NEW: Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. W/ @kentucky.com www.propublica.org/article/kent...

I am grieving on #Juneteenth. My cousin Tai died on Sunday in a hospital room where dignity was absent and compassion was optional. She was 53. This is what freedom delayed still looks like for Black families in America. Tai deserved better. We all do.

NEW: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public

Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.

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Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

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When Ella was 2 I made a decision to live as my full queer self. I gave my daughter the gift of a mother who honors truth. She graduates w. that truth. I raised her in the midst of religious condemnation, economic abuse, and emotional isolation. Yet I still raised her with light freedom & options.✊🏾

HHS is carrying out an illegal Reduction-in-Force (RIF), bypassing the unions, ignoring transparency, and violating procedure. This is taxpayer-funded waste and fraud that affects EVERYONE, so anyone can file a complaint with HHS Office of the Inspector General. 1/16 Here’s how: Tips.oig.hhs.gov

open.spotify.com/track/2op7tT... My wife was ‘rif-‘fired’ from 25 years of faithful civil service today. America, you will miss her service.

My Petition

Jill Scott · Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 · Song · 2004

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The world is crazy but we leaned all the way into joy anyway. My youngest baby girl, Ella, is off to senior prom. We made it y’all! ❤️❤️

🧵It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek -a time to center Black moms & a need for action. I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated. #MedSky #EpiSky

More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable. Listen as reporter @deldeib.bsky.social breaks down her investigation on this public health crisis.

New CDC data shows a 12% rise in preterm birth over the past decade—Black women continue to face the highest rates. This is a justice issue. Bold policies like paid leave & EITC work—and our Alliance Partners are bringing that change to life on the ground. #BMHW25 #PretermBirth #BirthJustice

My daughter, Maya, and I got our 2025 Atl Black Maternal Health Walk & Block Party ON today! #BMHW25

#BMHW25 is HERE! 🎉 Join BMMA, Inc. as we kick off our 8th year uplifting Black Mamas & mobilizing for change under the theme: Healing Legacies. Don’t miss today’s Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood! 💜 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/bmhw25rally #ReproJustice

boosting because good and we need more good

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders - Nursing for Women's Health www.nwhjournal.org/article/S175...

Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders

Actionable strategies to address maternal health disparities include centering Black maternal health experts’ voices in quality improvement efforts targeting systemic and institutional racism.

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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

We don't have to convince anyone of anything anymore. It's all out in the open. For good and bad.

FYI: Go into your Social Security account & download a hard copy of your LIFETIME WORK RECORD!!!! It is really easy to do.  Here is the information: Go to: the ssa.gov website. At the top of the page you want the category:  CARD & RECORD Go down to PERSONAL RECORD Print out your EARNINGS RECORD

"While there are still state and federal laws that outlaw segregation and discrimination that companies need to comply with, legal experts say this change to contracts across the federal government is significant." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

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‘Deliberate trauma’: SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/s...

‘Deliberate trauma’: SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles

Staff cuts at SAMSHA will imperil federal efforts to curb suicides and drug overdose deaths, employees say.

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You will feel SO much better and more energized & inspired watching this extraordinary array of voices giving the “State of the People,” than watching Trump’s performance. stateofthepeople.media It’s really great. This organic effort has been pulled together in 48 hours and it is fire!

State of the People | 24 Hour Marathon

The State of the People is a 24-hour livestream where we will center the truth for the people instead of letting disinformation go unchecked.

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Not even "health-related social needs" interventions are safe

genevieve caruncho-simpson@genevievecs.bsky.social · 2y ago

In cases you haven't seen this yet; released today: www.medicaid.gov/federal-poli.... While ILOS authority at 42 CFR § 438.3(e)(2) remains intact, removing HRSN-specific guidance means CMS will apply stricter scrutiny to medical appropriateness and cost-effectiveness claims.

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2y ago

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

#BlackHistoryMonth: The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity. America is segregated and so is pollution. We have the science, research, data and facts. But that's not enough. We must marry them to action. Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Homophobia wrapped in Christian love (love the sinner, hate the sin talk) is still homophobia. Some of my family members don’t understand intersectionality… still. I can’t embrace your outrage against fascism in this way.

I feel like a frog in a pot of boiling water, and the bubbles are starting to boil. No one is coming to save us.

a cartoon of a frog looking out of a blue pot

Alt: a cartoon of a stressed out frog looking out of a blue pot of slow boiling water

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