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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

@priscillatotiya.bsky.social
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📍 reporting in El Paso, TX (elpasomatters.org) 🌎 past: Phoenix, Il-Gżira, München ✍️ public health, food, environment ✊ former Arizona Republic union member 🇹🇭 🇱🇦 daughter of immigrants

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Aneri Pattani @aneripattani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Great reporting by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social @elpasomatters.bsky.social on how the county, city, and local hospital are using their opioid settlement funds... including $411k spent on demolishing an old strip club building elpasomatters.org/2025/12/01/e...
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El Paso received $5.2 million to mitigate opioid risks, with more funds to come. Most of that money sits unspent
Texas began distributing opioid abatement funds from a national settlement agreement with pharmaceutical companies that drove the opioid crisis.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 02/07/2025
The Trump administration has waived environmental laws to move forward with a border wall through the rugged terrain of Mount Cristo Rey in New Mexico.
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Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns - Inside Climate News
Environmental advocates warn that border wall construction on the rugged mountain could cause erosion and sever wildlife corridors. Customs and Border Protection says it is necessary to prevent border...
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...
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U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...
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After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I got the chance to listen to multiple generations of Palestinians in El Paso share their family history, starting with expulsion from Palestine to building lives as a "minority among minorities" in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Read their stories here: elpasomatters.org/2025/05/12/p...
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Rooted in resilience: Palestinians build lives, community in El Paso
For Palestinians in El Paso, Israel’s assault on Gaza is a reminder of their family’s hundred years’ struggle.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our measles tracker is up! Infectious diseases do not know borders. With that in mind, we're collecting the latest updates on measles (sarampión) in the tri-state area of El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. elpasomatters.org/2025/05/01/e...
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El Paso measles cases: Tracking Texas outbreak from the border
Updates on the Texas measles outbreak that had spread to El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and southern New Mexico.
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suhauna hussain @suhauna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants in LA and Orange counties whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins at ICE offices @melissagomez.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Southeast Asians in L.A. region are being detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins
A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins with immigra...
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
SCOOP: Eli Lilly is now suing some bigger-name telehealth companies selling compounded tirzepatide like Henry Meds and Mochi. With @emilymullin.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/glp-1-...
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Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.
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Harrison Faigen @faignews.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In latest interview, Mavericks GM Nico Harrison doubled down on your parents' decision to trade your childhood dog to a farm upstate.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk. From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide. @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...
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The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain and how it impacts El Paso
From El Paso to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 15/04/2025
New Mexico health officials reported five additional measles cases Tuesday, including one child in Doña Ana County, which exposed people at a daycare and several hospital locations over the past two weeks.
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Measles case reported for the first time in Doña Ana County • Source New Mexico
New Mexico health officials reported five new measles cases in children Tuesday including in Doña Ana County.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
3 more measles cases, including at an El Paso high school, reported after Texas linked the first cases in the area to the ongoing outbreak: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/11/e...
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3 more people with measles identified in El Paso
Four out of five measles cases in El Paso this year were unvaccinated patients. One person’s vaccination status is unknown.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Measles cases have touched down in El Paso and across the border in Juárez. 500+ measles cases reported in Texas since Jan. plus 220+ cases in neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico after a person from the West Texas outbreak area traveled there. elpasomatters.org/2025/04/08/f...
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El Paso, Juárez confirm first measles cases of 2025
Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Appreciate @latimes.com for referencing El Paso Matters reporting, connecting it to the bigger theme of justice and the political rhetoric right now.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
El Paso has not posted its March numbers yet, but there have been 7 cases of Valley fever so far this year, likely an undercount. READ MORE: elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...
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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
My version: 10 am: My “morning shed” — an Advil or two and chug water to shed the effect of last night’s beers. 10:15: Feed the guinea pigs. 10:30 am: “Morning cleanse” with a 3-in-1 cleaning product optimized for my hair, face and body by the German scientists at Nivea. 1/?
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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 26/03/2025
Trump has nominated a union buster to lead the NLRB. The message is clear.
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Trump Taps Morgan Lewis Attorney for NLRB General Counsel Post
President Donald Trump is nominating Crystal Carey, a partner at large management-side law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, to be National Labor Relations Board general counsel.
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Martha Pskowski @psskow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Really important story by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social for @elpasomatters.bsky.social about Valley fever in the El Paso area. “You have to wonder, for every case that’s diagnosed, how many cases go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed?” elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...
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Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected
Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Valley fever, endemic to the Southwest, claimed this El Paso mother’s life. Experts say lack of awareness leads to misdiagnosis and missed chances to treat infections. elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...
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Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected
Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.
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Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
LA PARKA ass stutter step penalty from Raul
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a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring
ALT: a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I can't with all these smug, short-term memory Gregg riders. The USMNT bar is so low that beating a weak Mexico and some CONCACAF teams has stagnated as the ceiling for success. Poch took a big L this Nations League, but for ffs the US is not sniffing a World Cup final with GGG either.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
West Texas measles outbreak has grown to nearly 300 cases in TX and New Mexico, 30+ hospitalizations, 2 deaths. Only 6 of all cases were confirmed to be vaccinated with at least 1 dose of the measles vaccine. elpasomatters.org/2025/03/03/w...
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Where to get measles vaccine in El Paso
Amid a Texas measles outbreak that claimed a child’s life, here’s how to get the vaccine in El Paso.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Since publishing this on Sunday: 🔵 1 unvaccinated child died 🔵 34 more measles cases 🔵 2 more hospitalizations Here's where El Paso's at with measles herd immunity, and how it compares to the rest of Texas: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/23/m...
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As West Texas measles outbreak spreads, how protected are El Paso school children?
The worst measles outbreak in Texas in decades is occurring mostly among unvaccinated children.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.” "The border has been secured,” he declared. Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
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Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas
Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
El Paso, the 6th largest city in Texas, went more than 2 years before hiring a public health director. This is El Paso Matters' first interview with the new leader, who inherits a department beset with underfunding + high turnovers: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/09/e...
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El Paso health director Vinny Taneja tackles staffing, funding challenges
El Paso’s new public health director says high turnover and underfunding challenge local health departments across the country.
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Since Las Vegas Sands Casino (owned by Mavs owner) blocked @grantafseth.bsky.social, you should give him a follow. You can catch his reporting here: dallashoopsjournal.com/p/mavericks-...
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Mavericks Front Office Displays Troubling Pattern in Leadership Amid Dončić Trade Aftermath
The Dallas Mavericks' front office has lacked leadership in the aftermath of the Luka Dončić trade and the midseason trade deadline altogether.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My latest for the @thebarbedwire.bsky.social makes the case that Trump and Musk are marching us into a "new fascism" that may not look exactly like its historical predecessors but nevertheless draws on the ideology to rend the democratic state and rule of law. thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...
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Musk and Trump Are Marching Us Into a ‘New Fascism’
Historians and German philosophers warn that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal government has all the hallmarks of fascism. What now?
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING!
Text graphic with the New York union logo and the words "WE HAVE A DEAL"
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Tired of people whining NFL games are/aren't rigged without posting actual data. So for both the Chiefs fans and haters, here ya go: www.theringer.com/2025/02/04/n...
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Do the Chiefs Really Get All the Calls? A Ringer Investigation.
The raw data from the Patrick Mahomes era shows the refs aren’t actually helping the Chiefs. But there are real explanations for why it feels true.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
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Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship
A letter sent to Alice ISD parents Wednesday said a student may be detained and possibly deported if they cannot prove they are in the country legally.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This minor court update wouldn't normally warrant its own story. But when the Texas AG blasts out a news release with bold claims and other local media just parrots them, we decided to give a little explainer: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/04/e...
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El Paso doctor sued by Texas AG agrees to court order he says he was already following
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused El Paso pediatrician Dr. Hector Granados of providing transgender medical treatment, an allegation Granados denies.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community. More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Baby girl told me to burn her Mavs bandana
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davidaldridgedc.bsky.social @davidaldridgedc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’ve been covering the NBA for 37 years. Almost nothing that happens - deals, free agent signings, draft choices, coach hiring/firings - rises to the level of, as the great Ben Bradlee used to call them, “Holy S—t” stories. You just used to crazy. This is a “Holy S—t” trade.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The Dallas Mavericks are due for another investigation. Into Nico Harrison, the casino-chasing Adelsons, everyone involved. Turning on the bat signal for @timcato.bsky.social @baxterholmes.bsky.social anyone 😩
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It
Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An El Paso police officer voted for Trump because he believed Trump was pro-police and would make everyday items affordable. Now he worries the feds could deport his father, an undocumented immigrant. From @ujohnnyg.bsky.social + Texas Tribune team: www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...
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“A lot of fear going on”: Texas immigrant community on edge during Trump’s first weeks
Across the state, immigrants and their loved ones are changing their daily habits as the Trump administration orders at least 1,200 daily arrests of undocumented people.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Department of Justice cuts off federally funded legal aid to detained immigrants www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Department of Justice cuts off federally funded legal aid to detained immigrants
The decision to halt the program could prevent thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers from receiving legal advice.
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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Nutrition programs for women + kids, SNAP + WIC, are likely to run into funding issues within 60-90 days if subjected to the pause, experts said. Also potentially impacted: Head Start, the early learning program for children from birth to age 5. 19thnews.org/2025/01/trum...
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Trump’s “pause” on government assistance could put early learning and nutrition programs in danger
As widespread confusion continues over the funding freezes, programs serving women and children could be hit particularly hard.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Last year, the student newspaper at the UTD was dissolved after staff went on strike due to the unceremonious firing of the editor in chief. Students have since formed a new paper, The Retrograde (I'm on the advisory board). Now, this is how they're being treated. retrogradenews.com/2025/01/24/u...
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UTD administrators remove over 20 newspaper kiosks
Newspaper kiosks being removed by campus administration on January 22. Yumdoggy303 from the UTDallas subreddit | Courtesy UTD removed Mercury-branded newspaper kiosks from across campus Jan. 22 aft…
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
New borderland newsletter from @psskow.bsky.social: buttondown.com/marthapskowski
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Downstream
Occasional dispatches from El Paso, the borderlands, and the greater Rio Grande.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 24/01/2025
really glad I got the chance to write this. on the perfect storm of insurance BS, ableism and private equity that makes finding a good wheelchair nearly impossible www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...
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It took a Berkeley woman 14 months to get a new wheelchair. She isn’t the only one facing extreme delays
Insurance coverage issues and industry consolidation are working against the 2 million wheelchair users in the U.S.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"The Border Patrol also has a controversial history in El Paso of immigration enforcement actions around Bowie High School... A 1992 lawsuit ... challenged the Border Patrol’s actions, saying stops were made solely because people looked Hispanic." elpasomatters.org/2025/01/21/b...
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Trump lifts protections against immigration enforcement at schools, churches, hospitals and other sensitive areas
Limits on immigration enforcement actions in or near sensitive areas that have been in place more than a decade, including in the first Trump administration, have been removed.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments www.texastribune.org/2025/01/21/t...
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Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments
Hours after Trump’s inauguration, his administration canceled appointments allowing migrants to enter the U.S. to request asylum, leaving many of them stranded on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Tim Dunkman @timdunkman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
NBA fanbases rarely agree on anything but are unanimously against Nazi bullshit Welcome to bluesky hoops fans
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