iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Helmi

Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 6h

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, the deadly ban on federal funding of abortion that has shaped the lives of over a million low-income women. For @motherjones.com, this excerpt of my book explains why the death of Roe started w/ Hyde: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights

The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.

06241

Reposted by Helmi

THE AUTOnomous BODY SHOP @theautobodyshop.bsky.social · 5h

We are assisting 2 abortion seekers with upcoming 2nd trimester procedures and need $2000 total to close the gap for both of them! If you can assist, donate and/or share! Our fund’s Venmo is @ CaravanFund 🌺

the powerful girls stanced up: text - come on girls! let’s fund abortion

01613

Reposted by Helmi

Clyde "Two Ducks" Lee @clydeleesmith.bsky.social · 3h

Another AI victory! Perfectly written copy!

4188

Reposted by Helmi

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 2h

Here’s hoping the bid won’t be successful:

061

Reposted by Helmi

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 3h

Not content with just its existing lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—is asking the Supreme Court to consider a case that could strike down “shield” laws, which protect abortion providers who prescribe pills to patients in ban states.

11012

Reposted by Helmi

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

116497

Reposted by Helmi

Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 7h

Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like Luisa Muradyan! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

Forget Cool graphic with an Issue 1 Author Spotlight shining on Luisa Muradyan

034

Reposted by Helmi

Partizan 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦🇵🇸+🖕🖕🇮🇱 @antifascistbone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hi everyone, hope you’re having a decent day. If you can, please stop for a mo. This is Miran, a pharmacist and Mohammed, a lawyer, with their children, Mirna and Ziad. Their account is vetted. Our help saves them for a day. So please, help. Anything will do. They rely on us. Thank you 🌹

050106

Reposted by Helmi

my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 18h

it’s really hard to be online right now. it’s like little needles in your soul.

094

Reposted by Helmi

Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19h

This world will break your heart, that's for sure

0143

Reposted by Helmi

Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18h

i see this is a Spiralling Due To Rape Trauma Triggered By The News kind of day

336214

Reposted by Helmi

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

Shutting it down for the night. Good night to all. Thank you to those who have donated to REBUILD. I am happy to say that we have raised almost $8000 of my $40,000 goal. ALSO, there's a match of $5000 on the table for all donations by 10/15. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

mightycause.com

Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

14819

Reposted by Helmi

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.

A platform displaying the data on US protests from the Crowd Counting Consortium. It includes a map of the US with counts of protest events in circular form overlaying the protests' locations. It also includes weekly tallies of protest events and participations, top protest issues, and various filters allowing users to explore events by location, issue, date, political valence, etc. The top of the image shows a total of 61,782 protests with 14,684,201 participants across 55 US states and territories from January 20, 2025 to May 31, 2026.

211848

Reposted by Helmi

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW from me: Researchers and advocates agree that the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding from paying for abortions, has harmed countless people with low incomes. As the midterm elections loom, anti-abortion groups and abortion rights advocates see a possible future without Hyde.

stateline.org

Anti-abortion groups worry Hyde Amendment’s 50-year run could end with new congressional majority • Stateline

As more polls and strategists indicate Democrats could take over congressional majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in January, some anti-abortion advocates fear a serio...

0144

Reposted by Helmi

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

932485655

Reposted by Helmi

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

They are shutting this down by the end of the day.

Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I

131294283

Reposted by Helmi

Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the 4 years since Dobbs, 16 abortion-hostile states have changed their legal definition of "abortion." In my new paper with Caroline Kelly, Abortion Disorientation Redux, we code & dissect every state's abortion definition & how it has changed since Dobbs. 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.com

Abortion Disorientation Redux

<div> In 2024, we published Abortion Disorientation in the Duke Law Journal. It uncovered how states were changing their legal definition of abortion in the fi

24622

Reposted by Helmi

Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man tried to talk to me in a parking lot & I said "it's against my religion to talk to strange men" and he said "oh, sorry" and walked away.

2203

Reposted by Helmi

Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like @krlatour.bsky.social! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

Forget Cool graphic with an Issue 1 Author Spotlight shining on Kristin LaTour

074

Reposted by Helmi

Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you’re talking about protecting women and girls while making it harder for victims to get justice for sexual harassment and assault, then it’s clear what you actually care about.

094

Reposted by Helmi

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All of this is happening to college students at the very beginning of their adult lives. It shapes everything that comes after. And it shapes society for the rest of us too. Imagine what our world would look like if all of those women had been able to complete their educations, free from violence.

116726

Reposted by Helmi

Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone in or around the DMV looking for #USWNT tickets for the game at rowdy Audi on October 10? My family can't make it anymore so I've got 6 for sale.

073

Reposted by Helmi

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Goals and ambitions may become impossible to achieve. Timelines and hopes for the future may be derailed. At scale, college sexual abuse is a systemic force to prevent women and marginalized victims from having the same opportunities, health, and happiness as predominantly male perpetrators.

91189136

Reposted by Helmi

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

61616221

Reposted by Helmi

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is always how it goes. The accused are allowed to ruthlessly and relentlessly smear the victims while engaging in a supposedly fair and just legal process that retraumatizes and creates fresh trauma for victims who are already supposed life altering, sometimes permanent consequences of rape

41273151

Reposted by Helmi

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

443065690

Reposted by Helmi

Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey NYC, if you want to hear the behind-the-scenes stories about my wild journey from Texas to DC with Kristan Hawkins, register for this teach-in with me @renee.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social on 10/3 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.

How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.

12913

Reposted by Helmi

Candice Norwood @candicenorwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've written a few stories for @19thnews.org recently about currently or formerly incarcerated women who described the harms they faced in U.S. jails and prisons, and have fought for new laws, policies and resources to improve conditions for others. I want to share their stories with you 🧵

14231

Reposted by Helmi

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/09/2026

For those keeping track: next Congress likely will have three Democratic pastors: * Warnock * Emanuel Cleaver (long-time incumbent) * Haynes (first-time congressman) Four other pastors/seminarians are in close races: * James Talarico * Sarah Trone Garriott * Lindsay James * Adam Hamilton

59826

Reposted by Helmi

Brooke @usuallyflannel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tip for anyone overwhelmed by certain topics here: Settings widget ➡️Moderation and content filters ➡️Muted words & tags ➡️enter words or tags you need muted for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or forever (until you manually un-mute). Take care of yourselves.

11511

Reposted by Helmi

Derek Kepner @kepner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is an awesome resource if you’re looking for a way to support an abortion fund in your state for International Safe Abortion Day 💙

donationsforabortions.com

Abortion Funds in Every State

013

Reposted by Helmi

Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

1663229

Reposted by Helmi

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

the Trump admin just made its 40th application to the Supreme Court for emergency relief, since January 2025 for comparison, the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden admins made a combined total of 25 shadow docket applications over the course of 20 years ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

ballsandstrikes.org

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

310738

Reposted by Helmi

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.

1570142

Reposted by Helmi

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

John Anzalone &
@JohnAnzo
X.com
Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
From nytimes.com
6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

2253385830

Reposted by Helmi

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s earlier than I expected to announce this, but we’re in the process of founding an organization to build cross-generational solidarity on campus sexual violence. It’s called the Survivor Alumni Network. And if you want updates from us when we are ready to go public, you can stay in touch here:

survivoralumninetwork.org

Survivor Alumni Network

Join a national survivor network. Access free Title IX resources, peer mentorship, and Campus Response Teams dedicated to campus safety reform.

315551

Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy #SafeAbortionDay! Consider donating to, volunteering for, or following an abortion fund, clinic, or practical support org that helps keep abortion safe and accessible in the United States: donationsforabortions.com

donationsforabortions.com

Abortion Funds in Every State

043

Reposted by Helmi

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026

Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:

023864

Reposted by Helmi

Abortion Fund of Ohio @abortionfundofohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#SafeAbortionDay began in Latin America and the Caribbean more than 20 years ago. Now, a global movement, we stand together to demand decriminalization, destigmatization, and comprehensive abortion access. Take action TODAY at September28.org

Green paper-textured flyer with blackletter-styled text reading, "We will always have abortions. Happy International Safe Abortion Day."

0124

Reposted by Helmi

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're looking for a major gifts manager to launch a formalized program and establish the strategy and systems that will support a robust and growing portfolio of donors across our network. Salary $85,000-$95,000. Please share!

statesnewsroom.com

Major Gifts Manager • States Newsroom

01616

Reposted by Helmi

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.

8552145

Reposted by Helmi

s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026

Scarleteen has been providing inclusive, high-quality sex education by humans, no bots, since 1998. Your support helps keep the lights on at a moment when it's VERY hard to access sex ed and scary to provide under an administration that hates us. pro.gofundme.com/fundraiser/7...

0188

Reposted by Helmi

s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026

Internet, I'm raising money in honor of Scarleteen's seven million visitors in 2026 and I'm at $1,000, $500 short of my goal—and the fundraiser is only $800 away from its goal. Help me take it over the top? Link to fundraiser in my reply!

23323

Reposted by Helmi

National Network of Abortion Funds @abortionfunds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We want to know more about who our followers are and what gets them going! What other causes are getting you out into the streets? What languages do you speak? Let us know in a brief survey and you could win a $50 gift card! Survey will close September 30th: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8923883/8...

Alt-text:

Illustrated National Network of Abortion Funds poster inviting viewers to complete a quick survey, surrounded by a diverse group of people.

Transcribed Text:

NATIONAL NETWORK OF
ABORTION FUNDS

You know us ♥
Now we want to
know you!

TELL US ABOUT
YOURSELF IN A
QUICK SURVEY!

WE MAY SEND A
LITTLE SURPRISE
YOUR WAY.

031

Reposted by Helmi

Carolyn (they/she) @carolynwill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

don’t care the nytimes ranked breaking bad as the best show of the 21st century so far, never gonna watch it

271

Reposted by Helmi

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Young people are being told all sorts of advice after incurring huge student loans for jobs at companies that wouldn't hesitate to underpay them or lay them off at any time. They survived mass shooting drills from childhood. They're being given advice that does not reflect the present moment.

239035

Reposted by Helmi

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are no guarantees with jobs right now, especially with the mass adoption of AI tools by many companies. Everyone is worried about being fired, laid off or losing a steady freelance gig at any time. Applying to jobs for months or a year-plus. Ghost job listings. Full return to the office.

660166

Reposted by Helmi

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's easier to hyperfixate on this one detail about Gen Z workers instead of on how corporations are using performance improvement plans to force out employees without severance; how return to office policies hurt parents, caregivers, and disabled workers; and how hard it is to find a job right now.

5836117

Reposted by Helmi

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Union workers at major trans non-profit A4TE fighting back against lay-offs that leave well-heeled managers untouched.

27129