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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d

I confess I don't understand, and don't wish to understand, the moral principle which states it is disrespectful to protest genocide today, but not disrespectful to commit one.

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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 12d

Good news: y’all have already raised $300!

Bad news: she’s measured further along and the cost has gone up. She needs a total of $3,400 now in addition to the $1,000 we already pledged. Our goal is now $2,500 to raise for her and we will cover the rest of the balance.

Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 12d

We have a minor in need of an extra $1950 for their appointment today. We already contributed $1000 — we can cover the balance as long as we can raise $750 today! www.DonorBox.org/support-the-fund

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)

*While we assist abortion seekers from other Southern states as well, the information below pertains to South Carolina.* Since launching in late 2021, PSAF has supported over 1,500 people in accessing...

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 16d

Just a reminder that mifepristone is incredibly safe and has been approved by the FDA for a quarter of a century. You can purchase medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) online and have it shipped to your home through @aidaccess.bsky.social. Mifepristone has a shelf life of 5 years.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16d

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the anti-abortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.

RFK Jr. Opens Investigation Into the Safety of the Abortion Pill

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the antiabortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 18d

Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.

FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook

Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 18d

Vaccine deniers have learned from abortion opponents that you can ban health care without actually making it illegal––stigmatize it and make it inaccessible. It's meant to make us distrust science and disbelieve what we see with our own eyes. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/fda...

FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook

Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 22d

I am so flipping excited for this!!!

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Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 23d

Hi Bluesky! Have I mentioned my book UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy is out October 28? It tells a bigger story of reproduction in America through the experiences of five women, and it’s available for preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...

Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 23d

Abortion opponents have firebombed and shot up abortion clinics. They've murdered 11 abortion providers and stalked, harassed, and terrorized untold others. I personally have been doxxed, threatened, and stalked.

They aren't interested in talking to us. They hate us. They want us dead. Literally.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m here bb!!!

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Sep 10

So many 'progressive' orgs behave like this and it sucks. People work here because they believe the work is important and they get treated like garbage while their employers talk a big public game about how great they are.

Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Board of @apiaryps.bsky.social just surprise-fired their entire staff (amazing, dedicated folks) and put the organization on "pause" because the Board hated that the staff demanded they live up to actual RJ values. I saw this firsthand working with Apiary. I'm disgusted but not surprised.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Diana, you and I both know what happened here. You can try to spin this, but I watched it unfold. The staff didn't fire me as a consultant--the Interim ED that you all appointed and then had fire everyone else did. But go ahead.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

In the last 5 months, the Apiary Board appointed one of their own, Odile Schalit, as Interim ED and another member, Diana Parker-Kafka, whose term is supposed to end this year, as Board President. It's hard not to see today's mass firing of all staff and organizational pause as their ultimate goal.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

In repro, we see a lot of abuse and toxicity, and there's a pressure to "keep quiet" so that we don't hurt the work. But the work isn't hurt by demanding that our leaders abide by the values we espouse. It's hurt by Boards like Apiary's refusing to reflect and treat employees with basic respect.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

I saw a Board member verbally abuse a staff member over text message. I heard Board members call the staff was "hostile" for wanting to live out anti-racist ideals. The Board appointed their own member as Interim ED just a few months ago, all while promising to support staff. Today, they fired them.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

I have never worked with an org that had a more impactful mission--strengthening the fabric of practical support for abortion seekers--and dedicated, hardworking staff that was undermined every step of the way by its Board. At this moment, to "pause" the org and fire everyone is disgraceful.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Board of @apiaryps.bsky.social just surprise-fired their entire staff (amazing, dedicated folks) and put the organization on "pause" because the Board hated that the staff demanded they live up to actual RJ values. I saw this firsthand working with Apiary. I'm disgusted but not surprised.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a woman in Texas, and it doesn't quite pass the smell test. For @truthout.org, I wrote about how abortion opponents may have found a new avenue to attack medication abortion. truthout.org/articles/wro...

Wrongful Death Suit in Texas Poses New Threats to Medication Abortion Access

Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in the lawsuit filed this August by a woman in Texas.

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · Aug 8

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Jul 31

BECAUSE THIS IS AN INSTITUTIONALIZED POLICING OF WHO GETS TO BE A WOMAN, FOLKS.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jul 30

"It’s time to think beyond the courts; not to abandon the judiciary as a tool, but instead to reframe what justice looks like, and how we can create it for ourselves and our communities."

Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Jul 29

A federal appeals court recently upheld West Virginia's insidious medication abortion ban. For @truthout.org, I wrote about what that means, its long-term implications, and why everyone who can get pregnant should purchase medication abortion now. truthout.org/articles/fed...

Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What?

If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is a BIG deal and people need to be following this - If it goes to the Supreme Court, it could allow states to go over the FDA and ban whatever medication they want to ban. (including hormones/surgeries for trans people)

Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Jul 29

A federal appeals court recently upheld West Virginia's insidious medication abortion ban. For @truthout.org, I wrote about what that means, its long-term implications, and why everyone who can get pregnant should purchase medication abortion now. truthout.org/articles/fed...

Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What?

If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · Jul 29

A federal appeals court recently upheld West Virginia's insidious medication abortion ban. For @truthout.org, I wrote about what that means, its long-term implications, and why everyone who can get pregnant should purchase medication abortion now. truthout.org/articles/fed...

Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What?

If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 25

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

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We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jun 24

Adriana Smith, who was forcibly kept alive by the State of Georgia — against her family’s wishes — because she was nine weeks pregnant, was taken off life support on June 17 this year after her fetus was delivered via C-section. This is a direct result of the Dobbs decision.

3 Years in, Horrors Wrought by Anti-Abortion “Dobbs” Ruling Are Apparent to All

We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.

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