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Helmi

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pro-abortion | mental health advocate | taylor swift enthusiast | she/her | donationsforabortions.com

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 5h
At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions to avoid participating in the firing squad execution of Nidal Mikal Hasan, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/sold...
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Soldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth’s Livestreamed Firing Squad
At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. More are expected to follow.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h
Anyway, whatever line you thought needed to be crossed has been crossed.
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 6h
What if childhood COVID infections left a mark on fertility years later? A new mouse study asks exactly that. Prepubertal male mice were given synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA (no live virus). It triggered strong systemic inflammatory response, cytokine surge, lung inflammation. 1/6 🧵
Diagram showing effects of an experimental injection in male B6 mice and their offspring. The injected substance is not labeled. At 4 weeks of age, mice show lung inflammation, fewer white blood cells, and increased cytokines and chemokines, which are immune signaling molecules. At 8 weeks, mice show damage to sperm-producing tubules, reduced blood-testis barrier integrity, increased oxidative stress, and reduced testosterone transport. Expression of genes involved in sperm development is decreased: Kit, Csf1, Bcl2, Bcl6, Spo11, Mlh1, Atm, Msh5, Tnp1, and Prm1. An arrow leads to a mouse on a weighing scale, representing first-generation offspring, with reduced early growth and increased glucose intolerance.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h
given the last day here, it’s apparent that the post-Trump undoing will have to involve listing over and over all the things that Trump was not the first to do
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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 5h
I know there’s a lot to remember but don’t forget that Congress just withheld a ton of already budgeted DC taxpayer money from the city last year, because they can do that to DC apnews.com/article/wash...
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Washington, DC, faces budget crisis after House leaves $1.1 billion hole in city coffers
When the House of Representatives adjourned for a two-week recess, it left D.C. elected officials scrambling to fill a sudden $1.1 billion hole in the capital city’s budget.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 24/08/2026
Inspired by Mike’s post, I built @ngwatchdc.bsky.social . You post a photo of the National Guard and a location, and it will search DC crime data for the last time there was a violent incident nearby.
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Maggie @maggiedara.bsky.social · 6h
DC Statehood is a requirement of anyone running in 2028
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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Prison Flow Project @prisonflowproject.org · 8h
Don't forget to sign up for our Period Action Day webinar on rules on menstrual products in prisons and why language matters! givebutter.com/period-actio...
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Period Action Day 2026
By The Prison Flow Project
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 8h
The D.C. Board of Elections says it’s asking the National Guard to avoid standing near D.C.’s ballot drop boxes, which opened today, in the wake of video footage showing them near a box in Foggy Bottom this week: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...
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D.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop Boxes
Guard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 11h
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 13h
One of the only things country has ever been good at is othering people. And we are seeing the fruits of that in full, devastating force today.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 12h
D.C. VOTERS: Ballot drop boxes open today at 11 a.m.! So if you've filled out your mail ballot and want to do your civic duty really early, go ahead and drop it off starting today. Here are the locations: dcboe.org/voters/find-...
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2026 General Election Mail Ballot Drop Box Locations | District of Columbia Board of Elections
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buttitwins defense squad @gracieminabox.bsky.social · 13h
@elevatedaccess.bsky.social is one of the most creative humanitarian concepts to emerge from the waking nightmare that was Dobbs and I love @racketmn.com for this piece 🥰 racketmn.com/elevated-acc...
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Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care - Racket
Removing barriers to bodily autonomy, one prop plane flight at a time.
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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 13h
Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like @erinmurphy.bsky.social! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...
Forget Cool graphic with an Issue 1 Author Spotlight shining on Erin Murphy
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "You just heard something out of my opponent. He said he 'thinks the war is going to end.' He's got a direct line to the president who is making sure the war does not end and he's not using it because he's cheerled this war the entire time."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If you want to understand whether the Trump-Collins budget has helped you, just go fill up a tank of gas. Go to the grocery store. Try to buy food for you kids. Look at your electric bill. Look at your health insurance premiums. They've doubled for more than a million Georgians."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "How can a sitting congressman vote to shut down a labor and delivery unit in his own district? Delivering mothers in Mike Collins's district now have to drive an hour to get to a labor and delivery unit while they're in labor while we already a maternal mortality crisis."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "He's personally invested in a company that controls the real estate for the Saline data center. I should ask him: If he wants a moratorium, should the construction stop on his personal investment? Because I'd love it to. We need government that is not bought off."
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
recalling now that Ossoff came in throwing sufficient high heat in the 2020 debates that Perdue opted to no-show the last two
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."
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Brian Wingbermuehle @brianwinger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My grandmother has been in assisted living for 9 months. They returned her medications to the family because she is moving facilities and it turns out the care givers hadn’t even used one of the provided 90-day supply of any of her drugs. In nine months. So… lawyer recommendations?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
This is why I want to emphasize that this type of behavior is seen or called for throughout US history.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He communicates clearly.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Juan" shared this picture from where he is cleaning in the celery in Santa Maria CA. "I'm trimming, pulling off the outer leaves, and cutting the dirt or damaged parts off the freshly harvested celery. This prepares it for packing." #WeFeedYou
Workers laboring in a celery field
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The FDA said it expects to complete its safety review of abortion pills by mid-December and issue a report by March 2027. “Instead of the promised gold-standard study, the FDA is trying to peddle fool’s gold," said Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America's president. Story by @sofiaresnick.bsky.social
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Feds unlikely to change abortion pill policy before next year • Stateline
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said late Wednesday that it expects to complete its  long-awaited safety review of abortion pills by mid-December and issue a report evaluating the results by Mar...
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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 08/10/2026
Okay, at this point I have to ask where the national Democratic party is on telling its candidates, "Don't talk like JK Rowling, it's probably demoralizing." Because this is just fucked. And if your answer is, "They need to run to the concerns of their district," you're fucking wrong.
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buttitwins defense squad @gracieminabox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey so donationsforabortions.com 😍
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Abortion Funds in Every State
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Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Omg awww
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Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There has been "donate to abortion funds" discourse on here today and I felt too shy to share my website in quotes/replies but next time I will channel my donation link fairy energy 🫡
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Themesis Prime @luxastarte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please help Marlene by sharing and donating, if you can. It would mean the world, literally.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 08/10/2026
If you are in the path of Hurricane Isaias and will use a portable generator to keep the power on, make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. Portable generators can produce enough carbon monoxide to kill in minutes.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
“lesser of two evils” does not apply to candidates who are saying the same thing about eliminating yr rights
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/10/2026
republicans lay traps for democrats, tricking them into throwing their own voters under the bus to appease the bigotry of people who will never vote for them, and despite seeing how it plays out over-and-over, they race to do it every time
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists plan to push more states to require women to visit a doctor’s office, get an ultrasound or wait before they can get abortion pills. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/08/r...
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Abortion foes plan to push pill restrictions in the states • Ohio Capital Journal
As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists plan to push more states to require women to visit a doctor’s office, get an ultrasound…
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026
Some examples of yes args for 5 at... www.northbayop.org/voterguide vote.eastbaydsa.org lwvc.org/ballot-recom...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/10/2026
Bay comrades PLEASE vote for this. If it fails the consequences will be dire for transit and it will hollow out the entire Bay Area.
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