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Angela M Tant 🐧
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Psych nurse for kids, freelance journalist, newspaper nerd, R.E.M. fan. She/her. Roll Tide Roll! 🐘
August 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Abortion services are 4% of what they provide and federal funds don’t even go toward that.

All Republicans do is lie.
Ok wait looked up my own answer:
July 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I feel like most people don’t know that not only does Planned Parenthood provide medical services using sliding scale payments (offering no cost for those who can’t afford them), Planned Parenthood also provides medical services for men. The value they provide is immeasurable. Closing them is stupid
July 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Planned Parenthood is the only place for many Americans to access things like Pap smears, and routine health maintenance and cancer prevention. Anyone who thinks they just provide abortions or mostly provide abortions doesn’t know anything
When anti-abortion activists talk about “defunding” Planned Parenthood, they focus on tax dollars going to an org that (separately) provides abortions. They don’t tell people that it would shutter hundreds of clinics making it harder to get abortions and so many other services like birth control
Let’s be clear that abortion can be effectively banned in this country without Congress passing a law but as a result of multiple moves that make it impossible to access.

The intent of today’s Supreme Court ruling—and of Trump’s budget bill—is to shutter as many abortion clinics as possible
July 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.
June 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We also get into the issue of, "If I call during a crisis, will cops show up to my door for a wellness check?"
Fewer than 2% of calls to 988 end up connecting with 911 and in half of those cases, the caller has given their address for immediate help.
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I give out the 988 line on the show every week, have for years. This week, I go in depth on how it works, how it's holding up, the potential loss of the LGBTQ specialized service, and how it all gets paid for.
The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 988, launched three years ago and it's time for a checkup. We look at its stability, supply & demand, funding issues, rumors, and potentially devastating cut to one of its key services.
Hannah Wesolowski from NAMI joins us.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
May 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.

A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.

#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
April 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Tomorrow, April 2nd, is International Children's Book Day! #PuppyBookClub will be celebrating by asking everyone to post their favorite children's book! Hope you'll join in as a way to support children's literacy and literature! Books belong to everyone! 💜🌻🥰
April 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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There is a program called Books Unbanned running through the Boston, Seattle, LA, San Diego and Brooklyn Public Libraries. It allows anyone 13-21 to check out ebooks and Audiobooks no matter where they live. The Boston link is easy to use compared to Brooklyn.
April 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Five weeks ago, Mary Kate Cornett was a first-year business major dating another Ole Miss student.

Then a spurious claim about her and her boyfriend’s father spread — and was amplified by Pat McAfee, Barstool personalities and others.

http://dlvr.it/TJtKS4
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This is Frank. He is the perfect example of why golden retrievers don't make good guard dogs. But they make wonderful welcome committees. 13/10 (TT: accordingtobelieve)
March 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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It’s #SunshineWeek, a week that celebrates & promotes access to information and open government nationwide.

Today, we’re highlighting the power of #FOIA with a thread about its past, present, and future.
March 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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When hard facts are replaced with political spin, conspiracy theories take root and misinformation fills the void.

For #SunshineWeek, I wrote for @thehill.com about the growing problem of information manipulation and why it matters.

📖 Read here: thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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In case you've ever pondered what Homer Simpson might look like as a nun.
Local authorities have pledged to take action after a 200-year-old shrine in a Polish village was “renovated” by an unknown person, who repainted sculptures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in a manner that has caused both amusement and anger.
Local authorities take action after unknown person repaints 200-year-old Polish village shrine
notesfrompoland.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Listen to me, Democrats everywhere, you have got to be saying this kind of shit right now all the time like she has been. The literal least you can do. At least pretend like you have a fucking spine.
Wu: "If you come for one of us, you will get all of us. We are a city that knows our strength is each other: And we will defend the people we love with all that we’ve got. When the weight of the world presses down, Boston stands up."
March 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.
March 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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A favor to ask: my book proposal goes out to publishers early next month. If you want to read the story that I’ve never told, can you please help me get to 100k followers by April 1? Thank you! 🙏
March 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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March 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A government report adds to evidence that the HPV vaccine, once called dangerous by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is preventing cervical cancer in young women.
CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
From 2008 to 2022, rates for precancerous lesions decreased about 80 percent among 20- to 24-year-old women who were screened for cervical cancer.
buff.ly
March 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM