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She/her 🌈 Public health + social work.
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When you're a hater, the real treasure is the enemies you made along the way.
5 months ago
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You ever experience water pressure in a Hotel shower that is so good it makes you feel guilty?
4 days ago
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When will the Traitors cast a muppet?
4 days ago
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According to
@fetterman.senate.gov
, the SAVE Act would only make it harder for eligible voters to register & hold politicians accountable. And he was right—so he opposed the
#SAVEAct
last year. I'm thankful that Fetterman doesn't support the
#SAVEAmericaAct
either & am looking forward to his vote.
6 days ago
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The House and Senate are voting on the SAVE America Act TODAY. This means that today is a great day to thank Sen. Fetterman for opposing the SAVE Act last year & to encourage him to oppose the SAVE America Act this year!
6 days ago
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Apparently the City of
#Pittsburgh
does not collect data on the state of our sidewalks, crosswalks, and curbcuts. So, I guess our maintenance strategy is just... vibes? Not surprising since the city dumped tons of snow onto curbcuts, trapping
#disabled
folks in their homes for 2-3 weeks.
6 days ago
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
12 days ago
the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"
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Yeah, I'll trust the Florida Department of Health when the publish some kind of methodology with their study results and guidance.
14 days ago
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Love and respect to the PRT bus driver who got stuck halfway up a hill yesterday, paused for about 30 minutes, and slowly backed down.
21 days ago
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Greg Bovino is a fucking bitch.
22 days ago
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@coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social
could you please follow WCAG and add alt-text to the images on your posts? It's truly WILD when public officials with communications teams ignore the most basic
#accessibility
standards.
22 days ago
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Racial justice activists and community organizers have been talking about the detrimental impacts of overpolicing majority Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh for decades. And those feelings are based in facts—it actually makes Black people less safe in Pittsburgh.
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about 1 month ago
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I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've never seen a MoCA Toolkit that uses a picture of a giraffe.
4 months ago
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When you're a hater, the real treasure is the enemies you made along the way.
5 months ago
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It may seem contradictory that the "food is medicine" crowd (derogatory) cut SNAP benefits, but their reasoning has always been based in shaming/blaming people. It has never been about access to healthy food. It has always been about punishing people for having the gall to live with a
#disability
.
6 months ago
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When I was a D1 student-athlete, I was strictly prohibited from betting on any sport at any level that has an NCAA championship. But members of Congress can trade stocks in the industries that they regulate through the policies they pass.
7 months ago
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If you're a worm, I'm a worm.
8 months ago
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Why does Kristi Noem look like that?
8 months ago
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When I explain gastroparesis to people, my partner likes to lighten the mood by saying "what happens in the vagus nerve stays in the vagus nerve." It's funny because there's a whole framework that suggests the exact opposite, lol.
8 months ago
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Is the US Open... golf? Or tennis?
8 months ago
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I am BEGGING the person who created yard signs for Dennis Very to check the contrast before submitting another design.
10 months ago
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Mal (unwell to begin with)
Dana Hull
10 months ago
Friendly reminder: — Personal devices only — Don’t leak from work, on a work device, or from work Wi-Fi — Use Signal and Signal’s camera — The reporter should recreate any image you leak before displaying it to the public
www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...
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How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/
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TIL that Dexc*m received a warning letter from the FDA for changing materials used in their sensors, which made them less accurate.
www.fda.gov/inspections-...
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Dexcom, Inc. - 700835 - 03/04/2025
CGMP/QSR/Medical Devices/Adulterated
https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/dexcom-inc-700835-03042025
10 months ago
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A spending reform by any other name is still a Medicaid cut.
10 months ago
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I cannot overstate how much I enjoy it when I'm on a Zoom and the facilitator says "I see we have some new workgroup members joining us today. Mal, what is your cat's name?"
10 months ago
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MAHA in a nutshell.
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11 months ago
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I don't think I'm going to vote for the guy who my college slumlord wants to be the Mayor of Pittsburgh.
www.pghcitypaper.com/news/corey-o...
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Mayoral candidates point fingers on developer donations and affordable housing
O'Connor's campaign fundraised with Walnut Capital, bringing in over $90,000, but Gainey's campaign accepted thousands from area construction firms.
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news/corey-oconnor-and-ed-gainey-have-taken-thousands-from-developers-including-walnut-capital-27629042
11 months ago
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Data Against Fascism
11 months ago
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
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Aparna Nair
11 months ago
Its not that using ableist language is "offensive" alone, it is in that using ableist epithets, we normalize the idea that disability is a state of undesirable, laughable inferiority and otherness, and that disabled people deserve to the butt of the joke for some intrinsic reason--its insidious
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Why is the first line treatment for gastroparesis girl dinner?
11 months ago
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Celebrating my raise with an upper endoscopy, let's fucking gooooo
11 months ago
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Medicaid cuts are not an incentive. Disabled people who need assistance to shower or meal preparation need this assistance, whether they're employed or not. In fact, people may need more assistance with these tasks to join the workforce.
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11 months ago
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False, Pennsylvania has two Republican senators.
11 months ago
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Pennsylvania residents should leave a voicemail Senator John Fetterman TONIGHT and urge him to vote NO on the Continuing Resolution and the Cloture. Call now: (202) 224-4254 You will be asked to provide your name and contact information.
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11 months ago
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WHY ARE THEY IN FIVE GUYS?
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11 months ago
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there's nothing dignified about boot-licking
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11 months ago
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Spotted on Fox News: Linda McMahon and Laura Ingram. Competing to for the most coveted title in conservative politics "Least Prepared for Live Interview." Did LM think she would never have to learn what those pesky acronyms mean if she eliminates "the programs for disabled and uh needs?"
11 months ago
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You don't realize how much you love to lie down after a meal until you're medically prohibited from doing so.
11 months ago
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Mal (unwell to begin with)
Ceej
12 months ago
joke's on you I DID 'go cry about it' and compassion has made me more powerful
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Mia Mingus
12 months ago
What we are witnessing in real time is eugenics. Eugenics is not a historical term or practice. From the sacrificing of high risk people during the on-going COVID pandemic to the attacks on trans people and their right to exist to ethnic cleansing via mass deportations.
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The radioactive eggs they give you for a gastric emptying study are the LaCroix of eggs.
12 months ago
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Sean Morrow
12 months ago
Killing Medicaid should be seen as the 9/11 of class war. Working people need to look at the ultra-wealthy and their enablers the same as they did the perpetrators of that other act of violence.
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Let's compare! In 2024, there were 16 measles outbreaks in the US. These included a total of 285 cases and zero deaths. In the first two months of 2025, there have already been four measles outbreaks—124 cases and two deaths.
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12 months ago
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The world is so bad that social media has become an aversive stimuli. Scrolling no longer provides dopamine.
12 months ago
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Taking away safe and effective treatments that allow folks to function and participate in society is Eugenics.
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about 1 year ago
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For those of us who couldn't get into the community briefing because IT IS FULL
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about 1 year ago
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I will lose my health care.
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about 1 year ago
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No, I definitely classified this as a red flag.
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about 1 year ago
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Mal (unwell to begin with)
austin_walker
about 1 year ago
y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services should know when to use prevalence and when to use incidence to measure disease frequency.
about 1 year ago
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Using the term "juvenile diabetes" to describe all young people will all types of
#diabetes
should disqualify RFK Jr. This man is woefully unqualified to be the Secretary of HHS.
about 1 year ago
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