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MidwifeKT on twitter. midwifery, politics, cats, parenting, autism, nerdery, books, feminism, animals, architecture, repro health, abortion, Chicago. not necessarily in that order.
pronouns: she/her but apparently I'm agender, who knew?
pronouns: she/her but apparently I'm agender, who knew?
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@kairsten.bsky.social
· Nov 26
If we're talking about abortion bans and what they lead to: I need everyone to read this article about a patient who came from Alabama to my health center in Chicago, and found out how she was mistreated by her doctors and could have died.
wearethemeteor.com/tamara-costa...
wearethemeteor.com/tamara-costa...
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happy birthday Jesus; radical leftist and anti-capitalist
(probably don't come back now, they'd put you on a list)
(probably don't come back now, they'd put you on a list)
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
happy birthday Jesus; radical leftist and anti-capitalist
(probably don't come back now, they'd put you on a list)
(probably don't come back now, they'd put you on a list)
Concerned that Anish Kapoor is going to jump out with a lawsuit due to my 9-year-old's stocking stuffer.
December 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Concerned that Anish Kapoor is going to jump out with a lawsuit due to my 9-year-old's stocking stuffer.
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
Everyone gets rabies shots for Christmas!
oh sweet you met the Yule Bat
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Everyone gets rabies shots for Christmas!
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Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
You *will* find them in the worst possible way.
But yeah y'all I was working outpatient/still essential healthcare during 2020-2021, didn't see covid cases but lived in fear of it every second. The lack of PPE, the terror with every breath/every time a patient vomited or coughed, the horror that I'd bring it home to my child - I'll never forget.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
But yeah y'all I was working outpatient/still essential healthcare during 2020-2021, didn't see covid cases but lived in fear of it every second. The lack of PPE, the terror with every breath/every time a patient vomited or coughed, the horror that I'd bring it home to my child - I'll never forget.
This is the kind of content I love.
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is the kind of content I love.
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Wild guess, #healthcare workers who were having 5 minute goals of care discussions with the families of crashing patients in the ED or terminally extubating a COVID patient in the ICU were not featured
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wild guess, #healthcare workers who were having 5 minute goals of care discussions with the families of crashing patients in the ED or terminally extubating a COVID patient in the ICU were not featured
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This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
Feeling realllllly light-headed at the end of the work day yesterday.
Panic differentials: covid?? Pregnancy, somehow, inexplicably????
On the way home, I realized the true cause, as I'd experienced the exact same feelings once before: forgetting to put my Lexapro in my pill keeper for the week.
Panic differentials: covid?? Pregnancy, somehow, inexplicably????
On the way home, I realized the true cause, as I'd experienced the exact same feelings once before: forgetting to put my Lexapro in my pill keeper for the week.
December 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Feeling realllllly light-headed at the end of the work day yesterday.
Panic differentials: covid?? Pregnancy, somehow, inexplicably????
On the way home, I realized the true cause, as I'd experienced the exact same feelings once before: forgetting to put my Lexapro in my pill keeper for the week.
Panic differentials: covid?? Pregnancy, somehow, inexplicably????
On the way home, I realized the true cause, as I'd experienced the exact same feelings once before: forgetting to put my Lexapro in my pill keeper for the week.
Watching Great Canadian Bake-Off.
Technical Challenge: make a Battenberg cake
9-year-old: OOOOOOOHHHHH
Me: are you in to Battenberg cake??
9-year-old: no but I've heard of them and they sound very cool!
I love her so much.
Technical Challenge: make a Battenberg cake
9-year-old: OOOOOOOHHHHH
Me: are you in to Battenberg cake??
9-year-old: no but I've heard of them and they sound very cool!
I love her so much.
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Watching Great Canadian Bake-Off.
Technical Challenge: make a Battenberg cake
9-year-old: OOOOOOOHHHHH
Me: are you in to Battenberg cake??
9-year-old: no but I've heard of them and they sound very cool!
I love her so much.
Technical Challenge: make a Battenberg cake
9-year-old: OOOOOOOHHHHH
Me: are you in to Battenberg cake??
9-year-old: no but I've heard of them and they sound very cool!
I love her so much.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
Y'all every time I get a crossword clue that's [sports team division] my brain says "AFL. And CIO."
I mean I absolutely know that is incorrect
And it does it every time anyway
I mean I absolutely know that is incorrect
And it does it every time anyway
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Y'all every time I get a crossword clue that's [sports team division] my brain says "AFL. And CIO."
I mean I absolutely know that is incorrect
And it does it every time anyway
I mean I absolutely know that is incorrect
And it does it every time anyway
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Almost every problem we are dealing with right now can be traced directly back to this fucker right here. People want to talk about the confederates were never appropriately punished for the Civil War but bc this man was likable, America has never really even acknowledged the harm he caused.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Almost every problem we are dealing with right now can be traced directly back to this fucker right here. People want to talk about the confederates were never appropriately punished for the Civil War but bc this man was likable, America has never really even acknowledged the harm he caused.
And this is who you think should be a national Dem? Fuck that shit.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And this is who you think should be a national Dem? Fuck that shit.
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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the Union should have hung every evil Confederate general and burned way more of the South and also how dare you associate me with New England Puritans
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
the Union should have hung every evil Confederate general and burned way more of the South and also how dare you associate me with New England Puritans
The Addams' Family motto "Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc" or "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us" is the original "fuck around and find out." In this essay, I will -
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The Addams' Family motto "Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc" or "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us" is the original "fuck around and find out." In this essay, I will -
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look I was already on board with killing the filibuster you don't have to press the case
This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
look I was already on board with killing the filibuster you don't have to press the case
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fifty years to the day since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down and was immortalized in song forever
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
fifty years to the day since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down and was immortalized in song forever
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric
It turns out I have no idea what Sam Altman looks like and thought he was the interviewer and the man standing up was the person I was supposed to recognize.
Did he not understand what happened? How could there be no change in facial expression?
Did he not understand what happened? How could there be no change in facial expression?
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It turns out I have no idea what Sam Altman looks like and thought he was the interviewer and the man standing up was the person I was supposed to recognize.
Did he not understand what happened? How could there be no change in facial expression?
Did he not understand what happened? How could there be no change in facial expression?
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Post a non religious image you think of as holy
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Post a non religious image you think of as holy
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one heartening thing is i dont think germans followed the SS around calling them lil bitch asses
Video of members of the community yelling towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
one heartening thing is i dont think germans followed the SS around calling them lil bitch asses
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.