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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

I would love for that to be true but

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

Oh I'm so glad you were able to catch it!

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

How long should an article be

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

Is there a way to designate your property a surveillance-free zone? If neighbors use Ring cameras or order from Amazon or whatever, is it legal for them to film my property? I'm also wondering about consent-to-recording laws

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 6h

Yep! I am expecting the age to rise again as they gather more data

Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 6h

I believe this is what Jeannette Walls' father called "doing the skedaddle" (sneaking out of the hospital so that, in their case, he didn't have to pay)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 6h

In 2024, I was diagnosed with HPV again and had to have LEEP surgery for an 8% chance of cervical cancer. I did general instead of localized anaesthesia and it cost me $1600+ with insurance, plus $40 per appointment with my OB-GYN. And the Gardasil vaccine has been approved for adults up to age 45!

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 7h

Did you know they extended the age recommendation?

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h

NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana

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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 8h

Maryland just released its own vaccine recommendations based on guidance from established medical and scientific organizations instead of the Trump administration. With unqualified leaders at the helm, states can and—should—step up to protect their communities.

wypr.org

Maryland issues first-ever statewide vaccine schedule to push back against Trump administration

Under new legislative authority, the Maryland Department of Health has issued a state-level vaccine schedule based on guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading independent e...

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 7h

I think plastic surgery is a bit more nuanced than this, though. I know plenty of people who have had abdominal repair/tummy tucks after kids. It's not all constant optimization.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

one future we could begin experimenting with right now is: when, as a way to deal with a problem, we are invited only to invent better ways to punish people, we can refuse

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He's CLEARLY a person with a humiliation fetish and I'm not getting involved with that

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 8h

I was planning to go to the gym and do some heavy lifting!

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I want to make a compilation of news headlines and ledes where the sentence keeps taking an unexpected turn all the way to the final word. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. artificial intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.

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Time for the close-up! (VERY close-up)

Murkowski is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Maybe she'd go Independent but never Democrat

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Time for an ✨ immunity boost ✨ bsky.app/profile/drde...

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Lol I'm compelled to point out the typo (laudatory)

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I'm also breastfeeding which apparently can increase the uncertainty

Yes that's exactly what my ob/gyn said! Really helpful to have the warning

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Thank you! That's very reassuring!

I hear different things about the pain/discomfort and it really seems to depend on the person!

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Arm day, leg day, boob day

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23h

I'm getting a mammogram for the first time this week, and I'm nervous but I've decided to reframe it as part of my glow-up. Getting my hair done, nails done, going to the gym, checking on my breast health, it's all over for you fools

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GOAT OR BIRD????

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I think we have this inherent trust that if someone were really that bad, someone would DO something about it. We have misplaced faith.

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This is why the protestations that allegations ruin a man's life forever do not ring true

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Haitian Immigration Is a Biden Success Story. I’ve Seen It Firsthand.

Just revisiting this for no reason... If Trump is elected again, “we’re going to have incredible shortages and economic downturn” with the potential for “rampant inflation,” Román said. “Look at your kitchen, open the fridge—just about everything you buy” would see higher prices.

newrepublic.com

The CHNV program provided a vital refuge, and the people who came filled vacant jobs. But now, Trump is targeting these immigrants and Biden has declined to renew the program.

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