Velvetpage
@velvetpage.bsky.social
Blue in the US, Red/Orange in Canada, hunkering down, preparing to help, and seizing my joy. 🌈 Community member, she/her. I block crypto shillers and MAGAts.
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
(Published Feb. 2025)
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We are the laughing stock of the world.
February 17, 2026 at 5:20 AM
We are the laughing stock of the world.
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On President's Day, the First Amendment Troop staged "Resistance" - a tribute and act of artistic dissent - at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, CONTD
PT1
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, CONTD
PT1
February 17, 2026 at 4:38 AM
On President's Day, the First Amendment Troop staged "Resistance" - a tribute and act of artistic dissent - at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, CONTD
PT1
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, CONTD
PT1
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
#CTV quoted a professor saying there's "no inherent downside" to three-way split grades. They didn't talk to any teachers of split grades to get this story. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
‘A slap in the face’: North York parents speak out against combined classroom with three grades
Parents at a North York elementary school are speaking out after three grades were combined into a single classroom taught by a single teacher following a recent reorganization process.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#CTV quoted a professor saying there's "no inherent downside" to three-way split grades. They didn't talk to any teachers of split grades to get this story. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
The Quebec government is going full Trump. Tying doctors' pay to "performance indicators" is a great way to make sure the sickest, most challenging patients can't find a doctor. The same tactic was applied in the US to teachers with NCLB, and the result was teachers fleeing inner city schools.
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Quebec government is going full Trump. Tying doctors' pay to "performance indicators" is a great way to make sure the sickest, most challenging patients can't find a doctor. The same tactic was applied in the US to teachers with NCLB, and the result was teachers fleeing inner city schools.
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KONSYSE: European regulators push back on Trump’s autism claim. EMA confirms no link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism. It further urges reliance on evidence-based science.
European Medicines Agency Refutes Trump. Dismisses Claim Linking Paracetamol to Autism — Konsyse
The European Medicines Agency refutes a claim by Donald Trump linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism.
www.konsyse.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
KONSYSE: European regulators push back on Trump’s autism claim. EMA confirms no link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism. It further urges reliance on evidence-based science.
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"If that is how they are treating us with camera all around us, what are they doing to the detainees that ate in that facility with the boarded up windows."
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"If that is how they are treating us with camera all around us, what are they doing to the detainees that ate in that facility with the boarded up windows."
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
So, a shooting that killed only #ICE victims, and no ICE officers, is being blamed on... People who hate ICE officers? We're supposed to tone down our rhetoric but they bear no responsibility for grabbing people off the street and outside their court hearings? Don't dehumanize the masked bandits?
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
So, a shooting that killed only #ICE victims, and no ICE officers, is being blamed on... People who hate ICE officers? We're supposed to tone down our rhetoric but they bear no responsibility for grabbing people off the street and outside their court hearings? Don't dehumanize the masked bandits?
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What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?
FBI official: "What I can share with you is that early evidence we're seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature. Again, this is just the most recently example of this type of attack."
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?
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"Another religious figure has publicly voiced their criticism of Charlie Kirk."
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Another religious figure has publicly voiced their criticism of Charlie Kirk."
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Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
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Why should good people condemn this? These vile people are living in their own reality and dragging down everyone with them. He lived in a world he was creating. He died in that same world. The rest of us don't have to live there.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Why should good people condemn this? These vile people are living in their own reality and dragging down everyone with them. He lived in a world he was creating. He died in that same world. The rest of us don't have to live there.
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Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
September 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
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MAKE NO MISTAKE; these are actual FBI stats. I’ve attached the detailed spreadsheet for doubters.
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
MAKE NO MISTAKE; these are actual FBI stats. I’ve attached the detailed spreadsheet for doubters.
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
Me, teaching short vowels: this is a hen. Listen to the vowel. Is it hen or hin?
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
September 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Me, teaching short vowels: this is a hen. Listen to the vowel. Is it hen or hin?
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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“This means war” to “who led this sweet boy astray” in less than 48 hours
“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN
September 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“This means war” to “who led this sweet boy astray” in less than 48 hours
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FUCKING LIAR. The right are committing the crimes.
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
FUCKING LIAR. The right are committing the crimes.