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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 1d

Doomscrolling reaching epic levels not seen since early Covid lockdown

Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 15d

One of the most popular posts I’ve ever had on TikTok is about the invisible homeless folks that live in extended stay hotels. I’ve had close to a thousand ppl say they currently live or have lived in them recently.

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 15d

One of the advantages of being sober this long is my role model status has died off a bit so I can return to being the petty person I truly am

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 20d

Anything going on in the news recently? I guess if there was, we would not be able to talk about it because fuck free speech

Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 26d

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Origins of Harm Reduction with Tracey Helton Mitchell 1

YouTube video by Sad Francisco

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 27d

The past 24s have been a great example of why I don’t post my first or even second thoughts when I comes to current events. I was screened for a clearance last years and they went through ten years of my social media posts including likes, comments, etc

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · Aug 26

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Aug 21

I don’t post as much on social media because right wing operatives tried to get me in trouble at my place of employment. I have three kids. I need my job. Hence they mostly won.

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ugh guess I will have to abandon my tiktok account with nearly 50k followers if I don’t be part of an authoritarian propaganda machine

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Aug 2

This administration has sucked so much of my energy away but that’s a good idea

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Aug 2

I feel weird about the fact that I spent twenty years of my life normalizing Naloxone use and now it’s SO normalized that SAMSHA wants to completely spilt it off from other forms of harm reduction. What freaking times we are living in.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · Jul 30

Free plums and propaganda.

Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 16

Voting is not harm reduction. Please call it anything else.

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 16

He currently is dealing with cancer stuff. Please think positive thoughts for him and his family

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 5

The other day I saw three seniors out protesting Trump at an intersection on a random Tuesday and another person had a Trans rights sign. I feel like there’s a tiny bit of hope

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 4

It’s extremely unfortunate

Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 4

I’ve seen trafficked teenagers try to get their pimps convicted of sex crimes and conspiracy charges. The Diddy trial was way too similar. The jury would have trouble emphasizing with literal children because “they could have just left”

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 4

My primary care Dr is prescribing me ozempic after I’ve spent six weeks in the weight loss part of my HMO. Since quitting drugs, I’ve lost and regained 50ish pounds at least 5 times. Very nervous about the whole thing.

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 2

True

Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 2

New cat reveal.
Welcome Percy.

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 2

I only watch the news for three mins in the morning, three mins in the afternoon, and three mins before bed. My mind can only take so much bad news at one time. Oh btw fuck the bill beautiful bill forever and always

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Death pays a visit

Saying goodbye to a beloved family friend

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Jun 22

Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 11

honestly one of the most encouraging recent developments is the naked opportunism of Governor Gavin Newsom, and I pray that there are copycats

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‘Come and get me’: Gavin Newsom has entered the meme war

Locked in an online showdown with Trump over the L.A. protests, Newsom is styling himself as an internet-era champion of the left.

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