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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 2h

I'm happy to see that this @jama.com report includes both direct measures, like stronger licensing laws, and indirect ones, like cleaning and greening urban blight.

Research has shown that "greening" vacant lots can reduce gun violence: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you. I don't think a lot of people realize how bad this is--and how bad it's going to get.

Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 4h

Another example of an abortion ban making doctors stay away is Tennessee.

There, the number of applicants for OB-GYN residency spots in 2024 decreased 20.9 percent from the previous year. For other medical specialties, it decreased 12.7 percent.
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a...

Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 5h

Abortion bans are making not just OB-GYNs but also doctors in other specialties avoid those states.

And the bans are getting in the way of doctors in other specialties providing the standard of care. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a...

Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises—Study

Pulmonologists, critical care doctors, even rheumatologists are struggling to adequately treat pregnant patients in states that restrict reproductive rights, new research reveals.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 5h

don't forget deporting the brown ones

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 20h

famously bad taste in *everything*

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 21h

Jurors Serve Up Justice

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

A sandwich, Shroff said, cannot be a weapon hurled with force anywhere near enough to justify federal charges, and a bulletproof vest, she said, “is definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich thrown at you.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Jury chews over fate of 'sandwich guy,' who became a D.C. hero after chucking a sub at a federal officer

Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff told the jury that "a footlong from Subway could not and certainly did not inflict bodily harm."

www.nbcnews.com

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 23h

And who's the guy in charge of public health? The one who ran out of the frame as fast as he could, away from the guy who collapsed.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, this is far from the worst thing about him--but it is profoundly embarrassing that this is our country's leader.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote this because abortion bans are harming health care in widespread ways, and this research shows how these bans are getting in the way of pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Patients are dying because of these bans.

Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent reporting from @rewirenewsgroup.com on the impacts of abortion bans across medicine, including covering our research examining the effects in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a...

Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises—Study

Pulmonologists, critical care doctors, even rheumatologists are struggling to adequately treat pregnant patients in states that restrict reproductive rights, new research reveals.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for all your insight on this!

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for sharing this. I think a lot of people don't know how widespread the resulting harm is going to be.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 7d

I appreciate the opportunity to write this story! These bans are causing such huge problems in health care.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 7d

Abortion bans are worsening health care across the board, not just pregnancy and abortion care. They're preventing doctors from providing the standard of care and making them avoid states with bans--which will exacerbate existing problems with access to care.
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a...

Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises—Study

Pulmonologists, critical care doctors, even rheumatologists are struggling to adequately treat pregnant patients in states that restrict reproductive rights, new research reveals.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 13d

They are trying to deport a CHILD who's been abused, neglected, or abandoned. Endangering a vulnerable child on purpose.

NYCLU @nyclu.org · 14d

BREAKING: ICE unlawfully arrested E.J.C.C., a 16-year-old Bronx high schooler with protective SIJ status. ICE agents illegally detained him when he appeared for a mandatory, routine check in. Now, ICE is attempting to deport him to dangerous conditions in Ecuador.

We are filing for his release.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 13d

As a freelance writer, I interview experts a lot. Today's the first day someone declined because they're an immigrant and they're afraid of having their name in an article that's critical of a government initiative. This is a professor. He loves living here and wants to be able to stay, he said.

Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 14d

How are these kids--and their parents--ever going to get over this trauma?

Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 14d

Educators and advocates say a growing number of schools are stepping in to support students who have had one or both parents detained by ICE.

How NYC schools become lifelines for children after ICE arrests their parents

Educators and advocates say a growing number of schools are stepping in to support students who have had one or both parents detained by ICE.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 14d

telling the media he doesn't know anything about whatever it is they're asking him about

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 15d

This list is full of major companies like Apple and Microsoft. Other than retreating to the wilderness and going off the grid, I don't even know how to boycott the scores of corporations that have collaborated with this regime.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

www.cnn.com

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 15d

I'm about to google how to boycott google.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 15d

Even kids in overcrowded schools get more personal space than that.

Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 15d

An ENTIRE wing of the White House!

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 17d

Even the formerly enthusiastic UT Austin hasn't agreed to it yet.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 17d

@uarizona.bsky.social Rejects Compact, Others Leave Options Open

Monday’s deadline to provide feedback on the Trump administration’s proposed deal passed with no signatories and silence from some university leaders invited to join. https://bit.ly/3Wk8cOe

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Campus shots of the University of Arizona, University of Texas in Austin and Vanderbilt University.

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Allison Torres Burtka @allisonburtka.bsky.social · 17d

And you know that thing is going to be the tackiest room ever created by humans.

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