Sparkle Puffs

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abortion care worker | harm reductionist | mediator
turned UMich grad student

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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I too used to be an 'oh, NOW you care' person when I was younger. I was profoundly annoyed with ppl who didn't "understand" what I already knew & then all of a sudden started caring. Then I realized that was a ME issue, not at all about them. EYE was annoyed while THEY were coming to consciousness.

Thanks for the stickers, ReproJobs and Liberal Jane!! #proabortion #prounion

My first sighting of the Opill in Costco! $60 for a four month supply is pretty good, but birth control and all meds should be FREE. ...and i'm holding my breath to see how long before the garbage monsters try to ban this next.

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For me, collective action can crowd out a despairing mood. It offers a little bit of light and helps you to perceive yourself and your community more clearly. Experience and meaning are derived from doing - through the doing comes the feeling.

Anxiously waiting for the jug of justice/ orca whale meme mashup

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Making students homeless and without healthcare the same day, destroying their belongings, banning them from campus, having them arrested for trespassing—this institution has far too much power to do harm to the students for whose safety it’s responsible.

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25 feet makes it all but impossible to film an arrest or any sort of police confrontation in urban areas. Which of course is precisely the point. reason.com/2024/04/12/r...

Ron DeSantis signs Florida bill limiting how close bystanders can get to policereason.com The law makes it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away.

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This is real. This is what the House GOP is doing next week.

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Glad to see the timeline full of awe and wonder. The world needs both in large supply.

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REBUILD continues to raise the needed funds to continue its work. Please consider donating if you can/want to and also sharing with your networks: www.mightycause.com/story/759wff - this program is saving lives without exaggeration.

Support REBUILD 2023 on Mightycausewww.mightycause.com Free therapy for formerly incarcerated people of color.

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The lawyer representing the Texas dad in this birth control case is none other than Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of bounty hunter ban SB 8 and a leading proponent of resuscitating the #ComstockAct to ban abortion nationwide. rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/11/16/w... Via @angryblacklady.bsky.social

Why This Teen Birth Control Case Could Kill Access for Everyonerewirenewsgroup.com Once the right to privacy is overturned and teens are cut off from accessing birth control, it won't be long before adults are too.

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Something that came as a shock to me as a young person was that having children didn't improve human beings.. IOW it didn't make them more compassionate, kind, or likely to do good acts. Watching young people realize this in the midst of the ongoing genocides brings this back to mind.

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Last week, 33-year-old Adilka Feliz, legislative assistant to the Dominican Republic senator Yván Lorenzo, died after being denied an abortion. Her mother is calling on Dominican president Luis Abinader to deliver on his promise to add exceptions to the DR's total abortion ban.

What is easy is sustainable. Birds coast when they can. ~adrienne maree brown

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Thanks to Florida Republicans' STOP WOKE Act, students now need a signed permission slip in order to "listen to a book written by an African-American" (via Billy Corben on IG: www.instagram.com/p/C3TVuh-PQBr/

Maggie Shannon was with us at Partners in Abortion Care for a year documenting our opening and growth. This piece is finally out and feels like a tribute that captures what working in abortion care taught me about love. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ann Arbor Mayor Chris Taylor's remarks moments before my city became the 16th in the US to pass a Ceasefire resolution!!! #ceasefirenow #annarborcitycouncil #ceasefireresolution www.instagram.com/reel/C1-80y1...

@detroit2palestine on Instagram: "Moments before the ceasefire resolution was passed, the Mayor of A...www.instagram.com 130 likes, 6 comments - detroit2palestine on January 11, 2024: "Moments before the ceasefire resolution was passed, the Mayor of Ann Arbor addressed the communit..."

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @reproaction.bsky.social is hiring 2 new positions! 1: archival research coordinator- supports administrative & record-keeping needs of our research team 2: media research manager- collects & analyzes all-source reporting to undermine the forces of identity-based hatred

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An appeals court ruled that Texas ER doctors can simply let pregnant people die instead of giving them abortions. Happy 2024.

BREAKING: Fifth Circuit unanimously holds that federal emergency room protections (EMTALA) do not mandate that physicians provide abortions when that is the "stabilizing treatment" needed, upholding a lower-court injunction issued in a lawsuit brought by Texas against the Biden admin. More to come:

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substackwww.lawdork.com The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

"I’m just trying to navigate all 50 states’ changing rules all the time. What other medical practice do you have where you’re worried that it’s illegal to talk to somebody on the phone from that state?" Great new interview with co-founder of Partners Clinic ncnewsline.com/2023/12/24/i...

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Key piece from sickle cell disease patient, Jennifer Fields, MPH: "I find myself teetering between excitement and skepticism. I am thrilled that research has blossomed. I worry that the celebration around this approval is ignoring a significant barrier: a historic legacy of medical mistrust."

After living with sickle cell disease for 39 years, I’m both excited and skeptical about the newly...www.statnews.com What a sickle cell disease patient thinks is the biggest challenge facing a newly approved gene therapy.

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Pregnant miscarry at every stage of pregnancy *all the time*. There is very little guidance on any front about what to do, and it is overwhelming and terrifying. Folks who miscarry this far into pregnancy... the grief is overwhelming, and even *best case*, support is slim.

Just a reminder #BrittanyWatts is still being prosecuted in Ohio for having a miscarriage on the toilet. Anti #abortion laws and beliefs are harmful. We warned y'all.

It sure would be a shame if we found out who that scumbag nurse who called the police on Brittany Watts was.

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“what are we doing here, and why are our hearts invisible?” - Anne Carson

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In late October, I spent ten days traveling through Idaho to talk to people all over the state about the reproductive health crisis they’re facing more than a year after their government banned abortion. rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/12/04/i...

In Idaho, Extremists Have Created a Culture of Fear Around Pregnancyrewirenewsgroup.com Christian nationalists are taking over the state government, and abortion access is only their first target.