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Terri Robertson Elder
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Board-certified crotch crusader (pelvic physical therapist) | Owner Thrive Physio | Faculty GSU & WCU | Books, Food, Music, Travel 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤓
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The Trump Administration has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.
Photo from the Library of Congress In their continued campaign to trample institutions and eject expertise from government, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayde…
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May 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Under Texas’ abortion ban, the rate of sepsis shot up by more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost a second-trimester pregnancy.

Our new analysis shows the risk varies widely between the state’s two largest metro areas.

By Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and @andreasuozzo.com
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…
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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April 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!
April 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.
April 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This happened 8 days ago and is horrific

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
March 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I had legit completely forgotten this.
Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.
March 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Circling back on this…
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A small town in southern Quebec says American authorities have decided to close the Canadian access to an historic 100 year old library that sits on the border between the two countries.

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
U.S. authorities closing Canadian access to historic library that straddles Quebec-Vermont border
A small town in southern Quebec says American authorities have decided to close the Canadian access to an historic library that sits on the border between the two countries.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
March 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting.

The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense
March 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Brief pause in our programming: call your D Senator TODAY and tell them they need to hold the line here (and tell us who you called below 👇)

EVEN IF a ban does not affect your loved ones, the inevitable end to this is evil stuff like intimate checks on kids. Pls take the time!

#LeopardsAteMyFace
ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.

S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*

short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵

legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
a cloture vote for the way-harder-to-undo-than-an-executive-order federal anti-trans sports ban is now set for monday. that means there's more time to make calls.

no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it.

please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.
February 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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OMG this is horrible.

Rebecca Marodi, a California fire captain who was targeted by the right-wing as being a “DEI hire” & blamed for the LA fires, has been found stabbed to death.

May she rest in power. 💔
Cal Fire captain found stabbed to death inside of her San Diego County home
Rebecca Marodi, a Cal Fire captain stationed in Riverside County, was found stabbed to death inside of her own home in Ramona on Monday evening, authorities said.
www.cbsnews.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war.

Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers.
apnews.com/article/doge...
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’

Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
February 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM