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Melisa Garcia
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Melisa Garcia, M.F.A., Ph.D. •🇸🇻 🇬🇹• Poeta • First Gen Educator • University of San Francisco Rhet & Lang. Assistant Professor • Orig. 562LBC
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One of my students is in need of financial assistance to continue going to school. She’s a First Gen Latina, daughter of a migrant single mom. She is majoring in engineering and is brilliant! Please donate even $10 dollars to help her complete her tuition payment.

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Donate to Support a First-Generation Latina Engineer, organized by Stephanie Castrejon
Hello, my name is Stephanie Castrejon. I'm a first-generation college s… Stephanie Castrejon needs your support for Support a First-Generation Latina Engineer
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Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.
March 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Twitter is down. Tesla stock is plummeting. SpaceX’s rocket imploded.

All owned by the same guy who’s now in charge of our federal government.
March 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
North bay sunset
March 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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One of my students is in need of financial assistance to continue going to school. She’s a First Gen Latina, daughter of a migrant single mom. She is majoring in engineering and is brilliant! Please donate even $10 dollars to help her complete her tuition payment.

gofund.me/44cb730c
Donate to Support a First-Generation Latina Engineer, organized by Stephanie Castrejon
Hello, my name is Stephanie Castrejon. I'm a first-generation college s… Stephanie Castrejon needs your support for Support a First-Generation Latina Engineer
gofund.me
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
One of my students is in need of financial assistance to continue going to school. She’s a First Gen Latina, daughter of a migrant single mom. She is majoring in engineering and is brilliant! Please donate even $10 dollars to help her complete her tuition payment.

gofund.me/44cb730c
Donate to Support a First-Generation Latina Engineer, organized by Stephanie Castrejon
Hello, my name is Stephanie Castrejon. I'm a first-generation college s… Stephanie Castrejon needs your support for Support a First-Generation Latina Engineer
gofund.me
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
not getting on an airplane for a long long time. I’m scared now. ☹️
February 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.
January 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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“We want you to know that we’re not just the uniform that we have, which is the inmate firefighting uniform. It’s a big impact on fighting these fires, because we do what most people don’t want to physically do.”

www.hcn.org/articles/wha...
What it’s like to be an incarcerated firefighter  - High Country News
Eddie Herrera, a formerly incarcerated firefighter, talks about the job and how he sees what’s happening in Los Angeles.
www.hcn.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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“Whether we’re in the United States, whether we’re in Guatemala, (or) we’re crossing borders, we have the right to exist as an Indigenous person, and all the rights that stem from that.”

The latest from our Indigenous Affairs Desk Associate Editor Anna V. Smith.

www.hcn.org/articles/thi...
‘This is about power’: Indigenous immigrants face a second Trump administration - High Country News
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to Indigenous people.
www.hcn.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
my mom works at a predominately Latino and Black elementary school as a rec aide in Long Beach. Today she said to me “today was a stressful day seeing so many people filled with fear and pain”. My mom is a tough woman and she’ll go to bat for anyone. the pain and fear in her voice doesn’t escape me
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Just a reminder.
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I never want to hear that the GOP is the party of law & order again… ever.
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
My therapist is in for one tomorrow … anyone else having a session or two this week?
January 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Reading is super important, but understanding what you read and synthesizing it with the rest of the world around you is kind of a critical piece that people who make consuming books their whole personality seem to leave out intentionally, and that is why everyone gives you shit all the time btw.
January 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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💗✊
January 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok
January 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
today has crushed me but my soul and beliefs are still intact
January 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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This morning we had our The Way We Get Through This Is Together conversation, an architect and five writers, talked about kindness, generosity, hope, community, storytelling, and it was everything I hoped for. If you want to watch, here it is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Guardian vs. NYT. You know who's going to call things by their true names and who's not even gonna give you syrup with that waffle.

Guardian: "Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes....
January 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
extremely anxious
January 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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January 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM