?
How do you not know this by now?
Hassan: My vote was to do two things: 1) Make sure the government is functioning… 2) continue the fight to a realistic platform to get the premium tax cuts done. If that is not successful, then shame on the Republican Party and shame on Donald Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
THEY. HAVE. NO. SHAME.
How do you not know this by now?
How do you not know this by now?
I spent last evening at a volunteer-led fundraiser for HIV NGOs around the world who have been left high and dry because of the illegal dismantling of USAID. Most of the attendees were un- or underemployed aid workers. Rounds has done nothing to prevent either.
He can pound sand. Do your job.
He can pound sand. Do your job.
GOP Senator Mike Rounds on the Senate staying in session this weekend:
“There's a lot of people that have got other plans in terms of things they need to do as well and if they're going to come here and sit, they're not going to be very happy,”
Safe to say this is the general feeling ..
“There's a lot of people that have got other plans in terms of things they need to do as well and if they're going to come here and sit, they're not going to be very happy,”
Safe to say this is the general feeling ..
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I spent last evening at a volunteer-led fundraiser for HIV NGOs around the world who have been left high and dry because of the illegal dismantling of USAID. Most of the attendees were un- or underemployed aid workers. Rounds has done nothing to prevent either.
He can pound sand. Do your job.
He can pound sand. Do your job.
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
Not the most important issue tonight by any stretch of the imagination, but can anyone tell me where @nicollewallace.bsky.social got the sweater she’s wearing on @msnbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Not the most important issue tonight by any stretch of the imagination, but can anyone tell me where @nicollewallace.bsky.social got the sweater she’s wearing on @msnbc.com
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
bit.ly
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
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Today, I am making a long overdue post, adding USAID to Courage is Contagious
On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:
On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today, I am making a long overdue post, adding USAID to Courage is Contagious
On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:
On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:
Some USAID love from Keri Russell ♥️
Keri Russell says she’s “honored” to depict a civil servant in “The Diplomat”: “I just feel like they’re this invisible army of our world right now, of our country especially.” #TAF25 bit.ly/3IkhDd9
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Some USAID love from Keri Russell ♥️
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Note, they are looking for RIF'd employees to sign too. Take a look and consider signing.
Fellow Feds, Huddies, please consider signing. You should feel free to do so anonymously if that makes you most comfortable. Please know there are folks within the Agency who continue to fight on your behalf and care deeply about our collective future.
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Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach
Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Note, they are looking for RIF'd employees to sign too. Take a look and consider signing.
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COMING UP: The fate of hundreds of unaccompanied minor children hangs in the balance as a federal judge, Tim Kelly, weighs whether to block their summary removal from the United States.
At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
September 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
COMING UP: The fate of hundreds of unaccompanied minor children hangs in the balance as a federal judge, Tim Kelly, weighs whether to block their summary removal from the United States.
At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation.
Follow along ⬇️ 🧵
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As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
September 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
This excellent article by @annabower.bsky.social documents efforts to prevent the illegal deportation of unaccompanied children to Guatemala.
While the cruelty of the regime is well established, there is something so depraved about the deliberate harm inflicted on children.
While the cruelty of the regime is well established, there is something so depraved about the deliberate harm inflicted on children.
NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night.
But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that.
My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that.
My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This excellent article by @annabower.bsky.social documents efforts to prevent the illegal deportation of unaccompanied children to Guatemala.
While the cruelty of the regime is well established, there is something so depraved about the deliberate harm inflicted on children.
While the cruelty of the regime is well established, there is something so depraved about the deliberate harm inflicted on children.
This thread 👇🏻
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This thread 👇🏻
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When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
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"Dismantling the US Agency for International Development will cost more than $6 billion, including hundreds of millions needed to fight legal challenges over the shutdown and dismissal of thousands of its workers, according to a State Department draft assessment."
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USAID Shutdown Costs Top $6 Billion, Internal Estimate Shows
The estimate, included in a seven-page memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, raises questions about how much President Donald Trump will ultimately save taxpayers by closing USAID and othe...
news.bgov.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"Dismantling the US Agency for International Development will cost more than $6 billion, including hundreds of millions needed to fight legal challenges over the shutdown and dismissal of thousands of its workers, according to a State Department draft assessment."
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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Incredible reporting by the Washington Post on the Trump administration's hurried, lawless effort to carry out illegal renditions to El Salvador - to terrorize people. (Including how they violated court directives.)
Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison
The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Incredible reporting by the Washington Post on the Trump administration's hurried, lawless effort to carry out illegal renditions to El Salvador - to terrorize people. (Including how they violated court directives.)
Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
That is some moral clarity.
“This is violence disguised as law.”
“This is violence disguised as law.”
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That is some moral clarity.
“This is violence disguised as law.”
“This is violence disguised as law.”
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Friends and former USAID global public health professionals have launched an emergency campaign to support high-impact local HIV organizations with stop gap funding. Please consider supporting to directly help them continue HIV services in the near term while they plan for the future. 🧵1
A Crisis in Care: Urgent Funding Needed to Sustain Lifesaving HIV Services - GlobalGiving
The abrupt termination of USAID-supported HIV programs has created a devastating crisis for vulnerable communities, leaving children, families, and at-risk populations without essential services. Thes...
www.globalgiving.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Friends and former USAID global public health professionals have launched an emergency campaign to support high-impact local HIV organizations with stop gap funding. Please consider supporting to directly help them continue HIV services in the near term while they plan for the future. 🧵1
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ALERT: Are you the State Dept or USAID? I’m looking for info on repurposing unused USAID funds for ICE and mass deportation. Contact me on Signal at joshtpm.99 you can also reach me with encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
ALERT: Are you the State Dept or USAID? I’m looking for info on repurposing unused USAID funds for ICE and mass deportation. Contact me on Signal at joshtpm.99 you can also reach me with encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com
This seems... not great.
Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut
Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.
Let them be ill: MAHA!
www.nbcnews.com/heal...
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Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.
Let them be ill: MAHA!
www.nbcnews.com/heal...
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Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut
Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.
www.nbcnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This seems... not great.