Liz (she/her)
@elizalitotes.bsky.social
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. - Rebecca Solnit
Reproductive justice/Abortion/Public health/Unions/Plants/Cats
Reproductive justice/Abortion/Public health/Unions/Plants/Cats
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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Who'll join me in giving to @psabortionfund.bsky.social?
$25 → covers a ride to a clinic
$50 → helps a caller with gas or lodging
$100 → funds part of an appointment
$250 → covers airfare for one caller
$500 → covers a full procedure for one caller
#GivingTuesday
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
$25 → covers a ride to a clinic
$50 → helps a caller with gas or lodging
$100 → funds part of an appointment
$250 → covers airfare for one caller
$500 → covers a full procedure for one caller
#GivingTuesday
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
Palmetto State Abortion Fund: End-of-Year Fundraiser | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
Give for freedom. Give for care. Give before December 31st.2025 tested us — and our community showed up.Because of people like you, the Palmetto State Abortion Fund helped more than 1,500 Southerners ...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Who'll join me in giving to @psabortionfund.bsky.social?
$25 → covers a ride to a clinic
$50 → helps a caller with gas or lodging
$100 → funds part of an appointment
$250 → covers airfare for one caller
$500 → covers a full procedure for one caller
#GivingTuesday
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
$25 → covers a ride to a clinic
$50 → helps a caller with gas or lodging
$100 → funds part of an appointment
$250 → covers airfare for one caller
$500 → covers a full procedure for one caller
#GivingTuesday
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
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It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org
Homepage - National Network of Abortion Funds
Our network of nearly 100 abortion funds builds power for abortion access. Find a fund, get support, donate, and join campaigns with NNAF.
abortionfunds.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org
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We've spent $2.5 million this year to get people out of jail and meet their needs. (Mostly in TX.)
On Thursday, HB 7 will go into effect. It allows people to sue anyone who makes, distributes, mails, or provides abortion pills to or from TX.
Support us this Giving Tuesday: tinyurl.com/GiveRLDF2025
On Thursday, HB 7 will go into effect. It allows people to sue anyone who makes, distributes, mails, or provides abortion pills to or from TX.
Support us this Giving Tuesday: tinyurl.com/GiveRLDF2025
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We've spent $2.5 million this year to get people out of jail and meet their needs. (Mostly in TX.)
On Thursday, HB 7 will go into effect. It allows people to sue anyone who makes, distributes, mails, or provides abortion pills to or from TX.
Support us this Giving Tuesday: tinyurl.com/GiveRLDF2025
On Thursday, HB 7 will go into effect. It allows people to sue anyone who makes, distributes, mails, or provides abortion pills to or from TX.
Support us this Giving Tuesday: tinyurl.com/GiveRLDF2025
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I personally know the people in this volunteer-managed organization!
Please share with your networks and ask them to chip in $5.00 and share it forward!
Together we can support immigrant students in Baltimore!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-immig...
Please share with your networks and ask them to chip in $5.00 and share it forward!
Together we can support immigrant students in Baltimore!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-immig...
Donate to Hope and safety for local immigrant youth, organized by Katherine Jakuta
This holiday season, the Latino Racial Justice Circle (LRJC) invites you to… Katherine Jakuta needs your support for Hope and safety for local immigrant youth
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I personally know the people in this volunteer-managed organization!
Please share with your networks and ask them to chip in $5.00 and share it forward!
Together we can support immigrant students in Baltimore!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-immig...
Please share with your networks and ask them to chip in $5.00 and share it forward!
Together we can support immigrant students in Baltimore!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-immig...
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Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe. His goal is straightforward: To make ICE agents uncomfortable.
“I want their morale as low as possible,” he said, “because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
“I want their morale as low as possible,” he said, “because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe. His goal is straightforward: To make ICE agents uncomfortable.
“I want their morale as low as possible,” he said, “because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
“I want their morale as low as possible,” he said, “because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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Resident doctors & fellows are the backbone of our healthcare system, and now the Univ of Maryland Resident & Fellow Alliance (UMRFA) at UMMC - one of the nation's oldest teaching hospitals-- finally have the historic, first-ever contract they deserve. CONGRATULATIONS!
@aft.org
@aft.org
August 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Resident doctors & fellows are the backbone of our healthcare system, and now the Univ of Maryland Resident & Fellow Alliance (UMRFA) at UMMC - one of the nation's oldest teaching hospitals-- finally have the historic, first-ever contract they deserve. CONGRATULATIONS!
@aft.org
@aft.org
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My latest for @thenation.com. RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon: how a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. @jsalomon.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon
How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.
www.thenation.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
My latest for @thenation.com. RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon: how a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. @jsalomon.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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as always, it is indie clinics who will stick their necks out to make sure people get the care they need.
The New York Times has confirmed our reporting that, amid a federal "defunding" effort, Planned Parenthood affiliates are considering whether to halt abortion care so they can continue accepting Medicaid:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
SCOOP: Planned Parenthood informed its affiliates Tuesday that they can apply for waivers to stop providing abortions. It's an attempt to keep Medicaid funding if the GOP budget reconciliation bill passes.
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
as always, it is indie clinics who will stick their necks out to make sure people get the care they need.
Listening to The Network, a series on the grassroots development of abortion pill use and the social support network that helped it happen. Fantastic and hopeful story is a bleak moment.
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions
An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.
www.npr.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Listening to The Network, a series on the grassroots development of abortion pill use and the social support network that helped it happen. Fantastic and hopeful story is a bleak moment.
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
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And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.
![Plaintiffs' [103] Motion for Class Certification is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE
as to the Criminal Custody Class and GRANTED as to the CECOT Class with
modifications. The latter Class shall be defined as follows:
All noncitizens removed from U.S. custody and transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador on March 15 and 16, 2025, pursuant solely to the Presidential Proclamation entitled, "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua"; and
3. By June 11, 2025, Defendants shall submit a Notice to the Court advising how they
intend to facilitate the ability of the CECOT Class to seek habeas relief.
Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 147 Filed 06/04/25
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Is/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
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June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.
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it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)
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What is the Best Independent Bookstore for 2025?
Voting for the Best Independent Bookstore is open! Cast your vote daily to help pick the 2025 10Best Readers' Choice Award for Best Independent Bookstore.
10best.usatoday.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)
10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...
10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...
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The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law
Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.
www.11alive.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
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The Flytrap (@theflytrapmedia.com) is celebrating six months of bringing feminist commentary back to the goddess's green internet!
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I have a love of PRAMS after using some data and reviewing a lot of the methodology for a project a number of years ago. An incredibly valuable resource will be lost.
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I have a love of PRAMS after using some data and reviewing a lot of the methodology for a project a number of years ago. An incredibly valuable resource will be lost.
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If you care only about your own rights and your own wellness, you will lose it too eventually.We cannot allow HIV prevention in the US to be targeted in this way. We should all be alarmed and speak up against this plan. Call your representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Trump administration considers plan to eliminate CDC's HIV prevention division
If the administration does move forward with the plan, the CDC’s HIV prevention work could move over to another department under HHS.
www.nbcnews.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If you care only about your own rights and your own wellness, you will lose it too eventually.We cannot allow HIV prevention in the US to be targeted in this way. We should all be alarmed and speak up against this plan. Call your representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
This is why I tell people all the time about how I used Medicaid while in grad school. These programs are there for people when other options aren't. They are a lifeline for millions whether they have temporary or longterm financial limitations.
March 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is why I tell people all the time about how I used Medicaid while in grad school. These programs are there for people when other options aren't. They are a lifeline for millions whether they have temporary or longterm financial limitations.
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Anti-abortion extremists are looking into the “safety issues” of mifepristone, which is used to manage abortions, miscarriages, and even high blood sugar.
We can save them some time.
We have over 100 studies that prove that mifepristone is extremely safe – even safer than Tylenol.
We can save them some time.
We have over 100 studies that prove that mifepristone is extremely safe – even safer than Tylenol.
March 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Anti-abortion extremists are looking into the “safety issues” of mifepristone, which is used to manage abortions, miscarriages, and even high blood sugar.
We can save them some time.
We have over 100 studies that prove that mifepristone is extremely safe – even safer than Tylenol.
We can save them some time.
We have over 100 studies that prove that mifepristone is extremely safe – even safer than Tylenol.
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There is no such thing as “unskilled” labor.
All labor is skilled and every worker deserves a living wage.
All labor is skilled and every worker deserves a living wage.
March 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
There is no such thing as “unskilled” labor.
All labor is skilled and every worker deserves a living wage.
All labor is skilled and every worker deserves a living wage.