Amanda in Atlanta

*low whistle*

In hell.

Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t The state is in the midst of an outbreak, but its health department has been mostly silent.

"'There has been no—capital N, capital O—communication to physicians, in particular pediatricians, about the outbreak,' Jeffrey Goldhagen, a pediatrician at the University of Florida at Jacksonville and the former head of the Duval County health department, told me."

'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement.

ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days.

The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished.

Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me.

My latest for @nbcnews.com

Hawley Introduces Bill to Ban Chemical Abortion Drug, Hosts Press Conference Featuring Pro-Life Testimonies & Leaders - Josh Hawley WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) hosted a press conference to unveil his new legislation to ban the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and empower women harmed by the drug to sue ...

This bill would need 60 votes in the Senate, which it won't get, but my god is it insulting. "Congress must act now to protect the health and safety of women.”

Women need protection from creeps like Josh Hawley trying to force them to give birth

I will not be honoring a racist, white feminist icon during Black Women’s History month on the 6th anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s murder.

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Fresh details emerge for Atlanta Civic Center's potential future First phase envisions “high-density, mixed-income anchor” for Old Fourth Ward’s western fringe

I'm sorry, but a five-story, 148-unit building two blocks away from a heavy rail station is nowhere close to “high-density, mixed-income anchor”.

This is between Downtown and Midtown. You can build 50 stories and nobody would bat an eye.

Atlanta, stop gaslighting us.

I am harping on this because it is astounding how many people are saying this shit. Antisemitism is a centuries-old form of hate. Blood libel conspiracy theories predate the creation of a Jewish state by hundreds of years. I am not a Zionist, but this is a profoundly naive and ahistorical view.

Calling other people "rats" is, uh, loudly xenophobic.

Brooklyn Nurses Lose Health Care For Weeks Despite $15M From State The Brooklyn Hospital Center received a fraction of requested aid — and it’s not enough to reinstate more than 400 nurses’ health benefits.

Brooklyn Hospital is in serious fiscal trouble — and are not paying for its nurses’ health benefits because of it

$15M in emergency funding from the state isn’t going to solve the problem; one lawmaker called it a trickle of what’s needed

My office is almost exactly a mile from Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Not loving that right now.

Couldn’t sleep again so I got to work at 6:30 a.m. It’s going to be a long day.

Good morning everyone.

A mushroom on a woodland floor. It has a double stalk and from this angle it looks very like a pair of legs, a human bottom and a hitched up skirt exposing same.

Looks like a fun guy.

this is what happens when people in office think the armed forces should prioritize "warfighters" and not "logistics"

Of those, about .003 percent are trans. That’s less than one-third the proportion that trans ppl constitute in the US population.🧵

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.

This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

I’m just going to say it, please stay away from World Cup games.

“When war damages historic monuments, more than architecture is lost. Fragments of cultural memory that have endured for centuries disappear with them.

Once destroyed, these monuments cannot truly be replaced.”

the state of israel, like apartheid south africa, like the jim crow south, like nazi germany, has determined that crimes against a certain type of person, no matter how heinous, aren't crimes because the victims are not people. there is no "but them first" defense of israel that can stand up to it

United States is right now committing a brutal act of collective punishment of the Cuban people, depriving people of basic means for survival. We cannot allow this to happen. The 21st of March is the International Day of Solidarity with Cuba. On that day, the Nuestra América Convoy arrives in Havana, carrying humanitarian aid by air, land, and sea. International solidarity and collective uprising are the only forces powerful enough to push back against imperialism like this. We call upon everyone to raise their voices, and take action against this brutality. Cuba has many times stood up for the world, and now it is time for the world to stand up for Cuba..

Power outages lasting up to 70 hours, food shortages, and a healthcare system in collapse are leaving Cubans without reliable access to water, medicine, or electricity. But hey, at least the US gets to fight with another country over oil.

Seconding that from another Amanda. Very much hoping that everything goes well.

“Her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to “license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight” in July and August... “Although you are the owner on record of a house in our district, license plate recognition shows that is not the place where you reside.”

Thank you, Snitty. This rings so true and mirrors my lifelong experience as well. Thank you for saying it.

Soul of the Story S3 Ep 2 | Storytelling & Birth with Midwife Winifred Burton YouTube video by SyFy Sistas Inc.

I'd have to check my exact stats for "on land" vs in/over water (how we chart the event)" but rough estimate at least a third were water births.

Just dropping that here cause it's on my mind.

Btw, ICYMI, last month I sat down with Derek Attico to talk about how one midwifes babies AND horror.

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments

Reading my copy as I monitor tiny breath sounds.

Indigenous and BW founded USian midwifery (enslaved BW/ 🙌🏾 Grand Midwives caught most of this countries babies until about 70-90 yrs ago), but not only have we been pushed out and gatekept from caring for each other we're neglected to death the most.

“student Afra Mohamed said she experienced the “full arc of hope to humiliation” last week when she was offered a postgraduate place at University of Cambridge then later the same day told the offer had been sent in “error”.”

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They hate being told no, and they also cannot tolerate the idea of women as equal and autonomous beings. And unfortunately, that is true of a whole lot more men in US society than most people on Bluesky would like to believe.

One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care About half of middle-income households said they have delayed a major life event because of medical costs, new Gallup polls found.

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One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care