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📰 News Media

• 🤝 [Santa Cruz, California] Guest Commentary | Collaborations among local agencies bring in results - santacruzsentinel.com
• 🧪 [Humboldt County, California] Humboldt County jail staff prevent overdose, find fentanyl concealed on arrestee’s person - times-standard.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🗺️ Harm-reduction: www.preblestreet.org/2026/01/22/p... Mutual aid: www.presentemaine.org/ Immigrant rights org: maineimmigrantrights.org Immigrant legal aid: ilapmaine.org Immigrant aid: ptla.org/ - bsky.app
• 🎤 Join us for our February 2026 IAS Distinguished Speaker Series! Dr. Clifasefi is joining us from University of Washington-Harborview Medical Center, she will be leading us through a discussion around harm reduction. Register today to reserve you spot, through the link in our bio. - bsky.app
• 🧭 🧵I have not vetted these but they were shared by Mainers: Harm-reduction: www.preblestreet.org/2026/01/22/p... Mutual aid: www.presentemaine.org/ Immigrant rights org: maineimmigrantrights.org/ Immigrant legal aid: ilapmaine.org/ Immigrant aid: ptla.org/ - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 And as an aside, I fully subscribe to the harm reduction theory when it comes to electoral politics. Of course voting for Kamala would be the better option for domestic policy The issue is that there’s something like 200 million voters out there and it’s up to the parties to convince them to vote - bsky.app
• ⚠️ Because the harm reduction equation when applied to voting is a fallacy. It’s higher risk than its wishfully thinking proponents admit (witness me voting for Biden in 2020 never assuming I would end up an accomplice in his genocide after he promised to stay out of wars in the Middle East). - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 🚭 - [El Paso, TX] - November 20, 2025 - City Recognizes National Quit Smoking Day - elpasotexas.gov
• 💊 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org
• 🔥 - [Phoenix, AZ] - September 29, 2025 - Heat Relief Network Wraps Up 2025 Season - maricopa.gov
• 💜 - [Austin, TX] - August 29, 2025 - City of Austin Highlighting Local Information and Resources for International Overdose Awareness Day - austintexas.gov

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