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Tori Nefflen
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Digital Storyteller | Patient Advocate | Collectivist | 2x Cancer Fighter🎗| Abolitionist | 26 | she/her | 🧡🤍🩷 | views = my own | https://linktr.ee/victorianefflen
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Hi friends, unfortunately my cancer relapsed and I’ve been in the hospital for half a month battling pneumonia. If you have the ability and means, consider donating to my GoFundMe this holiday season, 🔗: www.gofundme.com/f/TorisTethers

#mutualaid #cancer #donate #baltimore #chemo
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Massive protest at Children’s National in DC.

A former patient is speaking who they used in promotional to show how much they care about trans kids.

Now the hospital is one of a small few nationwide complying with trumps unlawful EO to end trans care.
February 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Israel is escalating its attacks on Jenin in the occupied West Bank. "Israel is trying to turn it into a clone of Gaza — ethnic cleansing, pushing people out and destroying homes systematically," says Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada.
Netanyahu to Meet Trump in D.C. as Israel Escalates War on West Bank
We speak with Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada about the ceasefire in Gaza, which has allowed half a million displaced people to return to what’s left of their homes in the north of the...
www.democracynow.org
February 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.

The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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If you think that trans people are getting our rights ripped away "because the left went too far," you're a moron.

Everything happening to us today was written up and planned by the Family Research Council in 2015. The document is still public. It's all there. www.frc.org/transgender#...
Understanding and Responding to the Transgender Movement
In recent decades, there has been an assault on the sexes. That is, there has been an attack on the previously undisputed
www.frc.org
January 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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what rightly frustrates people, myself included, are these descriptive posts. we already know what’s going on. what are you going to *do* about it.

call for hearings. call for impeachment. withhold your vote. promise complete obstruction.

anything!
The reckless funding freeze by the Trump administration jeopardizes everything from community health centers to cancer research to child care to critical infrastructure projects. It is an unconstitutional power grab that puts lives and livelihoods at risk.
January 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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RIP Hind Rajab.

Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.

I will never forget this story.
January 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation.

We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Credit
@alli.gay
@erininthemorning.com
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
@miralazine.bsky.social
@lizsaila.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Fighting for the public health we need in 2025 and Beyond!

Read the full text here: peoplescdc.org/2025/01/23/f...

Subscribe here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/fighting-f...
January 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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If the disaster doesn’t get you, disaster capitalism will finish the job.
January 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Meals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause:

"the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."
January 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yeah idk I feel like qualifying someone’s right to be in the US based on how “productive” and “hardworking” they are kind of misses the point. No one is illegal means NO ONE is illegal, no matter how much their presence here does or doesn’t somehow benefit you.
January 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with.

www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...
January 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I’ve officially finished my second round of chemo 🥳
January 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Something I’ve learned over the years:

Just because you don’t see it happen on social media doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

In fact, some of the best community building I’ve seen *has* to happen offline so strategies can get fine-tuned and aligned.

We’ll need to grant more grace in the now.
January 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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If you feel helpless and would like to find a community event to do, we have a calendar for that. There will be a new one out Wednesday.
January 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Trump halting funding for cancer research feels… diabolical
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Only 1 in 6 women on probation or parole can access abortion care at any stage of their pregnancy w/o needing permission to cross state lines.

This means officers get to decide whether the vast majority of 800,000 women on probation or parole can travel for abortion care.
January 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM