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topsurgerystuff · 5 months

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Okay I’ve never actually posted my own, brand new post on the internet before so I’m kinda nervous but bear with me. I guess I’ll start by putting all my little links and such. I’m sure most people already know about these but fuck it what do I know.

The GALAP is where I got the therapist who gave me the little letter that tells them I’m trans. It’s got a list of therapists who have agreed to give out free letters that iirc are sorted by state. It’s down as of right now but it says they hope to be back up by April 30th 2024. I live in Texas so there was only one for me but she was real cool, she did the evaluation but made it clear that it was only because she legally had to and that she would give me the letter regardless, it was 100% free and it was over telehealth so I didn’t have to go anywhere.

https://www.thegalap.org/need-a-letter/directory

Folx Health does all kinds of stuff. They do gender affirming care as well as just regular doctor shit and they have guys in every state and they take a lot of insurance but their membership is SO GODDAMN EXPENSIVE. If you’re Jeff FUcking Bezoso well here you go I guess.

https://www.folxhealth.com/

Legacy Health is the same as Folx but much more affordable and only in Texas. Sorry if you don’t live in Texas.

https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/contact-us/

Trans in the South is a directory of all kinds of trans-affirming health and legal service providers. It also has a guide on how to fund your transition and its got a list of grants you can apply for too. Never noticed that before, might do that shit.

https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/

Trans Legal Aid of Texas has volunteer attorneys that will help you get and do the paperwork to change all your legal info but you gotta live in Texas sorry sorry.

https://translegalaidtx.com/

Also I don’t have a link for them but Dr. Daniel Freet and Dr. Rachel Goldstein did my top surgery at Memorial Hermann. They did a great job, they were so nice to me, they didn’t question my decision at all and the whole experience start to finish was pretty nice. The wait was forEVER but they are really fucking busy and they’re booked like crazy so. Understandable. Unfortunately, the full cost of my surgery is ~$17,000 and my insurance, who initially said they would cover it, decided they would actually wait until we get the bill before deciding to cover it and since the bill arrived they’ve been dead silent but [screaming in agony] its fine. My incision scars are nice and straight, I have very little dog earing going on and its flattened over time. I’m a little chunky so that’s impressive. It’s only been 5 months and I have full mobility, it only took me about 2 months to get there. My nips are a little ugly but they are intact and they are recognizable as nips. More on that in a later post though. Overall, 10/10, would recommend. End post.

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bugbuoyx · 11 months

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trans fucking WIN today i am now legally daniel and a guy!

#i literally just got the email and im so god damn hype idk what to do with myself #bc i cant do anything without the certified copies!! which have to come in the mail!! which they said is gonna take like 2 weeks!!!!!#to anyone in texas worried they cant get it done: YOU CAN hit up trans legal aid clinic tx and theyll help you for free #once i start gettin money again im gonna donate to them bc of how much they helped i wouldnt have been able to do it without them #trans #transmasc

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dankusner · 4 months

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REM at A&M

Tarrant GOP chairman calls out A&M Law's transgender, illegal alien activist groups

Bo French has called out what he sees as Fort Worth-based Texas A&M Law School’s attempts to “assist in gender transitions and illegal immigration here in Tarrant County.”

“It came to light recently that A&M Law hosts name change and gender marker change clinics for gender-confused people here in Fort Worth. Fun fact – their clinics are hosted in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram … building if that tells you anything! Their support for radical gender ideology goes further,” French wrote in a post on X.

“The school partners with the Dallas LGBT Bar Association … which hosts similar legal clinics for people who want to transition in Dallas and Frisco. But they don’t just support the radical LGBT agenda — they’re awarded for it. A&M Law Faculty member Brian Larson … boasts that he received the ‘Aggie Allies Rainbow Award.'”

The Tarrant GOP chairman identified several faculty members and private institutions that had allegedly worked to aid in gender transitions.

Next, he pivoted to immigration.

“The radicalism being pushed by A&M Law here in Tarrant County doesn’t stop at trans ideology, but even includes work supporting illegal immigration. Faculty Member Fatma Marouf … leads ‘immigration clinics’ also at the Star-Telegram building, helping illegals remain in our county. It should also be noted that she is a board member of ACLU Texas …, [a] radical left group suing Texas for attempting to close the border, protecting children from genital mutilation surgery, and more.”Time to expose Texas A&M Law School S1:15 This week we're talking about A&M (@TAMULawSchool) and their efforts to assist in gender transitions and illegal immigration here in Tarrant County. If you weren't aware, Texas A&M (@TAMU) has a law school in downtown Fort Worth. A&M… pic.twitter.com/ej9w8c1x2p — Bo French (@Bo_French_TX) June 1, 2024

French concluded his tweet with a call to action directed at the governor.

“Recently Governor Abbott … threatened to withhold funds from Texas A&M when they decided to enforce Biden’s radical new Title IX policy.

The University receives over $1 billion per year from the State of Texas through the Permanent University Fund.

Perhaps he will look into A&M Law and decide that it needs to tighten its belt.”

This is not the first time the law school’s immigration activities have come under scrutiny.

A recent headline in Current Revolt reads, “Is Texas A&M Aiding An Alien Invasion?”

The story included a digest of various, now deleted, resources on the university website that could help illegal immigrants.

These resources included a number of groups and faculty members who could help illegal immigrants receive aid and other benefits.

Current Revolt’s piece, which was partly editorial and partly investigative, saw A&M as a vector of illegal immigration that worked to counter the governor’s ongoing border security efforts.

After enumerating other alleged scandals at the university, the piece suggested seizing the university’s endowments in order to help secure the border.

Law school groups that exist to help those claiming to be transgender are common in universities.

One of the most prominent is OUTlaw (sometimes spelled ‘OUTLaw’ or ‘OutLaw’).

Like A&M, the organization has chapters at numerous Texas universities like UT and SMU, and out-of-state universities like The University of Tulsa.

Responses to French’s post were mixed.

“GIG ‘EM Aggies! Way to be amazing human beings ensuring other human beings have rights and choices! Love my alma mater!!!!,” a comment for user @Carolesgloves reads.

“I don’t think most of the other alumni agree that grooming kids then abusing them with horrific butchery is a good thing,” French responded.

“Proud to be an Aggie, class of ’80,” @pixsmith, another reactor, said. “Groomer alert,” French responded.

“As a former student at what is now A&M, I had hoped that [Texas A&M Law School] would become the George Mason of the west, but instead, it has been content to be the SMU of Tarrant County. What a waste,” Warren Norred, an Arlington-based attorney, wrote.

The Dallas Express contacted Professor Brian Larson, whom French implicated. He responded to each claim in French’s post.

Larson rejected the notion that A&M Law hosted a name change and gender marker change clinics for gender-confused people in Fort Worth.

“This is incorrect. The host of the single clinic held on March 30 was the OUTLaw student group. That group is made up of LGBTQ+ students and their allies who seek equality and justice for folks without regard to their sex, gender, or sexuality. OUTLaw does not consider the clinic’s clients to be confused at all about their gender identities,” he said to The Dallas Express.

Larson sees the lack of advertising of the event as a buttress to his point that this was a student group’s outside action.

“The lack of advertising on TAMU’s site is notable only as evidence that TAMU Law was not the sponsor of the event; OUTLaw was.

Student groups are generally responsible for promoting their own events and can’t rely on the school to do so for them,” he said.

Regarding an alleged partnership with the Dallas LGBT Bar Association, Larson also disagreed.

“Again, incorrect. As far as I know, the law school was not formally involved in putting on the clinic. TAMU law does have a large number of student groups who represent a wide variety of social and political views, including the Christian Legal Society, the Federalist Society, and OUTLaw.

The law school, and Texas A&M generally, vigorously supports our students exercising their freedom of speech and right to petition the government for redress of grievances,” he said.

“The school allows students to use university facilities for these activities, consistent with state law and university policy.

The student groups themselves are generally mutually respectful; rather than sending hecklers or protesters into Federalist Society presentations, for example, OUTLaw has scheduled counter programming.”

Regarding the Aggie Allies Rainbow Award, Larson denies boasting about it.

“I’m not sure whether and where I’ve boasted about the fact, but I am proud of it. I received that award in 2021, after I had served as faculty advisor to the OUTLaw student group since 2017. Comments from nominators noted that I worked hard to make students feel welcome at the school. I believe (and certainly hope) that my conservative students, of whom there are quite a few, also feel welcome here.”

The Dallas Express also contacted the governor, Marouf, and the university for comment, but no responses were received by the time of publication.

Texas A&M University was previously exposed in a DX investigation for potentially violating a state DEI ban.

Although the university immediately scrapped a job description that included DEI language, it took weeks to issue a response that denied any wrongdoing.

Texas A&M traditional bonfire to end as part of renewed Texas rivalry

In this Nov. 18, 1999, file photo, Texas A&M students and rescue workers gather at the base of the collapsed bonfire stack in College Station, Texas. Twelve were killed and 27 injured in the accident.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M’s traditional bonfire, which ended 25 years ago after 12 people were killed and 27 more were wounded when the log stack collapsed during construction, will not return to campus for the renewal of the annual football rivalry with Texas, school President Mark Welsh III announced Tuesday.

A special committee had recommended bringing it back as part of the school’s celebration of the restart of the rivalry with the Longhorns next season.

The recommendation had called for a bonfire designed by and built by professional engineers and contractors.

Welsh said he considered public input and noted that many who responded did not want to bring it back if students were not organizing, leading and building the bonfire.

The committee, however, had said the only viable option would be to have it professionally built.

“After careful consideration, I have decided that Bonfire, both a wonderful and tragic part of Aggie history, should remain in our treasured past,” Welsh said in a statement.

The traditional bonfire before the Aggies-Longhorns football game dates to 1909.

The 60-foot structure with about 5,000 logs collapsed in the early morning hours of Nov. 18, 1999, killing 11 students and one former student.

The school has a campus memorial for the tragedy, and Welsh noted the upcoming 25th anniversary.

“That sacred place will remain the centerpiece of how we remember the beloved tradition and the dedication of those involved in the tragic 1999 collapse,” Welsh said. “We will continue to hold them and their families close at that event and always.”

Texas plays at Texas A&M on Nov. 30 as the Longhorns join the Southeastern Conference this season.

The rivalry split after the 2011 season after Texas A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC.

A&M Makes Right Call on Bonfire

Tradition is best left to memory, as it wouldn’t be the same under recommended guidelines

Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III made the right decision to keep the school’s bonfire “part of Aggie history” but not part of its future.

Welsh announced his decision Tuesday, after an exploratory committee recommended replacing the student-led bonfire with a professionally built version.

This November will mark 25 years since the bonfire collapse that killed 12 Aggies and ended the campus tradition.

It also marks the renewal of Texas A&M’s conference rivalry with the University of Texas as UT joins the Southeastern Conference.

The bonfire, Aggies say, symbolized their “burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u.”

For those reasons, the idea of reinstating the tradition this year had some appeal.

The university formed a committee last fall to explore that possibility and to recommend other ways of marking the occasion.

Thousands of Texans have some connection to Aggie Bonfire.

Even students from other schools used to drive to College Station each November for the spectacle.

An unsanctioned bonfire still happens off campus.

In the end, the committee, which was co-chaired by a regent and a university vice president, was “clear in its position that the only legally viable option for the return of the campus bonfire was for it to be an engineer-designed, contractor-built project,” Welsh wrote in a public statement.

The beauty of the Aggies’ 90-year tradition was that it was entirely student-led and activated.

It provided a bonding experience as well as leadership and organizational lessons for students who built it.

Replacing it with a store-bought version misses the point.

What’s remarkable, in fact, is that Aggies managed to keep such a massive, student-run enterprise going for so long, failing to burn it only once: It was dismantled in November 1963, as the nation mourned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1969, the bonfire reached a height of 109 feet, a world record.

After that, the height was limited to 55 feet, still a massive construction project where safety was hard to manage.

In November 2004, the school opened a Bonfire Memorial on the site of the tragedy.

Students still gather there each Nov. 18 at 2:42 a.m. to mark the moment of the collapse.

That’s a fitting place to leave the bonfire. Like millions of Texans, we’re thrilled to have the in-state rivalry back. We enjoy the proud traditions of both schools, and we can continue to do so without a bonfire.

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damnitaddie · 5 years

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In The Streets

“All the street lights, glowing, happen to be Just like moments, passing, in front of me So I hopped in the cab and I paid my fare See I know my destination, but I’m just not there…”

It’s been so long since I’ve updated this site that I don’t even know what to say, looks like the last time I updated the site was in late March. In that time, I’ve changed jobs, I changed schools, and things are happening.

After leaving AT&T and drifting aimlessly for a while, I got hired at Spectrum. At first, I treated Spectrum like a bullshit job that I didn’t care about. I think it was mostly because of the entry pay. But after a decent raise and then a shift differential, I had found a place that I wanted to stay until I graduated from nursing school. However, they changed my schedule to a point where going to school during the day wasn’t going to be feasible.

At the same time that they announced the scheduling changes for the whole center, I had just completed my healthcare basics coursework, lab time, and clinical rotations. I sat for the written and skills test and earned my CNA, or as Kentucky calls it – State Registered Nurse Aide.

With that in mind, it seemed like a sign that if nursing was my focus and I wanted to be about that life, there was no better time than the present to jump in head first. Don’t talk about it, be about it. So I started applying. I went to an open interview event at Norton Healthcare and sat down with a nurse manager. I went on to have an interview at Audubon Hospital and then another at Norton Hospital. I had also applied at Jewish and Kindred. I accepted an interview at Jewish and was offered the job the next day. I accepted and proceeded to do the onboarding requirements. Before orientation could begin, I got a call back from Norton offering me a job at the downtown hospital. Because it had been my goal to work at Norton, I accepted this job and backed out of the position at Jewish with as much poise and grace as possible.

During this same time period, I ran afoul of the chair of the nursing program at JCTC, after calling out the school on Twitter. An issue had arisen when our teacher allowed people to leave early. Because the course had federal requirements for logged hours, this was a big no-no. On this fateful night, my teacher’s boss walked in at 7:30 pm. I was there, along with two other students, but the other 20 or so students were long gone. So, they forced all of us to make up those hours. Even the three of us who were still there.

It was implied that I had broken the school’s social media policy. However, when I asked what section of the policy, knowing full well that the policy only applied to staff and faculty, they pivoted to possibly not accepting me into the ADN program due to my posts. In my mind, they’d already decided not to accept me, so I told them there were plenty of nursing schools in this town and someone would take my money.

And so, that’s the story of how I ended up at Galen, basically a year further away from graduating than I would have been if I’d just started there from the beginning. But it’s been good. I think it’s a good, albeit expensive, program and the degree carries name recognition for being a quality school.

Since starting at Norton as a PCA — Patient Care Associate — I’ve learned a ton of things and I feel like I’m already ahead of many of my classmates, many of them who are decades younger and have never worked in healthcare. In only a couple months, I know how to do things that they may not learn for months or even years. In January, we’ll begin our clinical rotations for school, doing hands-on work, most likely in long-term care facilities or nursing homes.

At the same time, I’ll be shifting gears at Norton, hanging up my grey scrubs for green, as a Nurse Apprentice, having been accepted into SNAP, which is the Student Nurse Apprenticeship Program. The first federally recognized program of it’s type, it gives me the ability to continue to build my clinical skills, often working nearly at scope along side a registered nurse. Being already familiar with Norton’s Systems, policies, and operating standards, I’m excited to be able to do more hands-on work than I’m legally allowed to do currently. My participation will run parallel to school, wrapping up at graduation time, just in time to take the NCLEX.

School and work has become my personality, largely because I have time for nothing else. I think everyone gets this false impression that because I “only” work 3 days a week that I’ve got so much time, but I’m working 12 hour shifts, from 7pm to 7am, and then often going straight to campus. On days when I don’t work and don’t have school, I often sleep 12-18 hours just trying to get back to baseline.

I say all this as a way of getting to the point, I’ve been missing everything. Family events, my kid’s sporting events, spending time with my girlfriend, and generally being a living breathing human being. If you ask me when we’re going to hang out, I’m likely to reply, “When you show up at the hospital, at Galen, or in my bedroom.”

Beyond all that, nothing else has changed. I wish I could say that I was becoming a better version of myself, less obsessed, more focused on the future than the past, and all that — but I don’t want to lie to you. I’m still carrying all my torches and they’re lit like the beacons of Minas Tirith.

In June, in the gap between Spectrum and Norton, Nicole and I took a trip to Washington D.C. for an event put on by American Nurses Association to lobby legislators on Capitol Hill. I had never been to the district and it was a fairly exciting proposition. There was a certain level of anxiety in it though, as Laurel lives in the area. I didn’t have any intention of seeking her out or really making contact with her, but she remains in my thoughts even now.

Nicole, knowing my feelings and being Nicole, had tried to contact Laurel a couple times. These were ostensibly friendly and Nicole’s way of letting Laurel know I still had feelings for her. I’ll never know what actually happened there, because neither party would share the contents of those interactions, but suffice to say, they were received poorly by Laurel. Never the less, Nicole was adamant that I needed to see her while we were in town. I was vehemently opposed to this idea and we debated it through most of West and Non-West Virginia.

No matter my protests, we ended up at the bar where Laurel spends most of her time that night. Earlier in the day, she had posted on Facebook a sort of open invitation to area trans folk to come out for drinks. As we, at the time, were Facebook friends — I would assume this would apply to me. This ties into the concept of assumptions. And, if we’re being honest, I knew there was a 90% chance she’d not want to see me.

So, there we are, standing on the sidewalk out front. I can actually see Laurel through the windows and I start to hyperventilate, replete with tachycardia. A full fledged anxiety attack. I plead with Nicole to leave, like let’s not do this, this is going to end poorly, etc, etc, etc. She declines.

We end up going into the upstairs portion of the bar and we have a few drinks. With a bit of liquid courage and social lubrication flowing, I send Laurel a message telling her that I’m upstairs, asking if she’d like to come up and say hi. This way I don’t crash her gathering, and she can save face in front of her friends.

So we wait, and we wait, and wait some more. Drinking more and more as we go, having befriended the bartender. A nice guy that had moved from Texas to D.C., a previous EMS technician and Army medic. Nicole and him both had the same role and rank in the military. We chatted about this and that, until finally I had waited long enough and was going to be so bold as to venture downstairs. I’ll never forget what happened next, because in 39 years on this rock, I’ve never seen someone react so poorly to seeing me. Not even the transphobe at AT&T who turned on her heel out of the women’s room having seen me…

At the bottom of the steps, I came around the corner and basically ran right into Laurel. We were maybe three feet apart. The closest we’d been since she drove away from our home in April of 2017. You always hear that trope about the blood running out of someone’s face, but I’d never seen it in reality, until now. Paler than pale. So white she was nearly transparent.

We have just lost cabin pressure.

The whole exchange lasted less than two minutes. Aside from asking me what I was doing there, she really couldn’t seem to get words past her teeth. Which, if you’ve met Laurel, you’d know is a pretty impressive feat. I finally said that I would make it easy and just go.

I spent the rest of the night and the trip in a state wavering between sadness and disbelief. I wasn’t shocked and if anything, I expected worse. I knew that there was nothing there, that the well had run dry long ago, but I still had to lean over the edge and peer into the void. By morning, she had blocked me on every social media platform.

In the afternoon, her bestie was messaging me accusing me of ill intent that I didn’t have. I told her basically that I could put my feelings in a bottle on a shelf, but they never seem to stay there for long. Even now, five months later, I’m still thinking about that fateful night. Running it through my head, replaying the horrible look she gave me. Of course, with Thanksgiving upon us, the memory of my mistakes weigh upon me heavily.

I’m working on erasing you, I just don’t have the proper tools. I get hammered, forget that you exist There’s no way that I’m forgetting this.

You’re the shit and I’m knee-deep in it.

Other than that, everything is great!

In The Streets was originally published on TransVentures

#depression #love #transventures #work

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undisclosed-nate · 5 years

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Hey, I'm Parker and am new to Houston and wanting to transition... And just making friends in general.. do you have any tips and recommendations?

Hey Parker.

Don't wanna make assumptions about what transitioning looks like for you but if you're looking for hormones;

• If you don't have insurance go to Legacy Community Health (Montrose location) they practice informed consent, work on a sliding scale, and give discounts on meds for using their pharmacy. The only thing is they're usually stretched pretty thin.

• If you have insurance, look up Houston Heights Primary, specifically Todd O'Neal, FNP. Dr. Kovacs is also great but Todd just joined her practice so he has more space.

•If other people recommend you The Montrose Center, stay away. They're not all that trans friendly. And by stay away, I mean from their internal resources. There are some groups and events that are hosted there but not connected and are okay to go to.

If you're looking for name/gender correction help, look up the Trans Legal Aid Clinic. They take people through the process.

For surgeries, most people travel to Plano or Austin, but I had my top surgery in town with Dr. Michael Eisemann.

Looking for therapy, try Kaden Stanley, PsyD at Emergent Pathways.

As far as making friends. Idk. You can try the trans support groups at The Montrose Center, (just look for the info on their website) but they were never really my thing so don't know much about them. Also join the Trans Houston fb page and you'll find out about events and stuff.

I sit on the board of a non-profit called Gender Infinity and we have an annual conference coming up in October, as well as other stuff throughout the year. We're mostly youth focused but always looking for trans adult volunteers. And all of those are my personal recommendations but if you wanna explore more, Gender Infinity has a resource database called the MAP (mapping affirming providers) at resource.genderinfinity.org where you can find a lot more options.

In summary;

• Don't let anyone tell you there isn't a community/resources in Texas

• Don't let anyone tell you The Montrose Center is the only way

• Don't let anyone tell you you have to travel for surgery

Hope this helps!

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newstfionline · 3 years

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Saturday, June 12, 2021

G-7 nations gather to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world (AP) World leaders from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are set to commit at their summit to share at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with struggling countries around the world—half the doses coming from the U.S. and 100 million from the U.K. The leaders meeting in the resort of Carbis Bay hope to energize the global economy as well. On Friday they are set to formally embrace a global minimum tax of at least 15% on corporations, seconding an agreement reached a week ago at a meeting of their finance ministers. The minimum is meant to stop companies from using tax havens and other tools to avoid taxes. The official summit business starts Friday, with the customary formal greeting and a socially distanced group photo. Later the leaders will meet Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals.

The West is the driest it's been in 1,200 years (NBC News) Trees are dying. Riverbeds are empty. Lake Mead's water level dropped to its lowest point in history, and Utah's governor asked residents to pray for rain. Water is increasingly scarce in the Western U.S.—where 72 percent of the region is in "severe" drought, 26 percent is in exceptional drought, and populations are booming. Insufficient monsoon rains last summer and low snowpacks over the winter left states like Arizona, Utah and Nevada without the typical amount of water they need, and forecasts for the rainy summer season don't show promise. This year's aridity is happening against the backdrop of a 20-year-long drought. The past two decades have been the driest or the second driest in the last 1,200 years in the West, posing existential questions about how to secure a livable future in the region.

Earthquakes and oil (Bloomberg) According to an analysis of data from Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, in the shale-producing regions, there were 938 earthquakes registering at least a 2 on the Richter scale last year, quadruple the number detected in 2017. Such tremors are linked to shale production, which entails wastewater being pumped underground. In 2019, 12 billion barrels of wastewater were disposed of underground, which can make the seismic conditions a little more unstable. The figure has been rising steadily, and year to date there have already been 570 such earthquakes in the southwest, which is on pace for a record.

Bitcoin in El Salvador (Foreign Policy) The country has become the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency a legal tender. It will be exchangeable for dollars at a market rate, a system that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said could reduce transfer fees on migrant remittances and attract investment. The move also risks enabling money laundering and use of El Salvador as a tax haven.

Argentina Is the Pandemic’s Latest Hot Spot (Foreign Policy) At the end of a first-floor wing of the Mariano y Luciano de la Vega Hospital in the Argentine municipality of Moreno, the day unfolded like many others during the pandemic here, with razor-sharp focus on each and every bed—juggling patients who have COVID-19 and those who suffer from other ailments afflicting a working-class and low-income population. “Every bed is super important,” according to the hospital’s director, Emmanuel Alvarez. “We have to have a minute-by-minute accounting of the available beds,” he said. “The collapse can happen because of COVID or because of something else.” The prospect of a collapse is very real. Argentina has been cataloging record levels of contagion—41,000 new cases in one day last week. The country of 45 million people has counted more than 3.8 million cases and nearly 80,000 deaths since the pandemic began, with a growth rate trending upward even as other countries’ rates begin to slow. In the last two weeks, it has ranked among the three countries with the highest number of deaths per capita. Around 95 percent of intensive care beds are occupied in eight of the country’s 23 provinces, according to the Argentine Intensive Care Society, with 90 percent occupied in another five jurisdictions, including the capital city.

America May Be ‘Back’ in Europe, but How Much Has Really Changed? (NYT) Few images captured the rupture in trans-Atlantic relations better than that of President Donald J. Trump in 2018, arms folded across his chest as he resisted Chancellor Angela Merkel and other frustrated leaders in their doomed effort to salvage their summit meeting in Canada. When the same leaders reconvene in Cornwall, England, on Friday, President Biden will reverse the body language, replacing impasse with embrace. But beneath the imagery, it is not clear how much more open the United States will be to give-and-take with Europe than it was under Mr. Trump. “America’s foreign policy hasn’t fundamentally changed,” said Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the British Parliament. “It’s more cooperative and inclusive, but substantially it’s the same.” “Like all leaders,” he added, “Biden is putting his own country first. How he achieves that is what has distracted many.”

EU countries clear plan to ease cross-border tourism over summer (Reuters) European Union countries agreed on Friday to an easing of travel restrictions over summer that will allow fully vaccinated tourists to avoid tests or quarantines and broaden the list of EU regions from which it is safe to travel. Ambassadors from the 27 EU member states approved a modified European Commission proposal that people who have been fully vaccinated for 14 days should be able to travel freely from one EU country to another, current EU president Portugal said. Restrictions for other travellers should be based on the degree to which the country they are coming from has COVID-19 infections under control. The revised guidelines come as the EU introduces COVID-19 certificates that will indicate whether a person is vaccinated, has immunity because they were previously infected, or has had a recent negative test. The system is set to be ready by July 1, although some countries will launch certificates earlier.

As U.S. Withdraws, Afghan Interpreters Fear Being Left Behind (NYT) It was an offhand comment, blurted out in frustration. It may have destroyed Shoaib Walizada’s chances of earning a cherished visa to the United States. Mr. Walizada, who interpreted for the U.S. Army for four years until 2013, said that he had complained one day, using profanity, that his assigned combat vest was too small. When the episode came to light later that year, Mr. Walizada’s preliminary approval for a visa was revoked for “unprofessional conduct.” Mr. Walizada, 31, is among thousands of Afghans once employed by the U.S. government, many as interpreters, whose applications for a Special Immigrant Visa, or S.I.V., through a State Department program, have been denied. The program, established to relocate to the United States Iraqis and Afghans whose lives are threatened because they worked for the American military or government, has rejected some applicants for seemingly minor infractions and others for no stated reason. Now, as American troops depart and Afghans experience a growing sense of anxiety and despair, the visa applications have taken on renewed urgency. With the Taliban taking advantage of the U.S. withdrawal, many former interpreters say they are more likely than ever to be killed.

Israel’s Netanyahu lashes out as end of his era draws near (AP) In what appear to be the final days of his historic 12-year rule, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not leaving the political stage quietly. The longtime leader is accusing his opponents of betraying their voters, and some have needed special security protection. Netanyahu says he is the victim of a “deep state” conspiracy. He speaks in apocalyptic terms when talking about the country without his leadership. “They are uprooting the good and replacing it with the bad and dangerous,” Netanyahu told the conservative Channel 20 TV station this week. “I fear for the destiny of the nation.” Such language has made for tense days as Netanyahu and his loyalists make a final desperate push to try to prevent a new government from taking office on Sunday. With his options running out, it has also provided a preview of Netanyahu as opposition leader.

France ends Sahel military operation (Reuters) President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday France’s operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa would come to an end with troops now operating as part of broader international efforts in the region. France, the former colonial power, has hailed some success against Sahel militants in recent months but the situation is extremely fragile and Paris has grown frustrated with no apparent end in sight to its operations and political turmoil especially in Mali. “The time has come to begin a deep transformation of our military presence in the Sahel,” Macron told a news conference, referring to the Barkhane operation, which has some 5,100 soldiers across the region.

In Tigray, food is often a weapon of war as famine looms (AP) First the Eritrean soldiers stole the pregnant woman’s food as she hid in the bush. Then they turned her away from a checkpoint when she was on the verge of labor. So she had the baby at home and walked 12 days to get the famished child to a clinic in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. Here, in war-torn Tigray, more than 350,000 people already face famine, according to the U.N. and other humanitarian groups. It is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. In farming areas in Tigray to which the AP got rare access, farmers, aid workers and local officials confirmed that food had been turned into a weapon of war. Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are blocking food aid and even stealing it, they said, and an AP team saw convoys with food and medical aid turned back by Ethiopian military officials as fighting resumed in the town of Hawzen. The soldiers also are accused of stopping farmers from harvesting or plowing, stealing the seeds for planting, killing livestock and looting farm equipment. “If things don’t change soon, mass starvation is inevitable,” said a humanitarian worker in the region, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to escape retaliation from armed groups. “This is a man-made disaster.”

Missing Characters (Annenberg) A new study of the 200 top-grossing films produced by the United States, U.K., Australia and New Zealand from 2017 to 2019 found that just 1.6 percent of the 8,965 speaking characters in those films were Muslim. Given that 24 percent of the global population is Muslim, that’s a rather steep under-representation; further, a deeper look at the characters determined that only one of the Muslim characters was portrayed in the United States. In aggregate, the portrayals of the characters were one-dimensional: of 41 primary and secondary Muslim characters, 58.5 percent were immigrants or refugees, 87.8 percent spoke English with an accent, if at all, 39 percent were perpetrators of violence, 19 percent were dead by the end of the film, and only eight of the characters were children.

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27 progressive Twitter users worth following for a deeper look at a few familiar topics.

Twitter can be a huge waste of time unless you’re following the right people.

To mix things up, I try to follow new people at every available chance. Finding new voices and views to follow, however, can be challenging. After all, Twitter’s “Who to Follow” section can feel a little stale at times. So if, like me, you’re on the lookout for some fresh perspectives, here’s a short list of some of the people who make my own Twitter feed fun and informative.

1. Sara Benincasa @SaraJBenincasa

Author and comedian Sara Benincasa is your go-to Twitter account for lighthearted takes on current events, measured opinions on serious matters, and more than a few laughs. Her latest book, “DC Trip,” came out late last year, and her next, “Real Artists Have Day Jobs,” is due this April.

I just published Dear America: Heres Your Gun Solution https://t.co/AM77CHGql1 Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) December 3, 2015

2. Jane Doe, MD @DrJaneChi

Jane is a physician (who happens to also provide abortions), an intersectional feminist, and lover of small, furry animals. There’s almost certainly something important happening in the world you don’t know about that Jane is tweeting about right now.

When a cis white liberal uses the phrase “overly politically correct,” it

3. Robin @caulkthewagon

Robin is a Bostonian who spent much of last year organizing around the #NoBoston2024 cause, fighting the city’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. She tweets about labor, organizing, and a variety of progressive causes.

The majority of Bostonians are being shut down by the city and #Boston2024. They ignore dissent. We will be heard. #NoBoston2024 Robin (@caulkthewagon) June 13, 2015

4. Melissa Gira Grant @melissagira

Journalist Melissa Gira Grant is the author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.” She writes on sexual politics, technology, and workers’ rights.

An excerpt from PLAYING THE WHORE up now at @thenation: http://t.co/mSiWKVnSYY (+ get the whole book: http://t.co/0wf0e7QYM3) Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) March 5, 2014

5. Imani Gandy @AngryBlackLady

Imani is the senior legal analyst over at RH Reality Check. Her tweets on race, gender, and pop culture are supplemented by some really great, insightful articles.

My latest. | I Don

6. Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes

Andrea is a digital editor at the Texas Observer. She’s passionate about reproductive health, and she’s absolutely hilarious on Twitter. In response to the “ice bucket challenge,” Andrea launched the “taco or beer challenge,” in which you eat a taco and/or drink a beer, and donate to help fund abortion. Because hey, why not, right?

Abortion is a social good necessary to the empowerment and freedom of anyone capable of becoming pregnant. #Roe43 #7in10forRoe Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) January 22, 2016

7. Michelle Kinsey Bruns @ClinicEscort

As her handle indicates, she’s an escort for patients in and out of abortion clinics, helping to shield them from anti-choice protesters. Michelle’s series of tweets about clinic violence using the #is100enough hashtag went viral late last year after the shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood.

I talked to @Upworthy about #is100enough and changing the conversation on abortion. https://t.co/Il7BfwdllT thx @Legallyphoenix! ClinicEscort (@ClinicEscort) December 2, 2015

8. Katie Klabusich @katie_speak

Katie is a writer and host of “The Katie Speak Show” on Netroots Radio. She’s a fierce advocate for abortion rights and bodily autonomy and is just an all-around solid choice to follow on Twitter. Last year, she was featured in an Upworthy story about abortion stigma.

The hardest thing I

9. Chris Mosier @TheChrisMosier

Chris is an athlete and the first transgender member of Team USA. He’s the executive director of GO! Athletes, a nonprofit for current and former LGBTQ high school and college athletes.

Did it! Made Team USA! pic.twitter.com/rnOEZ2VQDZ The Chris Mosier (@TheChrisMosier) June 7, 2015

10. Molly Knefel @mollyknefel

Molly is a journalist, writer, and co-host of the “Radio Dispatch” podcast. She’s also an after-school teacher for grades K-8. She’s a great follow for anyone interested in hearing a fresh take on current events.

I wrote about Brendan Dassey, false youth confessions, & the cop tactics that make them happen, for @RollingStone https://t.co/nXRwqHymTj Molly Knefel (@mollyknefel) January 8, 2016

11. Jessica Luther @scATX

Jessica is an Austin, Texas-based independent journalist and sportswriter. She’s done some truly impressive work on the topic of sexual assault within college athletic programs.

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called “The Wrestler and the Rape Victim” https://t.co/qlw9QFPCk8 Jessica Luther (@scATX) December 11, 2015

12. Carlos Maza @gaywonk

Carlos is a research fellow at Media Matters for America. Until recently, his work focused primarily on LGBT rights, but it has since expanded to include a wide range of progressive causes.

Thanks to @grouchybagels and @erintothemax for dropping knowledge about abortion stigma: https://t.co/VerzdxKIfI https://t.co/s3yRpgCsqc Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) January 21, 2016

13. Jamie Kilstein @jamiekilstein

Jamie is a musician and comedian. He’s the co-author of “#Newsfail” and co-host of the “Citizen Radio” podcast. Last year, Jamie was featured in an Upworthy article about catcalls not being compliments.

If people were as scared of mass poverty or climate change as they were if the pretend IRAN threat we would be golden. Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) January 17, 2016

14. Ijeoma Oluo @IjeomaOluo

Ijeoma is a Seattle-based writer and editor-at-large at The Establishment, a multimedia company founded, funded, and run by women. She’s a great follow for smart takes on the intersection of feminism, race, pop culture, and parenting.

Abuse is not dialogue. Abuse is not speech. Abuse is abuse. Why We Don

15. Pasta @pastachips

Pasta is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based sex worker who writes and blogs about politics, labor, police violence, stigma, and other issues.

even accounting for the exploitation that criminalisation brings, suspect sex work is biggest transfer of wealth from men to women in the . [pasta emoji] (@pastachips) December 27, 2015

16. Monica Roberts @TransGriot

Monica is a Houston-based blogger and civil rights activist. She’s won multiple awards for her blog TransGriot, and in 2013, she was named to the inaugural Trans 100 list.

In the spirit of #MLKDay2016 we

17. Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner

Chris is the legal editor over at BuzzFeed News. In the past, he’s done some truly phenomenal writing on LGBTQ issues, but lately he’s been churning out some truly informative posts about the death penalty and the Supreme Court’s role in its future.

More fallout (now in Alabama) from this week

18. Cameron Russell @CameronCRussell

Cameron is a model, writer, editor, and climate activist. In 2012, she gave a TED Talk about appearance and the privilege that comes along with winning a genetic lottery. In 2013, she founded Space Made, an artist collective based in Brooklyn. Her tweets tackle issues of gender, race, and climate.

the most important work fashion has ever enabled me to do data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=

19. Linda Sarsour @lsarsour

Linda is a racial justice and civil rights activist and media commentator. She’s a Palestinian-American and Muslim. Her informative tweets give a fresh look at what sadly remains a very relevant issue: Islamophobia around the world.

“If ur not careful, the newspapers will have u hating the people who r being oppressed, & loving the people who r doing the oppressing.” Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 13, 2015

20. Zo S. @ztsamudzi

If you’re interested in issues surrounding race and gender, then Zo is a must-follow. She’s blunt, unapologetic, and so frequently just spot-on in her observations.

Protect black women while we

21. Chase Strangio @chasestrangio

Chase is a staff attorney at the ACLU, working with its LGBT & AIDS Project. He’s a great follow for anyone interested in learning a bit about some of the struggles facing trans and gender-nonconforming people when it comes to the police.

Last night we publicly filed our opposition brief in @xychelsea

22. Cyd Zeigler @CydZeigler

Cyd is the co-founder of Outsports.com, a website dedicated to covering LGBT athletes. With some of the first athletes in major sports coming out as LGBT in recent years, Cyd’s work has been essential reading as we watch these early pioneers make history.

Gay #Orioles exec Greg Bader has seen nothing but support from the team @BaltSunSports https://t.co/Gzbby9Jwzo pic.twitter.com/mi0IIt1Ue6 Cyd Zeigler (@CydZeigler) November 17, 2015

23. Leah Torres, MD @LeahNTorres

Leah is an OB-GYN who, yes, provides abortions. She’s an advocate for her patients and is a proponent of comprehensive sex education.

I perform abortions. I am not evil. I keep my patients safe. I respect my patients. I am a person. I do not deserve to be murdered. Leah Torres, MD (@LeahNTorres) December 1, 2015

24. Tina Vasquez @TheTinaVasquez

Tina is an immigration reporting fellow at RH Reality Check. On Twitter, she shares her eye-opening opinions on race and gender and is most certainly worth a follow.

My latest for @rhrealitycheck about how the raids by ICE of Central American families may have been unlawful: https://t.co/S6XRdMpWJC Tina Vasquez (@TheTinaVasquez) January 6, 2016

25. Ian Thompson @IantDC

Ian is a legislative representative at the ACLU. He works on issues ranging from LGBT rights to sex education. Prior to working at the ACLU, he was an intern in Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s D.C. office.

Major reforms are needed before the no-fly list should be used to stop gun purchases: https://t.co/YUkOetfasu. Ian Thompson (@iantDC) December 7, 2015

26. Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports

Dave is the sports editor at The Nation. He hosts the “Edge of Sports Radio” podcast, and his work rides the line between sports and politics, giving him a unique perspective. He’s the author of eight books.

My latest piece @thenation “Dear Cam Newton: Please Don

27. Upworthy @Upworthy

OK, OK, I work for Upworthy, so of course I’m going to recommend you follow us. But have you seen our live-tweets of award shows and debates? Or how about one of our UpChats? They’re super fun and informative. And as a bonus, you get all our fun articles delivered right to your Twitter feed.

3 countries are capturing wind to power all our futures. https://t.co/nGRLuhetnX pic.twitter.com/05nhEKxKP8 Upworthy (@Upworthy) January 21, 2016

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27 progressive Twitter users worth following for a deeper look at a few familiar topics.

Twitter can be a huge waste of time unless you’re following the right people.

1. Sara Benincasa @SaraJBenincasa

I just published Dear America: Heres Your Gun Solution https://t.co/AM77CHGql1 Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) December 3, 2015

2. Jane Doe, MD @DrJaneChi

When a cis white liberal uses the phrase “overly politically correct,” it

3. Robin @caulkthewagon

The majority of Bostonians are being shut down by the city and #Boston2024. They ignore dissent. We will be heard. #NoBoston2024 Robin (@caulkthewagon) June 13, 2015

4. Melissa Gira Grant @melissagira

Journalist Melissa Gira Grant is the author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.” She writes on sexual politics, technology, and workers’ rights.

An excerpt from PLAYING THE WHORE up now at @thenation: http://t.co/mSiWKVnSYY (+ get the whole book: http://t.co/0wf0e7QYM3) Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) March 5, 2014

5. Imani Gandy @AngryBlackLady

Imani is the senior legal analyst over at RH Reality Check. Her tweets on race, gender, and pop culture are supplemented by some really great, insightful articles.

My latest. | I Don

6. Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes

Abortion is a social good necessary to the empowerment and freedom of anyone capable of becoming pregnant. #Roe43 #7in10forRoe Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) January 22, 2016

7. Michelle Kinsey Bruns @ClinicEscort

I talked to @Upworthy about #is100enough and changing the conversation on abortion. https://t.co/Il7BfwdllT thx @Legallyphoenix! ClinicEscort (@ClinicEscort) December 2, 2015

8. Katie Klabusich @katie_speak

The hardest thing I

9. Chris Mosier @TheChrisMosier

Chris is an athlete and the first transgender member of Team USA. He’s the executive director of GO! Athletes, a nonprofit for current and former LGBTQ high school and college athletes.

Did it! Made Team USA! pic.twitter.com/rnOEZ2VQDZ The Chris Mosier (@TheChrisMosier) June 7, 2015

10. Molly Knefel @mollyknefel

I wrote about Brendan Dassey, false youth confessions, & the cop tactics that make them happen, for @RollingStone https://t.co/nXRwqHymTj Molly Knefel (@mollyknefel) January 8, 2016

11. Jessica Luther @scATX

Jessica is an Austin, Texas-based independent journalist and sportswriter. She’s done some truly impressive work on the topic of sexual assault within college athletic programs.

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called “The Wrestler and the Rape Victim” https://t.co/qlw9QFPCk8 Jessica Luther (@scATX) December 11, 2015

12. Carlos Maza @gaywonk

Carlos is a research fellow at Media Matters for America. Until recently, his work focused primarily on LGBT rights, but it has since expanded to include a wide range of progressive causes.

Thanks to @grouchybagels and @erintothemax for dropping knowledge about abortion stigma: https://t.co/VerzdxKIfI https://t.co/s3yRpgCsqc Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) January 21, 2016

13. Jamie Kilstein @jamiekilstein

If people were as scared of mass poverty or climate change as they were if the pretend IRAN threat we would be golden. Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) January 17, 2016

14. Ijeoma Oluo @IjeomaOluo

Abuse is not dialogue. Abuse is not speech. Abuse is abuse. Why We Don

15. Pasta @pastachips

Pasta is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based sex worker who writes and blogs about politics, labor, police violence, stigma, and other issues.

even accounting for the exploitation that criminalisation brings, suspect sex work is biggest transfer of wealth from men to women in the . [pasta emoji] (@pastachips) December 27, 2015

16. Monica Roberts @TransGriot

Monica is a Houston-based blogger and civil rights activist. She’s won multiple awards for her blog TransGriot, and in 2013, she was named to the inaugural Trans 100 list.

In the spirit of #MLKDay2016 we

17. Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner

More fallout (now in Alabama) from this week

18. Cameron Russell @CameronCRussell

the most important work fashion has ever enabled me to do data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=

19. Linda Sarsour @lsarsour

“If ur not careful, the newspapers will have u hating the people who r being oppressed, & loving the people who r doing the oppressing.” Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 13, 2015

20. Zo S. @ztsamudzi

If you’re interested in issues surrounding race and gender, then Zo is a must-follow. She’s blunt, unapologetic, and so frequently just spot-on in her observations.

Protect black women while we

21. Chase Strangio @chasestrangio

Last night we publicly filed our opposition brief in @xychelsea

22. Cyd Zeigler @CydZeigler

Gay #Orioles exec Greg Bader has seen nothing but support from the team @BaltSunSports https://t.co/Gzbby9Jwzo pic.twitter.com/mi0IIt1Ue6 Cyd Zeigler (@CydZeigler) November 17, 2015

23. Leah Torres, MD @LeahNTorres

Leah is an OB-GYN who, yes, provides abortions. She’s an advocate for her patients and is a proponent of comprehensive sex education.

I perform abortions. I am not evil. I keep my patients safe. I respect my patients. I am a person. I do not deserve to be murdered. Leah Torres, MD (@LeahNTorres) December 1, 2015

24. Tina Vasquez @TheTinaVasquez

Tina is an immigration reporting fellow at RH Reality Check. On Twitter, she shares her eye-opening opinions on race and gender and is most certainly worth a follow.

My latest for @rhrealitycheck about how the raids by ICE of Central American families may have been unlawful: https://t.co/S6XRdMpWJC Tina Vasquez (@TheTinaVasquez) January 6, 2016

25. Ian Thompson @IantDC

Ian is a legislative representative at the ACLU. He works on issues ranging from LGBT rights to sex education. Prior to working at the ACLU, he was an intern in Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s D.C. office.

Major reforms are needed before the no-fly list should be used to stop gun purchases: https://t.co/YUkOetfasu. Ian Thompson (@iantDC) December 7, 2015

26. Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports

My latest piece @thenation “Dear Cam Newton: Please Don

27. Upworthy @Upworthy

3 countries are capturing wind to power all our futures. https://t.co/nGRLuhetnX pic.twitter.com/05nhEKxKP8 Upworthy (@Upworthy) January 21, 2016

Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/09/27-progressive-twitter-users-worth-following-for-a-deeper-look-at-a-few-familiar-topics/

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27 progressive Twitter users worth following for a deeper look at a few familiar topics.

Twitter can be a huge waste of time unless you’re following the right people.

1. Sara Benincasa @SaraJBenincasa

I just published Dear America: Heres Your Gun Solution https://t.co/AM77CHGql1 Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) December 3, 2015

2. Jane Doe, MD @DrJaneChi

When a cis white liberal uses the phrase “overly politically correct,” it

3. Robin @caulkthewagon

The majority of Bostonians are being shut down by the city and #Boston2024. They ignore dissent. We will be heard. #NoBoston2024 Robin (@caulkthewagon) June 13, 2015

4. Melissa Gira Grant @melissagira

Journalist Melissa Gira Grant is the author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.” She writes on sexual politics, technology, and workers’ rights.

An excerpt from PLAYING THE WHORE up now at @thenation: http://t.co/mSiWKVnSYY (+ get the whole book: http://t.co/0wf0e7QYM3) Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) March 5, 2014

5. Imani Gandy @AngryBlackLady

Imani is the senior legal analyst over at RH Reality Check. Her tweets on race, gender, and pop culture are supplemented by some really great, insightful articles.

My latest. | I Don

6. Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes

Abortion is a social good necessary to the empowerment and freedom of anyone capable of becoming pregnant. #Roe43 #7in10forRoe Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) January 22, 2016

7. Michelle Kinsey Bruns @ClinicEscort

I talked to @Upworthy about #is100enough and changing the conversation on abortion. https://t.co/Il7BfwdllT thx @Legallyphoenix! ClinicEscort (@ClinicEscort) December 2, 2015

8. Katie Klabusich @katie_speak

The hardest thing I

9. Chris Mosier @TheChrisMosier

Chris is an athlete and the first transgender member of Team USA. He’s the executive director of GO! Athletes, a nonprofit for current and former LGBTQ high school and college athletes.

Did it! Made Team USA! pic.twitter.com/rnOEZ2VQDZ The Chris Mosier (@TheChrisMosier) June 7, 2015

10. Molly Knefel @mollyknefel

I wrote about Brendan Dassey, false youth confessions, & the cop tactics that make them happen, for @RollingStone https://t.co/nXRwqHymTj Molly Knefel (@mollyknefel) January 8, 2016

11. Jessica Luther @scATX

Jessica is an Austin, Texas-based independent journalist and sportswriter. She’s done some truly impressive work on the topic of sexual assault within college athletic programs.

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called “The Wrestler and the Rape Victim” https://t.co/qlw9QFPCk8 Jessica Luther (@scATX) December 11, 2015

12. Carlos Maza @gaywonk

Carlos is a research fellow at Media Matters for America. Until recently, his work focused primarily on LGBT rights, but it has since expanded to include a wide range of progressive causes.

Thanks to @grouchybagels and @erintothemax for dropping knowledge about abortion stigma: https://t.co/VerzdxKIfI https://t.co/s3yRpgCsqc Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) January 21, 2016

13. Jamie Kilstein @jamiekilstein

If people were as scared of mass poverty or climate change as they were if the pretend IRAN threat we would be golden. Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) January 17, 2016

14. Ijeoma Oluo @IjeomaOluo

Abuse is not dialogue. Abuse is not speech. Abuse is abuse. Why We Don

15. Pasta @pastachips

Pasta is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based sex worker who writes and blogs about politics, labor, police violence, stigma, and other issues.

even accounting for the exploitation that criminalisation brings, suspect sex work is biggest transfer of wealth from men to women in the . [pasta emoji] (@pastachips) December 27, 2015

16. Monica Roberts @TransGriot

Monica is a Houston-based blogger and civil rights activist. She’s won multiple awards for her blog TransGriot, and in 2013, she was named to the inaugural Trans 100 list.

In the spirit of #MLKDay2016 we

17. Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner

More fallout (now in Alabama) from this week

18. Cameron Russell @CameronCRussell

the most important work fashion has ever enabled me to do data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=

19. Linda Sarsour @lsarsour

“If ur not careful, the newspapers will have u hating the people who r being oppressed, & loving the people who r doing the oppressing.” Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 13, 2015

20. Zo S. @ztsamudzi

If you’re interested in issues surrounding race and gender, then Zo is a must-follow. She’s blunt, unapologetic, and so frequently just spot-on in her observations.

Protect black women while we

21. Chase Strangio @chasestrangio

Last night we publicly filed our opposition brief in @xychelsea

22. Cyd Zeigler @CydZeigler

Gay #Orioles exec Greg Bader has seen nothing but support from the team @BaltSunSports https://t.co/Gzbby9Jwzo pic.twitter.com/mi0IIt1Ue6 Cyd Zeigler (@CydZeigler) November 17, 2015

23. Leah Torres, MD @LeahNTorres

Leah is an OB-GYN who, yes, provides abortions. She’s an advocate for her patients and is a proponent of comprehensive sex education.

I perform abortions. I am not evil. I keep my patients safe. I respect my patients. I am a person. I do not deserve to be murdered. Leah Torres, MD (@LeahNTorres) December 1, 2015

24. Tina Vasquez @TheTinaVasquez

Tina is an immigration reporting fellow at RH Reality Check. On Twitter, she shares her eye-opening opinions on race and gender and is most certainly worth a follow.

My latest for @rhrealitycheck about how the raids by ICE of Central American families may have been unlawful: https://t.co/S6XRdMpWJC Tina Vasquez (@TheTinaVasquez) January 6, 2016

25. Ian Thompson @IantDC

Ian is a legislative representative at the ACLU. He works on issues ranging from LGBT rights to sex education. Prior to working at the ACLU, he was an intern in Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s D.C. office.

Major reforms are needed before the no-fly list should be used to stop gun purchases: https://t.co/YUkOetfasu. Ian Thompson (@iantDC) December 7, 2015

26. Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports

My latest piece @thenation “Dear Cam Newton: Please Don

27. Upworthy @Upworthy

3 countries are capturing wind to power all our futures. https://t.co/nGRLuhetnX pic.twitter.com/05nhEKxKP8 Upworthy (@Upworthy) January 21, 2016

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/09/27-progressive-twitter-users-worth-following-for-a-deeper-look-at-a-few-familiar-topics/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/166203808337

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27 progressive Twitter users worth following for a deeper look at a few familiar topics.

Twitter can be a huge waste of time unless you’re following the right people.

1. Sara Benincasa @SaraJBenincasa

I just published Dear America: Heres Your Gun Solution https://t.co/AM77CHGql1 Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) December 3, 2015

2. Jane Doe, MD @DrJaneChi

When a cis white liberal uses the phrase “overly politically correct,” it

3. Robin @caulkthewagon

The majority of Bostonians are being shut down by the city and #Boston2024. They ignore dissent. We will be heard. #NoBoston2024 Robin (@caulkthewagon) June 13, 2015

4. Melissa Gira Grant @melissagira

Journalist Melissa Gira Grant is the author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.” She writes on sexual politics, technology, and workers’ rights.

An excerpt from PLAYING THE WHORE up now at @thenation: http://t.co/mSiWKVnSYY (+ get the whole book: http://t.co/0wf0e7QYM3) Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) March 5, 2014

5. Imani Gandy @AngryBlackLady

Imani is the senior legal analyst over at RH Reality Check. Her tweets on race, gender, and pop culture are supplemented by some really great, insightful articles.

My latest. | I Don

6. Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes

Abortion is a social good necessary to the empowerment and freedom of anyone capable of becoming pregnant. #Roe43 #7in10forRoe Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) January 22, 2016

7. Michelle Kinsey Bruns @ClinicEscort

I talked to @Upworthy about #is100enough and changing the conversation on abortion. https://t.co/Il7BfwdllT thx @Legallyphoenix! ClinicEscort (@ClinicEscort) December 2, 2015

8. Katie Klabusich @katie_speak

The hardest thing I

9. Chris Mosier @TheChrisMosier

Chris is an athlete and the first transgender member of Team USA. He’s the executive director of GO! Athletes, a nonprofit for current and former LGBTQ high school and college athletes.

Did it! Made Team USA! pic.twitter.com/rnOEZ2VQDZ The Chris Mosier (@TheChrisMosier) June 7, 2015

10. Molly Knefel @mollyknefel

I wrote about Brendan Dassey, false youth confessions, & the cop tactics that make them happen, for @RollingStone https://t.co/nXRwqHymTj Molly Knefel (@mollyknefel) January 8, 2016

11. Jessica Luther @scATX

Jessica is an Austin, Texas-based independent journalist and sportswriter. She’s done some truly impressive work on the topic of sexual assault within college athletic programs.

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called “The Wrestler and the Rape Victim” https://t.co/qlw9QFPCk8 Jessica Luther (@scATX) December 11, 2015

12. Carlos Maza @gaywonk

Carlos is a research fellow at Media Matters for America. Until recently, his work focused primarily on LGBT rights, but it has since expanded to include a wide range of progressive causes.

Thanks to @grouchybagels and @erintothemax for dropping knowledge about abortion stigma: https://t.co/VerzdxKIfI https://t.co/s3yRpgCsqc Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) January 21, 2016

13. Jamie Kilstein @jamiekilstein

If people were as scared of mass poverty or climate change as they were if the pretend IRAN threat we would be golden. Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) January 17, 2016

14. Ijeoma Oluo @IjeomaOluo

Abuse is not dialogue. Abuse is not speech. Abuse is abuse. Why We Don

15. Pasta @pastachips

Pasta is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based sex worker who writes and blogs about politics, labor, police violence, stigma, and other issues.

even accounting for the exploitation that criminalisation brings, suspect sex work is biggest transfer of wealth from men to women in the . [pasta emoji] (@pastachips) December 27, 2015

16. Monica Roberts @TransGriot

Monica is a Houston-based blogger and civil rights activist. She’s won multiple awards for her blog TransGriot, and in 2013, she was named to the inaugural Trans 100 list.

In the spirit of #MLKDay2016 we

17. Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner

More fallout (now in Alabama) from this week

18. Cameron Russell @CameronCRussell

the most important work fashion has ever enabled me to do data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=”redactor” data-verified=

19. Linda Sarsour @lsarsour

“If ur not careful, the newspapers will have u hating the people who r being oppressed, & loving the people who r doing the oppressing.” Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 13, 2015

20. Zo S. @ztsamudzi

If you’re interested in issues surrounding race and gender, then Zo is a must-follow. She’s blunt, unapologetic, and so frequently just spot-on in her observations.

Protect black women while we

21. Chase Strangio @chasestrangio

Last night we publicly filed our opposition brief in @xychelsea

22. Cyd Zeigler @CydZeigler

Gay #Orioles exec Greg Bader has seen nothing but support from the team @BaltSunSports https://t.co/Gzbby9Jwzo pic.twitter.com/mi0IIt1Ue6 Cyd Zeigler (@CydZeigler) November 17, 2015

23. Leah Torres, MD @LeahNTorres

Leah is an OB-GYN who, yes, provides abortions. She’s an advocate for her patients and is a proponent of comprehensive sex education.

I perform abortions. I am not evil. I keep my patients safe. I respect my patients. I am a person. I do not deserve to be murdered. Leah Torres, MD (@LeahNTorres) December 1, 2015

24. Tina Vasquez @TheTinaVasquez

Tina is an immigration reporting fellow at RH Reality Check. On Twitter, she shares her eye-opening opinions on race and gender and is most certainly worth a follow.

My latest for @rhrealitycheck about how the raids by ICE of Central American families may have been unlawful: https://t.co/S6XRdMpWJC Tina Vasquez (@TheTinaVasquez) January 6, 2016

25. Ian Thompson @IantDC

Ian is a legislative representative at the ACLU. He works on issues ranging from LGBT rights to sex education. Prior to working at the ACLU, he was an intern in Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s D.C. office.

Major reforms are needed before the no-fly list should be used to stop gun purchases: https://t.co/YUkOetfasu. Ian Thompson (@iantDC) December 7, 2015

26. Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports

My latest piece @thenation “Dear Cam Newton: Please Don

27. Upworthy @Upworthy

3 countries are capturing wind to power all our futures. https://t.co/nGRLuhetnX pic.twitter.com/05nhEKxKP8 Upworthy (@Upworthy) January 21, 2016

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/09/27-progressive-twitter-users-worth-following-for-a-deeper-look-at-a-few-familiar-topics/

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I Am Job: Listings for End of July

Job Listings | July 21, 2017

My best advice to those rummaging through job search websites is to open yourself up to the idea of searching in new, unexplored fields and to never give up — as cheesy as that sounds. Let us help you get started with that today with another addition of “I Am Job.” Just like the last time, this edition is jam-packed with local job listings diverse enough to entice every breed of job seeker to apply for something. See if any of the positions listed catch your eye, share them with your friends and family, and apply! And if you can’t find anything in your market today, let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll be sure to dig up some open positions for you next time!

Adcetera (Marketing) Senior Account Executive Production Artist Senior Designer/Art Director

BEGA Design + Construction Design & Construction Coordinator

Buffalo Exchange Entry-Level Buyer

City of Houston Administrative Assistant – Public Works and Engineering Dept., $36,738-$43,368 Administrative Assistant – Human Resources, $17.25-$21.63 Airport Operations Manager –IAH Airside, $20.11-$41.50 Librarian I, Robinson Library, $16.36-$19.63 Customer Service Rep III, Solid Waste Management Dept., $16.36-$25/hr Administrative Coordinator, Health and Human Services Dept, $51,324-$67,522 Inspector, Public Works and Engineering Dept, $20.33-$23.49/Hr Recreation Assistant (PT) – Parks and Recreation Dept, $12-$15.36/Hr Animal Care Technician – BARC Animal Shelter and Adoptions, $12.69-$13.56/Hr Public Health Nurse IV – Sunnyside Health Center, $16k-$96k Senior Community Liaison – Health and Human Services, $23.35-$36.05/Hr Assistant Industrial Mechanic/WWO – Public Works and Engineering, $13.71-$14.84/Hr

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Gallery Attendants (PT) Tour Programs Coordinator

Freedom Oil & Gas Executive Assistant

Glasstire (Award-winning, non-profit online art magazine) Glasstire Administrator

GSMA, Inc (Architecture firm) Associate Architect

Houston SPCA Volunteer Services Manager Director of Communications Director of Human Resources Animal Cruelty Investigator Animal Care Team Member Coordinator of Donor Relations Coordinator of Special Events Grant Writer Staff Veterinarian

Hunton Group Warehouse Operator Estimator – Mechanical Project Manager – HVAC – Special Projects

Kinder Morgan Administrator – Project Support Operator Operator – Heavy Equipment Locomotive Technician/Mechanic Pipeline Integrity – Risk Engineer Pipeline Integrity – Risk Analyst

Live Nation House of Blues – Fine Dining – Craft Cocktail Bartender Payroll Specialist House of Blues – Production – Sound Engineer (PT) House of Blues – Box Office – Ticket Scanner/Usher (PT) Stagehand (PT)

Menil Gallery Attendant Art Preparator Conservation Studio Technician, Menil Drawing Institute Communications Coordinator Assistant Objects Conservator Digital Asset Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Senior Accountant Administrative Assistant, Curatorial & Administration, Bayou Bend Stationary Engineer (1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade) Lead Mechanic Building Services Assistant Development Officer, Corporate Relations Gardener Library Assistant, Stack Management and Administration Library Assistant Membership Benefits and Programs Senior Coordinator Sales Assistant – PT, $10/Hr

NMG Workspace Solutions, LLC Project Architect

Planned Parenthood Bi-Lingual Health Care Assistant – Southwest Houston Bi-Lingual Health Care Assistant – Northwest Houston Development Officer Director of Technology and Infrastructure

Rice University Department Coordinator, $17.41-$22.79/Hr Program Coordinator, $47k-$50K Events Specialist Assistant Editor Assistant Women’s Tennis Coach Marketing Assistant, Rice Annual Fund Recruiting and Admissions Coordinator Data Services Coordinator

Saint Arnolds Brewery Brewer Cook

Sephora Skincare Advisor (Consultant) Cashier (PT) Store Manager (Store Director) Stock Associate (Recovery) Make Up Advisor (Color Consultant)

Shell Quality Compliance Coordinator Cyber Monitoring Lead Administrative Assistant Sales Manager Contract Coordinator Legal Counsel Intellectual Property

Silverado Associates Caregiver Caregiver/C.N.A.

Southwestern Energy HS&E Coordinator Midstream Commercial Operations Representative Senior Team Assistant Staff Regulatory Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Space Center Houston Guest Experience Director Education Professional Development Manager Group Sales and Reservations Manager Membership Manager Security Officer

SpawGlass Construction Concrete Finisher/Form Builder – Civil Division Heavy Equipment Operator Laborer – Civil Pipe Layer – Civil Construction Project Manager Superintendent

Spectra Energy Spec Sustainment EAM Sr Advisor FP&A

Studio Brand Collective Brand Marketing Account Executive Digital Marketing Lead Digital Marketing Coordinator

Taylor Morrison Construction Manager Internet Home Consultant Community Sales Manager Community Sales Associate

Tech Trans International Accounting Clerk

Texas Children’s Hospital Department Secretary Executive Assistant Front Office Specialist II Interpreter Senior Analyst Health & Welfare Benefits / Human Resources Complaint Resolution Specialist Clinical Dietician Graphics Designer Grants Administrator Painter I Paralegal Special Events Manager – Philanthropy

The College of Heath Care Professions: Financial Aid Advisor, Bilingual Career Services Advisor

The Joy School PM Administrative Assistant

Toll Brothers (Construction) Construction Customer Care Representative (The Woodlands) Sales Manager (Katy)

Top Spot (Marketing) Web Developer

Uchi Houston Line Cook Patry Cook Sushi Chef

University of Texas Health Science Center (UT Health) Administrative Coordinator Administrative Coordinator, Sr. with Payroll Experience Client Relations Representative Clinical Radiologic Technologist Coordinator II, Educational Programs Editor IV Employee Relations Advisor Executive Assistant Financial Counselor Institutional Wide Grants Specialist I Mail Clerk I Medical Staff Coordinator Data Collector Case Manager, Veteran Admissions Community Health Worker Carpenter II Maintenance Worker II Painter II Painter II Police Officer, University Police Public Safety Officer Utility Worker

Urban Outfitters Visual Manager – The Woodlands Location Department Manager – Rice Village Location Sales Associate – Rice Village Location Sales Associate – Galleria Location

Venterra Reality Community Manager Leasing Consultant Maintenance Technician Office Coordinator Project Assistant (6 Month Contact)

Veteran Evaluation Services, Inc. Quality Analyst International Provider and Facility Recruiter Clinic Intake Specialist Call Center Agent I

Waste Management Driver Commercial Industrial Technical Services Representative Business Solutions Manager (Technical) Construction Services Account Manager Dispatcher Commercial/Residential SM Equipment Operator Data Scientist Analyst Truck Welder

Whole Foods Market Specialty Team Member (PT) – Kirby Location Specialty Team Member (PT) – Champions Location Grocery Team Member (PT) – Champions Location Prepared Foods Supervisor – Champions Location Whole Body Team Member (PT) – Champions Location Front End Cashier (PT) – Montrose Location Sanitation/Housekeeping Team Member (PT) – Westchase Location

Wood Group Communications Lead (Contract) Engineering Software Developer Electrical Designer Pipe Stress Engineer Training Specialist (3-6 month contract) Oracle E-Business Suite Financial and Supply Chain Specialist (6 Month Contract) Systems Administration Specialist (8 Month Contract)

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