Asha Immanuelle
@asha617.bsky.social
Mama, wife 🏳️🌈, nurse, gardner, community builder, data nerd, Black maternal health advocate, reproductive justice champion, social care integrator, dreamer✨in pursuit of liberation. AIM-AHEAD #CLINAQ Fellow #MS warrior #onelove
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Asha Immanuelle
@asha617.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Sharing my only viral tweet from the bad place for posterity. It was for #lesbianvisibilityweek. Thanks @ujuanya.bsky.social for the call to action for lesbian elders to show and prove. 🌈
I am grieving on #Juneteenth. My cousin Tai died on Sunday in a hospital room where dignity was absent and compassion was optional. She was 53.
This is what freedom delayed still looks like for Black families in America.
Tai deserved better. We all do.
This is what freedom delayed still looks like for Black families in America.
Tai deserved better. We all do.
June 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am grieving on #Juneteenth. My cousin Tai died on Sunday in a hospital room where dignity was absent and compassion was optional. She was 53.
This is what freedom delayed still looks like for Black families in America.
Tai deserved better. We all do.
This is what freedom delayed still looks like for Black families in America.
Tai deserved better. We all do.
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NEW: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public
Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
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Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
May 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
When Ella was 2 I made a decision to live as my full queer self. I gave my daughter the gift of a mother who honors truth. She graduates w. that truth. I raised her in the midst of religious condemnation, economic abuse, and emotional isolation. Yet I still raised her with light freedom & options.✊🏾
May 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
When Ella was 2 I made a decision to live as my full queer self. I gave my daughter the gift of a mother who honors truth. She graduates w. that truth. I raised her in the midst of religious condemnation, economic abuse, and emotional isolation. Yet I still raised her with light freedom & options.✊🏾
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HHS is carrying out an illegal Reduction-in-Force (RIF), bypassing the unions, ignoring transparency, and violating procedure. This is taxpayer-funded waste and fraud that affects EVERYONE, so anyone can file a complaint with HHS Office of the Inspector General. 1/16
Here’s how:
Tips.oig.hhs.gov
Here’s how:
Tips.oig.hhs.gov
Tips.oig.hhs.gov
April 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
HHS is carrying out an illegal Reduction-in-Force (RIF), bypassing the unions, ignoring transparency, and violating procedure. This is taxpayer-funded waste and fraud that affects EVERYONE, so anyone can file a complaint with HHS Office of the Inspector General. 1/16
Here’s how:
Tips.oig.hhs.gov
Here’s how:
Tips.oig.hhs.gov
open.spotify.com/track/2op7tT... My wife was ‘rif-‘fired’ from 25 years of faithful civil service today. America, you will miss her service.
My Petition
Jill Scott · Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 · Song · 2004
open.spotify.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
open.spotify.com/track/2op7tT... My wife was ‘rif-‘fired’ from 25 years of faithful civil service today. America, you will miss her service.
The world is crazy but we leaned all the way into joy anyway. My youngest baby girl, Ella, is off to senior prom. We made it y’all! ❤️❤️
April 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The world is crazy but we leaned all the way into joy anyway. My youngest baby girl, Ella, is off to senior prom. We made it y’all! ❤️❤️
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🧵It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek -a time to center Black moms & a need for action.
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🧵It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek -a time to center Black moms & a need for action.
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
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More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable.
Listen as reporter @deldeib.bsky.social breaks down her investigation on this public health crisis.
Listen as reporter @deldeib.bsky.social breaks down her investigation on this public health crisis.
April 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable.
Listen as reporter @deldeib.bsky.social breaks down her investigation on this public health crisis.
Listen as reporter @deldeib.bsky.social breaks down her investigation on this public health crisis.
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New CDC data shows a 12% rise in preterm birth over the past decade—Black women continue to face the highest rates.
This is a justice issue.
Bold policies like paid leave & EITC work—and our Alliance Partners are bringing that change to life on the ground.
#BMHW25 #PretermBirth #BirthJustice
This is a justice issue.
Bold policies like paid leave & EITC work—and our Alliance Partners are bringing that change to life on the ground.
#BMHW25 #PretermBirth #BirthJustice
April 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
New CDC data shows a 12% rise in preterm birth over the past decade—Black women continue to face the highest rates.
This is a justice issue.
Bold policies like paid leave & EITC work—and our Alliance Partners are bringing that change to life on the ground.
#BMHW25 #PretermBirth #BirthJustice
This is a justice issue.
Bold policies like paid leave & EITC work—and our Alliance Partners are bringing that change to life on the ground.
#BMHW25 #PretermBirth #BirthJustice
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#BMHW25 is HERE! 🎉
Join BMMA, Inc. as we kick off our 8th year uplifting Black Mamas & mobilizing for change under the theme: Healing Legacies.
Don’t miss today’s Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood! 💜
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/bmhw25rally
#ReproJustice
Join BMMA, Inc. as we kick off our 8th year uplifting Black Mamas & mobilizing for change under the theme: Healing Legacies.
Don’t miss today’s Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood! 💜
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/bmhw25rally
#ReproJustice
April 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#BMHW25 is HERE! 🎉
Join BMMA, Inc. as we kick off our 8th year uplifting Black Mamas & mobilizing for change under the theme: Healing Legacies.
Don’t miss today’s Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood! 💜
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/bmhw25rally
#ReproJustice
Join BMMA, Inc. as we kick off our 8th year uplifting Black Mamas & mobilizing for change under the theme: Healing Legacies.
Don’t miss today’s Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood! 💜
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/bmhw25rally
#ReproJustice
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boosting because good and we need more good
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
boosting because good and we need more good
Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders - Nursing for Women's Health www.nwhjournal.org/article/S175...
Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders
Actionable strategies to address maternal health disparities include centering Black
maternal health experts’ voices in quality improvement efforts targeting systemic
and institutional racism.
www.nwhjournal.org
April 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders - Nursing for Women's Health www.nwhjournal.org/article/S175...
Reposted by Asha Immanuelle
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
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🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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We don't have to convince anyone of anything anymore. It's all out in the open. For good and bad.
March 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We don't have to convince anyone of anything anymore. It's all out in the open. For good and bad.
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FYI: Go into your Social Security account & download a hard copy of your LIFETIME WORK RECORD!!!!
It is really easy to do. Here is the information:
Go to: the ssa.gov website.
At the top of the page you want the category: CARD & RECORD
Go down to PERSONAL RECORD
Print out your EARNINGS RECORD
It is really easy to do. Here is the information:
Go to: the ssa.gov website.
At the top of the page you want the category: CARD & RECORD
Go down to PERSONAL RECORD
Print out your EARNINGS RECORD
The United States Social Security Administration | SSA
Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
ssa.gov
March 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
FYI: Go into your Social Security account & download a hard copy of your LIFETIME WORK RECORD!!!!
It is really easy to do. Here is the information:
Go to: the ssa.gov website.
At the top of the page you want the category: CARD & RECORD
Go down to PERSONAL RECORD
Print out your EARNINGS RECORD
It is really easy to do. Here is the information:
Go to: the ssa.gov website.
At the top of the page you want the category: CARD & RECORD
Go down to PERSONAL RECORD
Print out your EARNINGS RECORD
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"While there are still state and federal laws that outlaw segregation and discrimination that companies need to comply with, legal experts say this change to contracts across the federal government is significant."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"While there are still state and federal laws that outlaw segregation and discrimination that companies need to comply with, legal experts say this change to contracts across the federal government is significant."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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‘Deliberate trauma’:
SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/s...
SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/s...
‘Deliberate trauma’: SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles
Staff cuts at SAMSHA will imperil federal efforts to curb suicides and drug overdose deaths, employees say.
www.statnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
‘Deliberate trauma’:
SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/s...
SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/s...
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You will feel SO much better and more energized & inspired watching this extraordinary array of voices giving the “State of the People,” than watching Trump’s performance.
stateofthepeople.media
It’s really great. This organic effort has been pulled together in 48 hours and it is fire!
stateofthepeople.media
It’s really great. This organic effort has been pulled together in 48 hours and it is fire!
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.
stateofthepeople.media
March 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You will feel SO much better and more energized & inspired watching this extraordinary array of voices giving the “State of the People,” than watching Trump’s performance.
stateofthepeople.media
It’s really great. This organic effort has been pulled together in 48 hours and it is fire!
stateofthepeople.media
It’s really great. This organic effort has been pulled together in 48 hours and it is fire!
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Not even "health-related social needs" interventions are safe
In cases you haven't seen this yet; released today: www.medicaid.gov/federal-poli.... While ILOS authority at 42 CFR § 438.3(e)(2) remains intact, removing HRSN-specific guidance means CMS will apply stricter scrutiny to medical appropriateness and cost-effectiveness claims.
www.medicaid.gov
March 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Not even "health-related social needs" interventions are safe
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Look at this leader. Lift her up.
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Look at this leader. Lift her up.