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Sara

@sarapubs.bsky.social
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Publishing. Politics. Parenting. Pediatrics. Puppies. All opinions my own. She/Her

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Andrea Blatz @andreablatz72.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
University of Chicago Press workers are forming a union! I stand with the @UCPWorkersGuild because unionizing is the best way to foster the strong, equitable workplaces we need to sustain academic publishing.
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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Page One Media Grant is built to give underrepresented authors access to book publicity support. Have questions about eligibility or the application? Sarah Russo, Founder of P1, is going live to answer them. Join us: April 15 | 1:30 PM EDT  LinkedIn Live: page1m.co/3O93iDm
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If you don’t buy directly, buy from your local indie, @bookshop.org or use your local library!
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books: Ann Patchett AS Byatt Margaret Atwood Rainbow Rowell Naomi Novik
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My heart keeps screaming, “It doesn’t have to be this way!” This Isn’t some kind of natural disaster we have no control over. People are choosing this. Heartbreaking.
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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a cartoon character says he loves me while standing next to a pink bear
Alt: a cartoon character, Steven Universe, says he loves me while standing next to Pink Lion
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We came home from a long road trip to find that my brother put up Christmas decorations in our yard. Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Leon 🙏🏻✨
a house in the snow with lit up letters spelling out LEON in the front yard
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
1. U2 2. Counting Crows 3. Natalie Merchant 4. Jason Isbell 5. Brandi Carlile
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Agreed! Perhaps even The Ten Thousand Doors of January. From your local indie or @bookshop.org, of course!
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A great visualization.
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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
a “Space Force”, if you will
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/11/2025
"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...
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Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/10/2025
“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com
when we win
the masked agents raid our neighborhoods.
what do they cover up? (yesterday) is their promise
& their charge. on 75th and South Shore they ram down
our doors using (yesterday). they toss canisters
of (yesterday) into our children’s lullabies. why?
my people,
we carry (today) & (tomorrow) in twin holsters. we
plant (today) & (tomorrow) in our gardens. every day
there are more sprouts. let it be known: Chicago
will never cower. (yesterday) already died. (yesterday)
is dying. (yesterday) will die again. there is no future
in (yesterday). the agents in our neighborhoods hide
their faces because they are losing. because they lost.
when we win,
there will be whistles from the gulls
circling Lake Michigan. let them sing it:
Chicago is a city of (today) & (tomorrow).
Chicago is the future.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/10/2025
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. Octopus Event Horizon Torn
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Today, Governor DeSantis shared his plans to end vaccine requirements in the state of Florida. We are concerned that today's announcement will put children in Florida public schools at higher risk for getting sick and have ripple effects across their community. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Needed this today. You might, too.
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#PublishingJob Acquisitions Editor University of Tennessee Press Knoxville, TN salary band: $50K-$90K 👇
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Acquisitions Editor | Libraries
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The AAP has always been a leading voice in vaccine recommendations. We will continue to publish our own immunization schedule and make science-backed recommendations that pediatricians and families have trusted for decades. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP has been leading voice on childhood vaccine recommendations since 1930s
The AAP has been at the forefront of providing evidence-based immunization guidance to help pediatricians protect children from vaccine-preventable illnesses for nearly a century.
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Vaccines "are one of the best tools we have to protect children's health," says AAP President Susan Kressly. Watch the full conversation to hear why progress in vaccine policy is at risk and how the AAP is taking action. www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
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Major medical groups file lawsuit to stop RFK Jr. from making changes to vaccines
The American Academy of Pediatrics is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his changes to vaccines. Dr. Susan Kressley, the group's president, joins Katy Tur to share m...
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Libro is such a fantastic alternative to Amazon-owned Audible. Get your audiobooks from them AND you can also select your favorite indie to receive a cut of the sale!
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...
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Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
ICE is soon to become the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in US history, with more money than the federal prison system, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration combined. Here's what that will logistically look like.
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We asked Trump’s former prisons chief how $45 billion will reshape immigrant detention
We also asked an ACLU attorney, a private prisons expert, and the ex-commissioner of New York City's jails.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 30/06/2025
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.” Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2025
"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Supreme Court’s decision today does not change the science. Gender-affirming care remains evidence-based, medically necessary care that improves the health and well-being of transgender youth. Learn more: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2025
Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“The Court abandons transgender children & their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.”
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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Even before I heard the devastating, horrific news of political assassination in Minnesota, I woke up this morning thinking about Emily Dickinson's great poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers -" Lots of people know this beautiful little poem, but fewer, I think(?) realize when it was written. /1
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Today Angel by Shaggy ft Rayvon came on the radio and my daughter asked, “Why does that guy sound like Stitch?” And now I can’t unhear it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025
Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."
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Sara @sarapubs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, has won gold! Congratulations to authors Dr Amy King and Dr RJ Gillespie and the whole AAP team!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
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