@cindydietz62.bsky.social
Retired teacher, breast cancer survivor, muscular dystrophy warrior. Fierce ally and women’s rights advocate.
@villagewisewoman.bsky.social Hi, Patti!!
March 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@villagewisewoman.bsky.social Hi, Patti!!
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Texas kids deserve strong public schools—not a broken voucher scam.
📢 Vouchers = Higher Taxes + Weaker Schools
💰 Texas politicians want to give YOUR tax dollars to private schools.
🚨 It’s time to say NO.
🔗 Visit SayNoToVouchers.com to take action.
📢 Vouchers = Higher Taxes + Weaker Schools
💰 Texas politicians want to give YOUR tax dollars to private schools.
🚨 It’s time to say NO.
🔗 Visit SayNoToVouchers.com to take action.
March 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Texas kids deserve strong public schools—not a broken voucher scam.
📢 Vouchers = Higher Taxes + Weaker Schools
💰 Texas politicians want to give YOUR tax dollars to private schools.
🚨 It’s time to say NO.
🔗 Visit SayNoToVouchers.com to take action.
📢 Vouchers = Higher Taxes + Weaker Schools
💰 Texas politicians want to give YOUR tax dollars to private schools.
🚨 It’s time to say NO.
🔗 Visit SayNoToVouchers.com to take action.
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While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
March 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
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UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ.
Reporting from NBC News:
Reporting from NBC News:
February 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ.
Reporting from NBC News:
Reporting from NBC News:
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If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart
My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...
blogs.jwatch.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target
Just some general guidance here. We don't know all the details. But this presages taking a real hatchet to the whole social security system. Whether it's 20% of the staff or 50% who knows. But basically unsustainable cuts for a program anyway we've known it.
Here's the memo that went out short time ago from SSA HR announcing "organizational restructuring" of Social Security admin. essentially one last chance to quit before you're all fired. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memo-...
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target
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Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’
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This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.
First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund
While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.
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HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
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Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce
With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.
www.wsj.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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🚨 Brian Harrison is a bully 🚨 . His racist attacks on Black women must end. We demand Speaker Burrows remove him from all committees. Texas deserves better. #RemoveHarrison
Texas Deserves Better Than Brian Harrison’s Racist Attacks
Texas Deserves Better Than Brian Harrison’s Racist Attacks
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February 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
🚨 Brian Harrison is a bully 🚨 . His racist attacks on Black women must end. We demand Speaker Burrows remove him from all committees. Texas deserves better. #RemoveHarrison
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Think about this for a hot second
February 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Think about this for a hot second
@binoculars.bsky.social
Happy birthday!!💜🐬
Happy birthday!!💜🐬
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@binoculars.bsky.social
Happy birthday!!💜🐬
Happy birthday!!💜🐬
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As morally depraved and reckless as it was, I at least understood the political logic of Trump rushing to blame the dread "DEI" for a horrific tragedy on his watch, but I today I guess he's rushing to blame...the troops?
January 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As morally depraved and reckless as it was, I at least understood the political logic of Trump rushing to blame the dread "DEI" for a horrific tragedy on his watch, but I today I guess he's rushing to blame...the troops?
Wherever you are, whenever you can, take a few moments today to reflect on the liberation of Auschwitz.
I went on a study trip to Germany as a senior in high school. We visited Dachau. Being of German descent, with Jewish heritage as well, it was a gut punch. I could FEEL the horror.
Never forget
I went on a study trip to Germany as a senior in high school. We visited Dachau. Being of German descent, with Jewish heritage as well, it was a gut punch. I could FEEL the horror.
Never forget
January 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Wherever you are, whenever you can, take a few moments today to reflect on the liberation of Auschwitz.
I went on a study trip to Germany as a senior in high school. We visited Dachau. Being of German descent, with Jewish heritage as well, it was a gut punch. I could FEEL the horror.
Never forget
I went on a study trip to Germany as a senior in high school. We visited Dachau. Being of German descent, with Jewish heritage as well, it was a gut punch. I could FEEL the horror.
Never forget