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Christine Grimaldi (she/her)

@yourombudsmom.bsky.social
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Writer: Lit Nonfic—publish or represent me! Journalist: Abortions—help me fund them! Co-founder: @theflytrapmedia.com Podcast: @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social Parent: 👧🏼 and 🐰 Mother: Fucker Media: Don linktr.ee/yourombudsmom

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RSVP to attend. This is going to be a rare opportunity to learn from both @amylittlefield.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social. And to be in community with like-minded folks.
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Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Alum here! I genuinely loved Sandy’s class. He brings such positive energy—learning from him is truly a joy. Enroll away!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not knowing how to pitch holds a lot of writers back. Don’t let it be you.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026
We have the incredible @katelynburns.com and @yourombudsmom.bsky.social in the Flytrap family with their @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social podcast. We launched an advice column, my absolute all-time dream.
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ATF - The Flytrap
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Cancel Me, Daddy Podcast @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we're going to have to wait another week before our next episode comes out. Keep an out next Thursday!
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
LEGEND
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The weather on Juneteeth was incredible. Make of that what you will.
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Evergreen
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Ed @ed3d.net · 05/07/2026
seriously though we really have to make DC a state after the garbage they've put up with
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Is this good?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/07/2026
The entire DC metro area — a place where people actually live — is being blasted with the roar of this B-1B right now. It is MIDNIGHT!
An FR24 map showing the B1B ruining my 6yo’s sleep right now.
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Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
For the record, it’s July 5.
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Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
B-1 bomber sounds like it’s directly above the house at midnight. The fireworks just started, too. Freedom 250, my ass. @freedcproject.bsky.social
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My friend from Vermont t was trying to go to Austin through DC and their flight was canceled. Apparently no one from the feds told the airlines ahead of time about the flyovers shutting down DC airspace completely.
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Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This afternoon, I returned from a 4-year-old’s birthday party where the roar of fighter jets almost drowned out the birthday song. The vibes in D.C. are off, I write in this week’s newsletter. America 250 doesn’t look good on the nation’s capital—my home. vendetta.ghost.io/grudge-of-th...
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Grudge of the Week—America 250
It is July 3 in the nation’s capital—my home. I just returned from a 4-year-old’s birthday party in the 100 degree-combined heat and humidity. Fighter jets flying solo and in formations of four almost...
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Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
For this week’s newsletter, I wrote about dual anniversaries: becoming a mother while reporting on the end of Roe. vendetta.ghost.io/grudge-of-th...
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Grudge of the Week—Roe and the Mother: Dual Anniversaries
May 2, 2022. Twelve days postpartum. Ten pre-dawn mornings since I pressed my hands to the low curved ceiling inches from my face and realized I had woken up in an MRI machine. Eight nights back in my...
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Correction: It wasn’t Congress who rolled back high speed chase laws for Park Police — it was Trump. www.courthousenews.com/another-high...
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Another high-speed car chase in DC spotlights Park Police’s norm-shattering pursuit guidelines
The Trump administration last year handed the federal police force, charged with protecting national parks, expanded authority to “chase until the wheels fall off.” It’s a decision experts say sets Pa...
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ScaryDeath Hastings 🎃 @mbhastings.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is such a busy area, and on such a nice day here. This tragedy was preventable, and we are lucky it wasn’t much worse.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
U.S. Park Police killed someone today in a high-speed chase near Woodley Park. DC leaders prohibited these chases — but last year, Congress overturned DC’s law as part of this regime’s psychotic desire to hunt people. DC leaders know what DC communities need. When Congress interferes, people die.
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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/06/2026
A clinic temporarily lost access to some funding for the month of June, so there’s a high need for financial help for abortion patients right now in Pennsylvania. Donate today if you can to the Caravan Fund with the Autonomous Body Shop as we try to fill the gaps. givebutter.com/theautonomou...
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not sure why reporters are still saying this when, with 73 percent of the vote counted, Janeese is ahead by double digits in all but D.C.'s whitest, wealthiest ward.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 15/06/2026
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hey so … A really cool thing is that @lyz.bsky.social republished my Transgender for Everybody essay on her wonderful newsletter Men Yell at Me … I encourage you all to subscribe and to support her … Please read my manifesto if you haven’t yet! Thank you Lyz!!! www.patreon.com/posts/160655...
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Zoë @twodotsknowwhy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Roe. Was. The. Compromise.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It was really fun talking gaaaaaaaaaaaaay overseers on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social with @katelynburns.com & @yourombudsmom.bsky.social. It was really fun to thrown down for Pride Month about of the CBS LGBTs (Andy v Bari) youtu.be/1BMrHVcvKYU?...
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Bari Weiss vs. Anderson Cooper: Both Are Overseers. Here's Why. (ft. Steven Thrasher)
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
wake up babe the white house is a six flags
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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I need everyone to read this and understand just how inspiring @rhavote.bsky.social and @garinwastaken.bsky.social are to so many of us (and then marvel at how small Pepper was!)
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 28/05/2026
After her viral Jezebel interview in 2016, @rhavote.bsky.social became an advocate, eventually founding @patientforward.bsky.social with her husband, Garin. In this op-ed, she reflects on learning from mistakes, and how storytelling has shifted the cultural conversation about later abortion.
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10 Years Ago, My 32-Week Abortion Story Went Viral. Here’s What I’ve Learned Since.
After sharing my experience with Jezebel, I became an advocate focused on eliminating barriers to abortion care throughout pregnancy.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Whatever the opposite of the juice is, that’s what he has
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/05/2026
you're not going to want to miss this one. it drops next week!
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Life happens. Babies are born. Parents get old. My friends and I are the age where we need knee and hip surgery. At some point, we will all need time to care and be cared for. NPWF found paid leave is the difference between making ends meet or being in debt nationalpartnership.org/families-can...
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Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families
We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
it is so wild to admit in stories like these that you had $80 million dollars in podcast revenue and were laying people off left and right.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The woman in the photo here is Jessica Reed Kraus, who built a massive Substack audience off smearing Amber Heard and now does paid propaganda for Republicans. Also helped RFK Jr reach millions of moms. But the Amber Heard story was overlooked at the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...
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Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Some of the worst political influencers and people who get paid to shill pseudo journalistic political content online got their start smearing women like Amber Heard and Blake Lively and were largely ignored by mainstream media as they built massive audiences off misogyny. Pop culture matters!
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Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s a nice day to file a FOIA request.
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Last week, Senator Susan Collins disclosed she has “benign essential tremor” after some people on here pointed out she was shaking in videos. I dug into what that is and how it impacts the lives of people, particularly women, who have it. 19thnews.org/2026/05/sena...
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For Susan Collins and women with tremors, the real problem is everyone else
Sen. Susan Collins revealed that for decades she has had a condition called an essential tremor.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/05/2026
Here's the full order via @mjsdc.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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25A1207 Order
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: the Supreme Court finally blocked a lower court's ban on telemedicine prescriptions of abortion drug mifepristone from taking effect, pending full hearing/ruling in Fifth Circuit. Dissents from Alito and Thomas, who claims that the dormant Comstock Act of 1873 bans mailing of mifepristone
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THOMAS, J., dissenting
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 25A1207
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DANCO LABORATORIES, LLC v. LOUISIANA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
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No. 25A1208
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GENBIOPRO, INC. v. LOUISIANA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 14, 2026]
The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE ALITO and
by him referred to the Court are granted. The May 1, 2026
order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit, case No. 26–30203, is stayed pending disposition of
the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be
denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the
event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon
the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting.
Applicants are manufacturers and distributors of mifepristone, a drug that is primarily designed to cause abortion. They complain that the Fifth Circuit’s order would
reduce profits they derive from selling mifepristone. I
would deny their applications because they have not satisfied their burden for securing interim relief.
I write separately to note that, as Louisiana argued be-
low, it is a criminal offense to ship mifepristone for use in
abortions. The Comstock Act bans using “the mails” to ship...
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 14/05/2026
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Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Co-sign! @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com do fantastic work at @autonomynews.co.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/05/2026
Alabama jailed a woman for endangering her fetus. Then jail staff forced her to give birth in a cell with only other incarcerated women coming to aid her and her baby, according to a lawsuit.
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Alabama jail staff didn’t help when she went into labor — other inmates did, lawsuit says
In a state with a long history of arresting pregnant women, one mom in custody says she was left to fend for herself.
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12/05/2026
I once watched James Hohmann dry heave into a waste basket in a closet-turned-office in Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau at 101 Constitution because he weirdly was so nervous about hitting deadline on a first draft breaking news story when John Paul Stevens announced his retirement from SCOTUS.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/05/2026
A particularly chilling detail: This site includes a guide to “conscience protections” for parents who want to refuse medical treatments for themselves or their children That comes as more newborns are bleeding to death because their parents refuse a vitamin K shot at birth @autonomynews.co
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The Anti-Abortion, Pronatalist Agenda Behind Moms.Gov
The Trump administration is directing people to crisis pregnancy centers while systematically attacking access to legitimate reproductive health services.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 11/05/2026
It's gonna be A Day Buy us a coffee
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/05/2026
What's also interesting is who did NOT put their name on this abortion-related brief ahead of the midterms: *Sen. John Husted (Ohio) *Sen. Dan Sullivan (Alaska) *Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) she claims to be pro choice but isn't actually
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 05/05/2026
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Just the whiniest complaint imaginable full of nothing but unsubstantiated grievances founded not on the law but a belief in the innate superiority of white male candidates
Screenshot of a complaint “Case 1:26-cv-03704 Document 1 Filed 05/05/26” that reads “Charging Party was more qualified than the multiracial female candidate selected
for the Deputy Real Estate Editor position. NYT's stated race and sex-based representation goals influenced the decision not
to advance Charging Party to the panel interview stage of the Deputy Real Estate Editor selection
process. Charging Party's race (White) and/or his sex (male) factored into NYT's decision
not to advance him to the final interview panel. The selected candidate's race (multiracial) and/or her sex (female) factored into NYT's decision to advance her to the final interview panel. Charging Party's race (White) and/or his sex (male) factored into NYT's decision
not to select him for the Deputy Real Estate Editor position. NYT failed to promote Charging Party to the Deputy Real Estate Editor position based on his race and/or sex. The effect of the practices complained of in Paragraphs 14-99 above has been to deprive Charging Party of equal employment opportunities and otherwise affect his status as an employee because of his race and/or sex.
The unlawful employment practices complained of above were intentional.
The unlawful employment practices complained of above were done with malice or with reckless indifference to Charging Party's federally protected rights.
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