Rebecca Medina-Pleitez 🩺
@RebePleitez
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Mami x4, military wife, ppl first. Deputy Dir @CPCA @HealthPlusAdv. @CCFSinLA Commissioner. Advocate of hopey changey things. Often tired, always caffeinated ☕️
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Joined April 2009
Because #FamiliesBelongTogether. Proud to march with my 11 month old daughter. #teachthemyoung
#FamiliesBelongTogetherLA
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not my paisa family sending life footage on the fam chat of paquita la del barrio, lorenzo de monteclaro, coyote y su banda y cheque peña in concert. quierooooooooo 🦂😩🥁
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💥”We feel like if we can do something ourselves, why not do it?” - @fionaaaluu
@GENupUS ✊🏽Our youth continue to fight for their #MentalHealth. We’re proud to be a partner in the fight! 💪🏽(@AsmCarrillo) empowers CA youth to have agency in their #MentalHealth.
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Today's Poetry Thread: REGRET This is one of my favorite poems, with an ending I cannot forget. I hope more people discover the poetry of my friend Kenneth Hart. Feel free to add poems.
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a league of her own
This little girl must be protected at all costs. She is the future. 😭😭😭
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Please know that this bill is meant to legalize unaccompanied migrant child labor. Do not be fooled, be horrified.
BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today. The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol. The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.
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A message to every nurse practitioner student. Be the kind of NP whose patients don't worry about telling you about their abortion.
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I visited a class of second graders to teach them about poetry, and this is a poem one student wrote. What is Life? My name is Marisa. Today I feel like a wealthy lioness prancing in the fields. Sometimes I am a fox. Sometimes I am a wolf. But always I am loyal. I ask the
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my classmate voted for my health policy pitch because “you have a great voice” 😂 I’ll take it.
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Listen to the children.
Students at Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri, walked out of class on Tuesday to march for Ralph Yarl, their Black classmate who was shot twice on Thursday by an 84-year-old white man after going to the wrong address to pick up his brothers. https://t.co/JSMRtJbEVF
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The recently reinstated Rep. Justin Jones carried an infant-sized casket into Tennessee's Capitol as protesters calling for gun safety legislation outside the Capitol were blocked from bringing caskets inside. https://t.co/DlU3Wtqrqv
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assessment passed. will cry into a bucket of ice cream!! 🫀🩺🚀
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You know why "civility" and tone police respectability politics is nonsense? This thief hoarding fruits of collective company labor instead of sharing with other co-workers just said the most vulgar, obscene, disrespectful shit to those co-workers softly, without cursing once.
zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
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Hard to overstate how much worse things are going to get in a country where the population is armed to the teeth then conditioned to live in a constant paranoid state of fear.
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Almost 60% of U.S. girls reported persistent sadness and hopelessness in a recent CDC survey. Teen girls told @AP that school pressures, unwanted sexual attention and social issues play a role. “We are trying to survive in a world that is out to get us."
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Many studies say American youth are in crisis, facing unprecedented mental health challenges that are burdening teen girls in particular. Adults have theories about what is going on but what do girls...
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so blame a black kid for knocking on a door as a threat? how can we send our kids anywhere, doing anything?? stay fucken mad.
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