Susan Rinkunas
@susanrinkunas.com
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Journalist and cofounder @autonomynews.co‬. Seen in: Jezebel, The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, Democracy Docket. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK http://linktr.ee/susanrinkunas Email: susanrinkunaswrites @gmail Signal: susanrinkunas.73
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Good morning, internet, and welcome to a new publication that @garnethenderson.com and I have been working on for months
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Welcome to Autonomy News, a new publication created and owned by two reproductive rights and justice journalists. We write about bodily autonomy and the attacks levied by politicians and activists wh...
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The horrific South Carolina abortion ban that lawmakers held a hearing on last week would also consider it “aiding and abetting” an abortion to host or maintain a website that informs women and pregnant people how to obtain an abortion. First Amendment attacks on abortion are coming
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Plan C will keep publishing information in the face of free speech threats, cofounder Amy Merrill said. “I don't believe that people in those states want to be uniquely blocked from accessing all dimensions of the internet...We still get to talk about abortion, and we're going to keep doing that.”
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
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@plancpills.bsky.social added even more filters and enhanced the one for services that accept Medicaid. Plan C felt this callout was necessary because some people are paying for pills that they could get for free.
www.autonomynews.co/exclusive-pl...
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Options for pills have exploded since the site's last update in 2020. Visitors to redesigned state pages now see provider data presented in rows and columns for easier comparison, and a Medicaid coverage filter shows services that provide abortion pills for free.
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screenshot from Plan C pills Illinois state page:
Visitors will now see provider data presented in rows and columns, rather than separate boxes, so they can easily compare services. 

[rows for four pill providers and data shown include service name, price, delivery time, and pregnancy gestation and ages served]

Users have more filtering options, too: They can sort by interaction type (i.e., whether or not a video visit is required), weeks of pregnancy, ages served, and languages spoken. An existing filter allows visitors to select providers that offer pills for future use, known as “advance provision.” screenshot from Plan C pills Illinois state page:
It lists 32 results from 3 provider types. below "filter results" is a special callout for Medicaid coverage in a light green box that reads: “Concerned about cost? Illinois Medicaid provides free abortion care for all low-income pregnant people who live in Illinois regardless of immigration status. Show X Illinois Medicaid providers only.” 

From story: 
Another existing filter shows providers that accept Medicaid. That’s now enhanced with a box above the results that reads: “Concerned about cost? [X state] Medicaid provides free abortion care for all low-income pregnant people who live in [X state] regardless of immigration status. Show [X state] Medicaid providers only.” Plan C felt this callout was necessary because some people are paying for pills they could get for free.
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New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states
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The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
www.autonomynews.co
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Now kiss
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Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi at the #Frankenstein premiere.
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I’ve been more seriously on my mask game since January 20th in part because I don’t trust them to adequately warn us
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CBS workers: don’t respond
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New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.
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This news is yet another reason to mask up in public spaces to protect yourself and your neighbors
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Now kiss
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Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi at the #Frankenstein premiere.
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Shoutout to the WNBA finals crowd booing Cathy Englebert twice
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🫠
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Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."
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The obvious response: “doing the fucking news”
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News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
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The horrific South Carolina abortion ban that lawmakers held a hearing on last week would also consider it “aiding and abetting” an abortion to host or maintain a website that informs women and pregnant people how to obtain an abortion. First Amendment attacks on abortion are coming
autonomynews.co
Plan C will keep publishing information in the face of free speech threats, cofounder Amy Merrill said. “I don't believe that people in those states want to be uniquely blocked from accessing all dimensions of the internet...We still get to talk about abortion, and we're going to keep doing that.”
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
www.autonomynews.co
susanrinkunas.com
@plancpills.bsky.social added even more filters and enhanced the one for services that accept Medicaid. Plan C felt this callout was necessary because some people are paying for pills that they could get for free.
www.autonomynews.co/exclusive-pl...
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Options for pills have exploded since the site's last update in 2020. Visitors to redesigned state pages now see provider data presented in rows and columns for easier comparison, and a Medicaid coverage filter shows services that provide abortion pills for free.
www.autonomynews.co/exclusive-pl...
screenshot from Plan C pills Illinois state page:
Visitors will now see provider data presented in rows and columns, rather than separate boxes, so they can easily compare services. 

[rows for four pill providers and data shown include service name, price, delivery time, and pregnancy gestation and ages served]

Users have more filtering options, too: They can sort by interaction type (i.e., whether or not a video visit is required), weeks of pregnancy, ages served, and languages spoken. An existing filter allows visitors to select providers that offer pills for future use, known as “advance provision.” screenshot from Plan C pills Illinois state page:
It lists 32 results from 3 provider types. below "filter results" is a special callout for Medicaid coverage in a light green box that reads: “Concerned about cost? Illinois Medicaid provides free abortion care for all low-income pregnant people who live in Illinois regardless of immigration status. Show X Illinois Medicaid providers only.” 

From story: 
Another existing filter shows providers that accept Medicaid. That’s now enhanced with a box above the results that reads: “Concerned about cost? [X state] Medicaid provides free abortion care for all low-income pregnant people who live in [X state] regardless of immigration status. Show [X state] Medicaid providers only.” Plan C felt this callout was necessary because some people are paying for pills they could get for free.
susanrinkunas.com
New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states
autonomynews.co
The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
www.autonomynews.co
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Trump: “don’t take Tylenol when you’re pregnant. And when the baby is born, don’t give it Tylenol if you can avoid it at all. Just don’t give it Tylenol. Really what to you have to lose?”

1. Oh my god lawsuit 2. Untreated fever in pregnancy can result in miscarriage and fetal anomalies
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Food 4 thought
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Every senator who voted to confirm RFK, Jr. should get kicked in the stomach every single time he makes the news.
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
And on the fourth day God said if you cut the penis your sons will know so many facts about whales
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How has Tylenol not filed a lawsuit
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Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
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SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
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The media has also published far too many essays by these "autism parents" who hate their autistic kids. This has increased the vilification of autism IMO.
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it's bc so many "autism parents" hate their children for being disabled.

it's never driven by autistic adults. autistic adults grow to be, at best, wary of "autism parents"