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Sravanthi Meka
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🇺🇸⚜️🇮🇳🍑 | New Orleans-born, Georgia-raised, Andhra roots | Cajun Masala Peach | @universityofga 🎓 x2 🐾🐶 | storyteller | 📖 nerd | ❤ history
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We already have a shortage of hospitals in rural areas. 54 of Georgia's 159 counties don't have a hospital. ONE-THIRD!

42% of Georgia counties lack maternity care resources, meaning the hospitals don't have a OB unit.
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February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.

The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM