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Mia Birdsong

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ED and Founder of NextRiver.org Author of HOW WE SHOW UP Researching and writing about interconnected freedom. Apocolypse-ready, focused on the long-arc, devoted to collective liberation.

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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump.”
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Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety
Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“Disaster survivors in Arkansas left homeless by recent tornadoes have been blocked from receiving federal recovery aid after President Donald Trump rejected the state’s request to declare a major disaster in March.”
cnn.com
Tornado victims blocked from federal recovery aid after Trump denied request | CNN
Trump’s disaster denial follows his executive order seeking to shift the burden of response and recovery from the federal government onto states.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
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Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR
Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed....
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Vox @vox.com · 13/03/2025
Musk affiliates are pushing agencies to use Starlink, with the FAA leasing kits. Critics fear these moves signal a shift in the telecom industry that could result in the world’s richest man deciding how the nation’s communications network works. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/I1wv9m
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The Elon Musk company you should be worried about right now
The Trump administration appears to be giving Starlink, a division of SpaceX, preferential treatment.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Wait, what the fuck? These orgs applied for and received grants from the government, and now, because this administration chooses to pretend climate change doesn’t exist, they’re going to be accused of FRAUD? For work already done and paid for as the government directed?
newrepublic.com
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Measles If you were born between 1957-1968, your MMR vax was less effective than what came later & you may need boosting. If you were born before ~1984, there's a small chance it may no longer be protecting you & you may need boosting. I just messaged my doc to ask re: a "titer test" to find out.
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Do you need a measles booster shot? What to know as a U.S. outbreak spreads
A measles outbreak in the U.S. has grown to over 120 cases​​​. Here's what to know about measles vaccines and those who may need a booster.
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sara g miller @saragmiller.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The White House asserted today that it would control who gets to cover the president in the White House and via the White House pool for the first time in our history - providing an authoritarian-style mechanism to shape coverage and retaliate against disfavored outlets. Right out of the textbooks.
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Dallas Holladay, DO (she/her) @dholladay.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just as an FYI, hospitals NEED Medicare and Medicaid dollars to function. Smaller/ rural/ critical access hospitals will not survive without them. So even if you don't rely on Medicare, you still might lose your local hospital or find yourself stranded without care while traveling.
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Emily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ya know who uses Medicaid? CHILDREN. 40 million kids are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. That’s half of the kids in this country. Children don’t contribute to the workforce or buy goods or vote… so no one cares.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.
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Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cutting #Medicaid is devastating. If it wasn’t for Medicaid, I never would’ve had the necessary #surgeries, #therapies, & care access as a #disabled child + teen. Medicaid is a literal lifeline worth saving, not stripping down to its bones. Terrifying reality we live in.
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is going to be so good! Come through if you're in the Bay, join online if you're not.
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is a beautiful conversation with @edyong209.bsky.social. Listening to a kind & thoughtful soul talk about science (& moral injury, birding, & being in the world) is soothing & motivating at the same time. I recommend the audio version; it has content edited out of the written version.
nytimes.com
‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World (Gift Article)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
There are many veterans with disabilities. They are included in DEI. Americans with disabilities warn protections are vanishing in Trump's DEI rollback www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...
axios.com
Americans with disabilities warn protections are vanishing in Trump's DEI rollback
"Disability is a natural part of the human experience," said Katy Neas, chief executive officer of The Arc.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment
President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
wired.com
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025
this is theft on an unimaginable scale
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 27/01/2025
On Friday evening, President Trump reinstated a broad version of an anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule, which bans foreign NGOs receiving U.S. aid funds from engaging in abortion advocacy, counseling, or referrals. @garnethenderson.com reports: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/01/24/t...
rewirenewsgroup.com
Trump Reinstated the Global Gag Rule. Here’s What’s at Stake.
In his first term, Trump oversaw an unprecedented expansion of the gag rule. Its reinstatement could decimate global reproductive and sexual health.
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Re-posting this. One of the best teaching tools I've come across that demonstrates the risks of getting long covid and the importance of masking. You can play this game in 5 mins w your students, conference/training attendees, organization, extended family gathering or any other large group.
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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government. Put that in a headline. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/01/2025
president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...
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'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country
‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States.
cjonline.com
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...
interruptingcriminalization.com
Beyond Do No Harm Health Care Strategy Consult Desk — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/01/2025
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning: A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
Never believe that anti-
Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“Ronald Reagan does not determine my mood. Its’s not his country. It’s our country.” -June Jordan 1986
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I can’t overstate how abundant the resources and guidance are when it comes to building connection, working to stay grounded, staying present and feeling, and using the survival/thriving skills of joy, imagination, care, and creativity. I mean, the material is everywhere. We just have to do it.
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 21/11/2024
You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵
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Center for Accessible Living @calky.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The Disability & Disaster Hotline is supporting disabled folks affected by the ongoing fires in southern California. Call/text 800-626-4959 or email hotline@disasterstrategies.org. You can also check the Genasys Protect app, Watch Duty app, or try calling 211 in LA County.
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The indignities, hassle, and threats to life disabled people have to deal with on a regular basis tells you everything you need to know about the benefits of keeping this society going.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
nytimes.com
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
For @motherjones.com, I interviewed a Covid-19 mask organizer about his experience handing out masks to keep his community safe during LA wildfires–at a time when masks have become villainized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Wildfire smog is deadly—but LA's Covid mask organizers have it covered
Angelenos are stepping in to make sure their communities can breathe.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/01/2025
If you want to help us purchase new tents for our unhoused neighbors, you can make a tax-deductible donation to our group, the South Bay Mutual Aid & Care Club (via our fiscal sponsor). SBMACC is one of the the longest continuously operating mutual aid groups in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.
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Donate to South Bay Mutual Aid Care Club
Donate to South Bay Mutual Aid Care Club. Your contribution will be tax-deductible.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.
bet.com
Eaton Fire Devastates Historic Altadena, Displacing Black Families and Destroying Legacies
While celebrity losses grab headlines, the Eaton Fire has destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in Altadena, displacing Black families who’ve shaped the community for generations. Here's a brief history o...
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is so shameful.
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Every pomegranate in my grocery store, those Halo oranges, Wonderful pistachios, Fiji water—it’s all these wealth hoarders.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My new story, going behind the scenes at the NYT is finally live! Huge thanks to @billiejsweeney.bsky.social as well as @kellymcb.bsky.social, @petrinkae.bsky.social, and @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social for chatting with me on this.
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Bias at NYT: Trans Former Employee Speaks Out — Assigned
Billie Sweeney is a trans journalist who was an editor for the New York Times until last year. Here, she recalls her losing battle for the soul of the paper of record.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“The fact is, people want to believe that drinking is good for them, and the science in this field is easy to manipulate to convince them.” I just read this 2018 piece from @smencimer.bsky.social from start to finish… & you should too: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Drinking may have given me cancer. The alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.
The science is clear that alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer, but boozemakers have downplayed the link.
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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Breaking the bones of NICU babies . . . The heartbreak and rage . . .
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