Rachel Mello

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.

Maga's Very Bad Night In Texas Texas Voters to Far-Right: Bless your heart, now pack it up.

"Collin County is no longer a Republican stronghold. It’s a battleground. And Democrats are winning."

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.

"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?"

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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.

"The state’s water plan says Texas does not have enough water supply to meet the growing need..."

This office has handled the investigation of every civil rights complaint we have filed related to our children since our oldest son started school in Louisiana. Additionally, our family is one of the 1,000+ that has a complaint currently pending that is now in jeopardy.

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,...

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.

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 💯

As the future of public education is debated in the Texas Legislature, I encourage every Texan to read these documents for themselves and contact their representatives. The posterity of Texas depends on us making the right decisions now.

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.

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.

The fastest way to reduce property taxes is for the Legislature to fully fund public schools.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

📌There has not been a president in my lifetime who has purposefully inflicted pain on people like this one.
He is completely dead inside.

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.

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.

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.

Tell me again how it doesn't matter if Musk has access to your bank account information...

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.

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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American medical association is doing daily updates on their YouTube channel,since our govetment seems to be silent about it.
Please share...

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."

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.

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.

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. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do