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Michelle Ziemba

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Professional Patient: Trigeminal Neuralgia, Occipital Neuralgia & Migraines. Writer & Photographer. Proud wife of an Educator. Facts & Democracy Matter. She|Her

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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 5h
Yes, our country has found another way to be more cruel to immigrants. kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/imm...
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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 11h
Let Books Be Daring
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This is heartbreaking because we know better.
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Betty Friedan’s Right! @bettyfriedansright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#IAmJaneDoe "To anyone who is looking to find out the identity of Jane Doe in the Cornell rape case, look no further, because it's Amee Vanderpool," she wrote. "I am Jane ‌Doe." @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Women declare #IamJaneDoe in solidarity with Cornell University rape accuser
By Donna Bryson and Jonathan Allen Oct 3 - Women, some citing their own experiences of sexual assault, are posting on social media that they are Jane Doe, in solidarity with the woman using the
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wrote this for anyone who has been triggered by the recent attempts to doxx Jane Doe after the Cornell rape case was re-opened. Let's hold hands. shero.substack.com/p/dear-sister
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Dear Sister...
For anyone being triggered by the attacks on Jane Doe in the Cornell University rape case, I wrote this for you.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spin: Trump tells White House reporters that the alleged Cornell rapists won't "won't get a fair shake." Truth: A Manhattan federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll in 2023 and he was forced to pay her $5 million in damages.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is Alison, Cornell Class of 1994. She saw and experienced how Cornell University has gone out of their way to support and protect gang rape fraternity culture FOR YEARS, just like many other schools continue to do today.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is what we have allowed our country to become, America. Don't look away, VOTE against Republicans on November 3, 2026. www.vote.org
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This requires the liberation of men from the kind of misogynistic male supremacy … describes in the fraternities, which may give them power and status in the context of that supremacy, but also corrupts and distorts their psyches into the kind of dehumanized grotesquery described in the Cornell.”
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Bill Teng @dragonabs1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The only effective, lasting, far-reaching solution is the political, legal, economic and cultural equality of women."
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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Karl-Anthony Towns lost his mother to COVID-19. Now he is speaking about the value of vaccination. Behind every statistic is a family that learned, painfully, what this virus can take. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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Karl-Anthony Towns Who Lost Mom To COVID-19 Talks Of Value Of Vaccine
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns has had a good 2026 with his marriage and NBA Championship. 2020 was far different with the loss of his mom to COVID-19.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That is an incredible series of words to say aloud.
"It's not supposed to be a cruel and an unusual execution," criminologist Deborah Denno told
NBC News. "The goal is to kill somebody, but to kill them within means or in a reasonable way, where there's not going to be pain and suffering."
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How can you give consent to anything if you’ve drunk 10 alcoholic beverages? You’d be kicked out of class if you appeared that way, you’d be arrested if driving that intoxicated, etc. Yet, NY state law, says Jane Doe consented to sex.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And the Cornell case is closed for numerous victim-blaming reasons.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His WH remarks about the co-pilot attacking the pilot and attempting to kill everyone onboard were a remarkable summary filled with empathy for everyone involved.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Iran's health ministry urges masks as COVID-19 cases rise" 🔸COVID positivity has reached 17.4%, after increasing for 5 straight weeks—nearly double the 8.9% seen a year ago. 🔸The increase is being driven by the XFG Omicron subvariant.
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•	Header Logo: At the top center, a bright yellow rectangular banner contains a black triangular logo resembling layered geometric lines. Next to it, the text reads "INTELLINEWS" in bold capital letters, with a smaller tagline underneath: "20 Years Tracking Tomorrow's Transforming Markets".
•	Main Headline: Below the logo banner, a clear black headline reads: "Iran's health ministry urges masks as COVID-19 cases rise".
•	Central Visual: A large, detailed 3D digital illustration of a coronavirus particle sits against a dark grey background. The spherical virus structure is grey and covered with prominent, textured red spike proteins, interspersed with smaller orange and yellow surface proteins.
•	Footer Details: At the bottom left, there is a row of social media sharing icons (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, Flipboard, and a green share icon). Directly underneath, the author and date are listed in red and black text: "By bne IntelliNews September 30, 2026". The bottom right corner features small image caption text duplicating the headline and crediting bne IntelliNews.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Ithaca police department said it never received notification of Jane Doe’s assault. This was all “handled” internally. Shame on Cornell.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
abcnews.com
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a young cousin’s funeral I learned that he tried to perform an act of service/kindness daily. If we teach more selflessness, like let that person go ahead of you in line or don’t argue about the parking spot, we can learn to gain satisfaction and joy.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not to mention, Rahm’s financial policies were an epic failure: He failed to deal with a ballooning budget deficit and pension payments for city workers and teachers, and implemented a private investment trust that delivered junk bond status. Plus, he closed 49 schools in minority neighborhoods.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve lived down the street from rahm emanuel more than a decade so it’s quite neighborly to say he let the cops not only cover up a murder but also run a domestic torture black site
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
Tierra Walker died from preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant. Dozens of doctors refused to offer her an abortion during multiple trips to the ER. “People should not lose their fundamental constitutional rights just because they are pregnant” -Molly Duane, the Walker family's attorney. @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Gene47 @gene47.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some savvy Canadian kids made up a game called "American Dictator". It's not available on Amazon. www.youtube.com/shorts/dgCja...
youtube.com
Sorry to interrupt family game night with the collapse of democracy
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump was impeached for doing this with Ukraine defense spending.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Women are suffering needlessly from painful sex during menopause and aren’t receiving proper medical treatment for UTIs, which should include a vaginal estrogen cream and antibiotics. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
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Exclusive: FDA warnings persisted as UTIs turned deadly in menopause
Menopause increases the risk of UTIs which can lead to sepsis and death in older women. For years, the FDA discouraged the one drug that could help.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On the other hand, Jeff Bezos demanded that Rotterdam demolish an historic bridge so he could get his superyacht out to the North Sea. Construction to save many lives vs. destruction to convenience one particular life. 🎶One of these things is not like the other.... 🎶
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
University of Gothenburg, 1.39 million adults. A fourth vaccine dose was linked to 31% lower risk of a Long COVID diagnosis over 6 months than three doses. Protection was 38% in higher risk adults. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
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Booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine and its effectiveness against post COVID-19 condition in individuals with pre-existing immunity: a sequential propensity score-matched cohort study
Receiving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a lower risk of being diagnosed with post COVID-19 condition compared with three doses, although the absolute risk reduction was small. ...
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now the Administration is targeting the ACA. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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Trump Administration to Remove 760,000 ACA Enrollees, Claiming Fraud
Officials allege individuals were fraudulently enrolled or do not exist
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/09/2026
Of the billionaires By the billionaires For the billionaires Newsom 2028
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Joe @joelastname.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm of two minds about this...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We need to build a period cramps simulator but for basic empathy. Everyone should be required to spend five minutes a day with it on.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do you think democracy is at stake? What are you going to do about it? Curl up in a ball while our neighbors are being brutalized & subjected to savage #ICELawlessness? Put your head in the sand while children are being put in detention camps? 44 days until the midterm elections! Volunteer!🧵
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What’s cool about TrialPilot from my initial review is the individualized components to it. Iamrare is built for researchers, which is fantastic, but I’m curious to find out what TrialPilot will reveal.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New Covid summer strain XFG “Stratus” linked to cough and fever, but doctors are also seeing more nausea, vomiting and dehydrating diarrhea.
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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why are symptom charts suggested in 2026 when multiplex RAT testing are so easy & cheap to produce & use? Granted, the US market grossly overcharges consumer costs, but they're profitable elsewhere for 3 Euros or whatnot. parahealth.com/products/dee... prohealth-diagnostics.com/de/product/5...
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Deepblue 5in1 Combo Test | COVID + Flu + RSV + Adenovirus Self-Test
Deepblue 5in1 rapid antigen test: detects SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, Influenza B, RSV & Adenovirus from one nasal swab. CE 3018 self-test, 15-min result.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m not going to pretend that I know anything about the trans woman experience. Only saying that I do think about gender, care and acess to hormones and therapies as a mid-age black woman with PCOS, which causes excess androgens.
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Michelle Ziemba @michelleziemba.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What’s that I hear? Lawsuits being filed.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This was intentional. alt-text: Converse ad showing a woman wearing a white cotton dress holding a pair of black Converse sneakers. A shadow on her dress suggests a KKK hood and frames the sneakers as a person "hanging". She is standing on a 5 pt white star surrounded by 3 pairs of black sneakers.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/09/2026
People should not have to live in constant fear of their own countrymen electing the next fascist government, which may or may not decide to enact some sort of final solution. trib.al/5cGYgBw
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The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?
I moved north. Polls show many trans Americans would leave if they could. Should Canada make us an offer we can’t refuse?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
"Trump’s personal imposition of his taste is a different story than that of the administration’s overall totalitarian aesthetic, which can best be described perhaps as 'free tier AI image generator with the white supremacist dial turned to 11.'"
publicnotice.co
Totalitarian art
The Hitler comparisons are sometimes overdone. But not here.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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