Lisa Erickson
@playwrightbird.bsky.social
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RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
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Reposted by Lisa Erickson
Pete Hegseth is the kind of liar who thinks confidence and a loud voice can substitute for truth. It doesn’t.
PS- none of this should be making old man Trump drowsy.
PS- none of this should be making old man Trump drowsy.
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Pete Hegseth is the kind of liar who thinks confidence and a loud voice can substitute for truth. It doesn’t.
PS- none of this should be making old man Trump drowsy.
PS- none of this should be making old man Trump drowsy.
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A half dozen senior Republicans in Congress have now made clear that pending congressional hearings, they have no intention of expending political capital in support of Pete Hegseth. The odds that he's going down have just doubled.
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A half dozen senior Republicans in Congress have now made clear that pending congressional hearings, they have no intention of expending political capital in support of Pete Hegseth. The odds that he's going down have just doubled.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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More info on whooping cough 👇
Who should get vaccinated?
👶 Children - at ages 2,4,6, and 15-18 months and at 4-6 yrs (don't delay, safer to protect asap)
🧒 Preteens - age 11-12
🤰 All pregnant women (gives immunity to newborn)
👵👴🧑🧑🧒 Anyone who will be around a newborn (need 💉 once every 10 years)
Who should get vaccinated?
👶 Children - at ages 2,4,6, and 15-18 months and at 4-6 yrs (don't delay, safer to protect asap)
🧒 Preteens - age 11-12
🤰 All pregnant women (gives immunity to newborn)
👵👴🧑🧑🧒 Anyone who will be around a newborn (need 💉 once every 10 years)
🧵Measles isn’t the only vaccine-preventable disease making a comeback.
Whooping cough is surging.
Let’s talk about what’s happening and how you can stay safe. Keep reading 👇🧵
Whooping cough is surging.
Let’s talk about what’s happening and how you can stay safe. Keep reading 👇🧵
'Fighting to breathe': Whooping cough surges as vaccination rate falters
There have been 8,064 reported cases of whooping cough in the U.S., compared with 3,835 for the same time in 2024, according to CDC data.
www.nbcnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
More info on whooping cough 👇
Who should get vaccinated?
👶 Children - at ages 2,4,6, and 15-18 months and at 4-6 yrs (don't delay, safer to protect asap)
🧒 Preteens - age 11-12
🤰 All pregnant women (gives immunity to newborn)
👵👴🧑🧑🧒 Anyone who will be around a newborn (need 💉 once every 10 years)
Who should get vaccinated?
👶 Children - at ages 2,4,6, and 15-18 months and at 4-6 yrs (don't delay, safer to protect asap)
🧒 Preteens - age 11-12
🤰 All pregnant women (gives immunity to newborn)
👵👴🧑🧑🧒 Anyone who will be around a newborn (need 💉 once every 10 years)
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I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
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Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician who was the key vote to confirm RFK Jr., should go on TV to announce his resignation, not to serve as a smokescreen for RFK Jr.'s assault on the nation's health.
TAPPER: Dr Cassidy, RFK Jr lied to you
CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician who was the key vote to confirm RFK Jr., should go on TV to announce his resignation, not to serve as a smokescreen for RFK Jr.'s assault on the nation's health.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!
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Reposted by Lisa Erickson
Cypherbird Projects is launching a virtual RESISTANCE PLAYLIST featuring a MashUp of Poetry, Art, and Satire on November 21-22 as part of #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression and solidarity.
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Cypherbird Projects is launching a virtual RESISTANCE PLAYLIST featuring a MashUp of Poetry, Art, and Satire on November 21-22 as part of #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression and solidarity.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Congrats to RFK Jr.'s neighbor, who trolled him with this festive Halloween decoration on her front lawn.
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Congrats to RFK Jr.'s neighbor, who trolled him with this festive Halloween decoration on her front lawn.
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AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.
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California is hitting back at President Donald Trump's plan to flood the blue state with election monitors — by having those monitors watched.
'Absolutely pathetic': MAGA melts down as blue state hits back at Trump's poll watchers
California is hitting back at President Donald Trump's plan to flood the blue state with election monitors — by having those monitors watched.The Trump administration last week said it would send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey for the upcoming Nov. 4 elections. The move was t...
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
California is hitting back at President Donald Trump's plan to flood the blue state with election monitors — by having those monitors watched.
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#Colorado #FoodSecurity #Donate
FBR supplies the smaller food banks & pantries up & down the front range.
A one dollar donation provides a meal for 3 people.
Looking to make a difference? Give to FoodBankRockies.org
FBR supplies the smaller food banks & pantries up & down the front range.
A one dollar donation provides a meal for 3 people.
Looking to make a difference? Give to FoodBankRockies.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
#Colorado #FoodSecurity #Donate
FBR supplies the smaller food banks & pantries up & down the front range.
A one dollar donation provides a meal for 3 people.
Looking to make a difference? Give to FoodBankRockies.org
FBR supplies the smaller food banks & pantries up & down the front range.
A one dollar donation provides a meal for 3 people.
Looking to make a difference? Give to FoodBankRockies.org
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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SEN. @schatz.bsky.social : "This is not about money. There is enough💰to bail out Argentina with ($40 BILLION). Enough to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 MILLION for Noem. Enough to renovate the ballroom. What there isn't enough💰for under this Republican government is YOU."
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
SEN. @schatz.bsky.social : "This is not about money. There is enough💰to bail out Argentina with ($40 BILLION). Enough to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 MILLION for Noem. Enough to renovate the ballroom. What there isn't enough💰for under this Republican government is YOU."
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way.
Hear why this is a public service and good for business, ft. @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, Caitlin Vogus, and Lauren Harper.
🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 pm EDT
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Hear why this is a public service and good for business, ft. @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, Caitlin Vogus, and Lauren Harper.
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"love is necessary for humans because without it we are destroyers of worlds." -- Fady Joudah
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"love is necessary for humans because without it we are destroyers of worlds." -- Fady Joudah
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.