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Chuck Lauria @demochas.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Letting men decide about women's health care is like letting your dog make decisions about your car because he likes to ride in it sometimes.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Two mifepristone manufacturers have appealed to the Supreme Court. Biotech industry leaders warn of negative implications far beyond abortion if political and ideological forces control drug regulation. Note that abortion pills are still legal: only MAILING of one type of pill is banned for now.
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Drugmakers file emergency appeal to restore abortion pill access
A federal appeals court shut off telehealth access nationwide on Friday
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
With the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, this message is more important now than ever.
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Amazing news that 91.4% of people enrolled in Ryan White have suppressed viral loads. RW is the gov't program for people living w/ HIV who are uninsured/underinsured. It funds CBOs to provide wrap-around services. This number is the result of yrs of activism, organizing, & community-led care.
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New Data Show Over 91% Viral Suppression Rate Among Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Patients
Cross-posted from: HRSAToday the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released new data, marking a re...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2025
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)
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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
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RIZMFMMD @rizmfmmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Acetaminophen remains one of the few safe and effective options for managing fever and pain during pregnancy. As physicians, we have a responsibility to provide evidence-based, compassionate care — and that means using safe medications when indicated.
Picture from SMFM Picture from ACOG
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American Journal of Hypertension @amjhypertension.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
As the 🍎⌚️introduces ‘hypertension monitoring’ - this statement from @hypertensioncanada.bsky.social is a useful read on the topic of cuffless blood pressure measurement pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39661401/
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Hypertension Canada Statement on the Use of Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring Devices in Clinical Practice - PubMed
Cuffless BP devices are a developing technology designed to track BP in most daily life activities. However, many steps remain before they should be used in clinical practice.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2025
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 05/09/2025
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
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What Florida Is Doing To Vaccine Mandates Is Sick
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
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STAT @statnews.com · 17/08/2025
As AI spreads through health care, is the technology degrading providers’ skills? A new study suggests that, after having a specialized tool taken away, clinicians were less proficient at colonoscopies www.statnews.com/2025/08/12/a...
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As AI spreads through health care, is the technology degrading providers’ skills?
A new study suggests that, after having a specialized AI tool taken away, clinicians were less proficient at colonoscopies.
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RIZMFMMD @rizmfmmd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Come join us for a live, one day multidisciplinary Women's Health CME event in Orlando, FL! #WomensHealth @cariberoyaleorl.bsky.social
This is a slide showing a continuing medical education event and how to register for it
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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Since abortion bans were passed pregnant women have been denied necessary care until they are on the brink of death, with some women dying due to delayed care. Data now shows the need for blood transfusions during miscarriages increased by 54% in Texas after the abortion ban was passed. #Pinks
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Attorney General Jennifer Davenport @newjerseyoag.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Limiting access to medication abortion threatens reproductive freedom and puts women in harm’s way. That’s why I’m co-leading a petition urging FDA to expand access to mifepristone. Make no mistake: I’ll fight any attempt to deny access to this essential medication.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
remember this morning? that was one month ago
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Dawn Turner @dadair.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Fitting for today’s cat fight.
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Abortion is completely banned in Alabama. But people are still getting out. Still finding care. Still fighting. We help them travel to clinics in Georgia and beyond. Help us fund their journeys: 💸 DonorBox.org/support-the-fund #FundAbortion #AbortionIsEssential #AbortionIsEssentialHealthcare
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Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
*While we assist abortion seekers from other Southern states as well, the information below pertains to South Carolina.* Since launching in late 2021, PSAF has supported over 1,500 people in accessing...
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Aside from cutting health care for the elderly & poor, the Republican budget steers $160 BILLION to enrich private prisons + quadruple the size of Trump’s American Gestapo ICE — while making them immune from prosecution. TLDR: You are not alarmed enough. www.wola.org/analysis/160...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Let @replamonica.bsky.social know you stand with her, and let your Rep. and Senator know that the DOJ should drop these charges. 202-224-3121
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Call your senators. This bill is heading to them next and they can stop it if the people speak out. (202) 224-3121
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/05/2025
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across Texas after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis. By Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and @andreasuozzo.com
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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their…
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Russia has kidnapped a bunch of Ukrainian children and transferred them to Russian families and denationalized them with the intent of destroying in part or in whole a group based on their nationality. There’s a legal word for this, anyone know what it is?
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CardioOB @cardioob.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
3rd-Trimester NT-proBNP for #Preeclampsia Risk Prediction: Comparison With sFlt-1/PlGF #CardioObstetrics #CardioSky #JACCAdvances www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social @csilvers.bsky.social @abraguo.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social @mdharringtonc.bsky.social
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Kathy Downs @kathykatd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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knox377.bsky.social @knox377.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Sad news this Friday night. Virginia Guiefre has died by suicide. Such a brave courageous survivor of Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking. So sorry that this 41 year old survivor has taken her life. So brave through out the trials. Sadden. The trauma stays with you forever,always remember her courage
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Medicaid covers HALF of children in the United States, and nearly 30% of Illinoisans. The Republican plan to gut this essential program in order to fund a tax cut for the rich is a disgrace. I will never vote to take health care away from you.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/04/2025
It is breaking our hearts to hear of people taking their lives over the the pain this administration has caused. Please keep your eyes on and your hearts open to your loved ones. Below are resources for anyone struggling.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Arresting judges and warrantless arrests of "foreign agents." US citizens are about to be kidnapped en masse by ICE from their homes and disappeared. We told you it would happen and you said we were hysterical.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Pope news really is weird. He was hospitalized recently with pneumonia. But that isn't what killed him. A stroke. 21 hours after meeting Vance. I think he genuinely worried himself to death. A Pope likely has a heavy burden of worrying to begin with, whatever he saw in Vance was more stressful.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Felipe Zapata Was a U.S. College Student. Then He Disappeared Into ICE Custody.
 In this video, we explore how UF student Felipe Zapata Velásquez disappeared into ICE custody after a traffic stop — no public record, no response, no accountability.
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Felipe Zapata Was a U.S. College Student. Then He Disappeared Into ICE Custody.
In this video, The Intellectualist investigates a report by the Miami New Times, authored by Alex DeLuca on April 7, 2025, detailing the ICE detention of Fel...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 17/04/2025
Black mothers in America face disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity. We must do more to ensure access to affordable, quality care. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/04/2025
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn't happen just by chance. The preventable disease ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
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Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In 1995, the UN Beijing Declaration recognized gender equality as a human right. While 43 women have led UN agencies, the UN itself has never been led by a woman. There are several qualified women. "It’s time to hand the reins to one of them." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why it’s time the United Nations is led by a woman
With efforts towards gender equality stalling, voting in a first female head of the UN would provide powerful representation for half the world’s population — and be good for all of it.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My departmental leadership is already speaking about how we will be ready to "rebuild from the ashes". I honestly appreciate this statement. It foreshadows hard work & some optimism, but also acknowledges that our scientific community & infrastructure is currently being burnt to the ground.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/04/2025
Women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a head-on car crash compared with men. It's because cars aren't designed to be safe for women, the CEO of a crash test dummy producer says, adding that vehicles are being designed “around a male.”
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Cars aren't tested properly for women's safety. Congress is trying to fix that.
Republican Sen. Deb Fischer’s "She DRIVES Act" would raise the standards for car safety testing, promoting the use of "crash test dummies that reflect a woman’s lighter frame."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
202-224-3121.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
An immediate target of DOGE is maternal health. The US has the highest rates of maternal mortality of high income countries, yet DOGE cut funding for research addressing drivers of maternal morbidity in NY & across the country. Sets us back hundreds of years. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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How DOGE Cuts Will Change Women’s Health
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NPR @npr.org · 02/04/2025
The White House and former USAID staff have differing views on the nature of the U.S. response to the earthquake that struck Myanmar and neighboring countries.
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What kind of support is the U.S. offering in the wake of the Myanmar quake?
The White House and former USAID staff have differing views on the nature of the U.S. response to the earthquake that struck Myanmar and neighboring countries.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/04/2025
Dear CDC friends. Today was the most foolish of April Fool's days. We have not just lost jobs. With entire teams and offices being cut, we have lost vast amounts of institutional knowledge. Take the time you need to grieve. Then join your fired colleagues in the fight. www.firedbutfighting.com
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Fired But Fighting
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