Lynne Cripe, PhD

@lynnecripe.bsky.social

CEO The KonTerra Group | International Humanitarian and Development Staff Care Also passionate about #abortionaccess, #immigrationjustice, #baking 🧁 , and #cats 🐈

👀Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas finds that illegal immigration under Biden massively reduced per capita transfers: 1% increase in flows cut transfers per capita by 5%! This is "consistent with the positive employment effects we find, which reduce the need for programs."

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Integrity Matters@integrity-mttrs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Election protection = business protection. Take it from @lynnecripe.bsky.social, CEO of the KonTerra group. Lynne is a veteran poll worker and enjoys it. She also recognizes that protecting democracy in turn protects the stable operating environment businesses like hers need to grow and thrive.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day. How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.

Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.

Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa

Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.

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I spent last evening at a volunteer-led fundraiser for HIV NGOs around the world who have been left high and dry because of the illegal dismantling of USAID. Most of the attendees were un- or underemployed aid workers. Rounds has done nothing to prevent either. He can pound sand. Do your job.

Mona Burns@monaburns.bsky.social · 9mo ago

GOP Senator Mike Rounds on the Senate staying in session this weekend: “There's a lot of people that have got other plans in terms of things they need to do as well and if they're going to come here and sit, they're not going to be very happy,” Safe to say this is the general feeling ..

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 10mo ago

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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