ChristyG
@crgallinger.bsky.social
Child of God, devoted wife, proponent of direct democracy & socialism, student of the Bible.
I'm not on here much. I prefer https://www.threads.com/@warriorchildandthestorm?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I'm not on here much. I prefer https://www.threads.com/@warriorchildandthestorm?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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ChristyG
@crgallinger.bsky.social
· May 3
#MutualAidRequest
My husband & I have accumulated a substantial amount of debt over the past decade, just trying to keep our heads above water. We're both on AISH and he drives for UberEats, but it's just not enough.
My husband & I have accumulated a substantial amount of debt over the past decade, just trying to keep our heads above water. We're both on AISH and he drives for UberEats, but it's just not enough.
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
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PS even if you don’t have any $ to donate right now, sharing this list far and wide would help greatly! ⬇️
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
docs.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:51 AM
PS even if you don’t have any $ to donate right now, sharing this list far and wide would help greatly! ⬇️
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@linkara.bsky.social can you please signal boost!
I’m facing eviction if I can’t cover my rent by Monday. I still need $925 and I’ve run out of other ways to come up with it. Any help or even sharing this truly means a lot.
$125 / $1050
$925 still needed
CA: $AYUDAMUTUA911
V: AYUDAMUTUA911
KO-FI: ko-fi.com/amparodop/goal
GFM: gofund.me/85ebff72c
$125 / $1050
$925 still needed
CA: $AYUDAMUTUA911
V: AYUDAMUTUA911
KO-FI: ko-fi.com/amparodop/goal
GFM: gofund.me/85ebff72c
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 AM
@linkara.bsky.social can you please signal boost!
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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the utility bill this month just came in for $330, and adding bat to our insurance policy seems like it'll cost $184, as well, next week's pay being light due to this week being off to help them get situated and moved in has put us in a spot, any help would be great!
Paypal.me/SocialJusticeWonder
Paypal.me/SocialJusticeWonder
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 AM
the utility bill this month just came in for $330, and adding bat to our insurance policy seems like it'll cost $184, as well, next week's pay being light due to this week being off to help them get situated and moved in has put us in a spot, any help would be great!
Paypal.me/SocialJusticeWonder
Paypal.me/SocialJusticeWonder
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ICE's funding is up at the end of January. CALL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE and demand they defund ICE. Democrats, Republicans, all of them.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
ICE's funding is up at the end of January. CALL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE and demand they defund ICE. Democrats, Republicans, all of them.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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NEW: A teacher called over a dozen therapists to find mental health care following a miscarriage.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
They Couldn’t Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They’re Suing Their Insurer.
A new lawsuit alleges that an insurer’s ghost network hindered New York City employees from accessing the mental health care they sought — and harmed the reputation of psychiatrists wrongly listed as ...
www.propublica.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
NEW: A teacher called over a dozen therapists to find mental health care following a miscarriage.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.
They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
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“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Our #3 most-read story of 2025:
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Our #3 most-read story of 2025:
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Our #3 most-read story of 2025:
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Our #3 most-read story of 2025:
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A diabetic woman with an infected foot, a man with a facial tumor the size of a tennis ball: These are patients at the Samaritan Clinic, which serves people without health insurance in Albany, GA.
Not far from it is the region's largest hospital. So why do some residents turn to Samaritan for care?
Not far from it is the region's largest hospital. So why do some residents turn to Samaritan for care?
In a Town Dominated by One Hospital, the Uninsured Turn to This Free Clinic | Albany, Georgia
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January 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
A diabetic woman with an infected foot, a man with a facial tumor the size of a tennis ball: These are patients at the Samaritan Clinic, which serves people without health insurance in Albany, GA.
Not far from it is the region's largest hospital. So why do some residents turn to Samaritan for care?
Not far from it is the region's largest hospital. So why do some residents turn to Samaritan for care?
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In Feb. 2024, 2-month-old Onyxx Cooley died unexpectedly.
The elected county coroner, Rick Taylor, simply decided the death was an unsolvable mystery.
“We did basically what I call a ‘paperwork autopsy,’” he said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
The elected county coroner, Rick Taylor, simply decided the death was an unsolvable mystery.
“We did basically what I call a ‘paperwork autopsy,’” he said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
An Idaho Baby’s Unexplained Death Got No Autopsy and a Scant Coroner’s Investigation. State Law Says That’s Fine.
With a lack of regulation for coroners, a child who dies unexpectedly or outside of a doctor’s care in Idaho is less likely to be autopsied than anywhere else in the United States.
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In Feb. 2024, 2-month-old Onyxx Cooley died unexpectedly.
The elected county coroner, Rick Taylor, simply decided the death was an unsolvable mystery.
“We did basically what I call a ‘paperwork autopsy,’” he said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
The elected county coroner, Rick Taylor, simply decided the death was an unsolvable mystery.
“We did basically what I call a ‘paperwork autopsy,’” he said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
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“[He] considers himself…part-time…his annual pay is $95,928 & the county…lists the position as full-time…If the county told him to work full time…‘I’d send in my resignation,’ he said. His hands are full attending to the health needs of his family, he said. He also travels often.”
He should resign!
He should resign!
January 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
“[He] considers himself…part-time…his annual pay is $95,928 & the county…lists the position as full-time…If the county told him to work full time…‘I’d send in my resignation,’ he said. His hands are full attending to the health needs of his family, he said. He also travels often.”
He should resign!
He should resign!
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Currently on a binge of many different @linkara.bsky.social videos, especially the storyline compilations, and I really felt like making some big piece of fanart!!
#art
#art
January 2, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Currently on a binge of many different @linkara.bsky.social videos, especially the storyline compilations, and I really felt like making some big piece of fanart!!
#art
#art
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Instead of asking why these children are expressing themselves with gallows humor, or wondering if the constant threats of violence are having an effect on their mental state, school officials and cops are punishing simply because it's easier
But, we've decided guns are more important than children
But, we've decided guns are more important than children
Pluribus — Official Trailer | Apple TV
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December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Instead of asking why these children are expressing themselves with gallows humor, or wondering if the constant threats of violence are having an effect on their mental state, school officials and cops are punishing simply because it's easier
But, we've decided guns are more important than children
But, we've decided guns are more important than children
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Charging middle schoolers with a crime for making a TikTok that portrayed a school shooting indicates a lack of understanding on how to handle these incidents, one school safety expert said.
“Did those charges make that school safer? No,” she said.
(Published July)
“Did those charges make that school safer? No,” she said.
(Published July)
Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.
Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crac...
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Charging middle schoolers with a crime for making a TikTok that portrayed a school shooting indicates a lack of understanding on how to handle these incidents, one school safety expert said.
“Did those charges make that school safer? No,” she said.
(Published July)
“Did those charges make that school safer? No,” she said.
(Published July)
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A long-read to add to your list:
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.”
The Minnesota AG’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show.
(Published March 2025)
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.”
The Minnesota AG’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show.
(Published March 2025)
“A Wholly Inaccurate Picture”: The Popular Reality Show and the Wrongly Convicted Man
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota attorney general’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the c...
www.propublica.org
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
A long-read to add to your list:
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.”
The Minnesota AG’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show.
(Published March 2025)
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.”
The Minnesota AG’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show.
(Published March 2025)
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Happy New Year!
The new year may not actually mean anything, but it's a cleansing time - a chance to feel like we're having a fresh start, washing away all the dirt of the previous year, feel refreshed from all the things we are scrubbing away-
Look, just take a shower.
The new year may not actually mean anything, but it's a cleansing time - a chance to feel like we're having a fresh start, washing away all the dirt of the previous year, feel refreshed from all the things we are scrubbing away-
Look, just take a shower.
January 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Happy New Year!
The new year may not actually mean anything, but it's a cleansing time - a chance to feel like we're having a fresh start, washing away all the dirt of the previous year, feel refreshed from all the things we are scrubbing away-
Look, just take a shower.
The new year may not actually mean anything, but it's a cleansing time - a chance to feel like we're having a fresh start, washing away all the dirt of the previous year, feel refreshed from all the things we are scrubbing away-
Look, just take a shower.
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That’s why ProPublica is funded by readers, not advertisers.
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The FDA doesn’t routinely test generic drugs for quality concerns.
Here’s what we found when we did.
Here’s what we found when we did.
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually. The FDA tests only a few dozen of them every year, its own records show, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contam...
www.propublica.org
December 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The FDA doesn’t routinely test generic drugs for quality concerns.
Here’s what we found when we did.
Here’s what we found when we did.
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This is a story of a state legal system that failed every person it touched — especially Eunice Whitman.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, with @adn.com
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, with @adn.com
How Eunice Whitman’s Murder Became a Case With No Verdict
Justine Paul was indicted on flawed evidence. A defense witness wrote that police should have treated no fewer than 12 people as suspects of “higher interest.” A decade after the killing, no one has b...
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is a story of a state legal system that failed every person it touched — especially Eunice Whitman.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, with @adn.com
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, with @adn.com
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Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.
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Monitoring orgs estimate 14.5 million deaths by 2030, including at least 4.5m children. International genocide, quite literally, via a stroke of a pen on Day One of the doddering, felonious pedophile's second term. No phase out period. An act of war against humanity via his insipid signature.
December 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Monitoring orgs estimate 14.5 million deaths by 2030, including at least 4.5m children. International genocide, quite literally, via a stroke of a pen on Day One of the doddering, felonious pedophile's second term. No phase out period. An act of war against humanity via his insipid signature.
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My congressman, Mark Harris (NC), was proud to support the cuts to USAID. Harris is a Baptist minister. He and his wife were thrilled to dress up and attend the White House Christmas party.
December 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
My congressman, Mark Harris (NC), was proud to support the cuts to USAID. Harris is a Baptist minister. He and his wife were thrilled to dress up and attend the White House Christmas party.