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Rachel Mello

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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Clovis managed to get our roses in the ground today before the rain started. These last few months have been one of the hardest seasons of our marriage as we lost my mom in January and then his father in April. Someone sent these as a memorial to our parents, and he knows flowers bring me joy.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Collin County is no longer a Republican stronghold. It’s a battleground. And Democrats are winning."
lonestarleft.com
Maga's Very Bad Night In Texas
Texas Voters to Far-Right: Bless your heart, now pack it up.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
cnn.com
Before Easter became a holy day, it was the beginning of the Resistance | CNN
Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian faith. But the miracle of Easter didn’t end there. What happened afterward was just as improbable – and offers a blueprint for co...
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Administration officials currently claim that this entire fiasco was their plan all along. Let’s pretend for a second we believe them. Consider the devastating costs to the economy. And to all the savings and retirement plans of ordinary working people?"
marketwatch.com
The United States is now an emerging market. Invest accordingly.
You might say the U.S. is now an emerging market that sells for about 50% more than developed markets.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Congratulations @kendallscudder.bsky.social
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"The state’s water plan says Texas does not have enough water supply to meet the growing need..."
texastribune.org
Texas is running out of water. Here’s why and what state leaders plan to do about it.
The state’s water supply faces numerous threats. And by one estimate, the state’s municipal supply will not meet demand by 2030 if there’s a severe drought and no water solutions are implemented.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Department of Education Dallas Office is regional and serves multiple states. As an educator and as parents, Clovis and I have had a working relationship with these professionals for nearly two decades.
dallasnews.com
U.S. Education Department to lay off all Dallas employees amid widespread national cuts
The Dallas office is just one of the regional offices getting eliminated as part of the national cuts. Other affected offices include San Francisco, New York,...
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
At some point we're going to have a talk about how they timed the Department of Education layoffs to coincide with the 5 year anniversary of the COVID school shutdowns... The cruelty is the point 💯
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you haven't taken the time to read Project 2025 and the Texas Republican Party platform, you might not know that Texas Republicans take a more extreme position regarding the existence of the Department of Education than is outlined in Project 2025.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The fastest way to reduce property taxes is for the Legislature to fully fund public schools.
educatorship.com
The $15,000 School Funding Shell Game: How Texas Politicians Hide the Truth in Plain Sight
Texas touts record $15k per student funding, but TEA data shows the state's share is at its lowest since 2014. Property taxes fill the gap.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Here Right Matters Foundation was established by Alexander and Eugene Vindman and is led by veterans with decades of service in the U.S. Army and a record of on-the-ground work in Ukraine to support the country's Armed Forces, civil society, and every day people impacted by the war.
hererightmattersfoundation.org
Community Passionate About Supporting Ukraine's Fight For Freedom
Founded by veterans Alexander and Eugene Vindman, Fond supports Ukraine's Armed Forces, civil society, and those impacted by war with decades of service
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
wfaa.com
These North Texas schools have the lowest measles vaccination rates in the region
The number of measles cases reported in Texas continues to grow. These are the North Texas schools most and least at risk of a breakout infection.
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Other98 @other98.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Fun fact: Public school teachers in Texas are required to swear an oath to uphold the Texas and US Constitutions. Private school teachers are not required to do the same.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The New Mexico Department of Health has declared a measles outbreak in Lea County. The decision came after two adults in the county tested positive for the disease, bringing this week’s total of unrelated cases up to three. The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
📌There has not been a president in my lifetime who has purposefully inflicted pain on people like this one. He is completely dead inside.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I see a lot of people saying now is the time to get out of the U.S. if you can. Please remember most disabled people can’t leave. It’s incredibly difficult to immigrate to another country when you have documented medical issues. Many are also too sick to endure a move. We must fight for them.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In the last three weeks, 48 cases of measles have been identified, sending 13 patients to the hospital, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The number of cases has doubled in the last 3 days.
fox26houston.com
Texas measles outbreak 2025: Dozens of cases reported in last 3 weeks
In the last three weeks, 48 cases of measles have been identified, sending 13 patients to the hospital, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Tell me again how it doesn't matter if Musk has access to your bank account information...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
No one is immune from disability. It can happen to anyone at anytime, regardless of how 'young and healthy' you are. Stop believing you will be the exception, and start engaging in disability justice. It's far easier to fight for better support and treatment while you still have your health.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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abcnews.go.com
Top public school teachers fear looming Department of Education changes
President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would call for the secretary to submit a proposal to diminish the Education Department.
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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
American medical association is doing daily updates on their YouTube channel,since our govetment seems to be silent about it. Please share...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025
Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We're not talking enough about how the EO that targets DEI also criminalizes Accessibility. That is by design. Every single one of us, whether due to birth, injury, illness, or aging, will need accommodations for Accessibility. This EO targets every American when they are at their most vulnerable.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I've had a lot of conversations with a lot of people this week, but the one that stands out the most is the one where I was talking about "my kids" and I was asked to distinguish between my kids and my students. Y'all. They're the same.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Vandy alone losing hundreds of Millions thanks to this Trump move…
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
And Jesus said: “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God". Matthew 19:24
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Seeing "Stop The Thiel." Love it.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
You mean the guy who staged a coup plot that ended with a siege of the Capitol isn’t following the law. Who could’ve seen that coming?? 🤷‍♀️
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I've been advised that the Department of Education has guaranteed my continued employment for the foreseeable future. 🤦‍♀️ Countdown to the next executive order ⏳ What a time to be alive 🎢😎 When I said public education is the intersection of all public policy...
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
More of this please
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Exactly this.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A total of zero votes were cast for the guy currently running America.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Teachers, Today would be a great day to join a union. Find your local AFT affiliate here: www.aft.org/join
aft.org
How to Join
Do you work in:A preK-12 school system (public, private or charter)?An early childhood center (Head Start, child care center or family child care)?A college or university system?A local, state or fede...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The reason other presidents didn’t “govern” like this is because it’s all illegal.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 03/02/2025
Who told you that you were powerless and what does it get them?
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Just a quick reminder, nobody is coming. You are the adult in the room now.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here is the contact info to freeze your credit reports. You must contact each bureau individually. With the massive data breach executed at the Treasury Department, Social Security numbers and bank account information linked to tax returns, including minor children, has likely been compromised.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/02/2025
Hope people soon understand that there is no "reason' for these tariffs.
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elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
People 💙Just saying 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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Rachel Mello @rachellmello.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As of close of business today, my district has not issued any guidance or reassurance to those of us in positions funded by federal grants...
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