Heather Ayn Bentley
@heatherbent.bsky.social
Helping rare disease families tell their stories is a privilege. Here is Kacie’s piece in today’s Springfield News-Leader. www.news-leader.com/story/opinio...
#write4rare
#write4rare
We worked, we saved, and we still needed Medicaid to save our daughter's life | Opinion
This writer describes the importance of Medicaid for her family after their daughter was diagnosed with a rare and severe form of epilepsy.
www.news-leader.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Helping rare disease families tell their stories is a privilege. Here is Kacie’s piece in today’s Springfield News-Leader. www.news-leader.com/story/opinio...
#write4rare
#write4rare
Reposted by Heather Ayn Bentley
Can anyone identify these fasces-looking arm patches on these masked immigration raiders from San Diego?
June 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Can anyone identify these fasces-looking arm patches on these masked immigration raiders from San Diego?
Manufactured uncertainty is an act of violence when it affects services key to our survival and well-being.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion: Federal government must keep helping fragile children
There is suffering we cannot control and there is suffering that we can, but don’t. Families with medically fragile children are used to having it served both ways, by the effects of illness …
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Manufactured uncertainty is an act of violence when it affects services key to our survival and well-being.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/17/o...
Recharging at Willow Lake
March 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Recharging at Willow Lake
Let’s get after it people.
Saving Democracy: A Crowdsourced Plan for Effective Action
Trump and Musk are following a dangerous blueprint. If we don’t act, history will repeat itself.
open.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Let’s get after it people.
Kitchen Creek Falls with Mr. Reggiebonesjones
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Kitchen Creek Falls with Mr. Reggiebonesjones
I Heart Vaccines. So does my doctor. We had a party - Covid, flu, shingles. I ain’t goin’ out like that.
March 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I Heart Vaccines. So does my doctor. We had a party - Covid, flu, shingles. I ain’t goin’ out like that.
I keep hearing "I can't handle the news right now." I feel it too but that's exactly what we must do - handle it. If not us, who?
So let's step up and support local journalism, lean in to our communities where we can have the most impact. Let's act against that sense of powerless dread.
So let's step up and support local journalism, lean in to our communities where we can have the most impact. Let's act against that sense of powerless dread.
March 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I keep hearing "I can't handle the news right now." I feel it too but that's exactly what we must do - handle it. If not us, who?
So let's step up and support local journalism, lean in to our communities where we can have the most impact. Let's act against that sense of powerless dread.
So let's step up and support local journalism, lean in to our communities where we can have the most impact. Let's act against that sense of powerless dread.
Me: Margaret fucking Atwood!
Her: That’s not my middle name.
Me: May I know your middle name?
Her: Eleanor.
Me: So, Margaret Eleanor -
Her: Fucking Atwood.
Her: That’s not my middle name.
Me: May I know your middle name?
Her: Eleanor.
Me: So, Margaret Eleanor -
Her: Fucking Atwood.
February 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Me: Margaret fucking Atwood!
Her: That’s not my middle name.
Me: May I know your middle name?
Her: Eleanor.
Me: So, Margaret Eleanor -
Her: Fucking Atwood.
Her: That’s not my middle name.
Me: May I know your middle name?
Her: Eleanor.
Me: So, Margaret Eleanor -
Her: Fucking Atwood.
30 seconds well spent
February 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
30 seconds well spent
Tacos! Campechano! Almejas!
La Cevichana, Rosarito, B.C.
La Cevichana, Rosarito, B.C.
February 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Tacos! Campechano! Almejas!
La Cevichana, Rosarito, B.C.
La Cevichana, Rosarito, B.C.
Hey Bluesky! Let’s fly!
February 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hey Bluesky! Let’s fly!