Gabrielle N. Pfund

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Asst Prof in HDFS @ Auburn | Postdoc @ Northwestern | PhD @ WashU | purpose development & measurement / how they connect to cognitive health, well-being, & social relationships in daily life & over time (sometimes thru a personality psych lens) | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

The midterms are just 99 days away. That means it’s time to kickoff our nationwide program to make sure every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot and have it counted. Join our national call to learn how you can help ensure free and fair elections this fall.

Hands Off Our Vote! · Indivisible

Join Indivisibles across the country for the kickoff call for Hands Off Our Vote, Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get coun...

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"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..." "Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Red flare for Trump: 'No Kings' rallies a show of political force

With a Revolutionary-era slogan, the protests had an historic geographical reach across the country. What does that mean for November?

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Trump’s own counterterrorism chief has resigned over the Iran war. Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in a letter addressed directly to Donald Trump that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt

They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.

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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News

About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

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I recently learned about the app 5 Calls. By putting in your address and select an issue you care about, it provides you the number of your representatives and a script on an issue. Calling is one of the best way to make our voices heard. It took me two mins to call both my senators.

Ability to see calls being made on your issue and overall through the app List of issues on the 5 Calls app to select from after providing zip code Script provided for selected issue with phone number of senator; mark whether you made contact after calling

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

130,000 Alabamans are about to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the “One big beautiful bill”, and a Florida man is tweeting like it’s some kind of win. If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121

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1. This weekend, far-right group Lets Go Washington announced that it had collected enough signatures to get a trans sports ban on the ballot in the state. The bill includes genital inspection provisions. It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections Gains Enough Signatures To Appear On Washington State Ballot

The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a "refuge" for transgender people.

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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule

The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.

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