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Katie Van Winkle
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Doctor of theatre, student of (pre-)nursing. Adjunct / contingent / conditional. Austin. [she/her]
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch." That, Taher says, "is a lie."
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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americantheatre.org
Theater Latté Da is accepting applications through October 15 for its NEXT Generation Commission. This $20,000 commission supports the creation and development of a new musical theatre project by a creative team that includes women artists and/or artists of color.
www.latteda.org/next-generat...
Next Generation Commission — Theater Latté Da
Theater Latté Da’s NEXT Generation Commission is designed to support the early, generative stages of a new work—not one that is already in process. Teams may pitch a specific idea for a new musical or...
www.latteda.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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bestonetx.bsky.social
We have to keep saying it: There is "nothing* that Texas college faculty are prohibited by law from teaching.

Do not believe politicians who demand restrictions they never passed. Do not obey unconstitutional college policy. Do not self-censor. Do not comply.
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Sep 22
NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas school threatens to fire faculty if they discuss this topic
ASU says the new policy is in response to Texas law. But no such law banning discussions of trans people exists.
www.chron.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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utaustinaaup.bsky.social
act.aflcio.org/letters/tell...

Please sign this petition in support of free speech for professors and K-12 teachers
Tell Greg Abbott: Hands Off Our Freedom of Speech, Support Texas Educators!
Greg Abbott is using the Office of the Governor against Texas educators in unprecedented ways, calling for the firing of professors, public school teachers, and staff for opinions shared on their pers...
act.aflcio.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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utaustinaaup.bsky.social
Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd
September 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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texasaaup.bsky.social
🔔Our open letter to academic leaders in TX: “As pressures mount on TX public institutions of higher education, we write on behalf of faculty across the state to remind you of your obligations to protect academic freedom and due process.”

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September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
katievanwinkle.bsky.social
From Eric Garcia (Washington bureau chief for The Independent and the author of "We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation"). See 🧵 for more important quotes from the conversation and link.
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Sep 23
“What about autistic kids whose parents will buy this garbage? They are going to be subjected to horrible treatment & stigma. It’s also terrible because we are just getting to the point where we listen to autistic voices &value them. I don’t want to say we’re going back. We’re going somewhere worse”
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas school threatens to fire faculty if they discuss this topic
ASU says the new policy is in response to Texas law. But no such law banning discussions of trans people exists.
www.chron.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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susanschorn.bsky.social
The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney
September 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
katievanwinkle.bsky.social
do you remember the twenty-first night of september?

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9/21 - YouTube
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September 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
the sandwich crimes unit contemplates the incident
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Detective F: Not all the sandwiches were harmless. Some were clubs. People were too frightened of sandwiches to build a Subway in Georgetown. Officer K: I still have a scar from when I took a meatball sub to the chin in '96 and, afterward, got into an unrelated knife fight. Officer J: I started here after transferring from the bread-crimes division in France. I spent decades hunting down a man who stole bread one time. My name is Javert, but that's not important. His name was Jean Valjean. I also resented him because I had just the one name and he had two.
August 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
We'll need to see more "emergency media" classes in the next few years — both practical wrkshps (perhaps offered thru public libraries?*) and historical / political-econ analyses. This article could be a great addition.

* I've 🤔 organizing a Metro library wrkshp combining the critical + practical
August 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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asiafields.bsky.social
People who experienced homeless encampment sweeps in Washington state and Tennessee wrote about the impact it had on their lives.

Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, "My momma’s ashes were displayed on my table in my tent. I came back one day — and EVERYTHING was gone, including her ashes. They were clearly labled ‘In loving memory — my mom, my best friend…’ and her name. Her ashes were all that I had left of her. No one stored my stuff. I called tons of places and NO ONE knew anything. It is very difficult for me still, everyday. No warning, no remorse, nothing." A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “It’s hard to narrow my list down. One particularly devastating (for me) sweep took EVERYTHING I owned at the time I was gone from my spot for a couple nights. Save for my wallet, ID, and the clothes on my back, I had not brought anything with me. Unaware of the sweep, I returned to find my tent, my cot, all my clothing, several files with important document, literally everything; all of it, gone.” A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “Lost my clothes tents more than once all my personal items i.e. pictures family photos and kids birth certificates and it really sucked how they did it and bulldozed everything I owned litterally bulldozed it.” A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “Winter bedding & personal memorabilia pictures, things that can’t be replaced. One winter in the middle of the night they came and took bedding only now they mess with us every day now I try to keep it to a backpack and cart try to.”
February 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
If you'd like to pause your morning and have a little joyful cry... 🥹👇
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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collincornell.bsky.social
you’ll want to read this

“The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is joining forces with the two federally recognized tribes in Florida in the fight against Ron DeSantis and Florida’s rapid efforts to build a migrant detention center set to house 5,000 beds”
July 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul
A photograph of the Cave of Hands Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
katievanwinkle.bsky.social
"Friends of the Everglades and Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against [DHS], [ICE], the Florida Division of Emergency Management and Miami-Dade County regarding a reckless plan for a massive detention center in the heart of the Everglades..."

I just donated; maybe you will, too?
kebrightbill.bsky.social Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · Jul 2
Pro tip: Posting that as a white person you don't know how to help stop Alligator Alcatraz, but you'll post that it's bad, is performative nonsense. Take two seconds to find out that activists are asking people to donate to Friends of the Everglades to help fund the lawsuit.
Donate
www.everglades.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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carlygoodman.bsky.social
So if I had one piece of advice for 3 year olds it would be: Be less mercurial
June 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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murray.senate.gov
PLEASE READ and SHARE from the CHILDREN'S Hospital Association:

“Your child—regardless of their insurance status—could see the services they rely on reduced or eliminated... The bill amounts to fewer doctors and nurses to see your child, longer wait times, and sicker children."
June 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
As a member of ICE, you may be wondering: How are the people we thrust into our vans supposed to know that we are, in fact, acting under color of law and not just kidnapping them? Can I really do this job while wearing either an Army uniform that I have assembled myself in a confusing, over-the-top way or the same T-shirt I just wore to my failed custody hearing?
June 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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merovingians.bsky.social
the single image every genuinely freedom-loving american has been waiting for
June 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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tiffanycli.bsky.social
What’s the worst detail in this story?

The mother forced to use unclean water to make formula for her baby?

The child w/cancer now facing relapse symptoms?

The 16-year-old trying to be strong for her 2 younger siblings and mom, all trapped in the camp together?

This is America. Don’t look away.
valontheborder.bsky.social Valerie Gonzalez @valontheborder.bsky.social · Jun 21
NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.

apnews.com/article/migr...
New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water
A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.
apnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Awful: Trump just threatened to send troops into other cities. The conundrum is this: Faced with a president whose bad faith/willingness to invent fake pretexts for abusing his powers is limitless, the system is crashing, pushing us toward the abyss.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
The president just won a temporary victory in court on his troops in Los Angeles. His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward—well, us.
newrepublic.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
katievanwinkle.bsky.social
BookWoman is an Austin treasure. Perhaps you'll support them and find your next read at ebookwoman.com !
June 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM