Mazana Boerboom (they/them)
@mazygolucky.bsky.social
Portland-based queer disabled journalist • 25 • hEDS and ADHD • TTRPG enthusiast • University of Montana J-School class of ‘22
Go check out Emma’s work! She did some amazing research and reporting to paint a picture of the current vaccine policy in the United States!
My latest piece dives into how RFK Jr.’s decision to fire all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel could upend the U.S. vaccine infrastructure. Thank you @mazygolucky.bsky.social for your help! #Vaccines #HealthJournalism #ScienceJournalism #ACIP
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Science Sidestepped: How RFK Jr. is Dismantling the U.S. Vaccine Infrastructure
Unraveling ACIP’s Decision
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July 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Go check out Emma’s work! She did some amazing research and reporting to paint a picture of the current vaccine policy in the United States!
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The 9th level Counterspell made me cry last year, a LOT. And draw. 1/7
Happy 10th, @criticalrole.bsky.social! Here's to many more years - more laughter, more love, and more legendary moments like this one 💔
#criticalrole #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #voxmachina
Happy 10th, @criticalrole.bsky.social! Here's to many more years - more laughter, more love, and more legendary moments like this one 💔
#criticalrole #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #voxmachina
March 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The 9th level Counterspell made me cry last year, a LOT. And draw. 1/7
Happy 10th, @criticalrole.bsky.social! Here's to many more years - more laughter, more love, and more legendary moments like this one 💔
#criticalrole #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #voxmachina
Happy 10th, @criticalrole.bsky.social! Here's to many more years - more laughter, more love, and more legendary moments like this one 💔
#criticalrole #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #voxmachina
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Also if you use AI I hope your computer turns into a wheel of cheese
March 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Also if you use AI I hope your computer turns into a wheel of cheese
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If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
February 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
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Please stop believing we don’t owe each other anything. We owe each other so much! We owe each other love, equity, understanding, community, compassion, and much more. Don’t let this toxic hyper individualism cut you off from humanity. We’re all connected. We all need each other.
February 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Please stop believing we don’t owe each other anything. We owe each other so much! We owe each other love, equity, understanding, community, compassion, and much more. Don’t let this toxic hyper individualism cut you off from humanity. We’re all connected. We all need each other.
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Disabled people are worthy of relationships. We’re worthy of sex. We’re worthy of being romanticized. Disabled people are worthy of love. Happy Valentine’s Day to all disabled people. 🥰
February 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Disabled people are worthy of relationships. We’re worthy of sex. We’re worthy of being romanticized. Disabled people are worthy of love. Happy Valentine’s Day to all disabled people. 🥰
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a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.
how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
www.teenvogue.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.
how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
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The physical fatigue that comes with feeling grief every single day about the country you live in, the people who run it, the world you are a part of.
February 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The physical fatigue that comes with feeling grief every single day about the country you live in, the people who run it, the world you are a part of.
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Trump claimed that DOGE has uncovered billions in “fraud, waste, and abuse.” However, no evidence has been provided, and all public fraud claims from both Elon Musk and Trump have been debunked as false.
February 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump claimed that DOGE has uncovered billions in “fraud, waste, and abuse.” However, no evidence has been provided, and all public fraud claims from both Elon Musk and Trump have been debunked as false.
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we need to make cynicism uncool.
like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!)
giving up is not actually that sophisticated!
like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!)
giving up is not actually that sophisticated!
It is kind of hard to find out who the actual bad actors are and who are just lazy, cynical people who don't want to fight.
February 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
we need to make cynicism uncool.
like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!)
giving up is not actually that sophisticated!
like having doubts in your heart and being overwhelmed is one thing, but a lot of us got trained by twitter to post our most cynical snark for engagement and that broke something in a lot of us. (me included!)
giving up is not actually that sophisticated!
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What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...
Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data
Following a Jan. 29 memo, staff at the CDC are removing any content related to “gender ideology,” with a deadline of Friday afternoon.
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January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...
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PLEASE REPOST: Health equity researchers, Please let me know if your centers or programs are being altered, closed, or threatened by your universities to comply with new EOs or if staff are being laid off. Signal: usha.22 or 👇(Won't use anything without permission.) www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
PLEASE REPOST: Health equity researchers, Please let me know if your centers or programs are being altered, closed, or threatened by your universities to comply with new EOs or if staff are being laid off. Signal: usha.22 or 👇(Won't use anything without permission.) www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
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Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
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If you're a Forest Service employee who got an email telling you to delete all references to climate change on agency websites...I'd love a copy of that message. You can reach me 509-953-7883 on Signal for secure communication.
January 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a Forest Service employee who got an email telling you to delete all references to climate change on agency websites...I'd love a copy of that message. You can reach me 509-953-7883 on Signal for secure communication.
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Viral posts that claim the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis who deliberately caused the incident are false and baseless.
Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.
Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Viral posts that claim the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis who deliberately caused the incident are false and baseless.
Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.
Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.
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Even with DEI initiatives, disabled people are very much underrepresented in the workforce. Ableist stigma drives that. The same ableism that Donald Trump showed in full display he has this morning at a press conference.
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Even with DEI initiatives, disabled people are very much underrepresented in the workforce. Ableist stigma drives that. The same ableism that Donald Trump showed in full display he has this morning at a press conference.
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Remember when I mentioned I didn’t think they would actually send these people home…
🍊 directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants
🍊 directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants
January 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember when I mentioned I didn’t think they would actually send these people home…
🍊 directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants
🍊 directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants
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Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
‘Mormon Land’: Amid national attacks on transgender rights, a former stake president tells her story
Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
www.sltrib.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
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On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.
Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.
We are not going anywhere.
Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.
We are not going anywhere.
Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.
Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.
We are not going anywhere.
Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.
We are not going anywhere.
Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
This is a well done article. Detention centers are basically code for concentration camps. And saying that this issue is about crime or drugs is a scare tactic based on falsehoods. Immigrants are just trying to build a better life and no person is “illegal” that’s dehumanizing fascist language.
Last week our county commissioners sent a letter to the Montana Congressional Delegation offering our largest venue as a detention center for "illegal immigrants." People testified against the idea at the following commissioner meeting, and I wrote about it for the @dailymontanan.com.
Yellowstone County residents unhappy with proposal to use Metra as detention facility • Daily Montanan
Yellowstone County Commissioners heard much opposition and not a lot of support for a plan to make the MetraPark house detainees held by federal authorities.
dailymontanan.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is a well done article. Detention centers are basically code for concentration camps. And saying that this issue is about crime or drugs is a scare tactic based on falsehoods. Immigrants are just trying to build a better life and no person is “illegal” that’s dehumanizing fascist language.
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If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.
January 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.