Alane Callahan
@alanefarmer4.bsky.social
Love reading, my grandkids, and dark chocolate. Just trying to navigate this thing called life. Sober over 13 years. Suicide Loss Survivor.
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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It's been a rough week for the NOAA family, including feds, contractors, and scientists across this country / world. I need to say something very important.
It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.
It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.
April 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It's been a rough week for the NOAA family, including feds, contractors, and scientists across this country / world. I need to say something very important.
It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.
It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.
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Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.
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USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
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March 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
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‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study
‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study
Misogynist ideas being normalised as accounts rebrand, with focus on ‘Sub5s’ and ‘looksmaxxing’, say researchers
Advocates of “incel” ideology are rebranding as “Sub5s” and adopting the language of self-improvement to push their content on TikTok, according to a study.
Hateful material is banned from the social media site but accounts disseminating the beliefs are said to be hiding behind new terms and “socially palatable” language. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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S&P officially in "correction" territory: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/s...
Stocks tumble on Thursday, pushing the S&P 500 into a 10% correction: Live updates
Investors digested the latest tariff threat from President Donald Trump, while they pored through new U.S. inflation figures.
www.cnbc.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
S&P officially in "correction" territory: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/s...
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What a photo.
Green must be the start of something, not the end.
Green must be the start of something, not the end.
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
What a photo.
Green must be the start of something, not the end.
Green must be the start of something, not the end.
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They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.
March 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.
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A little update on Jimmy who we found hit by a truck on Thursday after a hit and run.
There’s actually some good news… (1/9) 🧵
There’s actually some good news… (1/9) 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A little update on Jimmy who we found hit by a truck on Thursday after a hit and run.
There’s actually some good news… (1/9) 🧵
There’s actually some good news… (1/9) 🧵
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My latest: MSNBC just went full Jim Crow and the Resistance is DONE with them
MSNBC just went full Jim Crow and the Resistance is DONE with them
The allegedly progressive network will not “Lean Forward” by stumbling back to the 1950s. This was the last straw. Fuck them.
www.thealtmedia.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My latest: MSNBC just went full Jim Crow and the Resistance is DONE with them
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It's Wednesday!
It's "Buy A Stranger a Book" day on Bluesky!
I'll give away two books.
FOR FREE.
If there's a book you want let me know.
If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" too get in touch!
#buyastrangerabook
Here's what it's all about.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
It's "Buy A Stranger a Book" day on Bluesky!
I'll give away two books.
FOR FREE.
If there's a book you want let me know.
If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" too get in touch!
#buyastrangerabook
Here's what it's all about.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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February 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's Wednesday!
It's "Buy A Stranger a Book" day on Bluesky!
I'll give away two books.
FOR FREE.
If there's a book you want let me know.
If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" too get in touch!
#buyastrangerabook
Here's what it's all about.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
It's "Buy A Stranger a Book" day on Bluesky!
I'll give away two books.
FOR FREE.
If there's a book you want let me know.
If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" too get in touch!
#buyastrangerabook
Here's what it's all about.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
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Remember when the U.S. helped rebuild Europe & condemned Russian attacks on European democracies, as opposed to encouraging such an attack & demanding the attacked democracy’s mineral wealth?
February 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Remember when the U.S. helped rebuild Europe & condemned Russian attacks on European democracies, as opposed to encouraging such an attack & demanding the attacked democracy’s mineral wealth?
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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732.
Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.
Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.
February 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732.
Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.
Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.
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Minnesota is now South Manitoba. I don't make the rules.
February 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Minnesota is now South Manitoba. I don't make the rules.
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Oh my God if this is true
February 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Oh my God if this is true
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
1/2
PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
1/2
February 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
1/2
PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
1/2
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It's been a loooooong time since I took corporate law, but ... I presume a Tesla shareholder could file a shareholder suit against the company for its continued employment of a CEO whose extracurricular activities are destroying the brand, no?
February 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It's been a loooooong time since I took corporate law, but ... I presume a Tesla shareholder could file a shareholder suit against the company for its continued employment of a CEO whose extracurricular activities are destroying the brand, no?
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The disenfranchisement of MILLIONS of women act, also called the SAVE act, passed the house.
It will likely pass in the Senate too.
All the women who took their husband’s name will now no longer be able to vote.
Funny how those “unwed mothers” now have a leg up an all the trad wives.
It will likely pass in the Senate too.
All the women who took their husband’s name will now no longer be able to vote.
Funny how those “unwed mothers” now have a leg up an all the trad wives.
February 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The disenfranchisement of MILLIONS of women act, also called the SAVE act, passed the house.
It will likely pass in the Senate too.
All the women who took their husband’s name will now no longer be able to vote.
Funny how those “unwed mothers” now have a leg up an all the trad wives.
It will likely pass in the Senate too.
All the women who took their husband’s name will now no longer be able to vote.
Funny how those “unwed mothers” now have a leg up an all the trad wives.
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths