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Never underestimate this administration's keen ability to sow chaos and no doubt the latest EMTALA "guidance" will have a negative effect on doctors and patients all across the U.S. Via @themeteor.bsky.social wearethemeteor.com/trump-admins...

Trump's Updated EMTALA Guidance Tells Docs, "You're On Your Own"

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the 2022 guidance did “not reflect the policy of this administration.”

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"'It’s not as if men’s sport is getting 10% more of the funding than women’s sport,' says Mumford. 'It’s usually 90% of funding.' Imagine how much better women athletes could perform if they were given access to the degree of training and resources those dollars can buy." via @themeteor.bsky.social

Just Let Everyone Play

Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport, argues that women’s sport isn’t necessarily the feminist win we’ve been led to believe it is.

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It's the 20th anniversary of #GreysAnatomy! I wrote about its legacy last year for @themeteor.bsky.social wearethemeteor.com/what-have-we...

What Have We Learned from 20 Years of Grey's Anatomy?

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but this week, the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy began its 21st season, making it the longest-running primetime medical show in history.

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@gloriasteinem.bsky.social is well into her 10th decade—and still leading us forward 🎉 You can celebrate by supporting Gloria's Foundation, which Steinem has established to (among other things) help turn NYC into a lasting "sanctuary for the feminist movement." www.gloriasfoundation.org/donation

“What’s in SB 2880? Well…everything, basically.” Get all the details on the “ten-gallon nightmare” of an abortion bill just introduced in Texas in the latest issue of our newsletter. wearethemeteor.com/texas-sb2880...

Everything's Bigger in Texas...Including Abortion Bans

Last Friday, Texas introduced the most expansive anti-abortion bill the state has seen since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

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#MeetTheMoment 2025 is TOMORROW! Are you ready for this lineup? 🤯 Get your tickets here: themeteor.live

Banned books, radical rest, and fashion powerhouses—what a trifecta for #InternationalWomensDay! 🤩 Here’s a peek at some of what will be going down this Saturday for #MeetTheMoment at the @brooklynmuseum.org. Tickets: themeteor.live

State of the People's 24-hour livestream is the perfect counter-programming to Pres. Trump's address to Congress. Coming up at 4 PM EST: The UNDISTRACTED group chat, featuring @mspackyetti.bsky.social @profcrunk.bsky.social and @drdavidjohns.bsky.social! Watch at stateofthepeople.media

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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NYC! I'm spending International Women's Day right, by MC'ing #MeetTheMoment at the @brooklynmuseum.org with @themeteor.bsky.social! You should come because it will make your brain and heart bigger. Get tix at themeteor.live

🔥 We read banned books 🔥 This Saturday, #MeetTheMoment at the @brooklynmuseum.org will feature banned book readings by: - Actress Emmy Rossum - National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco - And author (of a banned book!) Glory Edim (@wellreadblackgirl.bsky.social) Get tickets at themeteor.live

Meet The Moment 2025

Join Us on International Women's Day at the Brooklyn Museum. The day brings together artists, journalists, athletes, activists, and other voices across generations to discuss 2025’s important issues, ...

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Meet the Moment is BACK. 🎉 Join us at the @brooklynmuseum.org on International Women’s Day, March 8, for the third year of #MeetTheMoment —a summit featuring ideas, inspiration, and conversation with some of today’s most influential women and nonbinary leaders. Tickets: themeteor.live

⛔️ Staff at the National Science Foundation have been instructed to flag any grant that include words that may violate executive orders. Flagged projects may be at risk of losing their funding, per @washingtonpost.com It doesn’t look like “man" or “white” appear anywhere on the list though 🧐

Last week on UNDISTRACTED, @mspackyetti.bsky.social sat down with @shannonrwatts.bsky.social, the founder of @momsdemand.bsky.social, to talk about what *actually* works when it comes to movement-building and what we can learn from the fight for gun reform.

"The manosphere won’t go down without a weird, gross fight… But that’s all the more reason to double down on creating an alternative.” @shannonrwatts.bsky.social on our need for a womansphere. wearethemeteor.com/break-up-wit...

Break Up With the Manosphere

Trump’s victory wasn’t just a loss for the women who voted against him; it was a cultural rejection of female power facilitated in large part by the manosphere.

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My new piece for @themeteor.bsky.social‬⁩: “Unlike the manosphere, which thrives online by feeding anger and fear, I’m advocating for real, face-to-face relationships that foster compassion and collaboration. The womansphere won’t just build ideas, but bonds.”

Break Up With the Manosphere

Trump’s victory wasn’t just a loss for the women who voted against him; it was a cultural rejection of female power facilitated in large part by the manosphere.

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"You can’t rewrite a statute with a Sharpie,” says Amalea Smirniotopoulos of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund on Trump's DEI orders. Denying someone a job on the basis of race or gender is STILL ILLEGAL. There may be resistance, but you still have rights.

"Overriding the Fifth Amendment for a vast number of people is not a sensible way to protect women from being murdered." – Shannon Melero

No trial? No Problem

The Laken Riley Act "takes away some of the basic fundamental due process tenets of our legal system" for undocumented immigrants.

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I wrote about how Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have always been inextricably linked, especially at this years Grammys where they're both vying for Album of the Year wearethemeteor.com/taylor-swift... via @themeteor.bsky.social

Two Pop Stars, Both Alike in Dignity

At this year's Grammys, the real competition is between Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, who have 157 nominations and 46 wins between them.

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A guy who peddles anti-vaccine conspiracies, allegedly assaulted his family’s nanny, and was described by his own cousin as preying on the parents of sick children could be in charge of the federal agency that controls access to life-saving treatment and the future of medical research. 🫠

Ready to get to work? @mspackyetti.bsky.social @profcrunk.bsky.social & @drdavidjohns.bsky.social have our calls to action on the latest episode of UNDISTRACTED. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

“We are the Evidence” MLK, Inauguration Day and The Road Ahead w/ The Group Chat

Podcast Episode · UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham · 01/23/2025 · 45m

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Laura E@laura-eastman.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week's episode of #undistracted was 💯 as always. But the opening. The opening had me in tears and I need to remember these words. Thought you might need them to. Who's ready to get to work? @mspackyetti.bsky.social @themeteor.bsky.social

Day 2 feels like the time to re-up the post below, with some additional tips from when @samhita.bsky.social interviewed me for @themeteor.bsky.social in July (scan to end). Btw, I have a chapter on how to combat disinformation in my media literacy graphic novel, forthcoming from First Second Books.

Three Questions About Disinformation

In moments of political violence rumor, propaganda, bots, and bad actors always pop up right away, flooding the zone with disinformation.

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Jennifer L. Pozner@jennpozner.bsky.social · 2y ago

Media and digital literacy are key to disrupting disinformation. --clapping back/arguing just helps to amplify bad faith accounts & false material --don't share "funny" disinfo to dunk on it; some will still believe it --BLOCK, REPORT, and tell others to do same *without* sharing disinfo content

Feels right to kick off our Blueskying with some GOOD news. Congratulations to Cecile Richards, recipient of a Presidential Medal of Honor for her decades of work on abortion access and democracy. 🏆🏆🏆