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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 6d

My quarterly bill is due for accessing federal court documents. These docs *should* be free but aren’t—though I do share my uploads via the great @free.law project. Support @autonomynews.co with a paid membership or tip jar offering to cover these costs
www.autonomynews.co/support/

October 2025 PACER Quarterly Invoice
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Please pay the amount below prior to the due date.
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Account Contact: Susan Rinkunas
Balance Due: $39.70
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 6d

ICYMI, @susanrinkunas.com got the lowdown on the @plancpills.bsky.social site redesign for @autonomynews.co.

One update I appreciate: A feature that tells people when they can get their abortion covered by Medicaid in their state, so hopefully fewer people will pay for pills they could get free.

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8d

RIP, Diane. 😩

The First Wives Club - You Don't Own Me

YouTube video by WatchWithMati

youtu.be

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 10d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 9d

New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 9d

The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9d

If you are able to, get out and join with others.

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@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · 10d

Happy #dafday! Did you know that our Division of Women’s Health on Emergency Medicine—the only one in the US!— is 100% reliant on your tax-deductible donations to further our mission to end gender-based care disparities in the ER? From miscarriage management to cardiac emergencies, we need you.

A QR donation code on a pale lavender background.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11d

NEW: Planned Parenthood's Manhattan clinic will stop seeing patients as of November 1 as affiliate prepares to sell the building amid budget shortfalls. Sale announced in March
Patients told to schedule at Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens (LIC) clinics or virtual
www.plannedparenthood.org/health-cente...

screenshot:
The Manhattan Health Center will no longer see patients as of November 1, 2025. Book in-person services at our Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens health centers or a virtual visit through our Virtual Health Center.

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 18d

it's the five year anniversary of this publication in @nejm.org that demonstrated protection against cancer by the HPV vaccine - #OncSky + #MedSky.

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NPR @npr.org · 18d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 19d

"In the 17-year period, the proportion of vaccinated women who tested positive for #HPV types covered by the later 4-valent vaccine..dropped 94.2%, and fell 75.7% for types covered by the current 9-valent vaccine"

#OncSky + #MedSky via @medpagetoday.com

www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

HPV Shot May Protect Unvaccinated Women Too

'We have that potential to actually eliminate cervical cancer in our lifetimes, researcher says

www.medpagetoday.com

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@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · 25d

Over the yrs I've had many heated discussions with disability rights friends about this technology. I still think it can be an unmitigated force for good in the world. Doesn't mean it can't be misused, but my Gd! To see that this is possible coming out of Rosh Hashana is quite something.

@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · 25d

Cried reading this news. It feels like we are at an inflection point for gene therapy & previously incurable diseases. I do worry about disparities in access, but that's a solvable problem if we make it one.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29d

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

www.propublica.org

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · Sep 20

Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease.

All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn.

This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3

#medsky #pedsky🛟😷

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@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · Sep 19

It’s all the same playbook.

You know..... @winteroak.bsky.social · Sep 19

Soooooo they're applying abortion counselling strategies to vaccinations???

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@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is a horrifying new trend.

Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Sep 19

Great article in The Cut on designer prenatal vitamins and how companies are making bank by influencers peddling unproven folate www.thecut.com/article/fola...

Your Prenatal Vitamin Might Be Missing an Essential Ingredient

Trendy brands are selling supplements that are missing the one ingredient shown to prevent major birth defects.

www.thecut.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 19

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.

Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

Screenshot of post on X from VA Secretary Doug Collins. The text reads: @ProPublica is an extreme liberal news outlet that will do anything to make the Trump Administration look bad. But this week, the far-left editors there reached a new low by sending @VernalColeman to stalk @DeptVetAffairs employees at their homes. This creepy behavior will discourage good people from coming to work at VA. @ProPublica, please do better and stop letting your hatred of the Trump Administration continue to warp your judgment.

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@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · Sep 19

I confess myself pleasantly surprised.

Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · Sep 19

AMA representative is tearing the current ACIP a new one, suggesting they are biased and cherry-picking data.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 19

It needs to be understood that every incremental step that RFK Jr. and ACIP take to create barriers against vaccination means that fewer and fewer people have access to lifesaving vaccines…until no one can access them at all.

This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · Sep 17

I just learned about the new US Measles Tracker from
@johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social.

#medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷

graph of cumulative measles in US by year. Top is 2025 in blue and is just above 2019 outbreak in gray.

US map showing measles cases. Blue is local measles spread and red is measles imported after international travel. 1474 Measles cases this year so far.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · Sep 18

The decimation of public media in the U.S. begins here, in central Pennsylvania, with the closing of WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate.
web.archive.org/web/20250917...

‘Never would have imagined it’: Pennsylvania NPR station set to be first to shutter following Trump’s cuts

WPSU, which has been broadcasting out of Penn State since 1953, will shut down following federal cuts to public media organizations

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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · Sep 18

State & local officials are pulling back on fluoridation in MI, FL & elsewhere, even though it is the most cost effective method to prevent tooth decay, especially for vast numbers of people in the US without insurance or access to a dentist. / by @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending...

www.propublica.org

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Sep 18

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Sep 18

The meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is starting now. They will vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine (now given at birth) until baby is 1 month old, as long as mom tests negative. www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - September 18, 2025 - Day 1 of 2

YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

www.youtube.com

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · Sep 18

There's SO MUCH going on that I'm sure this news will get lost, but: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that lets private citizens to sue abortion providers who ship pills into the state.

Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Abortion pill providers targeted by new Texas law refuse ‘anticipatory obedience’

Greg Abbott’s latest move fuels clash between US red states and blue-state shield laws protecting abortion care

www.theguardian.com

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