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Carmen Atzert

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Adriana Smith had an unfortunate CNS event that left her brain dead. She was 9w pregnant when in happened. By GA law the pregnancy cannot be terminated once a heart beat is detected. She is being maintained on live support until her fetus is viable. Her family has no say. people.com/pregnant-wom...
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Mother Forced to Keep Pregnant Daughter Alive After She’s Declared Brain Dead Due to Abortion Ban: ‘It’s Torture’
Adriana Smith, who is pregnant, has been brain dead for more than 90 days but is still being kept alive due to the state ban on abortion. Now, her mother is detailing how the experience has been “tort...
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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“The human being is not an enemy. The enemy is fear, segregation and ignorance.” The words of Mohsen Mahdawi, arrested at his citizenship interview. The values he expresses are what the USA was supposed to be about, pre-Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...
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A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza. The U.S. Detained Him.
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/04/2025
They want us to not have any humanity
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 16/04/2025
Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
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Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans
Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I never expected to be inspired by Seth Rogan talking about the destruction of American science, but here we are. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Women are too emotional.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If Americans don't like the direction of the country, they should speak directly to power—either by taking a Supreme Court justice on an all-expenses-paid trip or by paying Donald Trump 5 million dollars to have dinner together.
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😷 it’s only Wednesday 😷 @diplo-drama.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hit the road, Jack.
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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“Fine I won’t just sit there quietly listening to Trump while giving him the legitimacy of a full congressional audience. I’ll have a little paddle that says ‘musk steals’ which I’ll quietly hold up”
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/03/2025
Social Security isn't sending checks to dead people over 120. Tariffs aren't beautiful, but they are raising prices on groceries, beer, and cars. Elon Musk is taking away veterans' healthcare and childcare for families. Presidents are supposed to be truth-tellers, not liars.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/03/2025
It's really a shame we never got to see the radical socialist open borders trans friendly US that Trump keeps saying Biden was creating. It really sounds lovely.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/03/2025
hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
US Rep Al Green removed by Trump's Nazi while others sat and watched or jeer at him. He stood up to Trump and told him he had no mandate to disrupt Medicaid for millions of people. Make a list of which politicians you are going to keep. So far it's a short list. #3E #SOTU
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Jon Gertner @jongertner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
That only took 41 days. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/03/2025
Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid. This week, his friends in DC voted for a bill that would leave 3.4 million Illinoisans, including 1.4 million children, in the dust. Another middle finger to working families and the most vulnerable in our state.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 01/03/2025
To my younger and older followers on here: take advantage of this! You do not have to be in Brooklyn to do so and its worthwhile. Especially if you live in a state that censors queer and black books. ❤️👇🏾
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/02/2025
This!! foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/e...
Screenshot. Text: “What shocks many in the world is that
Europeans didn't anticipate the quagmire they're in. One of the first rules of geopolitics is that we must always plan against worst-case scenarios. After the Ukraine war broke out, all European strategic thinking was based on the best-case scenario of the United States being a totally reliable ally, despite having
experienced Trump's first term and his threats to pull out of the world's biggest military alliance. For a continent that has produced strategic minds like Metternich, Talleyrand, and Kissinger, there has been almost infantile strategic thinking on Ukraine and its long-term consequences.”
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Every one of these people can resign if they're too scared to stand against Trump. Whole wave of Republicans suddenly wanting to spend more time with their kids, by all means
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Oh thank goodness someone is finally sticking up for the men
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/02/2025
Seriously, fellow USians. Look up "imperial boomerang." Just trust me.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn
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U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal
The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
we got ICE snatching up people’s loved ones away and a BearCat rolling through a neighborhood yesterday but the local news is like “have you seen this dumpster that got fire damage from an anti-ICE protest.” do yall feel shame
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.
Hey friends! We're seeing a lot of terrible things. We're not able to cover all of them, but we felt this latest one is a really big deal and needs much more awareness.

Our summary is this: It's an administrative coup. Trump has ordered tens of billions (maybe up to $3 trillion) of budget halted indefinitely in a blatantly illegal move. He's claiming power to halt and potentially redirect funding that's already been authorized by Congress — a classic authoritarian move.

Here's what we know. And we're doing our best to catch up with this story, because it's moving fast.

There's a memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget. (That's the same government entity who set-up the DEI "snitch" line, that's now been spammed by tens of thousands of our fellow residents.)

In typical Trump-style, the memo gets its facts wrong. It claims in FY2024 the US government spent $10 trillion (actually it was $6.8 trillion). It says money should be used for the administration's priorities — "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve." (Again, it's very fact deficient.)

The memo says a pause will begin at 5pm on January 28th where, "Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal."

Anyone promised federal grants might have their money at risk, even states. This is Congressional directed spending and Trump is ordering people to not do it. This funding includes universities for education and research programs, nonprofits, local and tribal governments, disaster relief aid, e…So what can we do?

It's been a lot. And the shock approach of this administration is to overwhelm us with nonsense and a state of paralysis. We continue to believe the best thing is to stay grounded and keep yourself sane amidst insanity.

At this juncture, three actions we suggest that make sense to us:

1) Urge media to cover this story properly

This is not "possibly illegal" — it's "patently illegal." You can read notes on that here.

It's not "temporary" — it's "indefinite." There's no timetable for ending it.

It's not just a memo — it's an administrative coup.

2) Urge your Representatives to act like this is a big deal

If you know us, this isn't a knee-jerk action we suggest. We think this is a strategic because it's Congress that's being violated — their power is being directly undermined.

3) Continue to support ACLU and Democracy Forward

These groups have been preparing litigation for some time. Unless Trump revokes this, this will certainly make its way through the courts. Our read is even the biased courts will have trouble swallowing this — so it may end up being shut down.



Keep breathing. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again," Nelson Mandela.

Warmly,

- Choose Democracy
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Read, share, act.
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