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IBCLC. Fierce mama bear. 🏳️‍🌈 She/her.

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Happy Labor Day, or some such.

01.09.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.

29.08.2025 03:36 — 👍 359    🔁 120    💬 7    📌 5
PRAMS Shuttered for Good In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

01.04.2025 22:11 — 👍 4615    🔁 2422    💬 330    📌 399

This is spot on.

31.01.2025 06:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What The F***?!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl What The F***?!

Dude. I'm Pissed.
youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...

26.01.2025 01:39 — 👍 20089    🔁 8109    💬 1861    📌 2400

Huh. This is all fascinating...

22.01.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But also, who owns HIM?

21.01.2025 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today’s small moment of joy: snuggles with my college kids over Thanksgiving break.

29.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

h/t also to @shaunajamesahern.bsky.social for the idea of finding "glimmers" in the world

20.11.2024 00:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Text of Mary Oliver poem in handwritten font on light grey background. Poem reads: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."

Text of Mary Oliver poem in handwritten font on light grey background. Poem reads: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."

Currently embracing two coping strategies: building community and connection with actual humans in my life and looking for the small moments of joy in the world.

The first is taking the form of coffee dates and texts to stay connected. Mary Oliver had something to say about the other.

20.11.2024 00:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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