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Debi Lewis

@debilewis.bsky.social

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Writer, MacGuyver in the kitchen, furious advocate for bodily autonomy. debilewis.com 🫘

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Nov 11

I wrote this in 2023, but it's even more pertinent now. The herbs mentioned in it are central to my first novel (on submission now, btw, if you're an editor seeking historical fiction about abortion).

We should all be buying seeds and planting gardens. I mean that literally and metaphorically.

Abortion’s Old Craft Can Still Be Cultivated - Ms. Magazine

As a writer who spent the last two years researching ancient Native and herbal remedies, I explore how “abortion” worked before modern medicine.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · 3h

President Miller is in charge of all of this.

Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · 20h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov this guy doesn’t look like anyone was threatening him before he threw that tear gas. Don’t we have a court decision prohibiting that?

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · 3d

I write speculative fiction and last week published a story about the cancellation of MLK day. FFS. open.substack.com/pub/thiscoul...

Teacher Insurrection Hearings Transcripts Vol 2: America Builds Day

MIDWESTERN CLASSROOM, JANUARY 19, 2027

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · 13d

Stop President Miller now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Aug 12

I controversially believe that teenagers shouldn’t have to show their bare chests to adults in order to use a restroom.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Aug 11

It could happen.

Waste Sweep Week

It could happen.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Aug 7

“No one saw it coming. We all thought the new regulations wouldn’t take effect until fall.”

Introduction to Catastrophe Modeling

It could happen.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Aug 4

“With more than thirty-thousand embryos of varying gestational age stored in Sanctora’s vaults across Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, it is crucial that more parents take advantage of early-stage pricing for implantation of their DNA in Vessels.”

SANCTORA, INC. ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER CHILD BORN WITH LAB-GROWN HUMAN DNA

It could happen.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hi @schakowsky.house.gov. 👋 I’m pretty sure you know this already, but omg, vote no.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · Jun 26

Short read on today at SCOTUS: Good day for inmates. Immigrants stay losing always. Worst day for women since Dobbs.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Jun 24

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

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Dania Palanker 🪓 @ipersist.bsky.social · Jun 13

My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · May 21

A legally brain-dead woman in GA is being kept alive artificially to serve as an incubator. The embryo was 9 wks gestation when the woman was declared brain-dead. The woman's family is drowning in medical debt against their will. Please help them. Fuck abortion bans. www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...

Donate to Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey, organized by April Newkirk

This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · May 19

Adriana Smith’s is being kept alive to serve as an incubator for a fetus that was only 9wks gestation when Adriana was declared brain dead. Her family must cover the astronomical medical costs associated with this inhumane treatment. Please help them. www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...

Donate to Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey, organized by April Newkirk

This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey

www.gofundme.com

Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · May 7

@muellershewrote.com please watch this - it explains the rationale for dropping the case. Not good.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · May 7

Read the full thread. The call for dismissal is a trap.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · May 6

Let's be very clear: The Trump administration is not "defending" mifepristone against a legal challenge. They're pulling a calculated move that will allow them to restrict or ban abortion medication without pushback
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Trump will defend Biden’s abortion pill rules in Texas case

The filing over the regulation of mifepristone indicates an emerging pattern: An effort to preserve executive power.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Apr 30

Fascinating hobby. I'd join this crafting circle.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 30

Here's my new hobby. Seeing how many people lose their health coverage if Republicans pass their $880 billion in Medicaid cuts. In David Valadao's district 67,000 constituents lose their coverage. 67,000!

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · Apr 23

In Wisconsin, Republicans support abortion bans.

Wisconsin Democrats—and the vast majority of voters—have a different view: abortion care should be up to you and your doctor. Not politicians.

Rep. Greta Neubauer @repgreta.bsky.social · Apr 23

This morning, I joined my Democratic colleagues in introducing the Abortion Rights Restoration Act to enshrine and protect our rights in state law.

Abortion is a deeply personal healthcare decision between a patient and their doctor—not politicians.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 25

President Donald Trump has said, “We want more babies.”

But the actions of the Elon Musk-led U.S. DOGE Service have left many pregnant federal workers without the parental leave, health insurance and income they had thought they could rely on when they chose to conceive.

Pregnant foreign aid workers beg Trump administration for compassion amid cuts

Expectant parents whose lives have been upended by DOGE cuts say the way they’ve been treated flies in the face of Trump’s calls to raise the birth rate.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Apr 18

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Apr 15

Read the whole thread.

Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · Apr 15

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After yesterday's sickening Oval Office meeting and hot-mic capture about El Salvador building more prisons for "homegrowns" (note that dehumanizing language), it was rightly noted that concentration camps differ from prisons because they work outside of the judicial system.

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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · Apr 14

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Apr 14

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

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Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am a descendent of people who died in concentration camps, and I also concur that they are bad and we shouldn't have them.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Apr 8

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

Debi Lewis @debilewis.bsky.social · Apr 7

There are many factors to consider, including the vehemence of the pro-potato-kugel lobby among the 15 seder-goers and whether you have an appetite for festive meal tsurris.