Alison
@alison789.bsky.social
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Good people continuing to do the hard work to help others.
Project Resource Optimization
"In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, 2 laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with threatened programs."
Project Resource Optimization
"In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, 2 laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with threatened programs."
Former USAID employees keep dismantled agency’s life-saving work afloat
When the U.S. Agency for International Development shut down, more than 80% of its programs were cancelled. In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, two l...
www.pbs.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Good people continuing to do the hard work to help others.
Project Resource Optimization
"In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, 2 laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with threatened programs."
Project Resource Optimization
"In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, 2 laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with threatened programs."
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"A low-wage job really is homelessness waiting to happen. ...
It's not just that their wages are too low, ... it's also that the jobs themselves have become increasingly volatile and precarious." – @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
It's not just that their wages are too low, ... it's also that the jobs themselves have become increasingly volatile and precarious." – @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"A low-wage job really is homelessness waiting to happen. ...
It's not just that their wages are too low, ... it's also that the jobs themselves have become increasingly volatile and precarious." – @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
It's not just that their wages are too low, ... it's also that the jobs themselves have become increasingly volatile and precarious." – @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
n.pr
July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
June 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968
Acrylic on wove paper
📸 @erkitekt (on Instagram) @ngadc.bsky.social
59 13/16 × 42 3/8 in. (151.9 × 107.6 cm)
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.,
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Acrylic on wove paper
📸 @erkitekt (on Instagram) @ngadc.bsky.social
59 13/16 × 42 3/8 in. (151.9 × 107.6 cm)
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.,
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
June 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968
Acrylic on wove paper
📸 @erkitekt (on Instagram) @ngadc.bsky.social
59 13/16 × 42 3/8 in. (151.9 × 107.6 cm)
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.,
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Acrylic on wove paper
📸 @erkitekt (on Instagram) @ngadc.bsky.social
59 13/16 × 42 3/8 in. (151.9 × 107.6 cm)
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.,
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Terrifying stuff. Sharp decline in insect numbers tied to global heating. They are at the base of ecosystems and their decline will reverberate upwards. The fact that this is probably going to happen in my life time.
We really need to stop burning fossil fuels today!
We really need to stop burning fossil fuels today!
Some people do not have the emotional courage to accept the physical truth of the climate crisis and the biological truth of the biodiversity crisis. Do not read this.
Too depressing. (it is, but it's f*cking reality, — all of us are going to be affected by #ClimateCrisis and #BiodiversityCrisis …)
Too depressing. (it is, but it's f*cking reality, — all of us are going to be affected by #ClimateCrisis and #BiodiversityCrisis …)
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Terrifying stuff. Sharp decline in insect numbers tied to global heating. They are at the base of ecosystems and their decline will reverberate upwards. The fact that this is probably going to happen in my life time.
We really need to stop burning fossil fuels today!
We really need to stop burning fossil fuels today!
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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
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Just read this passage by Robert Caro about the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination and realized that this is exactly the nightmare scenario we are currently living through
April 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Just read this passage by Robert Caro about the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination and realized that this is exactly the nightmare scenario we are currently living through
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Devastated for all who worked to make Journeys the incredible force it has been, the fierce cohorts of those who came through it in the past, and those who won’t get to benefit from it now. But it’ll be back. Thank you @sbmitche.bsky.social @jlpweeks.bsky.social and everyone at Journeys.
It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.
April 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Devastated for all who worked to make Journeys the incredible force it has been, the fierce cohorts of those who came through it in the past, and those who won’t get to benefit from it now. But it’ll be back. Thank you @sbmitche.bsky.social @jlpweeks.bsky.social and everyone at Journeys.
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Historically, hygiene and health are reasons to have effective government. Without it, people senselessly die. Demolishing the federal government will have terrible costs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle in the United States
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses cross species barriers and have the potential to cause pandemics. In North America, HPAI A(H5N1) viruses related to the goose/Guangdong 2.3.4.4b hemagg...
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Historically, hygiene and health are reasons to have effective government. Without it, people senselessly die. Demolishing the federal government will have terrible costs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut.
Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.
Call your reps.
Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.
Call your reps.
April 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut.
Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.
Call your reps.
Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.
Call your reps.
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At elementary schools?
"According to schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the agents professed that they were there to check on the students’ well-being and lied when they told school officials that their families had given permission for the contact."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
"According to schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the agents professed that they were there to check on the students’ well-being and lied when they told school officials that their families had given permission for the contact."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Federal officials arrived, denied entry at L.A. schools amid immigration enforcement fears
L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho said the agents said they were there to check on the wellbeing of five undocumented students, and that the agents lied when they told school officials that their fa...
www.latimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
At elementary schools?
"According to schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the agents professed that they were there to check on the students’ well-being and lied when they told school officials that their families had given permission for the contact."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
"According to schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the agents professed that they were there to check on the students’ well-being and lied when they told school officials that their families had given permission for the contact."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
Trump is seeking to spend tens of billions of dollars to set up the machinery to expand immigrant detention on a scale never before seen in the United States.
tinyurl.com/suNbuq
Trump is seeking to spend tens of billions of dollars to set up the machinery to expand immigrant detention on a scale never before seen in the United States.
tinyurl.com/suNbuq
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
tinyurl.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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75 percent.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
75 percent.
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WELKER: The markets lost more than $6 trillion in value. Was this disruption always part of the plan?
BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.
BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.
April 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
WELKER: The markets lost more than $6 trillion in value. Was this disruption always part of the plan?
BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.
BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.