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Paula and Ripley
@paulasbookshelf.bsky.social
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Retired attorney, wife, mom, and cat mom to Ripley. I love good books, sugar cookies, and hot tea. Public libraries are essential. Healthcare is a human right.
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Paula and Ripley @paulasbookshelf.bsky.social · Jul 6
The work requirements are going to punish people with serious brain disorders; schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, all impact ability to self organize, plan, understand forms, and due dates. Serious brain illness = more likely not to receive healthcare
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Paula and Ripley @paulasbookshelf.bsky.social · 2d
#schizoaffective #autism #schizophrenia #nostigma
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Meridith Bolster @meribolst.bsky.social · 3d
www.sciencealert.com/study-traces...

Out of Stanford. "Rather, the researchers found that genes responsible for human intellect also increase our chances of having autistic or schizophrenic traits." And OH MY GOD THEY USED ORGANOIDS . Organoids are literally mini brains 🧠 made up of stem cells.
Study Traces Autism's Origin to The Rise of Human Intelligence
A new study finds autism and schizophrenia may lie at the crux of what makes humans uniquely intelligent.
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Paula and Ripley @paulasbookshelf.bsky.social · 2d
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 4d
Are we going to stand with the richest Americans or working people? That's the fundamental question in this fight.

I’m sticking with hardworking Americans.
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Paula and Ripley @paulasbookshelf.bsky.social · 5d
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d
Sarah Mullally has been named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans.
Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England
Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the Church of England.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d
Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6d
I'm asking YOU:

What will a doubling of health care premiums mean for your family?

What it will mean if you're one of the 15 million being thrown off their health care?

Please comment below or submit a story here: tinyurl.com/3rbdfdmz
Where We Are With the Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6d
The death of the premature baby born after their mother contracted measles highlights the danger of more and more people refusing vaccines.

An individual is contagious 4 days before the rash appears.

Imagine a child with measles at a daycare full of babies too young to be vaccinated.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 6d
Hubert Humphrey said the moral test of government isn’t how it treats the healthy, but how it treats the sick, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

As I said today on the Senate floor, we are facing a moral test. This isn’t about blame. It’s about Americans’ health care.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d
Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 6d
My office will continue to aggressively prosecute fraud and protect taxpayer dollars, especially within the ESA program.

Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Paula and Ripley @paulasbookshelf.bsky.social · 6d
Let the Quest for the Historical Mary Begin--At Last! jamestabor.com/let-the-ques... #booksky
Let the Quest for the Historical Mary Begin–At Last!
“The Lost Mary unfolds in five radical claims. . . . Together these arguments are Tabor’s attempt to rescue Mary from pious abstraction and revolutionize our picture of her as one of the most conse…
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Myelita Melton @myelita.bsky.social · 8d
Today is the last day for CPB staff. A team remains to sustain operations at a reduced scale until all obligations are fulfilled. This is a challenging moment for us. Our departing colleagues strengthened the impact of public media & made a profound difference in the lives of the American people. 😥
Thank you from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9d
More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay.

kffhealthnews.org/diagnosis-de...
Diagnosis: Debt - KFF Health News
Featured Stories Debt At A Glance Tell Us About Your Medical Debt Have you been forced into debt because of a medical or dental bill? Have you had to make any changes in your life because of such debt...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9d
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 20d
Today, we launched our Unrig Washington campaign, a bold new standard for Democrats to show voters that as a party we're serious about cleaning up Washington.

So far, 83 Democratic candidates and Members of Congress have joined this campaign.
Trump’s Corruption Gives Democrats A Shot At A Unifying Message
Progressives and moderates alike are signing on to a new pledge to “unrig” Washington.
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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 12d
New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

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Text reads: "New year. New mayor. Bend the Arc: Jewish Action endorses Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City." The graphic is colorful and features a picture of Mamdani against a rendering of buildings in New York City.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina...

"That's just how it is."
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 13d
Disabled kids and their parents are losing home care and life-skills support while ESA dollars are spent buying diamond rings and Kenmore appliances. Outrageous. Arizona needs ESA guardrails now.

www.12news.com/article/news...
Empowerment Scholarship mom: Time to rein in ESAs as thousands in the disabilities community are facing service cuts for their children
Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh says reductions are needed for a program that has grown 66% in funding over the past three years.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14d
In case there’s any interest in what ACTUAL psychiatric physicians have to say about autism, vaccines, acetaminophen, and Leucovorin.

Can we stop playing MAGA games with children’s health?

www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...
APA Statement on White House Announcement on Autism
In reaction to today’s White House announcement, the American Psychiatric Association issued the following statement:
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 16d
We must not allow the federal government to strip Arizona's forests and wilderness of their protections. This is a public land grab by greedy corporate interests—and I plan to stand in the way.

Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20d
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20d
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21d
BREAKING: A court ruled that ICE can no longer detain immigrants in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza while our case continues.

This ruling requires ICE to provide people detained at the facility access to hygiene products, sleeping mats, and free, confidential calls to their lawyers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24d
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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