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Tina Sherman
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Advocate I Policy Junkie I Maternal Health Equity Barbie I Student Midwife l National Director at @momsrising.bsky.social I Mom of twins & their big & baby brother I Lovin’ the #JeepLife
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Looking for resources for your family or to help support immigrant friends and neighbors?

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Resources to stand with NC immigrant communities
This weekend the U.S. Border Patrol descended on Charlotte with masked agents in paramilitary gear reportedly taking more than 130 of our immigrant neighbors from places like restaurants, grocery stor...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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There is reliable information that CBP & ICE may be in Wake County today. I want to share trusted resources so we can stay informed and look out for one another. Please check on your people and pass this along to anyone who may need it.

#NorthCarolina #ImmigrantRights #CommunityCare
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Introductory Modules complete!

This is just the start. I have many (MANY) more to complete but it’s still a milestone!

Holding this moment….then onward!

#BumpEquity #StudentMidwife #BirthJustice

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Introductory Modules  – Complete!
This week I marked a small milestone, but a milestone nonetheless, completing my Introductory Modules! In a self-paced program, there aren’t cohort schedules or shuttling from one class to another  to...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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We're thrilled MomsRising's Tina Sherman will be speaking at the upcoming Latch On to Success Summit: Business & Marketing Mastery for Birth Pros. Join us: https://www.thebusinessofbreastfeeding.com/affiliate?utm_source=tina-sherman&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=affiliate-2025 #LatchOnToSuccess
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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F* yes!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Moms shouldn't have to hold the nation together on empty. Yet we are in the middle of a government shutdown that has thrown families into chaos.

Share these resources so families can find the care they deserve! https://www.momsrising.org/blog/community-care-starts-with-us/?source=bsky.mr #MomSky
"We moms shouldn’t have to hold the nation together on empty." With list of community resources during government shutdown Food Support As over 40 million SNAP recipients won't receive their benefits, go to Feeding America's food bank network Diapers & Baby Supplies Go to National Diaper Bank Network's database of diaper banks to find and distribute free diapers Rent & Utility Assistance Go to 211.org for essential community services, including support for housing & utilities expenses
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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One of the first questions I get when I share I’m in midwifery school is what pathway I chose and why. Since my day job is fighting against systemic barriers, I knew I needed my training centered in community midwifery. #studentmidwife

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The Many Paths to Midwifery (and the One That Found Me)
One of the first questions asked when I share that I am in midwifery school is what pathway did I chose and why. Now, for those who live, eat, breath maternal health, or health care in general, this i...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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All of this!
smashfizzle.bsky.social Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Oct 2
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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So many hot takes about who will win/lose the shutdown, but so little discussion about what's at stake. The stakes here are whether Congress makes the law or the president can rule by diktat. Everything else is commentary.
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This unfortunately feels spot on.
jenvictor.bsky.social Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · Oct 1
Preregistering:
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.
October 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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In news that the HHS should be shouting from the rooftops:

Availability of the RSV vaccine for pregnant people and RSV shots for infants lead to a 50% reduction in RSV-associated hospitalization of newborns during the last year! 🥳

Spread the good word, folks!
#Episky
Interim Evaluation of Respiratory Syncytial ...
This report describes RSV-associated hospitalization rates among infants and young children during the 2024–25 respiratory virus season.
www.cdc.gov
September 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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The unfounded link of Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism is a creative way to blame mothers and further stigmatize an autism diagnosis.
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This is similar to my rhythm. I absolutely block time and for the most part it’s working. It’s the time in which it directly impacts my work and someone in the office will alert me that throw me off.
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 22
Trust me, I feel this. Deeply. I don’t promise to have it figured out. But I am blocking two hours a day for what I call “this shit here”: the headlines from the majors, the 9 or so newsletters in areas I follow, a scroll through my subscribed content in Gmail, & then I clock back out.
rahallclifford.bsky.social Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · Sep 22
I think I'll give up constant doomscrolling, but also the times require hypervigilance? It's an impossible balance.

I first saw the H1B nonsense on here Friday, and we needed to extricate a team member from fieldwork for immediate return. So in lieu of a society, we must scroll 😭
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Working families are already struggling in this economy, they should not have to choose between financial wellbeing and the welfare of their loved ones. Join me in taking action now!
action.momsrising.org/sign/FAMILYA... via @momsrising.org #PaidFamilyLeave #MomSky
Workers lose $22.5 million annually in wages due to not having paid leave.
When serious personal or family health needs arise, many working people face impossible choices between their jobs and caring for their families.
action.momsrising.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Every year, 21,000 babies are stillborn in the U.S.—58 a day, more than deaths from prematurity, SIDS, car accidents, drowning, guns & flu combined.

I’m on Capitol Hill with families + advocates urging Congress to pass the SHINE for Autumn Act. #momsky

👉 action.momsrising.org/sign/SHINE20...
September 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Please read. Don’t turn a blind eye to what’s happening.
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Sep 14
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt. The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement." Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.
September 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Thread 🧵

This is horrific and reminiscent of atrocities the U.S. has previously committed.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 14
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
September 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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We can prevent stillbirths. Urge Congress to pass the Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education (SHINE) for Autumn Act! #SHINE #SHINEforAutumn #stillbirth #maternaljustice action.momsrising.org/sign/SHINE20...
Urge Congress to Act In Support of Stillbirth Prevention
Add your name to our letter urging Congress to pass the Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education (SHINE) for Autumn Act!
action.momsrising.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The cruelty in the point.
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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No. No it was not.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 10
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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#Trumpflation in action.
teroterotero.bsky.social Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · Sep 9
26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy
September 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Before the textbooks took over, I grounded myself in the voices of Black midwives + truth-tellers + teachers. 📚 #StudentMidwife #BirthJustice

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Unofficial Orientation Week – Before the Textbooks Took Over
From the time I started researching midwifery schools to the time I began, I wanted to soak up all the information I could. I knew my time would quickly fill with textbooks, so I began grounding mysel...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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So this feels like a slippery slope with no good outcome.
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 31
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.

FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
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Newsroom ASB Notice NASS discontinues select data collection programs and reports Issued August 28, 2025, by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Lance Honig at Lance.Honig@usda.gov or (202) 690-8141. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is discontinuing the Mink Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0212) and the Agricultural Labor Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0109), as these collections are deemed duplicative and/or no longer necessary. This action is taken under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) as part of the government’s efforts to improve efficiency and eliminate unnecessary burdens. The Notice of Discontinuance of Information Collections submitted to the Federal Register can be found here. ### NASS is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing official data about U.S. agriculture and is committed to providing timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.
September 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM