Molly Richmer
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She/Her, 30something, Ferndale MI. Chronicling my slow descent into madness.
Winnieās getting into the holiday spirit!
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Prism
2 days ago
Nayra GuzmƔn is among the growing number of pregnant & postpartum immigrants who are being detained despite having no criminal record as the Trump admin expands its mass deportation campaign, report Mel Leonor Barclay &
@shefali.bsky.social
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@19thnews.org.
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Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Nayra GuzmƔn was arrested 15 days after the difficult birth of her daughter. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/02/postpartum-immigrants-detention/
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ProPublica
6 days ago
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. āNo one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,ā he says. With
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Trumpās Immigration Forces Deploy āLess Lethalā Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agentsā use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1764648009&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Puff the Magic Hater
9 days ago
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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So pissed at Gmail right now. Turning off smart features makes it totally unusableāno more auto-sorting emails so that promotions/junk go into separate inboxes. Turning on smart features gives them permission to train AI on all your communications. Total bullshit.
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ProPublica
12 days ago
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasnāt, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: āThe minute it transmits to humans, itās done.ā By
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1764118812&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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More Perfect Union
18 days ago
Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit. Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular. So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
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Planet Detroit
18 days ago
The Howell Township board will consider a six-month data center moratorium Thursday in the face of a $1 billion data center proposal that has met with pushback from residents.
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Howell Township officials under pressure to approve $1 billion data center: 'DTE is going to have to pivot'
The Howell Township board is set to review a six-month data center moratorium Thursday following resident pushback against a $1 billion proposal.
https://planetdetroit.org/2025/11/howell-township-data-center-dte/
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Iāve recently discovered the British series Taskmaster, and I am OBSESSED. I canāt remember the last time I laughed so hard. If youāre looking for a little more joy in your life, check it out.
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Mindy Weisberger
25 days ago
Support striking Starbucks workers today by NOT going into Starbucks! If you're feeling extra supportive, you can maybe set aside what you would've spent at Starbucks today and send it to a strike fund or drop it in your local barista's tip jar when they're back on the job āļø
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Alt CDC (they/them)
25 days ago
šØDept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the āprofessional degreeā category. That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement. A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! š¦
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Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from āProfessional Degreeā Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
https://aspph.org/department-of-education-proposal-excludes-public-health-degrees-from-professional-degree-definition/
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition)
29 days ago
ALERT: Baby Formula 13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more. Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
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Infant Botulism Outbreak Linked to Infant Formula, November 2025
Details on an outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula, November 2025.
https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/outbreaks-investigations/infant-formula-nov-2025/index.html
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slate
29 days ago
every generation loves Rumours. itās fucking Rumours
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Preeti Chhibber
about 1 month ago
There are a million moral reasons not to use AI ā theft, environmental cost, human job loss ā but even from a selfish perspective, it messes with your brain? Why risk that??
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
This is a cool project that NYPL is offering: Teen Photography Kits -
www.nypl.org/education/te...
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New! Teen Photography Kits
NYPLās Teen Photography Kits are professional-grade camera kits that teens can borrow for a week at a time from participating libraries.
https://www.nypl.org/education/teens/photography-kits
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Cen Galdre
about 2 months ago
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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Silky
about 2 months ago
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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John Leavitt
about 2 months ago
There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. Itās going to get so fucking weird.
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Pokin
about 2 months ago
First and foremost - DO NOT DEFUND FEMA! Our country needs them more and more. Second, itās Indigenous Peoples Day. I bet a lot of those affected in Alaska are indigenous.
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bleary
about 2 months ago
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Truthout
2 months ago
Trump told U.S. military leaders to prepare to engage in domestic missions, saying the military would likely be targeting the āenemy from withinā ā a phrase Trump has used in the past to refer to progressives and left-leaning groups.
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Trump Hints at Using Military to Quell Domestic Dissent and āEnemy From Withinā
Trumpās plan to use the military to quell protests in US cities is likely illegal.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-hints-at-using-military-to-quell-domestic-dissent-and-enemy-from-within/
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.
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ProPublica
3 months ago
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texasā abortion ban. Hereās how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Wonāt Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Hereās how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1758416407&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Got a crossword clue today because
@jamieloftus.bsky.social
mentions Remy the rat from Ratatouille so often on the Bechdel Cast. I saw the movie only once when it first came out, but by God, I know that ratās name is Remy. Thanks, Jamie.
3 months ago
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slate
3 months ago
live a life in such a way that your death makes everyone pause for a moment of lust
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Marisa Kabas
3 months ago
i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny
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19thnews
3 months ago
A report, commissioned by Congress in 2023, offers evidence-based recommendations to increase breastfeeding rates. Among its suggestions: A federal paid parental leave program.
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The government wants more people to breastfeed. Experts say paid parental leave could help.
Researchers have been examining ways to increase breastfeeding rates for years. They warn it will take structural reform and funding.
https://19thnews.org/2025/09/government-breastfeeding-paid-parental-leave/?utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_content=A%20report%2C%20commissioned%20by&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Brian Goldstone
3 months ago
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
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Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-poverty-trump-homeless-encampments-low-income-ce63d233c86b4a219b47ee8403b5f2ca
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
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Alt CDC (they/them)
3 months ago
šØšØ Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jrās resignation. When your own staff lines up to say youāre bad at your job⦠thatās not āhealth freedom,ā thatās just failure.
#SaveHHS
#DemandRFKJrResign
#USAnotRFK
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More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies
Letter says Kennedy installed ideologues, endangered US health and ignored pleas as resignations mounted at CDC
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/hhs-letter-rfk-resign-vaccines
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Sarah D. Bunting
3 months ago
Not doing the perfect thing immediately is not an excuse to then do nothing permanently. Every day is a great day for a Dem politician to get up, grab a coffee, and take aim at a Cabinet scumbag. Better late; let's fucking go
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Tamra Bonvillain
3 months ago
This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.
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Prism
3 months ago
Medical evacuations are one of the few areas where governments are able to have leverage or influence with the Israeli government. Advocates say the U.S.' decision to halt visas for Palestinian medical evacuees will threaten the lives of Palestinians needing urgent medical care, Neha Madhira writes.
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U.S. halts visitor visas for Palestinian medical evacuees
Nonprofits say the decision will have āa devastating and irreversible impactā on them bringing injured children from Gaza to the U.S.
https://prismreports.org/2025/08/28/palestinian-medical-evacuees-us-visas/
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Ian Coldwater š¦š„
3 months ago
If youāre at all able to get the COVID vaccine anywhere right now, do it.
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ProPublica
4 months ago
The Trump administrationās slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May)
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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakesā Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administrationās slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-michigan-lab-toxic-algae-blooms-great-lakes-drinking-water?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1755653403&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Prism
4 months ago
How many must die before Gazaās famine is called a crime? More than 260 peopleānearly half of them childrenāhave recently died of severe hunger in Gaza, with each day bringing more deaths due to starvation & Israelās attacks on aid sites, Nour Abo Aisha reports from Gaza.
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How many must die before Gaza's famine is called a crime?
More than 260 peopleānearly half of them childrenāhave recently died of severe hunger in Gaza as more die each day amid famine
https://prismreports.org/2025/08/18/gaza-famine-deaths/
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More Perfect Union
4 months ago
18 million children will lose free school meals because of the Republican cuts to food assistance.
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Trumpās Tax Bill Will Starve Public Schools. Kids are Next
An estimated 18 million kids could lose access to free school meals because of Trump's tax bill.
http://time.com/7308619/trump-starve-public-schools/
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19thnews
4 months ago
Some doctors worry that massive cuts to Medicaid will leave pregnant people needing to drive hundreds of miles for prenatal care and delivery services.
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Pregnant people in rural parts of the country are running out of places to give birth
Some doctors worry that massive cuts to Medicaid will leave pregnant people needing to drive hundreds of miles for prenatal care and delivery services.
https://19thnews.org/2025/08/pregnancy-rural-america-maternity-ward-closures-medicaid/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=19th-social
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Outlier Media
4 months ago
Idk if you've heard ... but there's a primary election coming up on Aug. 5! Outlier Media has a nonpartisan voter guide to help you with all your election questions.
outliermedia.org/democracy/
Something not answered? Text REPORTER to 67485, and we'll try to answer it for you.*
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Prism
4 months ago
āIn Gaza, where war is constant, the internet is lifeblood.ā Israelās digital siege of Gaza erases our presence & voiceāthe proof of our existence, writes Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi. This is not just missing updates. It is being buried alive in silence.
prismreports.org/2025/07/24/i...
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Israelās digital siege of Gaza is another effort to wipe out proof of our existence
In June, the internet vanished without warning, cutting us off from the world and each other
https://prismreports.org/2025/07/24/israels-digital-siege-of-gaza-is-another-effort-to-wipe-out-proof-of-our-existence/
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The Gilded Age is so up my alley, itās honestly astonishing Iāve never seen an episode. Maybe because itās the era I studied, and I donāt want to nitpick its factuality? Feels like itās time to finally dip my toe in.
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Firestorm Books
4 months ago
A guide to direct ways that people can help mutual aid groups on the groundāboth by donating to them and spreading the word about the work they are doing.
#FreePalestine
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Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
As we speak, up to two million people in Gaza are being threatened with starvation, as the state of Israel, backed by the US government, continues to blockade humanitarian aid into Gaza, attack basic ...
https://itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/
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More Perfect Union
5 months ago
Thousands of workers tried a 4-day week, and their mental and physical health improved. A study tracked 2,896 workers across 141 organizations for six months. Reducing the work week by 8 hours led to better physical and mental health, with no loss of productivity.
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Thousands of workers tried a 4-day weekāthe impact on their health was clea
Employees whose working weeks were cut by eight hours or moreāwhile retaining the same salaryāsaw the most changes.
https://www.newsweek.com/four-day-workweek-boosts-well-being-mental-physical-health-2101639
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rax ālevon honkersā king
5 months ago
any person whatsoever: [is friendly to me; shows interest in my life and thoughts; texts back reliably; behaves for all the world as if they greatly enjoy my company] me: uh huh iāve seen this one before. whatās your game friendo
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Truthout
5 months ago
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is set to fly out for a visit to the U.S. this week to meet with top-level Trump administration officials ā a week after the official announced a plan to build a concentration camp in Gaza to confine Palestinians.
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Trump Admin Welcomes Israeli Minister in DC as He Plots Gaza Concentration Camp
Minister Israel Katz has said that international partners will manage the camp.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-welcomes-israeli-minister-in-dc-as-he-plots-gaza-concentration-camp/
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20+ years of shaving my legs, and I swear I still miss the same spot on my knees every time.
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John Scalzi
5 months ago
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDCās Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/32529/AAP-will-continue-to-publish-its-own-vaccine
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Paywalls are the bane of my existence. And I GET ITājournalists deserve to be paid. But I just cant do any more subscriptions right now. Fucking everything is a subscription. Canāt you just let me buy a discreet thing that I want??
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