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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
@priscillatotiya.bsky.social
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📍 reporting in El Paso, TX (elpasomatters.org)
🌎 past: Phoenix, Il-Gżira, München
✍️ public health, food, environment
✊ former Arizona Republic union member
🇹🇭 🇱🇦 daughter of immigrants
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Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
ujohnnyg.bsky.social
Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.
June 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
insideclimatenews.org
The Trump administration has waived environmental laws to move forward with a border wall through the rugged terrain of Mount Cristo Rey in New Mexico.
Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns - Inside Climate News
Environmental advocates warn that border wall construction on the rugged mountain could cause erosion and sever wildlife corridors. Customs and Border Protection says it is necessary to prevent border...
insideclimatenews.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
ujohnnyg.bsky.social
The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low.

www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...
U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
www.texastribune.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
ujohnnyg.bsky.social
After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...
After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.
www.texastribune.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
I got the chance to listen to multiple generations of Palestinians in El Paso share their family history, starting with expulsion from Palestine to building lives as a "minority among minorities" in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Read their stories here:
elpasomatters.org/2025/05/12/p...
Rooted in resilience: Palestinians build lives, community in El Paso
For Palestinians in El Paso, Israel’s assault on Gaza is a reminder of their family’s hundred years’ struggle.
elpasomatters.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
Our measles tracker is up! Infectious diseases do not know borders. With that in mind, we're collecting the latest updates on measles (sarampión) in the tri-state area of El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

elpasomatters.org/2025/05/01/e...
El Paso measles cases: Tracking Texas outbreak from the border
Updates on the Texas measles outbreak that had spread to El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and southern New Mexico.
elpasomatters.org
May 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
suhauna.bsky.social
A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants in LA and Orange counties whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins at ICE offices @melissagomez.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Southeast Asians in L.A. region are being detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins
A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins with immigra...
www.latimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
knibbs.bsky.social
SCOOP: Eli Lilly is now suing some bigger-name telehealth companies selling compounded tirzepatide like Henry Meds and Mochi. With @emilymullin.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/glp-1-...
Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.
www.wired.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
faignews.bsky.social
In latest interview, Mavericks GM Nico Harrison doubled down on your parents' decision to trade your childhood dog to a farm upstate.
April 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk.

From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide.

@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report:

elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...
The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain and how it impacts El Paso
From El Paso to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
elpasomatters.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
sourcenm.com
New Mexico health officials reported five additional measles cases Tuesday, including one child in Doña Ana County, which exposed people at a daycare and several hospital locations over the past two weeks.
Measles case reported for the first time in Doña Ana County • Source New Mexico
New Mexico health officials reported five new measles cases in children Tuesday including in Doña Ana County.
buff.ly
April 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
3 more measles cases, including at an El Paso high school, reported after Texas linked the first cases in the area to the ongoing outbreak:

elpasomatters.org/2025/04/11/e...
April 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
Measles cases have touched down in El Paso and across the border in Juárez.

500+ measles cases reported in Texas since Jan. plus 220+ cases in neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico after a person from the West Texas outbreak area traveled there.

elpasomatters.org/2025/04/08/f...
El Paso, Juárez confirm first measles cases of 2025
Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.
elpasomatters.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
Appreciate @latimes.com for referencing El Paso Matters reporting, connecting it to the bigger theme of justice and the political rhetoric right now.
April 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
El Paso has not posted its March numbers yet, but there have been 7 cases of Valley fever so far this year, likely an undercount.

READ MORE: elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...
April 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
natebrown.bsky.social
My version:

10 am: My “morning shed” — an Advil or two and chug water to shed the effect of last night’s beers.

10:15: Feed the guinea pigs.

10:30 am: “Morning cleanse” with a 3-in-1 cleaning product optimized for my hair, face and body by the German scientists at Nivea. 1/?
March 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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alt-dol.altgov.info
Trump has nominated a union buster to lead the NLRB.

The message is clear.
Trump Taps Morgan Lewis Attorney for NLRB General Counsel Post
President Donald Trump is nominating Crystal Carey, a partner at large management-side law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, to be National Labor Relations Board general counsel.
news.bloomberglaw.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
psskow.bsky.social
Really important story by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social for @elpasomatters.bsky.social about Valley fever in the El Paso area. “You have to wonder, for every case that’s diagnosed, how many cases go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed?” elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...
Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected
Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.
elpasomatters.org
March 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
Valley fever, endemic to the Southwest, claimed this El Paso mother’s life. Experts say lack of awareness leads to misdiagnosis and missed chances to treat infections.

elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...
Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected
Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.
elpasomatters.org
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
fidel.bsky.social
LA PARKA ass stutter step penalty from Raul
a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring
ALT: a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring
media.tenor.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
I can't with all these smug, short-term memory Gregg riders. The USMNT bar is so low that beating a weak Mexico and some CONCACAF teams has stagnated as the ceiling for success.

Poch took a big L this Nations League, but for ffs the US is not sniffing a World Cup final with GGG either.
March 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
West Texas measles outbreak has grown to nearly 300 cases in TX and New Mexico, 30+ hospitalizations, 2 deaths. Only 6 of all cases were confirmed to be vaccinated with at least 1 dose of the measles vaccine.

elpasomatters.org/2025/03/03/w...
Where to get measles vaccine in El Paso
Amid a Texas measles outbreak that claimed a child’s life, here’s how to get the vaccine in El Paso.
elpasomatters.org
March 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
priscillatotiya.bsky.social
Since publishing this on Sunday:
🔵 1 unvaccinated child died
🔵 34 more measles cases
🔵 2 more hospitalizations

Here's where El Paso's at with measles herd immunity, and how it compares to the rest of Texas:
elpasomatters.org/2025/02/23/m...
As West Texas measles outbreak spreads, how protected are El Paso school children?
The worst measles outbreak in Texas in decades is occurring mostly among unvaccinated children.
elpasomatters.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
ujohnnyg.bsky.social
In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.”

"The border has been secured,” he declared.

Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration.

www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas
Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.
www.texastribune.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
anniewaldman.bsky.social
NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work.

"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."

w/ @deldeib.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM