Heather Ayn Bentley

We worked, we saved, and we still needed Medicaid to save our daughter's life | Opinion This writer describes the importance of Medicaid for her family after their daughter was diagnosed with a rare and severe form of epilepsy.

Helping rare disease families tell their stories is a privilege. Here is Kacie’s piece in today’s Springfield News-Leader. www.news-leader.com/story/opinio...

#write4rare

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Can anyone identify these fasces-looking arm patches on these masked immigration raiders from San Diego?

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Opinion: Federal government must keep helping fragile children There is suffering we cannot control and there is suffering that we can, but don’t. Families with medically fragile children are used to having it served both ways, by the effects of illness …

Manufactured uncertainty is an act of violence when it affects services key to our survival and well-being.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/17/o...

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Recharging at Willow Lake

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Saving Democracy: A Crowdsourced Plan for Effective Action Trump and Musk are following a dangerous blueprint. If we don’t act, history will repeat itself.

Let’s get after it people.

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Kitchen Creek Falls with Mr. Reggiebonesjones

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Slava Ukraini

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I Heart Vaccines. So does my doctor. We had a party - Covid, flu, shingles. I ain’t goin’ out like that.

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I keep hearing "I can't handle the news right now." I feel it too but that's exactly what we must do - handle it. If not us, who?

So let's step up and support local journalism, lean in to our communities where we can have the most impact. Let's act against that sense of powerless dread.

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Me: Margaret fucking Atwood!
Her: That’s not my middle name.
Me: May I know your middle name?
Her: Eleanor.
Me: So, Margaret Eleanor -
Her: Fucking Atwood.

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30 seconds well spent

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Tacos! Campechano! Almejas!
La Cevichana, Rosarito, B.C.

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Hey Bluesky! Let’s fly!

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