We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

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There was a refrigerated truck driver who parked across the street from my house to sleep in his truck because the mortuary on my street arranged for him to not get tickets or be disturbed and for him to shower in the closed car wash so he didn’t have to go home and potentially infect his family.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

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Has anybody seen Mexican oilcloth in NYC anywhere? The papel picado place I bought it before in sunset park seems closed.

All the ladies on Flatbush today were wearing an adult version of this dress and I almost died of jealousy. When I got adult money, I used it to buy a replacement copy of this book.

This is so lovely. Christine articulates the pleasure I’ve had traveling with my teens the past couple years as they experience places that I have BIG feelings about.

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨@xtinehlee.bsky.social · 2w ago

I squeezed in a bit of writing while traveling through South Korea. On the multiple narratives of a place. What it means to one person is not what it means to another. Aka the Han River. christinehlee.substack.com/p/the-han-ri...

If you work in an office, on a film set, or hold events regularly, pick up pre-cut foil & a sleeve of containers with secure lids and get to know your local mutual aid folks or identify your closest community fridge. I just packed up breakfast for 30 from a film shoot that wrapped quickly.

Hate that my Haitian brothers and sisters are losing their TPS status today. I pray for their peace and protection. I also want to remind every other American with African heritage that immigration enforcers can’t tell the difference between Black Americans and Haitians. Expect to be questioned.

Our mutual aid distro ran out of hot meals in 25 minutes last night. Usually, it takes 90 and we’ve even had leftovers to put in community fridge. People are frantic for any donations we have to distribute. The increased precarity is palpable.

sarah zedig 🐐@hmsnofun.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's not just that means testing unfairly gatekeeps care from people on the edges of the economic goldilocks zone. the logic ripples out through culture and influences how we talk about poverty, race, and disability. we do not talk about helping people without first talking about who not to help.

Everyone cooking for the Flatbush distro lives in walking distance today so I got to bring the table and some odds and ends via cart and it is such a delight to do a task like this on foot on a glorious day.

👀 flaminghydra.com/retractatus/

Retractatus

The thing about a retractable belt stanchion, in an airport, in a movie theater, in a shopping mall, is that it isn’t stopping anyone. You can go under, over, and around. You can just unhook the thing...

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J.D. Connor@jdconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am about to drop a @flaminghydra.com piece so niche, so overwrought, so drenched in my own obsessions that someone ought to run a wellness check

In this case, after proposing the rule in December and receiving more than 30,000 comments, the administration is not advancing the rule. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Trump's HHS shelves threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be pushing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

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More prominent people need to speak out and keep at it. This feckless, immoral bunch needs to be resisted at every turn.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

In Opinion Ending Temporary Protected Status for 330,000 Haitians would be disastrous, retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré says. “Haiti’s instability is not for want of their efforts to build a functioning state; it is in large part a result of failed policy on the part of the international community.”

re: polls showing that Americans want to keep their employer provided insurance, the key thing to emphasize is that nobody gets to decide that already. fired or switch jobs, or your boss decides to change plans, which can and does happen all the time, poof

the mutual aid networks here in ATX are stretched thinner than ever and they simply can't substitute for a deliberately broken system. it's enraging.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.

You need to be doing more meetings, teach-ins, play dates, and parties and serving real food to people and their kids.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Page One. @nytimes.com

The Gen X delight in just throwing money down the drain at an arcade cannot be contained.

This is phenomenal journalism. As I read, I had to keep stopping to scroll up and zoom in to see the described artistry given the new context.

Baltimore Beat@baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 3w ago

The process of recycling scrap fabric from clothing, furniture, and other used textiles is part of what binds memory work to this art medium, with artists stitching each quilt into a repository of artifacts with a story to tell. These quilts are born with a purpose. baltimorebeat.com/the-women-up...

if you come for our neighbors you will have to come through us "Come Thru Us" performed by Evan Greer's Signal Chat at City Winery, opening for Billy Bragg on 6/30/26

The kind of people whose loss we should be mourning. Forget Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. Remember people like Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, who put good out into the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...

Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, Who Gave Backpacks to Those in Need, Die Days Apart (Gift Article)

The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.

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Masked thugs took one of my neighbors two days ago after profiling him on the street. Connect with your neighbors. Do it again next week. Make sure you have each other’s numbers.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE has increased operations in NYC, with an uptick in reported sightings across Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Most recent sightings were in Coney Island (BK), Corona (QNS), Jackson Heights (QNS), and Bushwick (BK). The ICE hotline is back online after being down for a month: 229-304-8720

Spot the find!

Listen to women. We told you what we saw.

@governor.ny.gov When my credit card was stolen and used in the middle of the night, I was alerted and the charges never even touched my account. New card in 36 hours. If your contracts with providers don’t have consumer protection built in, that’s shady AF & you need to fix it now, not in a year

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 4w ago

Following an article from The City Reporter, elected officials demand that New York take steps to stop EBT fund theft and to reimburse victims so that they can eat. But Gov. Kathy Hochul dug in her heels, telling people to just file police reports. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/08/l...

🚨 ICE Kills Again, Must Finally be Abolished "Our communities deserve to live free from fear, and that means ending ICE’s lawless terror by finally abolishing the agency." Murad Awawdeh

New transit payment systems in NYC & around the country, run by a company with ex-military contractor executives & a partnership with Palantir, collect data on movements of riders and haven't explained what they do with it, including whether they give it to ICE. prospect.org/2026/07/06/t...

Tech Industry Transit Systems Endanger Immigrants, Advocates Fear - The American Prospect

Transit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir.

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There’s still time to bid on sea -found treasures and fight voter suppression at the @romancingthevote.com auction! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Seaglass & Mudlark Rare Finds Trove

Auction item 'Seaglass & Mudlark Rare Finds Trove' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last mo.

remember that every bid you make or every “buy it now” you invest in for a @romancingthevote.com auction item is going to Vote Riders and The Southern Coalition for Social Justice. You are helping fight voter suppression!! www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

NY Friends! Do you hate all this patriotic nonsense? Marcela’s comedy show in Crown Heights benefits the Flatbush mutual aid distro and truly keeps us going! We use funds to reimburse groceries for cooks, buy diapers, iced tea and the odd pizza. We’ve been feeding 80 hot meals a week for 2+ years!

Hey there beachcombers and mudlarks and landlocked crows: bid on some sparkly treasures for DEMOCRACY at the @romancingthevote.com auction! And I just realized I forgot to include a special whistle, so the winner will get to pick what I put in! #beachcombing #seaglassing #mudlark

Maureen Flaherty@maureenflaherty.bsky.social · last mo.

Ok beachcomber friends! My auction lot of excellent treasures is now live! A Frozen Charlotte head! A frosty stopper! A Bennington marble! And soooo many more finds to support on the ground efforts to uphold democracy where it’s most vulnerable. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Ok these cats are officially useless. There is a GIANT centipede over there and these damn numties played with it without dispatching it and now I’m gonna have to make undignified noises crossing the living room to get to bed.