Samantha Sokol
@samiandzoe.bsky.social
cat lady, jewish jersey girl, too online. usually yapping repro / health / public ed policy. currently policy analyst at planned parenthood federation of america, opinions mine.
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Oh, for fuck's sake. We knew this was coming after Braidwood, though. We have the most anti-health health secretary imaginable.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
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July 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Oh, for fuck's sake. We knew this was coming after Braidwood, though. We have the most anti-health health secretary imaginable.
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"Kennedy plans to dismiss all 16 panel members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force because he views them as too 'woke.'" The USPSTF's recent recommendations include screening women for intimate partner violence and for osteoporosis to prevent fractures. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
www.wsj.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Kennedy plans to dismiss all 16 panel members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force because he views them as too 'woke.'" The USPSTF's recent recommendations include screening women for intimate partner violence and for osteoporosis to prevent fractures. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
July 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
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"It doesn’t matter if you live in a state where abortion is protected. Nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics and all of the invaluable services these facilities provide could soon be lost."
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," argues Kierra Jones, is part of "conservatives’ political crusade to ban abortion and gender-affirming care, and to deprive Americans of their reproductive and bodily aut...
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July 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"It doesn’t matter if you live in a state where abortion is protected. Nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics and all of the invaluable services these facilities provide could soon be lost."
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
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First they came for abortion.
Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care.
The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood.
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Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care.
The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows states to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules
A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the organization, the country’s largest abortion provider.
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June 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
First they came for abortion.
Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care.
The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood.
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Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care.
The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood.
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Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
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how is this a gender specific experience and/or why?
June 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
how is this a gender specific experience and/or why?
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If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days:
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May 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days:
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Donald Trump’s BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL wants to defund Planned Parenthood and leave more than a million patients without access to care. Call your Senators to let them know you support the life-saving work they do. #IFightForPP @ppfa.org
May 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Donald Trump’s BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL wants to defund Planned Parenthood and leave more than a million patients without access to care. Call your Senators to let them know you support the life-saving work they do. #IFightForPP @ppfa.org
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A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
May 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
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Me petting my cat:
May 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Me petting my cat:
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I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”
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"Amends Sec. 44125 to ensure federal Medicaid does not fund gender transition therapies or procedures for minors or adults."
It's eugenics and murder by policy, all the way down.
It's eugenics and murder by policy, all the way down.
May 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"Amends Sec. 44125 to ensure federal Medicaid does not fund gender transition therapies or procedures for minors or adults."
It's eugenics and murder by policy, all the way down.
It's eugenics and murder by policy, all the way down.
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No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
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“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
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May 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
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When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
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May 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
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A pregnant Atlanta woman was declared brain dead, but due Georgia’s controversial heartbeat law, doctors are keeping her alive long enough to deliver her baby.
May 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A pregnant Atlanta woman was declared brain dead, but due Georgia’s controversial heartbeat law, doctors are keeping her alive long enough to deliver her baby.
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Republicans want to kick millions off their health care, but they also want to shut down Planned Parenthood, an essential health care provider. We're speaking out.
NO to Medicaid cuts.
NO to closing hospitals.
NO to kicking kids off health care.
And—NO to DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
NO to Medicaid cuts.
NO to closing hospitals.
NO to kicking kids off health care.
And—NO to DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
May 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Republicans want to kick millions off their health care, but they also want to shut down Planned Parenthood, an essential health care provider. We're speaking out.
NO to Medicaid cuts.
NO to closing hospitals.
NO to kicking kids off health care.
And—NO to DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
NO to Medicaid cuts.
NO to closing hospitals.
NO to kicking kids off health care.
And—NO to DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
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A horror story
May 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A horror story
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Snuck into the GOP budget bill:
Stripping funding for Planned Parenthood.
A critical reproductive health provider that Americans rely on for cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care.
Republicans are ready to cash in on your health and freedom so Elon can get a tax cut.
Stripping funding for Planned Parenthood.
A critical reproductive health provider that Americans rely on for cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care.
Republicans are ready to cash in on your health and freedom so Elon can get a tax cut.
May 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Snuck into the GOP budget bill:
Stripping funding for Planned Parenthood.
A critical reproductive health provider that Americans rely on for cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care.
Republicans are ready to cash in on your health and freedom so Elon can get a tax cut.
Stripping funding for Planned Parenthood.
A critical reproductive health provider that Americans rely on for cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care.
Republicans are ready to cash in on your health and freedom so Elon can get a tax cut.
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If you defund Planned Parenthood, you're defunding breast exams, pregnancy testing, prenatal and postpartum care, STD testing, birth control, sex education, vaccines, mental health care, I could go on and on.
It's not about abortion, it's about cutting resources for women.
It's not about abortion, it's about cutting resources for women.
May 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you defund Planned Parenthood, you're defunding breast exams, pregnancy testing, prenatal and postpartum care, STD testing, birth control, sex education, vaccines, mental health care, I could go on and on.
It's not about abortion, it's about cutting resources for women.
It's not about abortion, it's about cutting resources for women.
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Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
May 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
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NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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🚨Republicans are once again trying to defund Planned Parenthood, which means defunding basic health care for millions of women: cancer screenings, birth control, reproductive health care & more.
Why? To attack reproductive freedom & pass more tax cuts for billionaires.
No way.
Why? To attack reproductive freedom & pass more tax cuts for billionaires.
No way.
May 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨Republicans are once again trying to defund Planned Parenthood, which means defunding basic health care for millions of women: cancer screenings, birth control, reproductive health care & more.
Why? To attack reproductive freedom & pass more tax cuts for billionaires.
No way.
Why? To attack reproductive freedom & pass more tax cuts for billionaires.
No way.
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NEW: For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children.
Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
With @idahostatesman.com
Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
With @idahostatesman.com
The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
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May 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children.
Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
With @idahostatesman.com
Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
With @idahostatesman.com