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M. Yvonne Taylor, Ph.D.
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Critical organizational scholar-practitioner and educator. Research higher ed as raced-gendered workplace and trauma-responsive, equitable organizational leadership as its antidote. Texas refugee in the PNW. 🌈 https://myvonnetaylorphd.substack.com
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A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations
Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
wapo.st
June 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈
June 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We are presenting at the Charting Our Future conference in Tacoma about the Sound Reengagement Collaborative’s support of Opportunity Youth, young people ages 16-24 who are disengaged from post secondary and work.

Want to learn more? Reach out!
April 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.
April 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
AI is changing education and the workforce. How do young people who aren’t in the know catch up?

www.nweducationaccess.org/news/bridgin...
Bridging the AI Divide: Preparing Opportunity Youth for Higher Education and Career Disruption — Northwest Education Access
By M. Yvonne Taylor, Phd, NWEdA Executive Director
www.nweducationaccess.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
March 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
March 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Our team at Northwest Education Access is raising funds for our work with Opportunity Youth and community building in the PNW. It’s an awesome chance to invest in hope during a time of crisis. Please watch, share and pitch in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r0O...
Spring Into Action - A message from our Executive Director
YouTube video by Northwest Education Access
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March 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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WOW. Read this entire affidavit.
This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.

Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Part of my view from
my home office in Tacoma, Washington.
March 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I miss the days when I thought Elon Musk was a cologne.
March 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Since Congress’s allotted funds have already been improperly unallocated, U.S. citizens are questioning whether they are legally required to continue paying federal taxes.
March 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Committed to posting more often on my Substack. Take a listen!
myvonnetaylorphd.substack.com/p/when-a-sto...
When a Stop Sign No Longer Means Stop
What do we do when our leaders no longer respect norms, rules, or laws?
myvonnetaylorphd.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Christ it’s nice to have even a short break in the bad news. thank you to everyone who called their reps about this. 🏳️‍⚧️💜
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
March 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Oliver Darcy has some very good points here
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The White House’s humiliation of Zelensky feels like a Franz Ferdinand assassination moment, realigning the geopolitical map in such a dangerous way that … I’ll stop there.
March 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I didn't think I was capable of feeling any more shame for what America has become.

I was wrong.
February 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The 28th is one day.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.
February 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Breaking: Trump's full trans military ban has just dropped. Quickly reading it, it appears to be a full separation from the military for all transgender military members, and states being trans is inconsistent with "honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity."

A sad day for this nation.
Exhibit 1 - 26 Feb 2025 OSD Policy – #63, Att. #1 in TALBOTT v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00240) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE by TELITA CROSLAND, DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PETER B. HEGSETH, MARK F. AVERILL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, TERENCE EMMERT, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAV...
courtlistener.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I think the voters would be very interested to learn about how only swing areas seemed to be the ones that were targeted with bomb threats and ballot box fires. Also curious to see what role Elon and Starlink played in voting
February 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Many are asking what should we do now?
“We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’”
-fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.
February 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM