Theresa Cross
@crossthesea.bsky.social
Live in San Francisco and love it here. I volunteer at the farmer market love to read and watch birds.
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On April 26, rural civic leaders, rural organizers, and rural Democrats will gather to develop strategies for opposing Trump and Musk's take-over and outline steps we all can take at the local level to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up.
Join us!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Rural Democratic Leaders Conference. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Hosted by RuralOrganizing.org, this event will bring together rural civic leaders, rural organizers, rural influencers, and Rural Democrats to develop concrete strategies for opposing Donald Trump and...
us02web.zoom.us
April 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On April 26, rural civic leaders, rural organizers, and rural Democrats will gather to develop strategies for opposing Trump and Musk's take-over and outline steps we all can take at the local level to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up.
Join us!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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My congressman,Sam Graves, hasn’t had a townhall since 2012.
We are having them in his absence.
We are having them in his absence.
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My congressman,Sam Graves, hasn’t had a townhall since 2012.
We are having them in his absence.
We are having them in his absence.
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CDC unable to respond to lead crisis due to funding cuts.
April 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
CDC unable to respond to lead crisis due to funding cuts.
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Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
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There is gun violence in rural America, but much of it looks different.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
April 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There is gun violence in rural America, but much of it looks different.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
Rural folks often don’t have access to healthcare or a good paying job, but they do have access to a gun — suicide rates are consistently higher in rural spaces than urban spaces.
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Speaking in Fairfield, Iowa this afternoon — population 9K.
They had to keep adding chairs to the room…
They had to keep adding chairs to the room…
March 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Speaking in Fairfield, Iowa this afternoon — population 9K.
They had to keep adding chairs to the room…
They had to keep adding chairs to the room…
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Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
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Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.
January 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.
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Stop what you're doing & read this exceptional piece from @brennancenter.bsky.social's @mawaldman.bsky.social that explains how the pending SAVE Act will make it more difficult for Americans to vote, ending advances in online and mail in registration brennancenter.substack.com/p/restrictin...
Restricting the Freedom to Vote
The SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.
brennancenter.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Stop what you're doing & read this exceptional piece from @brennancenter.bsky.social's @mawaldman.bsky.social that explains how the pending SAVE Act will make it more difficult for Americans to vote, ending advances in online and mail in registration brennancenter.substack.com/p/restrictin...
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Because of lawmakers like David Gregory, who are writing bills for bounties on other humans, a 25-year-old Missouri man kidnapped and assaulted a woman in southern Missouri while demanding she show her papers. This is the world they want us to live in. Bigots. missouriindependent.com/2025/01/28/m...
Missouri bill putting a bounty on undocumented immigrants faces fierce resistance • Missouri Independent
A confrontational hearing on a Missouri bill that would pay a bounty for those willing to catch undocumented immigrants took place Monday.
missouriindependent.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Because of lawmakers like David Gregory, who are writing bills for bounties on other humans, a 25-year-old Missouri man kidnapped and assaulted a woman in southern Missouri while demanding she show her papers. This is the world they want us to live in. Bigots. missouriindependent.com/2025/01/28/m...
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Thoughts and prayers are back on the menu.
January 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thoughts and prayers are back on the menu.
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Preferential hiring for mine, not for thine.
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Preferential hiring for mine, not for thine.
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I just realized I haven’t introduced my miniature donkey to Blue Sky. He’s about 36 inches high and he guards the pasture from coyotes. True story.
This is Gus❤️
This is Gus❤️
January 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I just realized I haven’t introduced my miniature donkey to Blue Sky. He’s about 36 inches high and he guards the pasture from coyotes. True story.
This is Gus❤️
This is Gus❤️
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Meine Vorsätze für die nächsten Jahre: Nicht durchdrehen. Den Mut nicht verlieren. Meinen (mexikanischen, nicht gesunden) Mann schützen. Den Blick für das Schöne schärfen, besonders das Schöne im Kleinen. Zusammenhalten.
Schreiben. Weiter schreiben.
Schreiben. Weiter schreiben.
January 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Meine Vorsätze für die nächsten Jahre: Nicht durchdrehen. Den Mut nicht verlieren. Meinen (mexikanischen, nicht gesunden) Mann schützen. Den Blick für das Schöne schärfen, besonders das Schöne im Kleinen. Zusammenhalten.
Schreiben. Weiter schreiben.
Schreiben. Weiter schreiben.
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I will focus on what I can do to help in Missouri. I know my power is limited at the federal level, but I can help stop federal mandates by gathering groups and opposing my state lawmakers implementing those mandates.
This is our power. It’s local. Focus there. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
This is our power. It’s local. Focus there. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Juxtapositions
Life and fascism are happening at the same time.
open.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I will focus on what I can do to help in Missouri. I know my power is limited at the federal level, but I can help stop federal mandates by gathering groups and opposing my state lawmakers implementing those mandates.
This is our power. It’s local. Focus there. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
This is our power. It’s local. Focus there. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Trump cannot abrogate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment by way of executive order. That’s not how constitutional rights work.
January 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trump cannot abrogate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment by way of executive order. That’s not how constitutional rights work.
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Oh, come on! At the inauguration? Are you f*cking ketamine with this?
January 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Oh, come on! At the inauguration? Are you f*cking ketamine with this?
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Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
January 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
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Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors.
The State of Local News
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
January 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors.
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Do you know the Herzog Foundation? They represent a Missouri family worth close to a billion dollars. They send taxpayer money to private religious schools and they don’t like anyone who stands up to them.
Not one single dime of taxpayer money should go to private religious schools.
Not one single dime of taxpayer money should go to private religious schools.
December 21, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Do you know the Herzog Foundation? They represent a Missouri family worth close to a billion dollars. They send taxpayer money to private religious schools and they don’t like anyone who stands up to them.
Not one single dime of taxpayer money should go to private religious schools.
Not one single dime of taxpayer money should go to private religious schools.
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The sky is on fire tonight…no filter, just a sunset on the prairie.
December 20, 2024 at 11:25 PM
The sky is on fire tonight…no filter, just a sunset on the prairie.