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Owner of Rose in Glove Gaming, Speculative Fiction Writer, Gm, Player, and former Director of Operations for Girls Run These Worlds https://roseinglovegaming.etsy.com Cashapp: https://cash.app/$arnicaxross PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/arnicaxross

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 6d

I have a little Etsy store and it has exactly one thing (for now) and I'm very proud of it

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social · 3h

@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social He's being held in Virginia -- is there anything you can do?

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radiOS @radios2.bsky.social · 4h

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @massgovernor.bsky.social why are the MA police helping ICE kidnap a 7th grader. I can’t even begin to imagine how terrifying this much be for the child and the parents. You may not have a lot of control over ICE but you sure as shit do over your own damn police

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9h

🔴 At least 125 bodies were discovered and brought to hospitals across the Gaza Strip today, most recovered from beneath the rubble. One person was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, Dr. Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Gaza’s Ministry of Health, told NBC News.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Thousands of Palestinians returned to Gaza City after ceasefire took hold Friday—returning to a wasteland of rubble. Abdel Qader Sabbah (@AbdelSabbah91) captured the devastation as survivors searched for what was left of their homes - full report (www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-...) + video below

Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس via X (@sharifkouddous): "The Israeli military destroyed as much of Gaza City as it could before being forced into a ceasefire agreement which took effect yesterday. Watch the video from the ground (2nd one) by the indefatigable @AbdSabbah91 embedded in this piece: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-palestinians-return-gaza-city-ceasefire-destroyed-wasteland-rubble?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 12h

✅ He fired a U.S. Attorney who refused to bring charges against her
✅ He replaced them with someone with NO prosecutorial experience

This isn't justice. This is retaliation.

When Black women do their jobs with excellence, they face attacks. But AG James isn't backing down, and neither should we.

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 12h

Let's be clear about what's happening to AG Letitia James:

✅ She conducted a 2-year investigation based on facts & evidence
✅ Courts found Trump, his company, & his sons LIABLE FOR FRAUD
✅ She was doing her job as NY Attorney General
✅ Trump publicly called her "scum" and demanded her resignation

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 9h

Your link is inactive, shug

arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 23h

Oh no, is the heating element in your stove going out?!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This shutdown is about many things but to first order: Republicans want to let poor people and folks in rural areas especially to struggle to live.

They want to leave people to die.

Call your Senators and insist they do not vote for any funding bill that does not restore the Medicaid cuts.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Even those with insurance will have to travel further to get both primary care and urgent care. People will delay care, others won’t get it at all.

There will be health care deserts.

People will die.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

So these patients going from bringing in revenue to increasing deficits is 100% going to lead to some hospitals and community health centers closing.
And when they close, entire communities will be cut off from health care.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

When large numbers of people who used to have Medicaid coverage become uninsured, those health care providers will still provide health care to those patients.

They are required to, by law.
But these are nonprofit health care practices that have the thinnest of margins to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

And not just because people who lose their health insurance will die. They will, but that’s not the only reason. Rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and community health centers depend on Medicaid payments to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

Like, we panfried ours like it was a johnnycake or a hoecake, but it was also essentially kinda like taking your fully flavored and topped oatmeal and then frying it up into a round little guy that could be eaten easily

arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

Double funny, that's what flapjacks used to be here as well and then we started using the words interchangeably in marketing that flapjacks were totally just pancakes but with a fun name for when you're road tripping at a diner and then next thing you know, it vanished from US food culture.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

Thank you shug. She's probably gonna be here for a few days, it's been years since she walked into an ER and didn't end up staying at least two days, but we appreciate the kind thoughts

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

I was sitting in the ER room with my mother when I heard Diane Keaton died and writer that I am, I cannot stop obsessing about how hard that would go as the opening line to something

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 1d

This pair of tweets live rent-free in my head :

Tweet thread

Alexander J.A Cortes
@AJA_Cortes
Unnatural hair colors in woman are a warning signal to stay away,
Its an example Aposematism-the phenomenon of poisonous animals in nature advertising their toxicity and lethality
JulieG @stringy
Replying to @javafour and @Ennaaseret7
Aposematism is there to warn off predators, not sexual partners. If you're repelled bv it. it's working.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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