Veronica Schanoes
@schanoes.bsky.social
Scholar, writer, single mother.
I formula-fed my kid because I depend on medication that reduces your production of milk and is not safe to breastfeed while using. My milk never came in. Not even a drop. My baby needed formula, and no parent should have to explain their circumstances because our country is run by fascist pigs.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I formula-fed my kid because I depend on medication that reduces your production of milk and is not safe to breastfeed while using. My milk never came in. Not even a drop. My baby needed formula, and no parent should have to explain their circumstances because our country is run by fascist pigs.
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50 years ago, it was men telling us that breastmilk was inadequate and low-class and we should use formula. Today, it's men telling us we are inadequate and selfish if we don't breastfeed. What these men need to do is STFU.
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
50 years ago, it was men telling us that breastmilk was inadequate and low-class and we should use formula. Today, it's men telling us we are inadequate and selfish if we don't breastfeed. What these men need to do is STFU.
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It shouldn't be our jobs to explain these extraordinarily basic things to people who set health policy. These aren't new problems. Breastfeeding has been next to impossible, or actually impossible, for many very-good moms since the beginning of actual time.
December 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It shouldn't be our jobs to explain these extraordinarily basic things to people who set health policy. These aren't new problems. Breastfeeding has been next to impossible, or actually impossible, for many very-good moms since the beginning of actual time.
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It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
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Adrienne needs help with these bills.
I have a check coming this week, and more later in the month (work is starting to come in finally!), but could really use about USD $600 to get us caught up on first-of-the-month bills and rent if anyone can help. Cashapp is $AdrienneLeigh, Wise is adrienneleight, or PayPal is below:
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December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Adrienne needs help with these bills.
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They don't post here enough but I really love what Climate Defiance does.
Being yelled at feels bad.
Being yelled at in your own spaces feels ever worse.
The wealthy and powerful should feel bad.
We need to yell at them more often.
Every opportunity we get.
Being yelled at feels bad.
Being yelled at in your own spaces feels ever worse.
The wealthy and powerful should feel bad.
We need to yell at them more often.
Every opportunity we get.
Two years ago today we confronted the CEO of Exxon. He has not gone out in public since. You're welcome.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They don't post here enough but I really love what Climate Defiance does.
Being yelled at feels bad.
Being yelled at in your own spaces feels ever worse.
The wealthy and powerful should feel bad.
We need to yell at them more often.
Every opportunity we get.
Being yelled at feels bad.
Being yelled at in your own spaces feels ever worse.
The wealthy and powerful should feel bad.
We need to yell at them more often.
Every opportunity we get.
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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Disgusting
To recap:
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Disgusting
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These walking genital warts don't know a thing about breastfeeding. NOTHING. They don't know a damn thing about the challenges/issues that can arise. They don't know how damn long it took to get legal protection for people to pump at work. They don't respect the body autonomy of a primary parent.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These walking genital warts don't know a thing about breastfeeding. NOTHING. They don't know a damn thing about the challenges/issues that can arise. They don't know how damn long it took to get legal protection for people to pump at work. They don't respect the body autonomy of a primary parent.
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This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.
the senate republican proposal to address aca subsidies includes a ban on essential health benefit coverage for sex transition-related medical care
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.
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>> (which is ALSO a frequent reason women choose to use formula - SO AS NOT TO ENDANGER THE BABY). (Not to mention adoption!)
But men shaming women in the breast/formula debate is, pls listen closely, NOT about the baby.
It's about controlling women's bodies & our presence in public life.
3/3
But men shaming women in the breast/formula debate is, pls listen closely, NOT about the baby.
It's about controlling women's bodies & our presence in public life.
3/3
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
>> (which is ALSO a frequent reason women choose to use formula - SO AS NOT TO ENDANGER THE BABY). (Not to mention adoption!)
But men shaming women in the breast/formula debate is, pls listen closely, NOT about the baby.
It's about controlling women's bodies & our presence in public life.
3/3
But men shaming women in the breast/formula debate is, pls listen closely, NOT about the baby.
It's about controlling women's bodies & our presence in public life.
3/3
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These are the same men who won't
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These are the same men who won't
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
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Apparently, they marched on a high school, among other places. Nauseating.
Neo-Nazis with swastika flags march through parts of Little Rock
A group of neo-Nazis carrying swastika flags marched on Little Rock Central High School and the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock on Saturday afternoon
www.4029tv.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Apparently, they marched on a high school, among other places. Nauseating.
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Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
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it's cool that this piece of shit wants to get rid of the thing that kept both my children alive
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
it's cool that this piece of shit wants to get rid of the thing that kept both my children alive
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hey @jaketapper.bsky.social put me on tv so I can tell this eugenicist piece of shit that i don't care for the way he wishes my formula-drinking kids had died
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
hey @jaketapper.bsky.social put me on tv so I can tell this eugenicist piece of shit that i don't care for the way he wishes my formula-drinking kids had died
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.
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People everywhere and in these states especially need to rally against this. It’s going to kill so many if we don’t. I’m on Medicare and I would rather not die because my life saving meds are rejected by AI. this is what companies like United have been using for years.
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
People everywhere and in these states especially need to rally against this. It’s going to kill so many if we don’t. I’m on Medicare and I would rather not die because my life saving meds are rejected by AI. this is what companies like United have been using for years.
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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
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It’s the same drug they give folks for herpes (because guess what?).
Anyway so many people are too young to be allowed to get the shingles vax and get shingles anyway because shingles doesn’t know you’re “too young”. I had a colleague who got shingles at 30 and now walks with a cane.
Anyway so many people are too young to be allowed to get the shingles vax and get shingles anyway because shingles doesn’t know you’re “too young”. I had a colleague who got shingles at 30 and now walks with a cane.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s the same drug they give folks for herpes (because guess what?).
Anyway so many people are too young to be allowed to get the shingles vax and get shingles anyway because shingles doesn’t know you’re “too young”. I had a colleague who got shingles at 30 and now walks with a cane.
Anyway so many people are too young to be allowed to get the shingles vax and get shingles anyway because shingles doesn’t know you’re “too young”. I had a colleague who got shingles at 30 and now walks with a cane.
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Also: if you see any amount of mysterious rash go to a doctor. There’s a generic shingles antiviral and if you move quickly it can stop shingles before it spreads across your body.
I can tell you from watching my brother suffering for weeks from shingles, you will be close to killing yourself. Don’t mess with viruses, especially shingles.
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Also: if you see any amount of mysterious rash go to a doctor. There’s a generic shingles antiviral and if you move quickly it can stop shingles before it spreads across your body.
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WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism
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And “He regularly breaks the law and all of our signed & ratified international treaties.” We don’t mince words or use euphemisms about this stuff for anyone else. Just the One Special Boy.
Saying Trump is “transactional” is just a gentle way of saying he’s corrupt. Every power he has been trusted with, he treats as a way to extract favors and benefits from anyone he sees as situationally vulnerable.
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And “He regularly breaks the law and all of our signed & ratified international treaties.” We don’t mince words or use euphemisms about this stuff for anyone else. Just the One Special Boy.