Reposted by LaurenThe Christian Left @the-christian-left.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Trump fires the entire National Science Board 024
Reposted by LaurenGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now. 186182066127
Reposted by LaurenSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/02/2026I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now. 762313805942
Reposted by LaurenMedia Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.mediamatters.orgLibs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired 26938001586
Reposted by LaurenWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Trump’s war against Americans... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...washingtonpost.comFederal agents shoot two in Portland, Oregon, officials sayMayor Keith Wilson (D) did not identify which federal agency the agents belong to but called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end operations in the city. 16364136
Reposted by LaurenOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 08/01/2026Everyone’s been doing hockey romance recs — and good thing! — but I’d like to also take a moment and point out that there’s a ton of great Asian-Canadian contemporary romance writing happening right now too! 321784
Reposted by LaurenWil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 09/01/2026If I can make something that helps someone else create the space I have when I read a book or whatever I'm doing to rest, then I have to do that. I can't not do that, especially when what I do feels pointless.wilwheaton.neti am doing my best to be a helperMister Rogers says that when terrible things happen, to look for the helpers. Terrible things are happening. I’m upset. And I’m angry. And I’m so sad. While I am looking for the helpers, I am also doing my best to be a helper. I have to be honest: when a... 2980173
Reposted by LaurenPetru S. 🚄🚦🚲 @sofio.bsky.social · 15/12/2025They forced everyone off my train at park street and the train is disabled. @universalhub.com 462
Lauren @lilybeth12.bsky.social · 20/11/2025@universalhub.com any news on why helicopters are circling Roslindale? 210
Lauren @lilybeth12.bsky.social · 17/11/2025www.ms.now/opinion/msnb... Smart and fabulous 1st person view of the gig economyms.nowUber is doing its part to protect women — and now some male drivers are upsetPairing female passengers with female drivers is one meaningful way to allow women drivers and passengers to feel safer. 010
Reposted by LaurenMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/11/2025"Is this time-effective? Of course not. We’re dispersing the labor previously done by one person across five paid employees and hundreds of parents and guardians. But is it cost-effective? Also, no."buff.lyOur School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible AppsOther than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has pain... 19521
Reposted by LaurenMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The Graphic Medicine International Collective needs YOUR help! We are ~$1,900 from reaching our annual GMIC Awards fundraising match of $5,000. Can you help us hit that mark and ensure the Awards' future? Indicate 'GMIC Book Awards' below to donate today! www.paypal.com/donate/?host...paypal.comDonate to Graphic Medicine International CollectiveHelp support Graphic Medicine International Collective by donating or sharing with your friends. 277
Reposted by LaurenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/11/2025Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU. YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that. 833230425531
Reposted by LaurenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/11/2025In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies 2339242197729
Reposted by LaurenKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous 355223656340
Reposted by LaurenJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 07/11/2025What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil 16253301339
Reposted by LaurenAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/11/2025❓When people say, "the longest in U.S. history," how long is that? The U.S. was founded in 1776. So, "the longest" means 249 years. That’s 8-10 generations of people. Think about that when we say: Tonight, this government shutdown will become the longest in U.S. history. Let that sink in. 13467114
Reposted by LaurenKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023. 622130715977
Reposted by LaurenYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Amazon is the employer with the most employees on Medicaid in the state of Nevada. Walmart is second. (Recent national stats broken out by employer are unavailable, prob because employers don’t want us to know the social safety net is a corporate subsidy.) CEOs are the only real welfare queens.latimes.comCommentary: Who profits most from Medicaid? Employers like Walmart and Amazon, many of whose workers rely on the programBig employers such as Walmart, Amazon and McDonald's stick taxpayers with the bill for healthcare and food for their employees. The GOP budget will make life harder for those workers. 111749
Reposted by LaurenRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w... 7052222249
Reposted by LaurenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/10/2025Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know. 10382859910971
Reposted by LaurenAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality. 8453442411321
Reposted by Lauren𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 23/10/2025ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!” 448101282616
Reposted by LaurenElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak 355172705679
Reposted by LaurenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation." 195080882443
Reposted by Laurenautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped 214119083160
Reposted by LaurenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Oh my GOD. 1173984862
Reposted by LaurenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one. 13899672274
Reposted by LaurenMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025It is really hard to overstate how amazing this is 2529
Reposted by LaurenBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/10/2025It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc October 2025 edition.media.tenor.coma sign that says v is for vaccinatedALT: a sign that says v is for vaccinated 3427180
Reposted by LaurenDead Eyes, Horse Teeth @missjayjay.bsky.social · 17/10/2025This “redacted” interview of an “anonymous” person about the Titan submersible incident is frying me. 5314
Reposted by LaurenGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 17/10/2025CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen Available starting January 1, 2026. 398175714191
Reposted by LaurenRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 16/10/2025Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... 271202594
Reposted by LaurenGod @thegodshow.com · 13/10/2025Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in. The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight. They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away. 380163084813
Reposted by LaurenSara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this. 25253522587
Reposted by LaurenColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025How long will it be before we learn that ICE is murdering some of these people the minute they’re off camera? When we learn the kidnapping squads are death squads, will that be enough to grind everything to a halt? To stop showing up to work normally, to stop throwing parties, until this ends? 1626367
Reposted by LaurenPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization. 35931463
Reposted by LaurenAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/10/2025RIFed: Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas. You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.) Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.who.intEbola diseaseWHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response. 16680304
Reposted by LaurenNikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 11/10/2025 "Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for, and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the world."theguardian.comPeter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than ArmageddonSilicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher 1519181
Reposted by LaurenSheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: 833152078339
Reposted by LaurenAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Trump has explicitly stated that he is terminating federal employees based on political affiliation. Data is currently being collected, but layoff notices have already gone out to employees at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, 1092102730
Reposted by LaurenBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The parents of those 270 kids could get them vaccinated so the can return to school 🤷🏽♀️. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comHundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaksAt least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said. 45718
Reposted by LaurenEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Not enough news outlets are making it absolutely clear that last night’s RIFs are unlawful 15798214
Reposted by LaurenUniversal Hub @universalhub.com · 11/10/2025Hours after refusing to kiss the Presidential ring, #MIT wins court battle over Defense Department plan to slash its grant funding www.universalhub.com/2025/hours-a... #lawsuits 324188
Reposted by LaurenJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/10/2025To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely 791221595
