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Frances
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💙 American Fdn for Suicide Prevention South TX Chapter Board Member | 👩🏻‍🏫 George W. Bush Institute VLP Scholar | 🧠 Relentless advocate for #mentalhealth & #suicideprevention |
📚 Bibliophile | 🦝 Aficionada | 🏳️‍🌈
The Leaders Readers Network is doing incredible work in #SanAntonio providing #books, supplies, and projects to support early #literacy in underfunded schools! Make a donation today during the #BigGiveSA: www.thebiggivesa.org/p2p/437178/frances-arias-21e5ef64-49bf-42c5-8f50-4a5ff28d23f9
September 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Gender-based violence and domestic violence prevention organizations are scrambling in the wake of the federal freeze, seeing it as a sign of what's to come. Some are proactively removing any information that they feel could risk federal grants. @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...
Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze
Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services.
19thnews.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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We @propublica.org are tracking who is working with Elon Musk and what they are doing.

We have 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

Help us investigate and send us tips 🔎: www.propublica.org/tips/federal...

projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
February 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’ve never had this alert pop up when I receive this newsletter from the VA until now. @democrats-veterans.house.gov
February 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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If you know and love RANGE you know part of our charm is our scrappiness. In that spirit, we are seeking donations of a few small to normal sized desks for our newsroom (right now we are cursed with small office, big desk, bad layout) and it's making it hard to work here! DM us if you can help :)
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Literally if you are a reporter with any kind of a backbone, you should take Elon musk’s threats as a signal to be even more fucking annoying
"SENT VIA X: @elonmusk"

FOIA his Twitter DMs
Interim US attorney Ed Martin, whose office just fired a bunch of J6 prosecutors, is now telling Elon Musk they will prosecute anyone who "targets" DOGE employees. Presumably this is in response to a Wired article naming some, and a protest at OPM that occurred yesterday.
February 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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You should definitely contact your congresspeople, Texas. Wild that Abbott is down with this, the night before his state of the state address. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/art...
Trump orders tariff on Mexico, Canada and China, putting Texas trade at risk
President Donald Trump ordered 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% tariffs on China to go into effect Tuesday.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Please share: 2024 CDC/ACIP guidelines #IDsky #medID #pharmacy

web.archive.org/web/20240719...

The CDC vaccine app is still fully functional and has the 2025 recommendations
February 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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30M users 1B posts
🤝
bluesky milestone
achieved this week
February 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia.

Instead, all notifications will be made on X.

We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.
February 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#PublicHealth info from our Canadian neighbors. Please share!!

www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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On the back page of the @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
Free paper. Cut it out. Keep it on you. Share it around.
February 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Though the Justice Dept has deleted information about its Jan 6 prosecutions from its website, a federal judge has issued an order listing and chronicling all of the cases and prison terms

Here:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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We were never able to write a second hit because of dei
February 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Everyone should read this but especially our folks in federal agencies, where the walls have ears.
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
ssd.eff.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
January 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The new website is already up. They've even got a section where you can send her a note, so I sent her a note saying how proud I am/we are to support her.
kamalaharris.com
The Office of Kamala D. Harris
Learn about Kamala D. Harris's journey as a leader and advocate for the people—from District Attorney to Vice President of the United States. Stay connected with her office and contact Vice President ...
kamalaharris.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My Facebook account automatically followed the pages of DJT, JD, and The White House. Check your activity log on Facebook. I blocked the pages.
January 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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NY Times: The mother of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 calling him an “abuser of women.”

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
November 30, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. @eff.org has been maintaining these resources for years: ssd.eff.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Is there a reliable medication tracking app that won’t farm or sell your data?
November 27, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Is anyone else not seeing their Bluesky notifications update correctly? I have the banners showing notifications on my Home Screen but not in the app’s notifications section.
November 27, 2024 at 12:11 AM