Victoria Criado
@victoriacriado.bsky.social
Mom, Latina, Comms, 401Love.
Thank you @iandonnis.bsky.social for uplifting this piece. One of the most heartfelt and powerful segments I’ve seen in a long time. It is difficult to watch, but if it feels safe for you to do so, I highly encourage you to try.
An important story www.cbsnews.com/news/memoria...
Memorializing the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings: "She was real. She was here."
For many parents of children killed in school shootings, bedrooms left behind are a devastating reminder of what was taken. Several parents share an emotional look inside these empty rooms.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thank you @iandonnis.bsky.social for uplifting this piece. One of the most heartfelt and powerful segments I’ve seen in a long time. It is difficult to watch, but if it feels safe for you to do so, I highly encourage you to try.
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A bright spot for Providence in today's new attendance data, as the only one of RI's largest 5 districts to get chronic absenteeism below pre-pandemic levels
Woonsocket had 42% of students chronically absent last school year, compared to 29% in Providence
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Woonsocket had 42% of students chronically absent last school year, compared to 29% in Providence
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
September 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A bright spot for Providence in today's new attendance data, as the only one of RI's largest 5 districts to get chronic absenteeism below pre-pandemic levels
Woonsocket had 42% of students chronically absent last school year, compared to 29% in Providence
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Woonsocket had 42% of students chronically absent last school year, compared to 29% in Providence
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Loved seeing the Rhode Island travel piece in @foodandwine.com magazine ⚓️
July 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Loved seeing the Rhode Island travel piece in @foodandwine.com magazine ⚓️
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Breaking News: A divided Supreme Court rejected a plan to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.
Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
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May 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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PODCAST: What abolishing the Department of Education would mean for Rhode Island btown.buzzsprout.com/163601/episo...
Politicizing Public Education: What Abolishing The Department of Education Would Mean For Rhode Island - Bartholomewtown
Chiara Deltito-Sharrott, Executive Director, Rhode Island League of Charter Schools joins Bill Bartholomew for a discussion on how a proposed dissolution of the Department of Education would impact th...
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March 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
PODCAST: What abolishing the Department of Education would mean for Rhode Island btown.buzzsprout.com/163601/episo...
After watching this, I can see why @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social decided that having @davidshor.bsky.social walk us through a presentation would be worth our time. This analysis flips our conventional knowledge post election. I am still sitting with these data days later. Powerful and sobering.
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
@davidshor.bsky.social walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.
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@davidshor.bsky.social walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.
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youtu.be/Sx0J7dIlL7c?...
Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won | The Ezra Klein Show
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March 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
After watching this, I can see why @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social decided that having @davidshor.bsky.social walk us through a presentation would be worth our time. This analysis flips our conventional knowledge post election. I am still sitting with these data days later. Powerful and sobering.
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More than 70% of ALL students in Mississippi and West Virginia would lose CEP in their schools under this proposal.
March 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Bartholomewtown: bringing Rhode Islanders closer to their world. Independent journalism and commentary for the Ocean State. Listen wherever you get pods, RIpodcast.com and weekends on @997wpro.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Bartholomewtown: bringing Rhode Islanders closer to their world. Independent journalism and commentary for the Ocean State. Listen wherever you get pods, RIpodcast.com and weekends on @997wpro.bsky.social
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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March 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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“It's not just that the money is frozen. It’s that we can’t get anyone on the phone,” she said. “How are we going to produce food if our farmers are being subjected to this uncertainty?”
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...
'Make good on the contract': How Trump's spending freeze has left RI farmers in a lurch.
Farmers and food organizations in Rhode Island haven't been able to access agriculture grants because of the federal funding freeze.
www.providencejournal.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“It's not just that the money is frozen. It’s that we can’t get anyone on the phone,” she said. “How are we going to produce food if our farmers are being subjected to this uncertainty?”
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...
This was very good and it filled my bucket versus depleting it. @repauchincloss.bsky.social is so compelling, thoughtful, and clear. I am proud he is our neighboring Congressman. TY @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
My conversation with Ezra Klein on building new cities and taxing the daylights out of social media corporations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tnQ...
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A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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February 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This was very good and it filled my bucket versus depleting it. @repauchincloss.bsky.social is so compelling, thoughtful, and clear. I am proud he is our neighboring Congressman. TY @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.”
“Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)
“Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)
Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access (Gift Article)
The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.”
“Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)
“Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)
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BREAKING WAPO:
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BREAKING WAPO:
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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NEW: The state takeover of the Providence schools appears to be in the home stretch. So which goals have been met?
My look at key data points the state wanted to hit and where it all stands: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...
My look at key data points the state wanted to hit and where it all stands: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...
Five years in, Providence schools remain far behind state takeover goals - The Boston Globe
The state has so far met 25% of the goals it set for itself back in 2020.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: The state takeover of the Providence schools appears to be in the home stretch. So which goals have been met?
My look at key data points the state wanted to hit and where it all stands: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...
My look at key data points the state wanted to hit and where it all stands: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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And it’s a security nightmare: They're haphazardly feeding the data into unsecured external AI systems. Treasury's own threat analysis calls this 'the single greatest insider threat risk' they've ever faced.
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
And it’s a security nightmare: They're haphazardly feeding the data into unsecured external AI systems. Treasury's own threat analysis calls this 'the single greatest insider threat risk' they've ever faced.
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Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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1. Do something outrageous via Executive Order
2. Go to court
3. Court rules that said thing is illegal
4. Ignore court's order (We are here).
5. ?
If you want to know what steps 5, 6, and 7 are, you can read what they wrote down and said publicly that they would do next.
I'm not saying it.
2. Go to court
3. Court rules that said thing is illegal
4. Ignore court's order (We are here).
5. ?
If you want to know what steps 5, 6, and 7 are, you can read what they wrote down and said publicly that they would do next.
I'm not saying it.
JUST IN: USAID employees say the administration is not complying with Judge NICHOLS' order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency.
They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
1. Do something outrageous via Executive Order
2. Go to court
3. Court rules that said thing is illegal
4. Ignore court's order (We are here).
5. ?
If you want to know what steps 5, 6, and 7 are, you can read what they wrote down and said publicly that they would do next.
I'm not saying it.
2. Go to court
3. Court rules that said thing is illegal
4. Ignore court's order (We are here).
5. ?
If you want to know what steps 5, 6, and 7 are, you can read what they wrote down and said publicly that they would do next.
I'm not saying it.
This was a really insightful conversation. Feeling very thankful for @thebulwark.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social in a nicely level-headed discussion on the weaknesses of Trump’s authoritarian push and openings for pro-democracy attrition.
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Trump's MESS Will Become His KRYPTONITE (w/ Ezra Klein) | Bulwark Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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February 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This was a really insightful conversation. Feeling very thankful for @thebulwark.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
Yes. Yes. Yes.
reupping. i think this is the one path to changing things - with DOGE and the whole crime spree - in the near future
There's one plausible way Democrats could shut down the DOGE crime spree/constitutional crisis in the short term. And I'm pretty sure this is it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...
February 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yes. Yes. Yes.
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New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.
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 10:19 PM
New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...