#ihaveastory — Public Fediverse posts
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From WTOP News.com: US soldier trying to halt wife’s deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base
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From AP News: Mistakenly deported Babson College student tells AP how her life turned upside down
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From ABC 7 News.com: 77-year-old Iranian man living in the United States for 6 decades detained by ICE
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From CBS News.com: After ICE arrested his mom, 18-year-old citizen worries he could be next while caring for younger sister
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From CBS News.com: Maryland mother shares message after her deportation to Vietnam: "My heart aches"
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-mother-melissa-tran-deported-vietnam-hagerstown/
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#IHaveAStory #Immigration #NorthCarolina
From CBS News.com: Woman who became U.S. citizen this year temporarily closes bakery in Charlotte amid immigration crackdown
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From AP.com: Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the ‘working man’
https://apnews.com/article/black-lung-coal-miners-trump-doge-7c2258181a73f650d138faf07fc4517b
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From Anchorage Daily News: A village in ruins: ‘I don’t see Kipnuk anymore’
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Since other people are making it a thing, we should set the narrative.
Welcome to "Today in Antifa History."
Meet the anti-fascist, Sergeant Bob Slaughter (1925-2012), one of the first to break out from Omaha Beach.
Bob was a towering figure, six feet six inches on D Day, landing with D Company of the 116th Infantry Regiment on Omaha Beach. Some of his buddies from Roanoke, Virginia, died on the 6th of June and in subsequent weeks as Bob fought through the hedgerows toward St. Lo. He did more than any D Day veteran I’ve met to preserve the stories of those he fought with and to commemorate the loss.
In 1994, on the 50th anniversary of D Day, he stood on that deadly beach with President Clinton. He was still a towering presence.
This April, imagine the “boys” like Bob Slaughter making their final preparations for D Day, writing their last letters home.
Alex Kershaw
March 31, 2024From "Friends of the National WWII Memorial."
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From BBC.com: 'I sleep with a gas mask on': Life next to Portland protest angering Trump
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#IHaveAStory #Veterans #Immigration
Veterans who lack citizenship fear being swept up in Trump's deportations
https://apnews.com/article/veterans-deportations-trump-immigration-81cf605e3e84652fae27c3eec7576987
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#IHaveAStory #Helene #Asheville #NorthCarolina
From CBS News.com: How a man used Hurricane Helene rubble to build a new home after the storm's wrath damaged the southeastern U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-helene-man-used-rubble-to-build-a-new-home/
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From Time.com: Floods are Becoming More Common. Here’s What I Tell my Daughters
TY @kathhayhoe
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#IHaveAStory
2/2A few hours later I got a Twitter that said Mr Schilling was running late because one of the areas they were driving through had rising water. I asked where and then put out to my emergency group that Mr Schilling’s group was looking for alternative routes. A sheriff in the area gave me his phone and Twitter handle and said he was going to get Mr Schilling’s group and escort him in. I relayed the info, got a thumbs up, and went back to relaying other emergency info.
It wasn’t until the mid-morning the next day that I saw a “We made it!” Tweet from Mr Schilling, and one of the first supply runs post Harvey had been completed.
Why has this stuck in my mind? Because Curt Schilling as well as being a famous baseball player, was Trumpian before Mr Trump came on the scene politically. I never would have spoken to him personally, or done anything other than maybe given him the finger because of his politics. But in those horrible post Harvey days when so many waffled, argued, or clamored for recognition, he didn’t. He just showed up.
And I’ve remembered that as I’ve relayed emergencies all over the United States. Sometimes you just have to work with what shows up.
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#IHaveAStory
1/2From April 2, 2022 FB Feed: A BakersRelay story
I have a story to tell. I told this story recently to my parents after thinking about it many years. I still think about it every time I relay Emergency information, or volunteer to help a group.
Hurricane Harvey had just hit. Infrastructure from Beaumont, TX to New Orleans, LA to Jackson, MS was washed out or horribly flooded. It was my first non-fire emergency relay, and the first where I was in contact with people on roofs, in churches, in houses surrounded by water, in cars wondering where to go. Water and food, pet essentials and dry places to evaluate were very hard to find.
At the end of the first day I had someone pop up on my feed who said “I’ve got a semi-truck full of food, water, blankets and cleaning supplies. What’s the best route down to (unremembered town). - Curt Schilling”. I replied Give me 20 minutes. The parish sheriff’s department gave me what they thought were open routes, which I relayed to Mr Schilling.
The reply came “I’m going to need a place to Park this rig, and a church to distribute supplies.” I turned around and asked my fellow emergency relayers and HAMM people who they had listed in the parish Mr. Schilling was headed towards. They provided contacts and I relayed them to Mr Schilling.
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From CBS News: Nashville volunteers deliver food, necessities to immigrant families too afraid to leave their homes
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From AP.com: Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g-s1-74036/trump-ice-self-deportation-army-veteran-hawaii
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From NPR.org: One daughter's search for a father detained by ICE
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From Military.com: Women Have Served with Honor for Decades. This Administration Can't Erase That History.
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From High North News.com: US Climate Researcher: “We Are at a Tipping Point”
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/us-climate-researcher-we-are-tipping-point
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From AP.com: Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings
https://apnews.com/article/disabled-federal-workers-layoffs-trump-77528e68350b62e52bab3455f0a87591
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From NPR.org: Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured
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From CNN.com: In a federal workforce racked by stress and fear, one family shares a story of death
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/politics/federal-workers-mental-health?cid=ios_app
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From CNN.com: In Kansas City, DOGE federal worker layoffs hit close to home
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/kansas-city-government-layoffs?cid=ios_app
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From AP.com: One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump's DEI purge
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From AP.com: New Social Security requirements pose barriers to rural communities without internet, transportation
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From ABC News.com: Daughter of 1st Black Marine says it's 'unbelievable' to see 'my dad caught up in DEI'