Mandy C-Y
@mandycy.bsky.social
Deaconess, social justice advocate, nonprofit professional in higher ed, queer spouse, daughter, friend, lifelong learner, singer and proud @KCCurrent fan. Also now an MSW student.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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"Journalists in Gaza have risked bombs, bullets, and now starvation to tell the stories those in power don’t want told. Their courage is remarkable," Seth Stern told @meghnadbose.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social.
Journalists Are Starving in Gaza
“I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.”
www.cjr.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Journalists in Gaza have risked bombs, bullets, and now starvation to tell the stories those in power don’t want told. Their courage is remarkable," Seth Stern told @meghnadbose.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social.
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Kansas City” - sign up now to join me! We'll gather in Swope Park Thursday 7/17 www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Kansas City · John Lewis Actions
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...
www.mobilize.us
July 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Kansas City” - sign up now to join me! We'll gather in Swope Park Thursday 7/17 www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
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A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you your values.
The Senate Republican budget proposal rips away health care and food from the needy to give tax cuts to the rich.
It’s immoral.
The Senate Republican budget proposal rips away health care and food from the needy to give tax cuts to the rich.
It’s immoral.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you your values.
The Senate Republican budget proposal rips away health care and food from the needy to give tax cuts to the rich.
It’s immoral.
The Senate Republican budget proposal rips away health care and food from the needy to give tax cuts to the rich.
It’s immoral.
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Happy Pride Month 💖🏳️🌈
June 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy Pride Month 💖🏳️🌈
The FAA budget was cut - do they have the ability to hire enough ATCs?
Federal air safety regulators are restricting flights at Newark Liberty International Airport until the end of the year as officials scramble to train more air traffic controllers.
FAA extends Newark flight limits over construction, safety concerns
The New Jersey airport, which has faced radar problems and major delays, is scrambling to bring in more air traffic controllers and complete construction.
wapo.st
May 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The FAA budget was cut - do they have the ability to hire enough ATCs?
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This is real life, y’all.
These aren’t “democratic talking points”—this is a real mother and real babies at risk of going hungry, all because Republicans want to be greedy.
Somebody please tell me how you can feed a growing family of 6 on $15 per day… you can’t.
These aren’t “democratic talking points”—this is a real mother and real babies at risk of going hungry, all because Republicans want to be greedy.
Somebody please tell me how you can feed a growing family of 6 on $15 per day… you can’t.
May 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is real life, y’all.
These aren’t “democratic talking points”—this is a real mother and real babies at risk of going hungry, all because Republicans want to be greedy.
Somebody please tell me how you can feed a growing family of 6 on $15 per day… you can’t.
These aren’t “democratic talking points”—this is a real mother and real babies at risk of going hungry, all because Republicans want to be greedy.
Somebody please tell me how you can feed a growing family of 6 on $15 per day… you can’t.
And so it continues...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday afternoon softening tariffs on imported car and car parts, in a reprieve to auto-manufacturers who had protested the levies.
Trump eases tariffs on imported auto parts through executive order
A slower phase-in for tariffs on auto parts will give manufacturers time to ramp up manufacturing in the United States. Some warn they will still drive up car prices.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
And so it continues...
So much for keeping families together. Where are the family values the GOP is always proudly yelling about?
A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the Trump administration deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The toddler remains in foster care in the U.S., officials said. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador.
A Mother and Father Were Deported Under Trump. But What Happened to Their Daughter?
The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So much for keeping families together. Where are the family values the GOP is always proudly yelling about?
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The top 1% own 40% of stocks, while the bottom 40% of Americans own almost none.
Stop measuring the health of the economy by how well the stock market is doing, and start measuring it by how well working families can afford food, housing, healthcare and education.
Stop measuring the health of the economy by how well the stock market is doing, and start measuring it by how well working families can afford food, housing, healthcare and education.
April 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The top 1% own 40% of stocks, while the bottom 40% of Americans own almost none.
Stop measuring the health of the economy by how well the stock market is doing, and start measuring it by how well working families can afford food, housing, healthcare and education.
Stop measuring the health of the economy by how well the stock market is doing, and start measuring it by how well working families can afford food, housing, healthcare and education.
BRING Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia HOME!
Breaking News: In an appearance with President Trump, El Salvador’s president said his country would not return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported.
Live Updates: Trump Hosts El Salvador's President Amid Deportation Battle
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
BRING Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia HOME!
Great. Just great.
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
April 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Great. Just great.
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My God.
ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back.
How many more?
THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.
ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back.
How many more?
THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.
April 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My God.
ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back.
How many more?
THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.
ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back.
How many more?
THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.
As someone with years of experience fighting food insecurity here in the midwest, this is the opposite of efficient.
April 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
As someone with years of experience fighting food insecurity here in the midwest, this is the opposite of efficient.
Nice to see some action taken by Dems! Proud to say I grew up in Jersey.
Sen. Corey Booker's ending to his 25+ hour speech, March 31st ---> April 1st.
April 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nice to see some action taken by Dems! Proud to say I grew up in Jersey.
This has always been a guiding principle for my work with community organizations. You don't have to do it all, and certainly not by yourself. Just find the others who are organizing and go be a piece of the dorsal fin!
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This has always been a guiding principle for my work with community organizations. You don't have to do it all, and certainly not by yourself. Just find the others who are organizing and go be a piece of the dorsal fin!
I've personally relied on bus transportation (for 6 months due to medical issues). Losing this many routes would decimate what little mass transit we have around this metro. We need to improving this kind of infrastructure, not dismantling it - especially with the World Cup coming!
Bus riders and drivers will start to feel the effects of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority’s severely reduced service on May 4, if the Kansas City Council’s budget passes as proposed.
Kansas City bus cuts would be 'worst-case scenario' for riders: longer waits and way fewer routes
The drastic service cuts proposed by the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to fill a budget hole mean remaining routes will run less frequently and likely get more crowded. Riders and drivers ...
www.kcur.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I've personally relied on bus transportation (for 6 months due to medical issues). Losing this many routes would decimate what little mass transit we have around this metro. We need to improving this kind of infrastructure, not dismantling it - especially with the World Cup coming!
Yep, it's probably time to pull this book out again.
"As a theologian, I get nervous when reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer becomes all too relevant."
‘Don’t Fight the Stupidity’ and Other Relevant Bonhoeffer Advice
Lessons from Bonhoeffer's essay on Christian life under authoritarianism.
sojo.net
March 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Yep, it's probably time to pull this book out again.
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A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security.
More of this please.
More of this please.
March 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security.
More of this please.
More of this please.
Let them know we're watching and concerned - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...
Protect America's Federal Workers from Mass Firings
These mass layoffs hurt all of us. When essential American workers are fired, everybody suffers. From compromised food safety inspections to delayed veterans’ benefits to disrupted Social Security ser...
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March 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Let's hope we can stop it.
Medicaid provides 40% of the funding for community health centers.
Medicaid supports 2 out of 3 people in nursing homes.
Medicaid provides health care to 41 million children.
Trump and his Republican friends want to enact massive cuts to the program.
We won't let them.
Medicaid supports 2 out of 3 people in nursing homes.
Medicaid provides health care to 41 million children.
Trump and his Republican friends want to enact massive cuts to the program.
We won't let them.
February 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Let's hope we can stop it.
In a world of chaos and anxiety producing headlines, I'm finding this feed helpful.
They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere.
Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
February 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In a world of chaos and anxiety producing headlines, I'm finding this feed helpful.
Save the Date! March 4-5 is #UMKC Giving Day. I'm supporting #MSW Scholarship Fund to help get more students from the community trained to serve it well. Who will you support? #umkcgivingday
February 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Save the Date! March 4-5 is #UMKC Giving Day. I'm supporting #MSW Scholarship Fund to help get more students from the community trained to serve it well. Who will you support? #umkcgivingday
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Break out those shovels, because storms are about to dump a mess of snow and ice on a large part of the U.S. As of noon Tuesday, at least 20 states were under winter warnings or advisories.
Here we go again: More winter storms are heading for much of the U.S.
Break out those shovels, because storms are about to dump a mess of snow and ice on a large part of the U.S. As of noon Tuesday, at least 20 states were under winter warnings or advisories.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Break out those shovels, because storms are about to dump a mess of snow and ice on a large part of the U.S. As of noon Tuesday, at least 20 states were under winter warnings or advisories.