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Garin

@garinwastaken.bsky.social
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(he/him) Abortion Dad. @RHAvote's bitter half. Co-Director of Patient Forward in the meets, Concerned Citizen in the skeets.

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DC Abortion Fund ⭐ @dcabortionfund.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
this is going to cause a lot of chaos & confusion (the point). your abortion fund will continue to hold it down no matter what these clowns do or don’t (🙄!!!) do.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:
Handwritten sign that says "Stand up fight BACK"
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 24/03/2026
Jezebel’s interview with @rhavote.bsky.social is one of the best things I’ve ever read. I think about it a lot, even still, all these years later.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Trouble in Mordor? Sauron’s Uruk-hai starting to wonder if they’re the bad guys after the big flaming eye in the tower where they work is used to help find and kidnap children.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The only recognizable feature of hope is action. —Grace Paley Choose your lane, find your people. —Mariame Kaba
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Democrat leaders on this platform want you to believe they are the party of resistance while supporting genocide, rubber stamping Trump's nominees, folding on trans rights, using far-right rhetoric about migrants, working with mass surveillance companies, getting mad they weren't in on a coup.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.
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Liberal Jane @liberaljane.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
no war with Venezuela 😠
Digital illustration of a Latino man wearing a t-shirt that reads, 'end U.S. imperialism' on the back. The background is hazy with large oil rigs.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
There’s something so disrespectful about the fact that they couldn’t be bothered to get the letters defacing the Kennedy Center right. Look at the differences in kerning (spacing), the width of the T, the tail of the R. Also, if the original designers wanted two stacked lines, they’d have done it.
A zoomed in section of the OP’s image showing the letters “TRUMP” and “ENTER” in black on a white wall. There are differences in spacing between the new letters and old ones, and the new letters are thinner.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We (@patientforward.bsky.social) are 66% of the way to our goal for our first ever #GivingTuesday! Every donation is matched. You can give in someone's name, (even if to curse them). We also have sweet merch available, the proceeds of which get included. givebutter.com/eOYUf5
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Patient Forward Giving Tuesday 2025
Secure the future of later abortion in the United States
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We (@patientforward.bsky.social) are 66% of the way to our goal for our first ever #GivingTuesday! Every donation is matched. You can give in someone's name, (even if to curse them). We also have sweet merch available, the proceeds of which get included. givebutter.com/eOYUf5
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Patient Forward Giving Tuesday 2025
Secure the future of later abortion in the United States
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I understand the reasoning behind zeroing in on ICE & DHS abducting citizens. But when you lead with what's perceived as your most sympathetic cases, you cede the moral high ground & make arguing for others harder. It is wrong for armed, masked gestapo to grab people - doesn't matter their status.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We've got merch! Check out Patient Forward's merch (on our "Forward Merch" page, obvi). We've got this fun "Tin Foil" embroidered hat and much more: www.patientforward.org/merch
A black dad hat with embroidered text that reads "Tin Foil" in whiteA white lady with long blonde hair is wearing a black hat that says Tin Foil in white
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Trump take bourbon.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I had a great conversation with Amy and Jennie - see below!
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Read this great piece by MP Stella Creasy on the UK abortion legislation. Just like here in the US, people keep advancing and celebrating half measures that fail to strike at the root!
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
NYC is out here! #NOKINGS
Pictures of the protest in Manhattan, people are holding signs and umbrellasPictures of the protest in Manhattan, people are holding signs and umbrellas. A sign has a picture of Trump styled as the Joker that says “No Kings”Pictures of the protest in Manhattan, people are holding signs and umbrellasPictures of the protest in Manhattan, people are holding signs and umbrellas. A blonde girl on her dad’s shoulders has a sign that reads “Kings are Weird”
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 04/06/2025
Good morning, internet, and welcome to a new publication that @garnethenderson.com and I have been working on for months
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It’s pub day!! I am so proud to eelease Beyond Limits out into the world so that we can ALL understand that empathy has no limits! 🧡 Released by, and in partnership with, @beaconpress.bsky.social Available today wherever books are sold 😭🙏
Graphic showing the book “Beyond Limits: Stories of Third Trimester Abortion Care” with a headshot of Dr Shelley Sella smiling. Text: On Sale June 3rd!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/05/2025
“If you draw a line in the law, the state is going to police that line. That leads to surveilling, investigating, and ultimately punishing pregnant people.”
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The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
The Silver State is the only one that criminalizes self-managed abortion. A bill to change that went nowhere.
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Pregnancy Justice @pregnancyjust.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Join us and Patient Forward for a webinar on the role of the viability line in pregnancy-related prosecutions. 📅Tuesday, June 3 | 12 p.m. ET ✍️Register at bit.ly/ViabilityWebinar 📖Read the new report at www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...
A promo image for a Pregnancy Justice-Patient Forward webinar on June 3 at 12 p.m. ET: "The Role of the Viability Line in Pregnancy Criminalization." Register at bit.ly/viabilitywebinar, and read the new report at https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Viability-Line-Report.pdf
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 21/05/2025
NEW: Nevada is the only state to explicitly criminalize self-managed abortion—a woman charged under the 1911 law spent two years in jail after a stillbirth. A lawmaker's repeal bill went nowhere. Sources say reproductive rights groups claimed it could impact passage of an abortion ballot measure.
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The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
The Silver State is the only one that criminalizes self-managed abortion. A bill to change that went nowhere.
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Bonyen @bonyenleegilmore.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
To quote the Art of War (bc this is a war against fascism) “tactics without strategy is noise before defeat”. There’s a lot of noise in Missouri rn. My latest column:
missouriindependent.com
Direct democracy alone won’t create change in Missouri • Missouri Independent
The Missouri Legislature is as predictable as a Kardashian divorce. It’s the shock and awe of Democrats and progressives that confuses me.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother's Day! Let's get mamas out of cages:
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Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Two repro LEGENDS, coming to you Oakland!
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This week on rePROs Fight Back, @rhavote.bsky.social & @garinwastaken.bsky.social of @patientforward.bsky.social talk with us about the reasons people need #abortion care later in pregnancy, the barriers they face, & why government interference in pregnancy outcomes is overwhelmingly unpopular ⤵️
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Everything You Need to Know About Abortion Later in Pregnancy — rePROs Fight Back
After personal experience with severe pregnancy complications and requiring a later abortion among a labyrinth of state abortion bans, Erika Christensen and Garin Marschall  co-founded Patient...
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Bonyen @bonyenleegilmore.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This is a heart-wrenching example of the impossible situations young pregnant Missourians face. Barriers to abortion, punished for pregnancy, and harassed for parenting. missouriindependent.com/2025/04/28/m...
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A Missouri teen spent her life in foster care. Now she’s fighting the state to keep her baby • Missouri Independent
Hailey, a Missouri teen in foster care, was denied an abortion, then said the state worked to keep her from parenting her child.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Garth and Kat have 24 hours to respond.
Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen playing Garth and Kat in a sketch on SNL's Weekend Update. They are wearing matching pink vests with pins or patches of bunnies and butterflies and white turtlenecks.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Reminder! You will need a Real ID or valid alternative, like a passport, to fly or to enter federal facilities starting May 7th, 2025. This also means people who have to fly to reach abortion care or gender affirming care due to hostile laws will need these documents.
an image that says REAL ID Deadline May 7, 2025
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.” Fuck this. Our histories are littered with officers who are "not monsters" committing human rights abuses because they were just doing what they were told. www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Tufts University student and government argue in court whether she can challenge ICE arrest | CNN
Attorneys for Rümeysa Öztürk told a federal judge in Vermont Monday that she was unconstitutionally arrested, leading to her detention in a Louisiana immigration facility that the Tufts University PhD...
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Every week people travel for later abortion care. The cost of care and travel is often out of reach. Multiple abortion funds work together making "solidarity pledges" to cover funding gaps. *So many hands make this care possible!* Pick a local fund and donate today! abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/
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a boy in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor
Alt: a white boy in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of a old computer monitor. it cuts to the screen and an arrow icon moves over and clicks on a pixelated green button that says "donate now." it then cuts back to the boy who nods approvingly and gives a thumbs up.
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Pregnancy Justice @pregnancyjust.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The HEALER Study is a paid research study exploring the experiences of people who have faced legal challenges related to their reproductive health or choices. We want to hear from you! Learn more here🔗 outlook.office365.com/book/Gdbb390...
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This MD bill is so cool, more states should do it! Under the ACA, insurance plans that cover abortion must segregate a premium into a separate account used only for abortion services. This bill requires those unspent, surplus funds to be put to good use, ensuring people can access abortion care.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cuts to public health should be seen as abandonment, a betrayal. Surviving is resistance. Audre Lorde, dying of cancer, talked about radical self-care: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." This from her is eerily relevant:
The following text from a passage is highlighted: "Visualizing	the	disease	process	inside	my	body	in	political images	is	not	a	quixotic	dream.	When I speak	out	against	the	cynical	U.S. intervention	in	Central	America,	I am	working	to	save	my	life	in	every sense. Government	research	grants	to	the	National	Cancer	Institute	were	cut	in	1986 by	the	exact	amount	illegally	turned	over	to	the	contras	in	Nicaragua.	One hundred	and	five	million	dollars.	It	gives yet	another	meaning	to	the	personal	as the political."
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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
When traveling, or otherwise expecting potential encounters with law enforcement: Locking your phone with a long, strong pin code, turning off biometrics like Face ID is a strong contender for the one change the average person can make to vastly improve their personal digital security situation.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Bills are being advanced in state legislatures that grant rights to embryos and fetuses, aka "fetal personhood." Folks on the left(s) often frame these as just a threat to abortion. And sure, but that's the tip of the iceberg! Check out/share our fact sheet: static1.squarespace.com/static/5f480...
An image of a fact sheet on Fetal Personhood that shows a big blue iceberg diagram.
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Garin @garinwastaken.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Who has the right to have rights?" - Mahmoud Khalil
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