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Christine Grimaldi (she/her)
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Writer: Lit Nonfic—publish or represent me! Journalist: Abortions—help me fund them! Co-founder: @theflytrapmedia.com Podcast: @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social Parent: 👧🏼 and 🐰 Mother: Fucker Media: Don https://linktr.ee/yourombudsmom
The weather on Juneteeth was incredible. Make of that what you will.
seriously though we really have to make DC a state after the garbage they've put up with
This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense
The entire DC metro area — a place where people actually live — is being blasted with the roar of this B-1B right now. It is MIDNIGHT!
B-1 bomber sounds like it’s directly above the house at midnight. The fireworks just started, too. Freedom 250, my ass. @freedcproject.bsky.social
My friend from Vermont t was trying to go to Austin through DC and their flight was canceled. Apparently no one from the feds told the airlines ahead of time about the flyovers shutting down DC airspace completely.
Christine Grimaldi (she/her)@yourombudsmom.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis afternoon, I returned from a 4-year-old’s birthday party where the roar of fighter jets almost drowned out the birthday song. The vibes in D.C. are off, I write in this week’s newsletter. America 250 doesn’t look good on the nation’s capital—my home. vendetta.ghost.io/grudge-of-th...
This afternoon, I returned from a 4-year-old’s birthday party where the roar of fighter jets almost drowned out the birthday song. The vibes in D.C. are off, I write in this week’s newsletter. America 250 doesn’t look good on the nation’s capital—my home. vendetta.ghost.io/grudge-of-th...
Grudge of the Week—America 250
It is July 3 in the nation’s capital—my home. I just returned from a 4-year-old’s birthday party in the 100 degree-combined heat and humidity. Fighter jets flying solo and in formations of four almost...
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For this week’s newsletter, I wrote about dual anniversaries: becoming a mother while reporting on the end of Roe. vendetta.ghost.io/grudge-of-th...
Grudge of the Week—Roe and the Mother: Dual Anniversaries
May 2, 2022. Twelve days postpartum. Ten pre-dawn mornings since I pressed my hands to the low curved ceiling inches from my face and realized I had woken up in an MRI machine. Eight nights back in my...
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Correction: It wasn’t Congress who rolled back high speed chase laws for Park Police — it was Trump. www.courthousenews.com/another-high...
Another high-speed car chase in DC spotlights Park Police’s norm-shattering pursuit guidelines
The Trump administration last year handed the federal police force, charged with protecting national parks, expanded authority to “chase until the wheels fall off.” It’s a decision experts say sets Pa...
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Free DC@freedcproject.bsky.social · 3mo agoU.S. Park Police killed someone today in a high-speed chase near Woodley Park. DC leaders prohibited these chases — but last year, Congress overturned DC’s law as part of this regime’s psychotic desire to hunt people. DC leaders know what DC communities need. When Congress interferes, people die.
This is such a busy area, and on such a nice day here. This tragedy was preventable, and we are lucky it wasn’t much worse.
Free DC@freedcproject.bsky.social · 3mo agoAn eyewitness account:
U.S. Park Police killed someone today in a high-speed chase near Woodley Park. DC leaders prohibited these chases — but last year, Congress overturned DC’s law as part of this regime’s psychotic desire to hunt people. DC leaders know what DC communities need. When Congress interferes, people die.
A clinic temporarily lost access to some funding for the month of June, so there’s a high need for financial help for abortion patients right now in Pennsylvania. Donate today if you can to the Caravan Fund with the Autonomous Body Shop as we try to fill the gaps. givebutter.com/theautonomou...
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Not sure why reporters are still saying this when, with 73 percent of the vote counted, Janeese is ahead by double digits in all but D.C.'s whitest, wealthiest ward.
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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Hey so … A really cool thing is that @lyz.bsky.social republished my Transgender for Everybody essay on her wonderful newsletter Men Yell at Me … I encourage you all to subscribe and to support her … Please read my manifesto if you haven’t yet! Thank you Lyz!!! www.patreon.com/posts/160655...
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It was really fun talking gaaaaaaaaaaaaay overseers on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social with @katelynburns.com & @yourombudsmom.bsky.social. It was really fun to thrown down for Pride Month about of the CBS LGBTs (Andy v Bari) youtu.be/1BMrHVcvKYU?...
Bari Weiss vs. Anderson Cooper: Both Are Overseers. Here's Why. (ft. Steven Thrasher)
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I need everyone to read this and understand just how inspiring @rhavote.bsky.social and @garinwastaken.bsky.social are to so many of us (and then marvel at how small Pepper was!)
Autonomy News@autonomynews.co · 4mo agoAfter her viral Jezebel interview in 2016, @rhavote.bsky.social became an advocate, eventually founding @patientforward.bsky.social with her husband, Garin. In this op-ed, she reflects on learning from mistakes, and how storytelling has shifted the cultural conversation about later abortion.
After her viral Jezebel interview in 2016, @rhavote.bsky.social became an advocate, eventually founding @patientforward.bsky.social with her husband, Garin. In this op-ed, she reflects on learning from mistakes, and how storytelling has shifted the cultural conversation about later abortion.
10 Years Ago, My 32-Week Abortion Story Went Viral. Here’s What I’ve Learned Since.
After sharing my experience with Jezebel, I became an advocate focused on eliminating barriers to abortion care throughout pregnancy.
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Whatever the opposite of the juice is, that’s what he has
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoVance: You can't boo me. I'm the Vice President of the United States
Life happens. Babies are born. Parents get old. My friends and I are the age where we need knee and hip surgery. At some point, we will all need time to care and be cared for. NPWF found paid leave is the difference between making ends meet or being in debt nationalpartnership.org/families-can...
Families Can't Afford to Go Without Paid Leave | National Partnership for Women & Families
We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...
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it is so wild to admit in stories like these that you had $80 million dollars in podcast revenue and were laying people off left and right.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoBreaking News: James Murdoch is buying New York magazine, Vox Media’s podcast network and the Vox website for more than $300 million, a dramatic expansion in U.S. media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.