alyssamandy.bsky.social
@alyssamandy.bsky.social
book lover. cat mom. social worker. 🏳️‍🌈
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Alright everyone, one last push.

If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight
June 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Do boycotts work?"
NEW YORK (AP) — Target sales fall sharply in the first quarter and the retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025.
May 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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There are 4 all-tri clinics in the DC area. Our region is a lifeline for people who need abortions past 24 weeks, and will be even more in demand with Dr. Hern’s clinic closing.

One way to help? Donate to @dcabortionfund.bsky.social to help us support patients traveling to those clinics.
There are fewer than 10 clinics where people who need these abortions can get them—and no it's not only people with tragic diagnoses. Restrictions on care, sexual assault, late recognition of pregnancy can all lead to someone traveling to another state for a third trimester abortion.
NEW: Dr. Warren Hern has closed the Boulder Abortion Clinic after 50 years. It was one of the relatively few options for third-trimester abortions, and has been a longtime target of anti-abortion demonstrators and violent threats
April 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It all makes more sense when you realize DOGE was never about saving Americans money. It was about gaining access to your data and building a weaponized political machine to use against the public.
April 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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If you ever wondered what you would have done in World War II when Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps—now you know. It’s what you’re doing now.
April 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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this sort of thing is going to go about as well for NPR as it has for Columbia
NPR CEO Katherine Maher also concedes to a Republican complaint, saying she is "concerned" about the number of registered Democrats working at NPR compared to the lack of Republicans working at the station...
March 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.”

1.2 million children dying.

Abhorrent. Evil. Indefensible.
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Immigration growth has happened as U.S. birth rates have fallen, the Migration Policy Institute reported. U.S. birth rates reached a historic low in 2023, according to the CDC.

73% of immigrants in the U.S. are legally present and almost half are naturalized citizens, MPI said.
nbcnews.to/3XPmcR5
March 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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What sucks is that if things keep going the way they are with no checks and balances, it will cost millions of lives.

And if by some miracle some of our checks and balances prevent the worst case scenario, liberals will decide the system is perfect and doesn’t need to change at all.
March 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Cowards
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will remove Black Lives Matter Plaza and the "Black Lives Matter" ground mural will be painted over, a spokesperson says.

When pressed about why, Bowser said it was fair to say the White House didn’t like it.
nbcnews.to/4kwdpNY
March 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Hey, @teenvogue.com has launched a sustainability series—featuring vintage and thrifted finds, a sustainable fashion glossary, and more. Wish every fashion publication could do this. www.teenvogue.com/the-last-sto...
Welcome to Teen Vogue’s The Last Stop
As we head into fashion month, we’re taking a step forward to also highlight the impact of our clothing with The Last Stop, a package emphasizing the long journey of our discarded clothing and their o...
www.teenvogue.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It’s Girl Scout cookie season…so if you’re thinking of getting some please consider Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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What I’ve learned from being taught Black history from childhood is that It Did Happen Here. Not only have Black people lived under fascist structures for the vast majority of US history, but the Confederacy was the forerunner of fascist ideology and antidemocratic efforts before Europe tried.
I don't know how this ends, but it's now abundantly clear that It Could Happen Here.

I'll never get over the craven blind-eyeing and preemptive supplication from people, groups, and institutions who ought to know better.

I hope voters bail us out. But we've been tested. And too many have failed.
October 25, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Feb 2
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems at the agency, multiple sources familiar told CNN
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Untitled from Flowers, 1970
February 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I’m not a lawyer yet, but my advice as a layperson to any federal employees is this: do not take this deal. There’s no money approved for the severance packages they’re offering and a very good chance you’d be left without either a job or a severance package.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Oh this is good, good news. Also, if you're still using Amazon and not Bookshop -- I mean, c'mon, use Bookshop when you can, please and thank you. (Or, obviously, the library.)
January 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I also keep thinking that we have to support our libraries.
January 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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We will never out republican republicans.

Democrats should be the party that helps people- and starts with those struggling the most for the common good.

Anyone missing this point should be fired from “strategizing” for the party.
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM