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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 20h

Extremely proud of my former coworkers as they continue to advocate for the pay and respect they deserve

Rewire News Group Union @rngunion.bsky.social · 20h

Since we last shared an update on bargaining, we’ve received additional information about management salaries at Rewire.

The TLDR: The pay discrepancy between management and union members is deeply unsettling.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 15d

We spoke with @amylittlefield.bsky.social about her article for ‪The Nation, "What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?," alongside @garinwastaken.bsky.social, co-founder of @patientforward.bsky.social, to discuss the importance of protecting access to abortion care later in pregnancy. #podcast

Now is The Time to Defend All Abortions — rePROs Fight Back

“Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.” Amy Littlefield , abortion access correspondent for the Nation and author of...

www.reprosfightback.com

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 22d

some of the data

“Terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology are responsible for 87 percent of those murdered in attacks on U.S. soil since 1975,” he writes. “Right-wingers are the second most common motivating ideology, accounting for 391 murders and 11 percent of the total. Left-wing terrorists murdered 65 people, or about 2 percent of the total.”

Because the 9/11 attacks “obscure other trends and are plausibly distinct,” Nowrasteh recalculated the data excluding the attacks. Doing so “reduces the number of murders to 620 from 3,599.”

The exclusion raises the right-wing share of murders in terrorist attacks “from 11 percent to 63 percent (391), the left-wing share from about 2 percent to 10 percent (65), and the unknown/other share to 1 percent.”

Terrorism since 2020, Nowrasteh wrote,

paints a slightly different picture. Since Jan. 1, 2020 (total 81), terrorists have murdered 81 people in attacks on U.S. soil. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders (44), Islamists for 21 percent (27), left-wingers for 22 percent (18), and 1 percent had unknown or other motivations.

Nowrasteh did not include the deaths associated with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol for the following reasons:

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 22d

nytimes opinion writer talked to actual experts, who produced actual data about actual incidents of terroristic violence to demonstrate that those on the far-right have killed far more people in far more attacks than attackers on the left. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | ‘We Will Do It in Charlie’s Name’

www.nytimes.com

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 27d

Despite Trump's claims, data shows that right-wing extremists are far more violent than those on the left.

And the origins of today's far-right insurrectionism lie in the anti-abortion movement.

I spoke with Carol Mason for @thenation.com:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Carol Mason Explains How Abortion Opponents Went From Blockading Clinics to Storming the Capitol

A conversation with the author about her new book, From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary.

www.thenation.com

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 27d

Despite Trump's claims, data shows that right-wing extremists are far more violent than those on the left.

And the origins of today's far-right insurrectionism lie in the anti-abortion movement.

I spoke with Carol Mason for @thenation.com:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Carol Mason Explains How Abortion Opponents Went From Blockading Clinics to Storming the Capitol

A conversation with the author about her new book, From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary.

www.thenation.com

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 28d

AP News: ‘We fled to the street': Palestinian family puts up tent at roadside after dispersal from Gaza City.

The Gazans are forced to flee their makeshift homes as they face renewed attack. They have no aid and no shelter.

Please give to my friend Tasneem and others. 🙏💕

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 28d

Amazing that this is somehow real.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 29d

"What might be more surprising is how closely Trump’s view of the prerogatives and entitlements of abusive husbands towards their abused wives mirror his own sense of his prerogatives and entitlements as president towards his abused country."

@moiradonegan.bsky.social on Trump:

Trump apparently thinks domestic violence is not a crime. That makes sense | Moira Donegan

Trump’s view of the prerogatives of husbands towards their wives mirror his own sense of his entitlements as president towards his abused country

www.theguardian.com

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

Final update: I got a shot at a different CVS in MA today after being turned away from the first. If you live here I recommend calling the pharmacy first, even if you’re able to get an appointment.

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

lol thank you for accompanying me on this saga.

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

UPDATE AGAIN: After getting turned away at the first CVS, I was able to get my Covid shot at a different CVS in Boston.

So it seems…widespread confusion! But shots are indeed happening in MA. I recommend calling the pharmacy first.

Robin Hitchcock @hitchdied.bsky.social · Sep 5

Boo!!

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

I deleted my original post on Covid shots in MA because I didn’t want to spread misinformation.

I was able to book a Covid vaccine appt at CVS in Boston this morning but when I got there they said they couldn’t give me the shot.

Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

UPDATE: Despite letting me make an appointment online, the pharmacist at CVS just informed me that they are NOT offering Covid shots in MA rn.

Get it together, Massachusetts!

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

UPDATE: Despite letting me make an appointment online, the pharmacist at CVS just informed me that they are NOT offering Covid shots in MA rn.

Get it together, Massachusetts!

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is exactly it, lol.

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Aug 8

"I really don’t believe that anyone who claims to care about our most basic rights here in the US can ignore this existential moral issue of our lives, which is the genocide that Israel is perpetrating in Palestine."

@kylietcheung.bsky.social @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Early in the book it was really important for me to present reproductive justice as this international framework of demanding that all of us can parent or not parent in safe, healthy environments. It is fundamentally inseparable from the work of reproductive rights advocates in the United States when this is what our tax dollars are funding. It’s so simple that reproductive justice and bodily autonomy are impossible under genocide and under apartheid and starvation conditions that the United States has very much been facilitating.

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our conversation and then buy @kylietcheung.bsky.social’s book!

bookshop.org/p/books/coer...

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Aug 7

"The reality remains that under patriarchy and under rape culture and under abortion bans, all survivors and all abortion seekers are dehumanized and denied agency by their abuser or by the state," Kylie Cheung tells @amylittlefield.bsky.social in a new Q&A.

A New Era of Reproductive Coercion: A Conversation With Kylie Cheung

The author’s new book explores how the Dobbs decision “created new avenues through which the state and abusive figures can collaboratively punish and control their victims.”

www.thenation.com

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · Aug 6

New research shows Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban took effect

About half of those OBs left the state—and none moved to states with abortion bans, the lead author says.

More evidence that abortion bans impact other forms of health care. New @motherjones.com:

Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban

New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

www.motherjones.com

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · Aug 2

@amylittlefield.bsky.social spent time with providers and patients in abortion clinics to capture and share the truth about abortion later in pregnancy—which is that it is a necessary, compassionate form of healthcare provision. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?

Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

www.thenation.com

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · Aug 2

Our new episode features @amylittlefield.bsky.social discussing her article for The Nation, “What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?,” alongside @garinwastaken.bsky.social, co-founder of @patientforward.bsky.social, who highlights the importance of protecting access to later-abortion care.

Now is The Time to Defend All Abortions — rePROs Fight Back

“Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.” Amy Littlefield , abortion access correspondent for the Nation and author of...

www.reprosfightback.com

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · Jul 31

NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics."

Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.

Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision

This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.

jamanetwork.com

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