Nicole Sparkles📎
@nicolesparkles.bsky.social
Early Childhood Educator/Advocate, Pro-Democracy, Rise Against the Oligarchy 💙🌊🇺🇲
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Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medi...
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I've had an ectopic pregnancy, a perforated ulcer which turned into sepsis, and kidney stones...all medical emergencies, but BY FAR the most excruciatingly painful was the ectopic pregnancy. I recall thinking that being cut in half by a chainsaw or run over by a semi would be less painful...
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It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
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Word of advice for the dumpkins followers
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Word of advice for the dumpkins followers
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I’m just going to say it…
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m just going to say it…
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
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More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
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As SNAP benefits are cut, this should be something we demand of state governors to do with their states national guard.
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
As SNAP benefits are cut, this should be something we demand of state governors to do with their states national guard.
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
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October 18, 2025
October 18, 2025
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
October 18, 2025
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
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BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.
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🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
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People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Here are five, practical next steps you can take to make a difference. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared
Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism
Robert Reich
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September 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Here are five, practical next steps you can take to make a difference. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared
Terrifying to be raising children in today's society, the absolute onslaught of messaging that comes with screens, the apathy present in most content, the democracy I once thought existed in my children's future annihilated and replaced with an autocracy of diversity-hating oligarchs. Just gross.
September 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Terrifying to be raising children in today's society, the absolute onslaught of messaging that comes with screens, the apathy present in most content, the democracy I once thought existed in my children's future annihilated and replaced with an autocracy of diversity-hating oligarchs. Just gross.
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Make Disney feel like Target.
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Make Disney feel like Target.
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Sen. Alex Padilla: "This isn't about one comedian or one television personality or any one network. It's about whether we as Americans still have the freedom to laugh at those in power, to question authority, and to tell the truth without fear of retribution."
September 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sen. Alex Padilla: "This isn't about one comedian or one television personality or any one network. It's about whether we as Americans still have the freedom to laugh at those in power, to question authority, and to tell the truth without fear of retribution."