KatieAmatruda🧜🏼‍♀️

Medicaid Covers

• 42% of all children nationwide
• 77% of children living in poverty in the U.S.
• 44% of children and youth with special health care needs nationwide
• 41% of births in the U.S.
• 37% of U.S. children with cancer
• 99% of children and youth in foster care

At the summit in London, European and NATO leaders have gathered without the U.S and Donald Trump.

Democracy died in darkness, and @jeffbezos @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump turned out the lights #shame #shame

#F-MUSK #F-DOGE #F-TRUMP

Opinion | Elon Musk inadvertently sets off a Trump Cabinet rebellion Trump’s agency heads slap down an email blast to federal workers from Elon Musk.

““Thus begins the inevitable power struggle at the court of Mad King Donald, between his various ministers of state and his billionaire Lord High Executioner.” Eugene Robinson Wapo

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

❤️ #buildtheresistance ❤️ #50501, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day

@redsjb.bsky.social Hi Jen! Nice to see you on Bluesky
Katie 🧜‍♀️

F***ing Neil Gaiman &
F***ing Amanda Palmer. People who know of abuse and do nothing to stop it are enablers, in some ways as culpable as the abusers.
F***ing Alice Munro

Bear in a hardhat holding California with tenderness

❤️California 💔LosAngeles

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah
Sending love, light and healing to all creatures on our little planet 🌏 ! ❤️💥💜✨💛🌟💚💫💙🎉💕

Mermaids, swimming around the planet with text peace on earth

@blakelive.bsky.social I support Blake Lively. No one should have to put up with this.

Oh Karrie! I’m so sorry this is happening to you… Please tell your therapist to contain themselves… It’s not your job to worry about them and if you can, please tell them to stop with the self disclosure.

Traffic chaos caused by 30K pounds of melted chocolate on Bay Area highway In the Easy Bay, a big rig caught on fire Friday afternoon. It was carrying thousands of pounds of chocolate.

Yesterday was the tsunami, and today it’s melted chocolate…
What is the world 🌎 coming to?

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Map showing no tsunami alerts or watches

Tsunami warning canceled!

Tsunami, warning, California

And I live on a boat!

if it makes you feel uncomfortable… And it’s OK to ask them to stop!

This huge boat just appeared in the bay, and there’s a bunch of animals lined up on the dock 🦆🦆 🐢🐢🦎🦎🐪🐪🦒🦒🐆🐆🐅🐅🐑🐑🦙🦙🦩🦩🐇🐇🐿️🐿️🐥🐥🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐕🐕

Yikes! All of San Francisco under a flash flood warning! So glad I live on a boat and can float no matter how much water there is..

YouTube video by NPR Māori lawmakers protest a bill that would reinterpret a centuries-old document in New Zealand

Powerful

youtu.be/7GqNFyGdsyQ?...

Red Canna Georgia O’Keeffe

Moonrise Sausalito, California

Sausalito, California

Please add me to your excellent Bay Area list!
Thank you
Katie Amatruda

Moonrise Sausalito Richardson Bay

Moonrise Sausalito Richardson Bay

#pleinair #oilpainting #France

#pleinair #oilpainting #Pézenas #France

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A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease CAR-T therapy is generating excitement for lupus, scleroderma, and other conditions as clinical trials expand

This is huge news.

This opens up the possibility of a viable treatment for a range of auto-inmune diseases, not just Lupus.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy
~friggin’ amazing!