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Jessie Losch

@jessielosch.bsky.social

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MPH. Rescue dog owner, caffeine-relier-oner, fútbol watcher, vegan stress baker. Mostly yelling about abortion access. She/her/ella 🇺🇾💚

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · Jul 9

So uh…I had a baby, and wrote a thing about it.

www.huffpost.com/entry/pregna...

I Felt Terrified To Raise A Baby Girl In This World. Then, 5 Words From My OB-GYN Gave Me Hope.

“She left the room as I lay on the table, absorbing the surprising power of that sentence.”

www.huffpost.com

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Cory Barnett @cvbarnett.bsky.social · 40m

Maybe they shouldn't be banning gender-affirming care and abortion.

Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 1d

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban gender-affirming care. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. This is required by the Constitution. If you say we’re just doing politics you’re responsible for political violence.”
—The U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on 'conversion therapy' for LBGTQ+ kids

A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to be leaning in favor of a Christian counselor who is challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights.

apnews.com

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 8m

Stephen Sondheim, always and forever. Oh wait, living? Can I pretend Sondheim is still living?

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 2h

Hope Freida’s praying for all the people she gave heart attacks to.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 2h

This is actual anti semitism but they’ll just keep shouting about universities instead.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 2h

Was China building nuclear reactors…out of women??

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 2h

We’re not platforming Gavin Newsom.
We’re not running Gavin Newsom.
We’re not voting for Gavin Newsom.
All my homies hate Gavin Newsom.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2h

He skipped the part where he wants the hospital to force that citizen to wait for the brink of death in the hospital parking lot if the health care she needs is an abortion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

Yes!! And lots of indie bookstores have sales today too.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

Ahem @mostlyinane.quest and @treblenikki.bsky.social please get in here; new WTFEricAdams just dropped

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, New York IS the Albania of…you know what, no, I can’t with Jim today.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

For my #publichealth friends who want to read more from Geronimus et al, on weathering:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Change in birth outcomes among infants born to Latina mothers after a major immigration raid

Background: Growing evidence indicates that immigration policy and enforcement adversely affect the well-being of Latino immigrants, but fewer studies examine ‘spillover effects’ on USA-born Latinos. ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

THAT WAS WRITTEN ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.

Today, as more and more families face the terror of deportation, arrests, separation, and violence, we can only guess at how long the repercussions will last.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

…the belief by a growing and increasingly powerful segment of the US population that draconian tactics and military grade weapons and vehicles are necessary to enforce immigration policy provides a compelling basis for sustained vigilance among Latinx children and adults alike."

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

"Today’s stressors are multiple, chronic, repeated and are symbolic & psychosocial as well as objective...Over time, experience with repeated or chronic stressors and the high-effort coping they entail, induce stress-mediated wear and tear...

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

Almost a decade ago, Dr Arline Geronimus revealed the devastating impact of ICE raids on maternal and neonatal health, in what was coined, "crimmigration."

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the ripple effects of the toxic stress imposed on our Latine communities by ICE.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 20h

Also funny because being a vegan in DC was (relatively) hard for me, coming from New York!

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 22h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe we have to say this, but conversion therapy has been proven, over and over and over again, to lead to higher rates of suicide. It is not legitimate healthcare. Ever. Period.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Senator, what’s your response to the reports that multiple Portland cafes have stopped offering vegan options? Is this a dairy-free declaration of war?

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

How is this just so very unsurprising. Ffs.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit, is this why I’m single? All my neighbors are gay (and…Japanese?)?

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from my evergreen shouts of “fuck you, Sam Alito,” I don’t even know what to say. That was so bad.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Samuel Alito saying that medicine had been politicized and taken over by “ideology” in relation to trans care and not, oh, RFK fucking Jr, is laughable. #SCOTUS

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s soak em!