Helmi
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Helmi
@helmsinki.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Abortion Funds in Every State
donationsforabortions.com
If you're looking for a tangible way to make an impact right now, consider looking into orgs related to causes you care about.
For abortion, I have a website with info on funds/clinics/other support orgs listed by state. Give at least one a donation or an Insta follow! donationsforabortions.com
For abortion, I have a website with info on funds/clinics/other support orgs listed by state. Give at least one a donation or an Insta follow! donationsforabortions.com
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we're going to have to do a lot more work in the coming months to stop attemps to ban or criminalize the use of VPNs
Missouri's age verification law goes into effect today. 🚫
📈 Searches for VPNs are spiking in the state.
🔐 People know these laws put their privacy and sensitive data at risk. They find ways to get around bad laws, like using VPNs or going to non-compliant websites that don't check age.
📈 Searches for VPNs are spiking in the state.
🔐 People know these laws put their privacy and sensitive data at risk. They find ways to get around bad laws, like using VPNs or going to non-compliant websites that don't check age.
Missouri to enforce mandatory age verification today
This is the latest US state to enforce age verification legislation
www.techradar.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
we're going to have to do a lot more work in the coming months to stop attemps to ban or criminalize the use of VPNs
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Almost a year after Luigi Mangione’s arrest, there continues to be a robust ecosystem of supporters dissecting the crime and each shred of communication from him. I took a deep dive into the different communities built around Luigi www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... @rollingstone.com
Inside the World of Luigi Mangione's Most Fervent Supporters
As Mangione faces the death penalty for the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, his supporters are being used against him in court.
www.rollingstone.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Almost a year after Luigi Mangione’s arrest, there continues to be a robust ecosystem of supporters dissecting the crime and each shred of communication from him. I took a deep dive into the different communities built around Luigi www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... @rollingstone.com
Maybe ND will play poorly because they're jetlagged and it's way past their bedtime (a girl can dream)
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Maybe ND will play poorly because they're jetlagged and it's way past their bedtime (a girl can dream)
There are way more ND fans here than Stanford fans even in the season ticket section 😵💫
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
There are way more ND fans here than Stanford fans even in the season ticket section 😵💫
at the Stanford game and they gave me a bobble head of Andrew Luck
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
at the Stanford game and they gave me a bobble head of Andrew Luck
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Sunday scaries so intense they’re starting on Saturday.
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Sunday scaries so intense they’re starting on Saturday.
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
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The way my eyes just bulged out of my head
NEW: US District Judge Sarah Pitlyk and Jesus Osete of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division are on a White House list of candidates interviewing for an 8th Circuit seat, per source familiar
Litigator Erin Hawley, Sen. Hawley's spouse, also expressed interest
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Litigator Erin Hawley, Sen. Hawley's spouse, also expressed interest
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Litigator Erin Hawley Said to Be Interested in Circuit Judgeship
A Trump-appointed trial judge and a senior Justice Department official are included on a White House list of candidates interviewing for a federal appeals court seat in Missouri, a person familiar wit...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The way my eyes just bulged out of my head
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Folks with Diabetes!
There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings.
Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com
There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings.
Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com
Home | FreeStyle - Abbott
freestylecheck.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Folks with Diabetes!
There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings.
Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com
There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings.
Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com
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*Stares in anti-abortion playbook*
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
*Stares in anti-abortion playbook*
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Oh good
NEW: US District Judge Sarah Pitlyk and Jesus Osete of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division are on a White House list of candidates interviewing for an 8th Circuit seat, per source familiar
Litigator Erin Hawley, Sen. Hawley's spouse, also expressed interest
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Litigator Erin Hawley, Sen. Hawley's spouse, also expressed interest
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Litigator Erin Hawley Said to Be Interested in Circuit Judgeship
A Trump-appointed trial judge and a senior Justice Department official are included on a White House list of candidates interviewing for a federal appeals court seat in Missouri, a person familiar wit...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Oh good
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This is a reminder that the PAXCESS program through Pfizer for free Paxlovid for those uninsured or underinsured is ending this December 31, 2025.
If you happen to catch Covid prior to the end of December, please utilize the program before it is gone!
www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...
If you happen to catch Covid prior to the end of December, please utilize the program before it is gone!
www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...
PAXCESS™ | PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir tablets; ritonavir tablets)
The PAXCESS™ Patient Support Program may help eligible patients lower the cost of PAXLOVID™ and access savings, with or without insurance. T&Cs apply.
www.paxlovid.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This is a reminder that the PAXCESS program through Pfizer for free Paxlovid for those uninsured or underinsured is ending this December 31, 2025.
If you happen to catch Covid prior to the end of December, please utilize the program before it is gone!
www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...
If you happen to catch Covid prior to the end of December, please utilize the program before it is gone!
www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...
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If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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I hate how we've apparently collectively decided that gestational limits simply don't count as long as they're late enough
3. This map is wrong on multiple levels. Abortion is banned again in North Dakota as of last week; that state is the wrong color. Only 9 states lack a gestational limit and should be dark blue under this key. 41 states have bans
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I hate how we've apparently collectively decided that gestational limits simply don't count as long as they're late enough
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SPEAKING OF WHICH: this Instagram graphic from Impact and Planned Parenthood is also wrong, and could be described as misinformation. It’s not 19 states that ban all or some abortions—it’s 41.
www.instagram.com/p/DRfHY2Xjuy...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
www.instagram.com/p/DRfHY2Xjuy...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
SPEAKING OF WHICH: this Instagram graphic from Impact and Planned Parenthood is also wrong, and could be described as misinformation. It’s not 19 states that ban all or some abortions—it’s 41.
www.instagram.com/p/DRfHY2Xjuy...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
www.instagram.com/p/DRfHY2Xjuy...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
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While you are calling about the Speakership, please also add this to your conversation.
It’s Wednesday phone zap time!
Join us in calling your city council member to demand 0.5% of the budget go to our libraries.
Use this script and then tell us how it went with our survey!
nycplan.org/actions/call...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It only takes a minute to support our demand
Join us in calling your city council member to demand 0.5% of the budget go to our libraries.
Use this script and then tell us how it went with our survey!
nycplan.org/actions/call...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It only takes a minute to support our demand
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
While you are calling about the Speakership, please also add this to your conversation.
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Thanks to one of our generous donors, all donations will be MATCHED up to $100,000 now through December 31st to help us support people who are forced to travel long distances for abortion care. Help us support getting clients to care and back home safely: brigidalliance.org/give25
Donate to The Brigid Alliance – Every Gift Matched Up to $100,000
brigidalliance.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Thanks to one of our generous donors, all donations will be MATCHED up to $100,000 now through December 31st to help us support people who are forced to travel long distances for abortion care. Help us support getting clients to care and back home safely: brigidalliance.org/give25
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New from me:
Letters from anti-abortion activists and Republican elected officials show stated goals of barring Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving any federal money and pulling them from the 340B drug pricing program, which allows for significant discounts on prescription drugs.
Letters from anti-abortion activists and Republican elected officials show stated goals of barring Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving any federal money and pulling them from the 340B drug pricing program, which allows for significant discounts on prescription drugs.
Anti-abortion groups, lawmakers push feds for more permanent ‘defunding’ of Planned Parenthood
Anti-abortion organizations and Republican elected officials are searching for more ways to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving federal resources after congressional Republicans successfully cut...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
New from me:
Letters from anti-abortion activists and Republican elected officials show stated goals of barring Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving any federal money and pulling them from the 340B drug pricing program, which allows for significant discounts on prescription drugs.
Letters from anti-abortion activists and Republican elected officials show stated goals of barring Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving any federal money and pulling them from the 340B drug pricing program, which allows for significant discounts on prescription drugs.
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people always apologizing for their grief, saying: it’s nothing. saying: it was a long time ago. saying: I don’t know why I can’t get over it. but I don’t care if the rock in your shoe is TINY, if it got in there 5 years ago, if you put it in there yourself. it’s still a rock in your shoe. and—
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
people always apologizing for their grief, saying: it’s nothing. saying: it was a long time ago. saying: I don’t know why I can’t get over it. but I don’t care if the rock in your shoe is TINY, if it got in there 5 years ago, if you put it in there yourself. it’s still a rock in your shoe. and—
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I'm about $600 shy of my personal $4,000 fundraising goal for Scarleteen: Please help me get there so I can stop harassing people to donate, TYIA
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
Scarleteen holds survivors of abuse and assault close to our hearts. When people come to us seeking help, whether one on one through our direct services or via our library of resources, we support them, wherever they are.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I'm about $600 shy of my personal $4,000 fundraising goal for Scarleteen: Please help me get there so I can stop harassing people to donate, TYIA
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
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Just a quick reminder for the football watching timeline that Jameis Winston is a rapist.
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Just a quick reminder for the football watching timeline that Jameis Winston is a rapist.