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Barbara Jungwirth

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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Parent (and grandparent) here: If you need to ask school about your child's gender identity rather than talking to your child him/her/themselves, a court won't fix your problem. Talk to your child and accept them for who they are. Then make sure school and everyone else accepts them, too.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who should decide about an abortion: the pregnant person, obviously. Your body, your choice.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How about reporting on the Iraqis killed by the US invasion of their country? According to NBC, about 200,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed by 2023 (www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...). Unlike members of the US military, these were human beings who did *not* sign up to kill other people.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
More than half a million Iraqis have been killed since invasion
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Before deleting these emails: 1. Report them as Spam (click three dots for more options, then click "Report Spam") 2. Block their email address (three dots, then "Block [candidate's or campaign's name]" *then* delete the email.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This "unprecedented record" will only happen if ICE releases *all* footage. Current policy says footage will only be released if it is "in the agency's best interest", i.e., not when ICE agents are mistreating or shooting people. Not a record, but a PR campaign. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Good that you teach women authors. However: 1. How many of these authors are Black or brown? 2. Which authors are being taught in non-elective classes? 3. Which of these books would you be able to teach under a state-mandated reading list? 4. Is this a private school?
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What are considered "great works of literature" is often focused on white authors. Teaching history chronologically easily obscures relationships, e.g., between slavery, Jim Crow and current police violence. These education requirements are therefore inherently political, usually conservative.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So if a drug improves a person's health and/or quality of life, but does not improve the insurance company's profits ("will reduce health care costs"), it won't be covered? Profit over people.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Der Widerruf der roten Karte gegen US Star Folarin Balogun nach Trumps Telefonat mit Infantino ist "sauber"? Wenigstens haben die USA trotzdem verloren.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I want to see the orange toddler do anything as hands-on as draining a pool. He will have people who know what they are doing do the work. Just as he is not building a ballroom or an arch. Having skilled workers do that at least prevents these abominations from falling down on passersby.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I live in New York City and have family in Europe. If I cannot fly into NYC, I will fly into Montreal and take the train to NYC. Also, if DHS refuses to process international flights, why not simply let people off the plane and into the city without immigration harassment?
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Does this mean, if I visit my 92-year-old father in Austria, I can just walk out of the plane to the NYC AirTrain to hop the subway home?
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Thanks for your concern. I eventually took out US citizenship (while keeping my original one), so I am OK. Best of luck to your brother and his wife!
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I came to the US on a student visa, married a US citizen two years later, got a green card and raised two (now adult) children with him. Having to leave the US between marriage and green card would have severely impacted my relationship with my husband of 40+ years.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If possible, don't drive. If that's not an option, fill the car with as many people as possible - group vacations, neighbors going to places near where you are going, etc. The fewer cars on the road, the better for everyone: less traffic, less fuel costs, better for the environment.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Especially true since Texas is requesting information on *everyone* who received/provided care in NYC, rather than on a specific Texas resident who may have gone to NYC for care. Even then, Texas shouldn't be able to get that information, but this fishing expedition is completely out of bounds.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
From t Zinn Education Project (www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mo...): Ann Jarvis of Appalachia founded Mother’s Day in 1858 to promote sanitation in response to high infant mortality. After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe made a Mother’s Day call to women to protest the carnage of war.
zinnedproject.org
Mother’s Day: A Campaign for Peace with Justice
Mother’s Day began as a call to action for healthcare and against war. Activism continues today with #FreeBlackMamas and more.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Why not both? A progressive income tax and an additional tax for wealth beyond a million dollars.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Yes!
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Suggest a separate (adjacent) box with door and shelves for the pantry. Mixing books and groceries in the same space can easily lead to spills that destroy books.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
66-year-old woman here: not only are we concerned with rising prices and are organizing neighborhood mutual aid, we have also been involved in political protest for the past 45+ years. Voting is only the beginning. We will continue to organize for progressive change, no matter how long it takes.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
That is a 60% success rate: the majority of people helped by the program remained housed.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Time to enact minimum qualifications: For any top-level position in US healthcare, you have to have a medical license, such as RN or MD.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
FYI, the German newspaper die taz quoted the police as saying more than 100,000 people protested in NY. taz.de/Massenprotes...
taz.de
Massenproteste in den USA: Keine Könige und kein Krieg!
Zum dritten Mal versammeln sich überall in den USA Millionen Menschen gegen Donald Trump und seine Politik. Der Irankrieg mobilisiert zusätzlich.
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Exactly. The whole no shoes/no drinks/laptop out/toiletry baggie routine is mostly just performative security theater.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It's not Boomers, it's foreign interventionalism (e.g., $20 billion for the US war against Iran) and anti-immigrant hunts (e.g., DHS funding.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The "true price" is human life. So far, that price has been paid mainly by people, including children, who did not sign up to kill other human beings.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Nothing better coming after her, I'm afraid. According to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markway...), her successor is an anti-woman, anti-trans Trumpian election denier. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation and quite anti-immigrant. www.mullin.senate.gov/about/issues...
en.wikipedia.org
Markwayne Mullin - Wikipedia
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The children killed by a US bomb in the girls' school in Iran were students, too! Plus, they hadn't signed up to kill other people - unlike members of the US military.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
According to USCIS (egov.uscis.gov/processing-t...), a refugee has to be in the US 1 year before they can apply for a green card, and processing times for that application are 12 months. A refugee therefore cannot legally get a green card until they have been in the US for 2 years.
egov.uscis.gov
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Korruption, Möchtegern-Diktaktur, senile Präsidentschaft, gesichtslose Schläger, die Menschen auf der Straße entführen, Piraterie, Angriffe auf andere Länder, Entführung von Staatsoberhäuptern, Angriffe auf LGBTQ Menschen - wenn das die "Werte des Westens" sind, dann brauche ich diese Werte nicht.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This framing that less than 14% abducted by ICE had violent records suggests there is some acceptable threshold above which it’s Ok for ICE to do what it is doing. It is not Ok what ICE is doing or has been doing regardless of someone’s record. There is no threshold. Don’t fall into the trap.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I was vaccinated against Lyme disease as a child in Austria. Since my family hiked a lot, this was the responsible thing to do. Never contracted the disease, despite multiple ticks (my parents checked us after every hike).
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Un mot: oui.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The proposal requires family members' information. Holding people responsible for their family members' views was a Nazi practice (Sippenhaft). US residents: oppose this during the comment period. Potential visitors: don't come and let the US hospitality industry, including Trump's hotels, crash.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Unmarried doesn't mean there is no second (biological) parent living with the birth parent and raising the child. Some people may simply form a family (of however many adults) without seeking state sanction via marriage.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Truck drivers all over the world safely convey goods without speaking English or having a US visa. Clearly, English language skills and US immigration status are unrelated to driving skills. Thus the justifications for these rules are simple racism.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
So there is a robbery in a neighborhood fighting back against ICE thugs. One is people pushing back against armed thugs protected by the US government kidnapping people off the street, the other is private persons trying to get money from a jewelry store - why connect the two?
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Could you get the pharmacy to transfer the prescriptions to another pharmacy outside the Kaiser system rather than getting a permission slip that may not be honored elsewhere?
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Time to go to their website now and download (or screenprint, if necessary) all those test results, etc. Pain in the neck that shouldn't be necessary but ay be a useful precaution.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
As a New Yorker, I *do* have a choice, and that choice is Mandami, *not* the orange toddler-in-chief's preferences.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks for that suggestion! Might also want to divide some of these recipes by half for older folks who may only be feeding one or two people.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Also, fill those little free pantries that cropped up during the pandemic. Think full meals: rice and beans, spaghetti and sauce, ...
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The orange toddler-in-chief is not demolishing the East Wing, he is *having it demolished* by people who actually know how to operate a bulldozer. The ballroom is the least of our problems, but if people refuse the toddler's orders, his edicts won't happen.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A fence simply moves the problems elsewhere. Spending that money on addressing the root causes by providing affordable housing, drug treatment and basic income would actually reduce the problems.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New York City subways show plenty of ads, including about social concerns. Time for a campaign to publicize locations where newborns can be left safely and anonymously - hospitals, staffed fire stations. See Abandoned Infant Protection Act ocfs.ny.gov/programs/safe/
ocfs.ny.gov
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Das gab es schon mal, z.B., im Süden der USA: Angstmache, dass alle Männer mit dünklerer Haut nur eins wollten: hellhäutige junge Frauen zu vergewaltigen. Das war damals Scheiße, und ist es auch heute noch. Ich bin übrigens eine weiße Frau mit einer weißen Tochter.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
As a white European immigrant who speaks English and *approves* of immigration from outside white countries, I very much oppose Trump's preference for white South Africans and other colonizers.
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Barbara Jungwirth @bjungwirth.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
One can't have it both ways: the right to vote is either determined by citizenship or by residence. In the first case, US citizens can vote wherever they live. In the second case, anyone living in the US can vote independent of citizenship. Which will it be, Republicans?
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