@allisonbates.bsky.social
Lesbian • bleeding heart • social justice warrior • RN 💛🏳️🌈
Doing my best
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BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there.
Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
April 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there.
Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
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The White House is pushing schools to monitor and report international students and faculty for their political views — but that's not how free speech works.
Add your name to urge universities to reject censorship from the Trump administration.
Add your name to urge universities to reject censorship from the Trump administration.
Tell Universities: Protect free speech on campus
The ACLU is calling on universities to reject the Trump administration’s egregious overreach and to defend the rights of students and faculty. Add your name.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/free-speech-on-campus?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=so[…]_chan=soc&ms=adv-na-tw-na-nat-na-freespeech-campusprotests-na
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The White House is pushing schools to monitor and report international students and faculty for their political views — but that's not how free speech works.
Add your name to urge universities to reject censorship from the Trump administration.
Add your name to urge universities to reject censorship from the Trump administration.
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I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.
it's still just striking to me that we're five weeks into this, and neither trump nor musk are offering up any treats, to anyone. everything is bad news. everything makes life harder. the only thing they're offering is a tax cut for *extremely* wealthy people, at the expense of *everyone* else.
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.
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The madness doesn't stop
NEW:
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO."
From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO."
From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The madness doesn't stop
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No fake gesture.
No Ironic Joke.
The openly white supremacist does a Sieg Heil at CPAC and the crowd goes wild.
You don't need to ever ask what you would do during the rise of fascism in Germany 1930's ever again. You are living your answer.
No Ironic Joke.
The openly white supremacist does a Sieg Heil at CPAC and the crowd goes wild.
You don't need to ever ask what you would do during the rise of fascism in Germany 1930's ever again. You are living your answer.
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
No fake gesture.
No Ironic Joke.
The openly white supremacist does a Sieg Heil at CPAC and the crowd goes wild.
You don't need to ever ask what you would do during the rise of fascism in Germany 1930's ever again. You are living your answer.
No Ironic Joke.
The openly white supremacist does a Sieg Heil at CPAC and the crowd goes wild.
You don't need to ever ask what you would do during the rise of fascism in Germany 1930's ever again. You are living your answer.
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Just a reminder, anti pornography policy also means eventually coming after erotica and smutty romance novels.
Every few years people re-discover that a lot of romance novels are smut and get really shocked that a lot of women like pornagraphy. Like yes. Some adult humans like erotica. The horror of it all.
February 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just a reminder, anti pornography policy also means eventually coming after erotica and smutty romance novels.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
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Donald Trump is trying to block trillions of dollars in federal funds to Meals on Wheels, Medicaid, and other critical programs that keep us safe and healthy. If allowed to go into effect, this would wreak havoc across the country.
Tell Congress: Trump cannot be allowed to defund our communities.
Tell Congress: Trump cannot be allowed to defund our communities.
Tell Congress: Don't defund our communities
President Trump’s decision to block trillions in federal funding to critical services already approved by Congress is a reckless, cruel, unprecedented power grab that will impact every one of us.
action.aclu.org
February 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Donald Trump is trying to block trillions of dollars in federal funds to Meals on Wheels, Medicaid, and other critical programs that keep us safe and healthy. If allowed to go into effect, this would wreak havoc across the country.
Tell Congress: Trump cannot be allowed to defund our communities.
Tell Congress: Trump cannot be allowed to defund our communities.
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Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
This is a coup
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is a coup
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#Uganda: Ebola outbreak has been confirmed by the Ugandan Ministry of Health, following the death of a 32-year-old nurse on Wednesday 29 January.
We have been asked to support with the response, and are currently assessing where and how we can best assist.
Our work with Ebola: www.msf.org/ebola
We have been asked to support with the response, and are currently assessing where and how we can best assist.
Our work with Ebola: www.msf.org/ebola
Ebola | MSF medical response
Discover more about ebola, our response to the issue and related stories from around the world.
www.msf.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
#Uganda: Ebola outbreak has been confirmed by the Ugandan Ministry of Health, following the death of a 32-year-old nurse on Wednesday 29 January.
We have been asked to support with the response, and are currently assessing where and how we can best assist.
Our work with Ebola: www.msf.org/ebola
We have been asked to support with the response, and are currently assessing where and how we can best assist.
Our work with Ebola: www.msf.org/ebola
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It was so much simpler for Trump and his people when they could put all these documents on a pyre.
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It was so much simpler for Trump and his people when they could put all these documents on a pyre.
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In trying to ban pornography, this unconstitutional bill could also open people up to criminal charges for watching any movie with a sex scene, like:
▪️ Titanic
▪️ The Notebook
▪️ Challengers
▪️ Dirty Dancing
▪️ Babygirl
▪️ Pretty Woman
▪️ Brokeback Mountain
The First Amendment protects sexual content.
▪️ Titanic
▪️ The Notebook
▪️ Challengers
▪️ Dirty Dancing
▪️ Babygirl
▪️ Pretty Woman
▪️ Brokeback Mountain
The First Amendment protects sexual content.
Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers proposes bill to ban all pornography: What to know about SB593
A bill proposed by Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, seeks to raise punishment for child pornography but also aims to ban pornography altogether.
www.oklahoman.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In trying to ban pornography, this unconstitutional bill could also open people up to criminal charges for watching any movie with a sex scene, like:
▪️ Titanic
▪️ The Notebook
▪️ Challengers
▪️ Dirty Dancing
▪️ Babygirl
▪️ Pretty Woman
▪️ Brokeback Mountain
The First Amendment protects sexual content.
▪️ Titanic
▪️ The Notebook
▪️ Challengers
▪️ Dirty Dancing
▪️ Babygirl
▪️ Pretty Woman
▪️ Brokeback Mountain
The First Amendment protects sexual content.
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We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
January 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
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I’m not at all surprised. 💙
January 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I’m not at all surprised. 💙
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Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.
January 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.
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[Mexico City, Mexico]
Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.
Via Ghost of Durruti
Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.
Via Ghost of Durruti
January 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
[Mexico City, Mexico]
Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.
Via Ghost of Durruti
Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.
Via Ghost of Durruti
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Relational intelligence is directly related to climate change. When we have quality relationships w/family, friends, partners, & within our community, we seek to do no harm and nurture each other—including our planet. We must love and love well to heal our world. #climatechange #climateaction
January 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Relational intelligence is directly related to climate change. When we have quality relationships w/family, friends, partners, & within our community, we seek to do no harm and nurture each other—including our planet. We must love and love well to heal our world. #climatechange #climateaction