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Robin Marty

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Author, New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, End of Roe v. Wade. Executive Director, https://bsky.app/profile/wawchealth.bsky.social Alabamian. Exhausted. Donate here! https://wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250703-keep-wawc-funded

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · Nov 12

Hi Skyfriends, here’s my basics:

Tracked abortion bans since 2010 (End of Roe v Wade w/ @hegemommy.bsky.social)

Wrote abortion guide for when Roe is gone (Handbook for a Post-Roe America)

Moved to AL to run an abortion clinic. We now do free maternal, repro health&trans care www.wawchealth.com

Home - West Alabama Womans Center

Health Care Without Boundaries, Health Care for Every Individual At WAWC (formerly West Alabama Women's Center), we believe that access to quality healthcare is a fundamental human right. Our mission ...

www.wawchealth.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 1h

www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Alabama sheriff under fire for Halloween display with ‘ICE’ agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros

The controversial display shows ICE agent skeletons chasing figures in sombreros, which the sheriff's wife defends as "tongue-in-cheek" while citing her own Cuban heritage.

www.al.com

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2h

Read this immediately

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 3h

Can’t wait for Alito to explain why you have a right to pray at midfield on public school property but should be shot in the head with “less” lethal ammo when you do it in front of an immigration detention facility

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 20h

Life imitates South Park imitates life...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 23h

"I don't know the details, I just saw a headline"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 23h

When did it go away to start with?

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 23h

The danger of prepping a new budget is that I always want to get all of my fantasies in. Which is why I'm currently windowshopping medical RVS...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 1d

When we switched from for profit to nonprofit, the payment I made for final taxes was somehow credited to the end of the year rather than the quarter we ended in. Two years of letter back and forth until I finally called and they found it and moved it. Still made me pay all the penalties.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 1d

Ask me sometime about the $15k I just paid on penalties for the clinic because I waited for 18 months for a response from the IRS and accrued them in the process…and it all stemmed from THEIR initial mistake.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Frank Bisignano is already wreaking havoc at the Social Security Administration.

If he tries to run his same chaotic playbook at the IRS, it could spell disaster for American taxpayers.

Trump’s new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security

The Trump administration on Monday found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: the head of the Social Security Administration.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 1d

Working on my charts for our board meeting this weekend and yall, my heart...

ugly green chart showing patient growth, with 2023 being under 1000 visits, 2024 being around 1200 visits, and 2025 (which only has reporting through September) having 1500 visits

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2d

Because it's not enough to provide care, WAWC believes in community-building, too, we are proud to announce we have become the fiscal sponsor of The Obsidian Milk Collective, a nonprofit that will improve breast feeding policy and support for Black mamas in the state.

givebutter.com/obsidian

Support The Obsidian Milk Collective and Help Black Mamas and Babies Thrive!

Give Today to Strengthen Black Breastfeeding Equity

givebutter.com

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 2d

Schools were not forcing kids to have transgender surgery.

Babies were not being aborted after they were born.

Migrants were not crossing the border to vote for Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump is a pathological liar and, if you believed this shit, you are a pathological dumbass.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2d

(And it’s only the first year)

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2d

Always

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

I just want to keep saying that tear gas is

1) an abortifacient

2) extremely painful and scary

3) outright dangerous for people with respiratory issues

4) has effects, especially reproductive health effects, that long outlast the acute stage of exposure. I'm talking months of symptoms.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2d

I love you

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker should mobilize them first. The entire Illinois Army National Guard. Order them to protect Illinois residents from menacing outsiders, regardless of who they work for.

Trump to federalize Illinois National Guard, Pritzker says

“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum," Pritzker said.

www.politico.com

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 3d

Last time I checked no one was holding mold hostage so no one else could make a competitive drug or buying off other drug companies with collusionary contracts to protect penicillin

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 3d

And this is why once I accidentally ended up in health care I stayed. Because once I saw that prices are literally made up and a collusion between different arms of the system I just wanted to be there to note it and disrupt it.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

www.propublica.org

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 3d

On top of everything else wrong with this, let’s hope they don’t let Patel design it

Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 3d

I have never seen this and now I’m even sadder :(