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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 23/04/2025

ASAN is gravely concerned by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reported plans to establish a “registry” of autistic people & to hand over sensitive medical data about autistic people to unnamed researchers, likely without their consent. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/asan...

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ASAN Gravely Concerned by Administration’s Plans for Autistic People’s Medical Data - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

ASAN is gravely concerned by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s (RFK Jr.) reported plans to establish a “registry” of autistic people and to hand over sensitive medical…

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I have been away from social media for a month or two focusing on other things but this has me terrified and I need to know thoughts, options—and I need to know how afraid I should be. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rfk...

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RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm heartbroken. My daughter's living community and club will both be affected. She knows people who will be fired because of this bill. We wrote letters and we protested and we called and we were ignored. I HATE this.

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SC House passes bill banning 'illegal' DEI across schools and government • SC Daily Gazette

SC's House passed a bill prohibiting 'illegal' DEI initiatives at state agencies, local governments, universities and government contractors.

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

This returned funding is a rare win for Long COVID advocates and researchers amid a climate of fear and uncertainty. Earlier in the week, the Trump administration ordered the closure of the federal government's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice as part of a wider restructuring of health agencies, and last month, it terminated a federal advisory_committee on Long_COVID.

Long COVID advocates stepped up to contact their representatives and advocate for RECOVER funding and other federal Long COVID initiatives to remain in place. While the research program's broader future remains uncertain, these restored grants are a significant milestone, said RECOVER patient representative Megan Fitzgerald.

"This is so significant because it allows critical studies to better understand how Long COVID affects the body, identify treatment targets, and develop new therapies," she wrote in an email to The Sick Times.
"I'm especially relieved as a parent that this reinstates really important funding for studies in kids. And I think we can all breathe a little easier knowing that all the hard work of patients and researchers over the last few years won't go to waste."

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

For one kid in our neighborhood, I am an eccentric old lady. We have this great kid who cuts our grass, but I hate answering the door. He figured that out, and started sending a $1 request through cash app. If I pay, he knows to come cut the grass—we communicate almost exclusively this way. 🤣

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Went to the aquarium at the zoo today. I needed that. ❤️

A wall-sized aquarium, deep blue in color, with glowing jellyfish swimming inside.

A young woman and a young man standing in front of a large aquarium full of fish.

Two turtles outside, one of them is attempting to mate, but is on the wrong side. The face of the other peeks out from the shell underneath.

An owl looks through an enclosure directly into the camera.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

To this day, I don’t know what I did to make Bells hate me, and I still think about it sometimes when I’m trying to go to sleep. Brains are so fun.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Yeah this is great optics, shocking that every Dem isn't jockeying and fighting to earn their own version of this picture with increasingly bold disruptive actions

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Lilu Spice Latte 🍂🎃 @lilulicious.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

There are little interim things for people with low bandwidth that don’t want to make calls: Vote Forward is letter writing and Postcards to Voters is postcarding for elections in a variety of states including help for special elections outside of your own. You cover supplies and postage. And time.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

See, this is actionable. This is something I can do. Stop saying “do more” and come up with ideas of things to do.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

All the people saying Americans should be resisting more—what should we be doing? Truly, I’m asking. There are protests and marches and demonstrations, but they are local and aren’t being widely covered. Many of us can’t get to D.C. easily because we literally can’t afford it.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I wish we could just leave this country. I wish it were easier for everyone who wants to escape.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 04/03/2025

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just sent a committee at my state house a letter because they are discussing a bill to remove state funding from any state institution that has any DEI protections in place. My daughter lives in the queer living community on campus. If they pass this bill, the school would likely shut it down.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/03/2025

Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme it’s a promise that every American pays into so they can retire with dignity. Get loud and tell Elon Musk to keep his hands OFF social security.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

literally every time I talk to friends

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Kiddo and I often do his schoolwork cuddled up under the blankets in my bed, and Taco has gotten used to this and curls up with us. This morning, we had class later than normal—I didn’t understand why Taco was meowing at me until we came in for class. 🤣

Top-down view of a tuxedo cat curled up on a collection of blankets.

Top-down view of a tuxedo cat spread out sleeping on a collection of blankets.

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/02/2025

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Somewhere out there, Eliana has been looking for a job for at least the past 5 years. I’m sorry to say that I’m finally unsubscribing from this list. Good luck, Eliana. 🥲🤣

An email with the subject “USPS Applicants Requested for Eliana.” The body of the email contains a table with a list of jobs in Healdsburg, CA with their yearly salaries and a “view” button to see details about each job.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wait say that part about Moms for Liberty again?

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Do you want to know why I read about what Trump’s doing and saying instead of watching it? Because the blood pressure can’t take it. youtu.be/zOd_SfbgA-4

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President Trump on Calling Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a Dictator: "Did I say that?"

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Mushroomy 🍄 @mushroomyhouse.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Touching Grass 🥰🌲

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I joined Chaotic Aftermath halfway through Dragonflight because some friends asked if I was interested, and this season I got to be there for their first CE as a guild! :-D youtu.be/0Xe-3wtDArg

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Chaotic Aftermath vs Queen Ansurek

YouTube video by Amber M.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I am the worst cat mom ever. We left our house at lunch time, and on the way out, I noticed the dryer door had been left open, so closed it so that Taco could get to his litter box. He was IN THE DRYER. We got back just in time for raid. It wasn’t until I was going to bed that I went looking.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

All of the people who worked at Twitter before Elon took over are having some serious deja vu right now. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, he is still doing to the government what he did to Twitter.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Y’all Muskatwat is doing to the government what he did to Twitter. The steps are the same; I have no reason to believe the outcome will be different. We were planning on leaving the country anyway; we might be doing it sooner. We might need a real-life BlueSky.

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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It’s staggering to me how many people didn’t read the Mueller Report because if they did, they would know Putin was desperate to put Trump in power. Now we have an entire world policy built to help Putin.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What a roller coaster of a day. For the first time since BFA, I'm a CE raider again!

A screenshot of an achievement in World of Warcraft. It reads: "Cutting Edge: Queen Ansurek / Defeat Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace on Mythic difficulty, before the release of the next raid tier." The date on the right reads "2/14/25."

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My honeh brought me a sweet present this afternoon; I’m naming him Poindexter. ❤️

A Squishmallow that’s pink and white with pink heart-shaped glasses, a pink tuft of hair, and whiskers sits on a desk.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dad’s going to the graveyard for Valentine’s Day and life feels unfair sometimes and I miss my mom.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I've done all the doomscrolling I can for the moment. The heartbreak and worry is so, so real. I've written more letters to state officials this week than in my entire life. Pulling something from my vault-of-things-I-keep-to-encourage-myself, hopefully it will encourage you too.

A screenshot of a Tweet posted on March 10, 2022 at 4:21pm from user @CrowsFault (Matthew) reads: "People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go."

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The suit to repeal Section 504 as well as the plan to dismantle the Department of Education could have a real and immediate effect on my child, so thanks for that, you MAGA troglodytes, and an extra special fuck-you to democrats who vOTeD oN tHEiR MoRAlS.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

For those of you I’ve been friends with for over a decade at this point, please feel old with me. The LRL has a big birthday today!

A collage of pictures on a salmon pink background. Text in the upper left reads “Happy 20th Birthday.” The first picture displays a girl in a school photo, mid-elementary, wearing a purple sequin dress. The second shows the same girl a few years older in a playground, looking away from the camera. The next shows the same girl around the same age holding a teddy bear. The next photo shows a teenager wearing an off-the-shoulder pirate shirt. The next photo shows the same young woman in an off-the-shoulder emerald green prom dress. The last photo shows the young woman in robes from high school graduation.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just left my MIL’s funeral, and I think it was what she would have wanted. For the first time, I understand the point of caring about what happens at your funeral, and I think it’s time to consider what I want at mine. It’s about legacy; it’s about how I want people to remember me.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We found a home for my MIL’s dogs with someone my BIL knows. It’s great because they’ll have a family again and they get to stay together, but it’s hard to say goodbye to them. 💔

Two dachshunds, one fluffy and one sleek, eating dog bones on a blue rug.

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ambermist @ambermist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Lol my son’s math teacher is wild. On Monday, she introduced the kids to diameter, radius, pi, and both circumference formulas. I’ve sat in on every math class these kids have been in for over three years; this was all new information for them. They’ve never touched on circle geometry.

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