Kristina
@houstoncoen.bsky.social
🌮 aficionado, Educator, Historian in training, mother of three tiny humans & two adopted 🐶 🐶 , wife 😍, and proud Latina 💃 Views are my own
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I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
April 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
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The Trump administration will begin to withhold some federal funding from Planned Parenthood starting Tuesday, a move that will curtail access to services including cancer screenings and affordable birth control, the organization said.
Trump administration cuts some funds to Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood said on Monday it had received notice that the administration would withhold Title X funding from nine of its affiliates effective Tuesday.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Trump administration will begin to withhold some federal funding from Planned Parenthood starting Tuesday, a move that will curtail access to services including cancer screenings and affordable birth control, the organization said.
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No criminal record, no gang ties, no tattoos, applied for asylum, father of a 9-year-old, government's case full of errors, sent to mega-prison anyway amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
March 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
No criminal record, no gang ties, no tattoos, applied for asylum, father of a 9-year-old, government's case full of errors, sent to mega-prison anyway amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Are the same that burn crosses
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Are the same that burn crosses
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a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
web.archive.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
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In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
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“The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.”
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
November 19, 2024 at 2:41 AM
“The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.”
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
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Texas Republicans have pre-filed bills to ban websites like Plan C Pills and Hey Jane, which help people order abortion pills by mail, and reclassify abortion pills as a "Schedule IV" drug under the state's Controlled Substances Act. The state already imposes a total abortion ban:
Texas GOP Wants to Ban Websites With Abortion Info, Reclassify Abortion Pills
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Texas Republicans have pre-filed bills to ban websites like Plan C Pills and Hey Jane, which help people order abortion pills by mail, and reclassify abortion pills as a "Schedule IV" drug under the state's Controlled Substances Act. The state already imposes a total abortion ban:
The word of the day for the next four years 🤦🏻♀️
November 13, 2024 at 9:57 PM
The word of the day for the next four years 🤦🏻♀️
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This report from @ahahistorians.bsky.social came out just in time. I fear that history/social studies teachers are going to face a level of scrutiny that we have not seen in a very long time. Familiarize yourself with it. Stand up for our teachers! 🗃️ www.historians.org/teaching-lea...
American Lesson Plan | American Historical Association
American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools reports on insights gathered during a two-year exploration of secondary US history education.
www.historians.org
November 12, 2024 at 12:13 PM
This report from @ahahistorians.bsky.social came out just in time. I fear that history/social studies teachers are going to face a level of scrutiny that we have not seen in a very long time. Familiarize yourself with it. Stand up for our teachers! 🗃️ www.historians.org/teaching-lea...
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For the evening crowd: Some thoughts about why we should resist referring to Donald Trump as a 'Confederate President.' 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump is Not a 'Confederate President'
You are excused if you thought otherwise.Do you find value in my writing and observations.
kevinmlevin.substack.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:48 PM
For the evening crowd: Some thoughts about why we should resist referring to Donald Trump as a 'Confederate President.' 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Feels like a blue sky Sunday kinda of day. 🥰 building my community back from the bad place 🔥one follow at a time
November 10, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Feels like a blue sky Sunday kinda of day. 🥰 building my community back from the bad place 🔥one follow at a time
Loving all of these great starter packs 💕
November 10, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Loving all of these great starter packs 💕
Good morning y’all ☀️
November 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Good morning y’all ☀️
Wishing I was at this panel 😢
Tonight at 8 PM: #AHA24 plenary, The Politicization of History Education at the State Level: Legislation and Standards, with chair Amna Khalid and panelists Julia Akinyi Brookins, Nathan D. Connolly, Stephen Jackson, Lawrence Paska, and Jonathan Zimmerman.
January 5, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Wishing I was at this panel 😢
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New in Public Notice: Why school vouchers programs like the one on the cusp of becoming law in Texas are even worse than you think
School vouchers are even worse than you think
Republicans in states like Texas complain that public schools are failing, then starve them under the guise of "choice."
www.publicnotice.co
October 18, 2023 at 1:41 PM
New in Public Notice: Why school vouchers programs like the one on the cusp of becoming law in Texas are even worse than you think
Leaves are changing color and there is a crispness in the air— it’s John Brown day!
October 16, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Leaves are changing color and there is a crispness in the air— it’s John Brown day!
Don’t forget to leave out 🥛&🍪for Jason tonight! 💀
October 13, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Don’t forget to leave out 🥛&🍪for Jason tonight! 💀
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Hughes Van Ellis, one of three known remaining survivors of the massacre in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, died on Monday. He was 102.
Hughes Van Ellis, Tulsa Massacre Survivor, Dies at 102
Mr. Ellis was one of three known remaining survivors of the massacre, in which a white mob burned down the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla., killing as many as 300 Black residents.
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2023 at 12:11 AM
Hughes Van Ellis, one of three known remaining survivors of the massacre in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, died on Monday. He was 102.