These Blue Skies
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These Blue Skies
@theseblueskies.bsky.social
Corporate lawyer to pay the bills. COVID conscious. U5 vax / clean air advocate. Reproductive rights are basic human rights. Hoping for bluer skies, readying for the fight in the meantime.
What you don't know CAN hurt you. Directly from the authoritarian playbook of avoiding accountability by defanging oversight, all with the goal of preserving control over women's bodies at the cost of women's and children's lives.
Georgia dismissed all 32 members of its maternal mortality committee last year in response to ProPublica obtaining internal reports in which the committee detailed the “preventable” deaths of two women.

Now the state has relaunched the committee, but officials won’t say who the current members are.
Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year
Before ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the names of committee members had been publicly released. Now, Georgia says releasing the identities would be a…
propub.li
March 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Very much over this whole setting fire to the Constitution with his technofeudalist co-president thing.

If you're in the area and can join, let's stand up together for real American values in the face of the Trump/Musk administrative coup tomorrow.

events.pol-rev.com/events/39778...
No Kings on Presidents Day - Peaceful Protest
Feb 17, 2025, 12:00:00 PM - GMT-5 - Norwalk City Hall, 06851, Norwalk, United States - Enough is enough! Trump is setting fire to the rule of law and empowering, Musk, an unelected, technofeudalist b...
events.pol-rev.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by These Blue Skies
In 2023, ProPublica reported how Mayron Hollis faced a life-threatening pregnancy under Tennessee’s abortion ban. A photographer and reporter then continued to follow the family for a year.

This is their story.
(Published Feb. 2024)
She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
propub.li
December 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by These Blue Skies
Originalism’s selective abdication of regulatory authority for novel tech is infuriating. Somehow, the most cutting edge forms of weaponry are within the scope of the Second Amendment, but money laundering is fine as long as you use a crypto token. 🤬🙈
November 27, 2024 at 12:01 AM